I know it’s ups and downs with international football and tournament form is another beast but the team wasn’t great against Malta either. Are the players just not that bothered? End of year playing in the motions?
Well these friendlies don’t mean much but it’s still a part of building team chemistry in the build up the Euros. The lack of creativity is still a key issue that has lingered since the Last Euros too, I think Maddisons badly missed and Sakas been far from his best.
You can’t look much into these games it’s a dead rubber players don’t want to get injured or exert themselves to much when they are challenging for trophies, European spots etc. England qualified easily out in some really strong performances along the way. No team is gonna be at their creative best all the time all great teams have periods of grinding out results.
Say city qualify from their cl group with 2 games to spare then play out a few bore draws or scrappy 1-0 wins in the dead robbers nobody looks into it or cares do they ?