wco81 wrote:Listening to several English commentators. They acknowledge that Spain was the better team, this match and the whole tournament.
But they say Southgate has no excuses, with all these stars on the team.
Certainly all the PL stars on the team probably have bigger salaries and transfer values than the players on the Spanish team.
But how predictive is PL success to international football? The Golden Generation of Gerrard and Lampard didn't win the Euro or the WC. In fact did they even get to the final of either tournament like this generation has reached the Final both at Wembley and Berlin in this tournament?
Plus, the reason why a club like City has been so great is that two of their best players are Rodri and KDB, who are not English.
The English media are tough.
Never heard anyone call Lampard, Gerrard a "golden generation", personally I never thought that generation would win anything. I don't think they were even top 3 favorites at any tournament. This generation is better at the top but also has great depth in almost every position except for center back.
İ don't think Southgate criticism is about winning either, if they had resembled a 1.3 billion dollar team first few games but lost in well fought semi finals, he would get less criticism.
