7. Underestimating Our Group
England have been placed in Group B, along with Russia, Wales and Slovakia. On the face of it, it’s a pretty easy group, especially when you look at Group D by comparison. However, I think that Roy and England will probably underestimate the quality that all of these opponents have.
Slovakia are arguably the weakest team in the group, yet they beat Spain in qualifying and finished 2nd ahead of Ukraine. Gareth Bale is obviously the major threat for Wales, but their team spirit could be England’s downfall. Finally, Russia sacked former England manager Fabio Capello midway through qualifying and looked set to miss out on automatic qualification. They won their last four games and managed to finish 2nd behind Austria.
I’m honestly expecting us to struggle to get out of this group.
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