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Poor young lions England
0-1 ; 1-3 ; 0-1 with ZERO point
1 gol itu pun dari titik putih

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Israel 1 England 0: Pearce's young Lions limp out of U21 tournament after scoring just ONE goal (...and that was a penalty)

Stuart Pearce accused England’s players of lacking pride and professionalism as their Euro 2013 campaign ended in shame.

Pearce, whose six-year spell in charge of the Under 21s is now effectively over, turned his ire on the dressing room after a dreadful display in a game won by Israel with Ofir Krieff’s 80th-minute goal.

It was a third successive defeat and Pearce’s frustrations bubbled over after England’s worst display at an Under 21 European Championship.

He said: ‘I honestly don’t believe I should answer questions on behalf of them. They should be answering why performances were so poor.


In the money: Ofir Krieff celebrates after netting the only goal of the game to condemn England to defeat


Frustration: Wilfried Zaha shows his anger after spurning an attack


Getting shirty: Ben Vahaba is tackled by Sunderland striker Connor Wickham


Thumbs up? Stuart Pearce gestures to his England side from the bench

‘I don’t think it’s my responsibility at this stage to answer for a performance as bad as that.

‘I’m not coming out here and defending anyone. I’m sick to the back teeth of doing that this tournament. The players have got to deal with that. The standard we have set over a three-year period is a million miles away from what we have shown.

‘You don’t expect to stand on the touchline and tell them the same things eight or nine times.

‘This doesn’t affect my position. Whether it affects the FA’s position, I don’t know. There are a multitude of reasons why we haven’t performed and I have to take it on the chin.’

While there has been legitimacy to the debate that has been raging about the absence of key players, it should not be used as the definitive reason why this tournament campaign never got beyond being anything but wretched. Even if Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Danny Welbeck, Phil Jones and Jack Rodwell had been out here, England would not have won Euro 2013, as Spain and Holland have been playing a brand of football about which the nation can only dream.


Perplexed: Wickham shrugs after play breaks down again for England


Crisis talks: Pearce talks to his players on the pitch during the match

England have just been abject.

Pearce’s limitations have been exposed, as he has failed to get his squad playing with any vibrancy. Smashing long balls up to a centre half in the defeat against Norway was dispiriting.

His players, meanwhile, should not be getting off scot-free. Blame Pearce as much as you like, but shouldn’t there be enough talent to get positive results against Norway and Israel? Too many players looked uninterested and went through the motions. Others gave the impression that they would prefer to be anywhere else.


From bad to worse: Zaha receives treatment after picking up a knock


Not good enough: Jordan Henderson and his team-mates trudge off the pitch after another crushing defeat


Jubilant: The Israel bench leapt from their seats after the final whistle was blown


Formalities: Andre Wisdom swaps shirts with his opposite number after the final whistle

Silence gripped the dressing room when they reconvened and there is reason to believe there was a lack of harmony. That was evident in the second half, when Israel raised the tempo. Nir Biton hit the bar from 25 yards and Ofer Verta dragged a shot wide before Krieff skipped in to score. England, visibly broken, had no response.


In the thick of it: Wickham tries to shield the ball from Israel defender Omri Ben Harush (back)


Contrast: The Israel players pile on top of the goalscorer as the young Lions look dejected


Pointless: England bow out of the tournament having only scored once and losing all three group games


Nice touch: Danny Rose brings the ball under control from a height during the second half

‘This is the business end of the tournament and we got what we deserved,’ admitted Pearce, who will meet FA Chairman David Bernstein and the Club England board within the next 10 days to learn that his contract will not be renewed.

‘I don’t think we deserved to win a game.’ They didn’t. England played in red shirts, sporting a shiny new away kit, but finished with crimson faces. The same old miserable deficiencies remain.


In attendance: Roy Hodgson watched as his stars of the future fell to defeat at the hands of Israel


Me too: David Bernstein was in the stadium to watch the game


Really? Despite going out of the tournament Israel players throw coach Guy Luzon in the air after their win

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2339752/European-Under-21-Championship-2013-Israel-1-England-0-Match-report.html

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MARTIN SAMUEL: Three games, three defeats. It's time for change. The U21s need a teacher, not a student - Hoddle must take over

At Sunderland the director of football, Roberto Di Fanti, is Italian. He was pivotal in the appointment of Paolo Di Canio, the manager, who is Italian.
Already on the way was a chief scout, Valentino Angeloni, also Italian. De Fanti worked with Angeloni at Udinese and Inter Milan.

Already, De Fanti has helped recruit three players: Valentin Roberge (French, from Portuguese club Maritimo), Cabral (Cape Verdean, from Swiss club Basle) and Modibo Diakite (French, from Italian club Lazio). And on it goes.

‘Roberto and Valentino bring with them a wealth of experience, knowledge and football contacts from across Europe and indeed the world,’ said Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne. ‘South Shields, not so much.’ Actually, she didn’t say the last part but she might as well have.


Plenty to shout about: Pearce's Under 21s have limped out of the European Championships without a win

We know what the locals are good for in the modern world of the Premier League. Shirt consumption. Sunderland will expect to sell merchandise to the locals but heaven forbid they should see them as potential employees.

Everyone at the Football Association moans about the lack of English players in the first teams at our leading clubs, but it is at academy level where the rot sets in. If Sunderland’s best options in the first team are imported that is not the FA’s business, but like all directors of football, Di Fanti will also be responsible for long-term development at Sunderland. And what does he know about grassroots supply lines in his area? What experience does Txiki Begiristain, now in the same role at Manchester City, have of his local boys’ clubs and feeder routes?

They go with the familiar, these guys, with the tried and tested. Jose Mourinho this week talked of bringing back three young Chelsea players to be part of the first-team squad next season. The trio had been out on loan, gaining experience, but not one is English. Romelu Lukaku and Kevin de Bruyne are Belgian, Tomas Kalas is from the Czech Republic.

Mourinho wants stability and anticipates working with an impressive youth set-up at Chelsea, but that brings no guarantee of benefit for English football. Increasingly, as the development managers charged with legacy are imported from foreign markets, so English influence at youth levels will dwindle. That is the real future, not the convenient fantasy that is St George’s Park.

The day the Premier League was formed the FA missed the boat. Greg Dyke, the incoming chairman, recalls that the Premier League needed FA permission to form and at that point the ruling body could have asked for anything. That was when they could have safeguarded the future of young England.

Instead, they chose to settle a score with the Football League. The FA Premier League was launched — and the England team were nowhere in that deal.

The FA are such an irrelevance in youth football these days that when Barcelona wrote to complain that English clubs were plundering their La Masia academy they took the matter up with the Premier League, not the supposed guardians of our game. The missive, calling for ‘support and defence of our rights against English clubs’, might have been considered a matter for the governing body.

Yet Barcelona were no doubt only too aware of the FA’s feeble track record in this field, so took it up with the Premier League instead. And good luck with that, by the way.



The culprits this time are Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, although Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City have also been lurking. Chelsea have signed Under 15 midfield player Josimar Quintero, although Arsenal and Tottenham were interested; Liverpool look to have secured 15-year-old winger Sergi Canos; Arsenal took 16-year-old defender Julio Pleguezuelo, despite rivalry from Tottenham and Manchester City.

Barcelona wish the Spanish federation to close a loophole that allows their best youngsters to escape, Cesc Fabregas style, before signing professional terms. They say a similar rule is in place, via the FA, in England.

So if the FA can protect English clubs from poaching, surely they could protect English youth from the results of it, too. A rule that stopped the acquisition of foreign players below the age of 18, to give English-born talent the chance to develop, perhaps? A rule that prevented Arsenal taking Fran Merida, Hector Bellerin and Jon Toral from Barcelona’s academy and forced them to look closer to home.

We haven’t the will. The FA took their stance 21 years ago, made stuffing the Football League their priority and now think some nice football pitches in Staffordshire are a philosophy. If it wasn’t so serious it would almost be amusing watching the organisation tie themselves in knots over the woeful Under 21 performance at the European Championship.

The case presented by David Bernstein, departing FA chairman, was particularly delicious. Responding to criticism that England had taken their best young players to play friendlies with the senior team, rather than give them tournament experience with the Under 21s, Bernstein insisted that the first team must be the priority.

‘Roy Hodgson, and I support him fully, decided he would take the strongest squad he could,’ said Bernstein. ‘The senior team has to have priority.’

This is something of a departure from February 2012, when the view of England manager Fabio Capello was considered so inconsequential that Bernstein did not even seek it before removing the captaincy from John Terry. Suddenly, it is unthinkable that the bigger picture might be considered and the manager counselled on what is best for the game. It is almost as if Bernstein makes this stuff up as he goes along.

This controversy over player availability has been simmering for months. On February 6 this year, reports were published in which Stuart Pearce, the Under 21 manager, requested greater co-operation from Hodgson over key individuals. He specifically mentioned Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jack Wilshere.

‘Unless you take your strongest squad you can’t be competitive,’ Pearce warned, prophetically. ‘I’d probably prefer a bit more support in regard to the players.’

Those who wrote up these comments the following day to suggest conflict between Pearce and Hodgson received reprimanding telephone calls from the FA. One imagines the apology will be equally quick to arrive, now that this interpretation of Pearce’s view has been proved correct.

It was actually worse than he thought. Hodgson took Phil Jones, too, plus Danny Welbeck and confusion reigned around the fitness and availability of Jack Rodwell. Pearce believed him injured, Hodgson called him up late, almost as if the departments were in opposition.

Did Pearce make his judgment too soon or was he merely out of the loop? Is there not a director of football development who should be all over instances such as this?

'Oxlade-Chamberlain played half an hour, got the flavour of Brazil and did remarkably well,’ said Bernstein of a successful, if brief, turn in the Maracana Stadium. ‘I’m sure Roy was happy to have him there.'

No doubt he was. But there is one flaw in this argument. Oxlade-Chamberlain did not start. Anyone who does not start is in the hands of fate and his appearance cannot be guaranteed. England could have suffered a series of injuries in other positions, for instance, necessitating the use of different replacements. The reality is that Oxlade-Chamberlain came on only because the specific circumstances of the game dictated it.

Had England been leading 1-0 would Hodgson have been looking to introduce a crackerjack young forward? Oxlade-Chamberlain might have remained imprisoned on the bench while Hodgson tried to close the game down. As it was, England had been outclassed in the first half, had fallen behind, and the manager needed to gamble.

There was no grand plan for Oxlade-Chamberlain in Brazil. If there was a benefit, it was as much by accident as design. He would have started all three games for Pearce in Israel; and the benefit to his country might have been wider.

So where do we go from here? Pearce talked a more intelligent game than his team played at this tournament and is widely presumed to be leaving. Would the FA be brave enough to bring in Glenn Hoddle, the last English-born international manager to promote a defined playing philosophy? It is unlikely.


Patron Saint: Bernstein has faith in the success of new FA base at St George's Park





Gareth Southgate’s name was immediately mentioned, which seems more the FA’s speed. Nothing wrong with Southgate, who was outstanding in getting the reform of pitch and goal sizes in youth football over the line, but as his one job in club management ended in Middlesbrough’s relegation he would be another brought in to learn from the England manager, rather than enter the room as an equal.

The same applies to Phil Neville. The Under 21 team need a teacher, not a student. Hoddle might challenge, might contribute ideas and would have a voice that demanded to be heard. One must presume he is older and wiser and a better man-manager than he was in 1999, too, and less, shall we say, outspoken.

Those who mock him forget that, for all his faults, he got his teams playing, perhaps most impressively at Swindon Town, working with a shallow talent pool. If that is what England have now, it will need a coach of great imagination and conviction to follow Pearce into the job — not one whose remit is to sit at the feet of Hodgson, or any England manager, nodding. If Neville is involved it should be as part of a backroom team, not its leader.

Alternatively, carry on as we go. Continue looking to Bologna, Barcelona or Belgium for the next generation of Premier League starlets, all the while placing our faith in the mystical power of a plot of land off the M6, the FA’s very own field of dreams. If you build it, they will come. No, dummies, they won’t. Not necessarily.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2339860/Glenn-Hoddle-England-Under-21-manager--Martin-Samuel.html

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Originally Posted by rondwisan

Poor young lions England
0-1 ; 1-3 ; 0-1 with ZERO point
1 gol itu pun dari titik putih

Masih lebih menarik menunggu kiprah England U20 yang akan berkompetisi di World Cup U20 di Turki nanti. Ada Sam Johnstone, Tom Thorpe dan Larnell Cole yang masuk skuad.

Selengkapnya ada di

http://www.thefa.com/england/mens-u20s/Team

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parahnya nih, Hoddle nyindir FA dan skuad 21 Inggris besutan pearce yang dinilainya tidak cukup mumpuni ketika bermain di laga internasional ...
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GLENN HODDLE: Kirim bos besar jika Anda ingin saran saya.


ABOVE: Glenn Hoddle also hinted he wouldn’t be interested in replacing Stuart Pearce as Under-21s boss

Hoddle telah menjadi kritikus lantang FA dan pembinaan di negeri inggris khususnya di balik layar suram dari pencapaian Inggris U-21s saat Kejuaraan Eropa.

Dan Ashworth, direktur FA pembangunan yang elit, bersikeras bahwa ia akan senang bertemu dengan Hoddle untuk mendiskusikan di mana Inggris pergi dari sini.

Tapi mantan bos Three Lions mengatakan ia hanya tertarik dalam pertemuan orang atas - masuk FA ketua Greg Dyke.

Hoddle mengatakan: "Jika FA ingin ngobrol, itu bagus, tapi harus menjadi orang-orang di atas.

"Kalau Greg Dyke ingin duduk dan makan siang dan chatting, maka baik, saya akan senang untuk melakukan itu."

Membuka pintu untuk bertemu dengan Hoddle, Ashworth mengatakan: "Tentu saja aku akan mendengarkannya. Kita semua punya ide. Siapa saja yang mengatakan mereka tidak bisa belajar apa pun adalah baik bodoh atau sombong atau keduanya.

"Dalam setiap master plan, bisnis apapun, itu adalah serangkaian orang yang semua memiliki ide-ide. Ada banyak orang di luar sana yang dengan sepenuh hati ingin dan bisa membantu Inggris berhasil ".

Hoddle juga mengisyaratkan ia tidak akan tertarik menggantikan Stuart Pearce sebagai bos Under-21s.

Dia berkata: "Bila Anda telah menjadi manajer senior, akan sulit untuk kembali dalam kapasitas yang lain."

Tom Thorpe percaya nasib Mesir bisa membantu Inggris U-20 buku tempat mereka di babak kedua Piala Dunia saat ini.

Sisi Peter Taylor tahu kemenangan akan cukup untuk melihat mereka maju setelah menarik dalam dua pertandingan pertama mereka.

Hanya kemenangan yang besar akan menyelamatkan wajad inggris saat melawan Mesir dan bek Manchester United Thorpe mengatakan bahwa dirinya bisa membantu Inggris.

Dia berkata: "Jika mereka mendorong pemain, maka mudah-mudahan itu akan meninggalkan gap bagi kita untuk memanfaatkan.

"Kita merasa kita bisa memenangkannya, sehingga kita perlu pulang dengan tiga angka."

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/323315/

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England U20 juga gagal di fase grup. Periode buruk untuk Inggris, baik tim senior, U21 & U20 semua gagal.

England, meanwhile, were eliminated by losing 2-0 to Egypt, despite starting with all three United representatives - goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, defender Tom Thorpe and midfielder Larnell Cole - on the field.

It was a tale of missed opportunities for Peter Taylor's team, with Tottenham youngster Harry Kane spurning several chances before Trezeget and Hassan Ahmed grabbed late goals for the underdogs. The Egyptians are, however, also out of the tournament and will join England in flying home from Turkey at the end of the group stage.

Saatnya bagi FA untuk berbenah jika tidak mau ketinggalan terus.

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sangat disayangkan nih... semoga FA mendapatkan penggantinya yang sesuai...
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Pearce meninggalkan Skuad U-21 Inggris


Stuart Pearce tidak akan memiliki kontraknya diperpanjang

Stuart Pearce akan meninggalkan perannya sebagai Inggris pelatih U-21 saat kontraknya berakhir pada akhir Juni, FA telah mengkonfirmasi.

Turnamen keempat dan terakhir Pearce bertugas berakhir sebagai kekecewaan dengan Inggris tersingkir di babak penyisihan grup dari Eropa U-21 Championships di Israel, kehilangan semua tiga pertandingan mereka.

"Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih Stuart Pearce atas kerja kerasnya," kata Ketua FA David Bernstein dalam sebuah pernyataan di situs resmi organisasi. "Tidak ada yang bisa meragukan komitmennya untuk pekerjaan sepanjang masanya sebagai pelatih U-21.

"Dia telah melakukan dengan sangat baik di babak kualifikasi untuk turnamen final tetapi, setelah kekecewaan dari dua turnamen terakhir, kami percaya sudah waktunya untuk mengganti pelatih.

"Atas nama semua orang di FA, saya ingin berharap Stuart akan baik-baik untuk masa depan."

Titik tinggi Pearce enam tahun dalam pekerjaan U-21 datang pada tahun 2009, ketika sebuah tim menampilkan Theo Walcott, James Milner dan Micah Richards mencapai final Kejuaraan Eropa di Swedia namun kalah 4-0 untuk tim Jerman, termasuk beberapa pemain yang Piala dunia semi-finalis dengan tim senior pada tahun berikutnya.

Pearce telah memimpin Inggris ke semi-final turnamen dua tahun sebelumnya, ketika mereka kalah dalam adu penalti 13-12 dari Belanda.

Pikiran sekarang akan beralih ke penerus Pearce, dengan mantan kepala FA elit pengembangan Gareth Southgate, asisten Pearce, Phil Neville, dan Peter Taylor dianggap salah satu kandidat untuk mengisi peran tersebut.

Bernstein menambahkan: "Hal ini penting organisasi sekarang menganggap pendekatan yang terbaik untuk peran pelatih U-21 dan bagaimana hal ini bekerja terbaik dalam struktur Inggris secara keseluruhan sebelum membuat janji baru."

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1479115/pearce-leave-england-21-post

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Manchester United star: We must improve finishing


Zaha: We need to take chances (©GettyImages)

Give Me Sport by Anthony Hay.

Manchester United star Wilfried Zaha has warned his England Under-21 teammates that they must improve on their finishing.

Zaha was in impressive form for England's 1-0 win against Moldova at the Madejski Stadium - but he was disappointed at his side's inability to kill the game off.

The home side dominated the match but were only able to breakdown Moldova's defence once through West Brom striker Saido Berahino.

Zaha, speaking to the Football Association's official website, said: "It was a good game really, we dominated it for most of the time and we just needed to take those chances.

“But all in all, we played well.

“We need to go back and work on our finishing, because we could have finished it early-doors tonight.

"We let go of a couple of chances and that might cost us in another game.”

The match was England's first game since Gareth Southgate replaced former boss Stuart Pearce as manager of the Young Lions and Zaha feels it may take his side a couple of games to gel as a team.

“It was my first game with some of these players and we all play differently and just have to understand each other really," added Zaha.

"But for a first performance together, it was a good game for everyone. The squad has gelled together really well, we all get on well and when we get on the pitch we're just on the same wavelength.”

Zaha, who played the full 90 minutes against Moldova, is likely to start for Southgate's side in their second 2015 European Championship qualifier against Finland on Monday.

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Nathaniel Clyne Among Burgeoning Southampton Talents Edging into England Frame


Nathaniel Clyne has started the season impressively for Southampton

If it felt like Southampton full-back Nathaniel Clyne knew exactly what opposing forward Victor Moses was going to do at every turn on Saturday at Anfield, then it is probably because he did.

Clyne and Moses, both 22, came through the Crystal Palace academy together—right-back and centre forward (although the Nigeria international has subsequently spent most of his professional career in wider roles) graduating through the Eagles age groups with similar alacrity, before breaking into the first team within as highly touted teenagers.

Since then their careers have taken them on different paths, but this weekend they met again at Anfield, facing off as opponents.

And it was Clyne who got the upper hand, shackling Moses comprehensively as Southampton inflicted the first defeat of Liverpool’s season.

The Saints were solid, without being particularly threatening, in the first half, but manager Mauricio Pochettino gave Clyne and fellow full-back Luke Shaw a bit more attacking licence in the second half, a tweak that he subsequently highlighted as being crucial to the eventual win.


Clyne is looking to continue to improve upon his solid first Premier League campaign

“I think especially in the second half we came out correcting what we hadn’t done properly in the first half,” Pochettino told Adam Leitch of the Southern Daily Echo afterward.

“We were hanging way too far back in the first half defensively but when we came in we corrected those positions and pressed a bit higher and were able to go on the counter attack and in the second half we did very well and that was the key.”

It is somewhat ironic that Southampton, possessing of perhaps the finest crop of young English players outside the established big four, should be managed by an Argentine who, as a player, had a reputation for being somewhat agricultural.

Yet, to his credit, Pochettino has shown little discernible reluctance to continue the example of his predecessor, Nigel Atkins, and give talented academy graduates their chance in the first-team.

Shaw, Clyne, Calum Chambers and James Ward-Prowse have all been given plenty of first-team opportunities, with the latter pair brought along with more restraint than the former—Shaw, still only 18, having shown himself preternaturally suited to the rigours of top-level football.

Shaw, Chambers and Ward-Prowse have both come through the Saints academy, a system that has previously produced Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain—establishing beyond almost any question its primacy among all others in the country.

Those recent graduates have followed a path trodden by current club captain Adam Lallana into the first-team, but the current squad also has young talent brought in from other clubs—Clyne being one example, and forward Jay Rodriguez (a £7 million signing from Burnley) is another.

This core of talented players has helped Southampton establish themselves in the Premier League remarkably quickly, even at this early stage showing little sign of succumbing to the supposed "second season syndrome" that has often seemed to afflict promoted sides in their second campaign in the top-flight.

An ambitious club, little at St Mary’s seems geared toward simply surviving from season to season.

“It’s not only me developing that winning mentality but the chairman who has been developing it for the last four years and solidifying a structure of how the club wants to play,” Pochettino remarked on Saturday.

“We fully believe in how we want to play and what the future is for Southampton Football Club and a victory like this reinforces that even more.”

With improved performances comes increased recognition and, in all likelihood, a greater number of international call-ups.

Yet, in another twist of irony, it is the most experienced (and journeyed) of Englishmen in the squad that has so far been the only one to receive sustained international recognition.

Striker Rickie Lambert, partly due to his prolific form and partly due to a lack of other options, suddenly finds himself in a strong position to earn a World Cup spot (should the Three Lions qualify) after key roles in two recent qualifiers.

England head coach Roy Hodgson is keeping his eye on Saints players beyond Lambert (whose own fairytale story has been well covered), however. Clyne and Shaw are both prominent figures in the Under-21 setup, while Ward-Prowse is integral at U-19 level.

Pochettino, relaying a recent conversation with the England head coach to BBC Sport, noted: "He didn't just ask about Lambert, he asked about other players, so it shows that they are in contention.”

That should be music to the ears of a number of players.

While Shaw would appear to be an obvious tip for a long-term career at international level (according to the Express he has already been targeted by Chelsea as Ashley Cole’s long-term replacement, and by Manchester United to fill the same role with Patrice Evra), the presence of Cole and Everton’s Leighton Baines renders his pre-World Cup international prospects limited, unless injury befalls one of the pair.

Elsewhere, however, the drab showing against Ukraine underlined the relative lack of talent Hodgson has to draw upon. The likes of Rodriguez—a versatile forward capable of being both direct and technically clean, depending on circumstances—and even Lallana (who was called up for the first time but did not play in a match 12 months ago) will both consider that good news, but it might just be Clyne with the more realistic shot of joining Lambert on the plane to Brazil.

A niggle sustained during a preseason camp in Austria prevented Clyne from being fit for the opening game of the season but, after an aborted 45-minute appearance against Sunderland, he has since made two eye-catching performances in clean-sheet displays—making a record number of defensive interceptions at Anfield on Saturday.


Clyne's performance against Liverpool - details via FourFourTwo's StatZone

Neither Glen Johnson nor Kyle Walker are as good as Shaw’s rivals, Cole and Baines, while the relative propensity to injury of both heightens the need to have a third right-back option.

Fighting in a group that would likely include Phil Jones, Chris Smalling (both surely destined to be centre-backs long-term) and Carl Jenkinson, Clyne will hope his blend of defensive diligence and attacking fluency will help his case.

Counting against him, however, is the importance of next month’s two final qualifiers—lessening the chance of Hodgson making risky squad selections—and, should England successfully navigate them, the limited time left to integrate new players into the setup.

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Hodgson has shown a willingness to look further afield for international call-ups, however. Clyne may well be on his radar.

“I want to improve as a player, and as a team I think we can all improve together because we can do better than last season,” Clyne told his club’s official website at the start of the season.

“Last season was a great season but I think, with the players that we’ve got, we can take the experience that we have into this season then we’ll be okay.

“For myself, I would like to get three goals and five assists—I’ll be happy with that. Hopefully as a team we’ll be aiming for a top-half finish.”

If he achieves all that, Clyne may leave Hodgson with an additional headache too.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1783986-clyne-among-burgeoning-southampton-talents-edging-into-england-frame

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Typical Morrison.
Terserah apapun yg mereka bicarain, Morrisson masih aja kyk dulu, temperamental plus main fisiknya ga sembuh2 -___-