Sterling has been good this season. His performance yesterday was amazing. Seems like he’s back to his old self. Marcus Rashford has ONE goal all season and he’s been out of form. Is there personal issue between Sterling and Wastegate?
Sterling has been good this season
He’s been alright - had good and bad performances. Let’s be honest if he hadn’t played well yesterday would you have made this claim?
Rashford hasn’t been good at all but Southgate is well known to pick a core group of players who he trusts and performs well in the England team - he rarely changes the squad massively based on form. Rashford is one of those players but he has been left out on occasions as well.
For a while Sterling was one of those players who played in a certain position whether people liked it or not but now Southgate has other options and Sterling doesn’t fit as well into the team as he did before.
I think it’s strange because Sterling has always performed for England, and that’s what Southgate apparently bases his squads on as opposed to club form.
Southgate said he’s happy how the attacking players played last few squad’s so doesn’t see a need to change
The game against Italy goes in favour of Rashford as well
He is a diving little shit.
Chelsea has been totally shit this season. A couple good games doesn’t change that. People acting like he’s been in good form for months. It’s been like 3 games.
Why even ask this question. GS doesn’t care about form and we know that. You’re either in his circle or you’re not.
Sterling? We should be talking about JWP
Where do you play Ward-Prowse though?
Obviously Bellingham & Rice are the two starters in the middle. If you put someone like Ward-Prowse in there with them, Bellingham can’t take up the advanced positions he does, Rice doesn’t have the freedom to make the surging runs that he does, or both.
I know people don’t like seeing Henderson & Phillips in the squad, but honestly they’re the only two midfielders with the defensive mentality to allow Bellingham & Rice to play to their strengths.
We’ve got set piece takers in the team, Ward-Prowse doesn’t offer us anything that we don’t already have. He’s not going to offer as much going forward as either Bellingham or Rice, and he’s not going to offer as much defensively as Phillips or Henderson. Even Gallagher offers more defensively.
Surely it makes more sense to have Henderson or Phillips doing Bellingham & Rice’s dirty work than Bellingham & Rice doing Ward-Prowse’s.
Next int break : WHY IS SOUTHGATE PICKING STERLING OVER RASHFORD
A few back people were complaining rashford wasn’t getting any time. It’s also about chemistry