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For many football personalities, the main problem that England had from the very start of the competition was the manager's lack of decision-making skills. Since the very start of the whole process, England legend Gary Lineker had been very vocal about the many mistakes he believed Roy Hodgson was making starting from the final list of players he named for the summer in France. But the main problems he made according to Gary, had very much to do with the tactics he used during the matches.
Talking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Lineker went all out and left nothing to the imagination: "They need to know on the pitch exactly what their jobs are, what they are supposed to do in certain circumstances and I'm not sure that was the case. It is like an actor. An actor can be as good as he likes but he still needs a really good director. I'm sure once it started to go wrong and they got behind, you could sense nobody seemed to know what to do. There was no real game plan, no plan B.
"Italy went out there [against Spain] and they had a real game plan. You could see the coach [Antonio Conte] on the sidelines orchestrating everything - they played a pressing game for a while, then they sat for a while. You could see that every single player on that pitch knew exactly what his job was at any given time and the positions they should be in. The organisation and the game plan was obvious and it worked."
"You could not really see that with England. There were plans and then there were changes. Roy is traditionally a 4-4-2 guy, he has been all of his career. He has kind of changed and, understandably at times, tried different things. We didn't really have the players to change the system. We have not got any wingers – we have only got Raheem Sterling, who is bang out of form and confidence. He didn't give himself those alternatives by picking five or six central strikers."
But Lineker also had things to say about the players: "There is a degree of a lack of mental strength which maybe comes from a lack of success in recent tournaments and the pressure that comes on the England team. But don't you think for one minute that there is more pressure on the England team than there is on the Spanish team, the German team, the Italian team. The expectancy in those countries is higher than it is in our country. We tend to be quite realistic because we are quite used to failure."
Photo credit: Gary Lineker
