Sven-Goran Eriksson admits the ‘BIG MISTAKE’ he made with England’s 2006 World Cup side
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That "Aaaah, it was the press's fault" is so patronizing and completely unfair because the English media was (and continues to be) a massive consideration in such matters, that other countries (like Sweden, for example) do not have to contend with.
Honestly looking back, they treated him very badly in this show. Say what you want about him and his managerial choices but they questioned him saying some pretty standard stuff.
In another clip he said that the reason him taking Walcott to the World Cup didn't really matter was because the 23rd man on the squad is never going to make the difference. This point was then argued with ''what about Geoff Hurst and what he did at the 1966 World Cup?'', which is absolutely ridiculous as Hurst was never in a million years the last man in that squad.
Just forced Southagte out after 2 finals, a semi and a quarter lol
He's not said that at all here.
@@paulec2634 The presenter said it, almost sarcastically
I love that they had Sven on ONE TIME and all the recent uploads to Sky are just "Sven admits mistake" "Why Sven was wrong"
And so they should this guy made some stupid mistakes as England manager
Two words. Click bait.
There is a special place in hell for Journalists
@@LethalMartialArtist No the so called golden generation was overhyped. Englands best players in 80's and 90's under sir Bobby Robson.
@Some Words the funniest thing is the England team hasn't been as good as it was under Sven ever since. Never as high up in the FIFA rankings etc.
im convinced sven is bantering england on purpose
wildebest Agreed. It was our fault for offering him the job!
wildebest you idiot England are the bottlers they haven’t won a trophy since 1966. Sven won the Serie A with Lazio against world class Juventus & Milan teams. He also won the UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners Cup & 2 Coppa Italia’s with Lazio as well as winning the UEFA Cup with Gothenburg. He was up against Capello, Lippi & Ancelotti who had much better teams. He also mentored Mancini & Simeone who have gone on to become good managers. You prefer Southgate who hasn’t won anything in his career he isn’t even as good Roberto Martinez who at least won the FA Cup with Wigan, what did Southgate do other than get relegated with Middlesbrough.
Nick Thorp you idiot England are the bottlers they haven’t won a trophy since 1966. Sven won the Serie A with Lazio against world class Juventus & Milan teams. He also won the UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners Cup & 2 Coppa Italia’s with Lazio as well as winning the UEFA Cup with Gothenburg. He was up against Capello, Lippi & Ancelotti who had much better teams. He also mentored Mancini & Simeone who have gone on to become good managers. You prefer Southgate who hasn’t won anything in his career he isn’t even as good Roberto Martinez who at least won the FA Cup with Wigan, what did Southgate do other than get relegated with Middlesbrough.
Boring Name maybe it was England who were crap & not him. You don’t win all those trophies with Lazio against world class managers & world class teams if you’re not good. He also won the UEFA Cup with Gothenburg let that sink in.
Heskey and Scholes left mid. We all hated Hargreaves until he finally played him CDM. He wasted half of his England career being rubbish in bad positions.
He was a bad manager. Even when we won 5-1 in Germany we should have been 3 down.
I really hope Sven does more media stuff and reflection, those years were such a huge chunk of English football history in my younger years
I liked Sven, I thought he was unlucky, Ronaldinho freak goal, Campbell's perfectly legitimate extra time goal disallowed, Rooney's red card, and world class players bottling penalties. Don't think he was all to blame.
If John Terry holding down the keeper as he’s trying to jump is perfectly legitimate there’d be a hell of a lot more goals scored from corners and free kicks
@@nickcockayne7880 'holding down' is an exaggeration, and you know it. Plus, that keeper was never getting to that cross anyway, and you know it. Some people are just intellectually dishonest though, which you seemingly don't know.
@@sunnyjim1355 Nicks a hard scotsman. Who do the biz in tournaments. Watch your back mate.
@@sunnyjim1355cry England are just bad at football
It must've been down to the host nation (Portugal) getting the refereeing decisions. Host nations did in that period 1996-2004. From what I've seen on the replays it looks like a scrappy/fumbled goal, I've seen them get allowed before.
Also, I think the Brazil team in 2002 were so good that anyone would have a hard time trying to beat them.
His big mistake was never playing scholes, lampard, and Gerrard in a midfield 3
It was normal back then, it's easy to say now after watching barcelona's midfield, but the problem was beckham, he felt forced to put him in.
@@KlamPakFC mourinho`s inter 4-3-3 was inovative at the time because everybody was playing 4-4-2 for ages, hard to blame him for not trying 3man midfiel
I think it would have been better with Carrick or Barry in to sit back
Carrick/Barry
Scholes Lampard/Gerrard
Drop Beckham he was very average... Sven never took control
Scholes Lampard and Gerald all together is a boring midfield and it will be torn to pieces especially in the knockout stages. Drop Lampard and put in Hargreaves. I would bring on Lampard as a super sub for Gerald
"Carra" speaks like how I imagine a wasp would.
always thought this..or a trapped fly
In Conker's Bad Fur Day, the scousers are dung beetles. Works well tbh.
@@YevOnegin your still the biggest wooley around eugene
🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃
When you have Beckham you have a bloody circus it was a farce
When Lampard missed that pen you just knew something wasn't right
Respect carra for not mentioning he had to retake his penalty.
agreed
I don’t? He took it early and as an England fan that can’t be looked back on as a decision against us, lampard and gerrard missing was the key reason we lost that shoot out in my opinion.
At the time Sven said that taking it before the whistle showed he lost his bottle.
Lampard and Gerrard were smashing in penalties for Chelsea and Liverpool respectively. Problem with that 2006 team was that club rivalries were so intense. Remember Joe Cole saying that united and Chelsea players didn't really mingle in the dressing room. Nothing compares the rivalry of Chelsea and united during the 2004-2007 era
Arsenal-United from 97-2004 was more intense.
The rivalry between United, Chelsea and Tottenham for top 4 is pretty intense right now.
Tbf they did practice everyday, can't put it on Sven for not having a mental coach.. what about other tournaments before, I bet there was not one then either.
And also the Porugal's keeper at the time was just a penalty saving machine tbh...like just insanely good at saving penalties...and England had Robinson...
If England had won just one of those penalty shootouts Sven's reign would've looked completely different, could even have been epic, who knows? Tiny margins decide so much in football at the top level... I've no doubt England would've beat the Czechs in 96 if they had just won the shootout, I would've backed that England team to beat that shithouse Argentina team in the 1990 World Cup final too... Englands history of failure at tournaments could quite easily have been a successful history but for the tiny margins.
exactly, i remember our game against Algeria in 2014, it thought ''that's it, these lot play the game of their lives and will kick us out'', thankfully Germany won after 120 minutes.
666 BRLN 999 2010 you mean
The problem has always been Liverpool's players.
You say tiny margins, but sadly it was a big margin: lack of self belief in the critical moments.
Even Euro 96...
Biggest "mistake" in Euro 2004 was Wayne Rooney getting that foot injury when we were winning v Portugal in the QF.
4 goals in 3 games.
3 MOTM displays.
Injured 20min in.
What could've been...
True that brother.
It is what it is maybe cuz they were playing on the same team
True but if we were relying on an 18 year old then that tells the whole story.
It is what it ronaldo simply took advantage of rooney’s biggest weakness at the time(temper). The game is the game, gets like that🤷🏿♂️😂
@@KZBloodonthesand that was WC 2006. Also to suggest that Ronaldo got Rooney sent off. Are people saying that the referee was corrupt? Rooney stamped on Carvalho!
Carra: "You got knocked out of both tournaments by Portugal on Penalties"
Carra: "I know what it was like behind the scenes because I missed a penalty"
Carra: "Is there anything you would have done differently?"
*Plot Twist*
Sven: "Well yes, you would not have taken one for starters.."
England was so poor in that tournament. Owen Hargreaves and ashley cole was the only really stand out players.. the rest under performed massively and have to take the blame aswell
We were much better in 2002, probably would have gone on to win if Brazil hadn't been so well drilled.
Chris James yep 100 percent , players need to get the blame more often
So frustrating not to have won tournaments in the last 20 years
Another thing that's not been mentioned, we were always s--t at keeping the ball, the big difference at international level.
But John Terry was the only English player named in the All-Star team for that world cup.
Say what you like about Sven. He took a team with Trevor Sinclair on the left, Heskey up front and Danny Mills Right back to run a brilliant Brazil side close in 2002 and lost a spin toss penalty shoot out in 2004 and 2006 vs Portugal...both would of made a semi final if won.
If if if, but but but. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Fact is we had 35 minutes against a ten-man Brazil and never looked like getting an equaliser. Didn't even win our group in 2002 despite beating Argentina who were ostensibly the biggest threat in it. We were ok in 2004 and then we absolutely stunk the place out in 2006. We were dreadful in that tournament. Sven did nothing more than the absolute bare minimum and why people still wistfully look back on that 'Golden Generation' with so much fondness is beyond me.
Glen Hoodle was better. he play 60 min vs Argentina with 10 man....
No Portugal 2006 was 60 mins with a numerical disadvantage.
Argentina was 75mins.
That Brazil team were so good anyway that I think anyone would've had a hard time beating them. I think the problem in 2004 was that England would've won their group if they had not condeded a last minute penalty against France, and then England would've had to play Greece rather than the host nation.
Southgate is the only England manager who has taken penalty preparation seriously....and what a surprise...it paid off! It has never been anything other than a psychology contest and requires specialist coaching from non football experts in areas such as body language. David James 2004 shootout performance is the textbook example of EVERYTHING done completely wrong. Ricardo did everything perfectly from giving the ball to the strikers before each kick and standing tall in front of the goal line as long as possible. James retreated inside his goal and twiddled his thumbs before each kick. It took England 22 years to cotton onto the basics of penalty shoot outs...and that fact is probably the most painful thing about being an england fan over those years....the arrogance combined with ignorance of never learning from anyone else.
2:54 Jamie Carragher ‘when we took penalties for Liverpool, I’d always believe we’d win but for England......’ In a nutshell you were too weak to cope with the pressure surrounding your country. You can’t blame Sven for that despite his faults.
azdownunder he scored his penalty, but made to re take it
Monkey spoon it’s not about if he scored or not, it’s about the attitude or the mind set.
@@monkeyspoon8255 He was made to retake it because he took it before the ref blew his whistle to do so.. that's a schoolboy error which just shows that he couldn't handle the pressure.
The first time in years the media didn’t put too much pressure won the England team was 2 years ago and we nearly win the whole thing with a much worse squad than the one Sven had. It’s always been our media, always! Our golden generation played every tournament like they were shutting themselves rather than enjoying it like the Brazilians!!
2018 you had a lucky draw, that is the only reason you reached the semifinal
David S a lucky draw? Or a decent squad and a cunning manager who picked a second team for a game to ensure the easiest route? I’d say that’s just clever!
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 i mean your group. tunisia and panama as first two opponents. this is ridiculious.
David S that’s just standard at a World Cup! That’s why most people respect the UCL more than a World Cup these days as the standard at a World Cup isn’t as high!
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 no it is not standard. there are difficult groups, medium groups, easy groups and joke groups, and you got the biggest joke group ever
His big mistake was using 90s 4-4-2 tactics with new 5 man midfield ones.
Tactical genius,should've played Scholes as rwb overlapping the two cb's and Joe Cole as a macciato regista with crouchy up top,what a shame.
Lampards' Men ye and he should’ve played owen and beckham at cb gerrard I n goal and me at striker
"Macciato regista"😂
Lampards' Men 🤣
Macciato regista LOL!
Sven can always console himself with the wheelbarrow full of cash he made.
And the women he shagged
@@oliprj8676 Indeed
My thoughts and prayers for Sven and his battle with cancer.
I feeling Jaimie has a slight chip on his shoulder concerning Erickson...he was a second string player under him.....maybe I’m wrong but I feel some passive aggressiveness.....am I right ?
@wildebest King was a better player so any coach would have picked him over Carragher.
@wildebest Chelsea or United players like Ledley King? He played for a decade in the Premier League and was the quickest centre back we had at the time.
@wildebest But Carragher was not a better pick than Ledley King, that's why King was picked ahead of him, King was world class which is why every England manager wanted to risk his injuries and pick him.
@wildebest carragher too slow for centre back for England he'd just get left miles behind with the ball in behind all game. He wasn't an amazing player. King, Ferdinand,Terry,Campbell all miles ahead of carra for 1st choice centre back just like any premier league club would have at the time. I think we're looking back at carra through rose tinted glasses now he's liked as a pundit.
@wildebest he's massively overated ffs. Slow, own goal machine
Seems like Carragher is trying to get his own back and trolling Sven for never picking him as his first choice centre back 😂
Fergie was right. You can never believe what media says about your players. You have to protect them from media. He single-handledly sacrifice his character to protect MU players apart from England Press.
England lost because Ricardo was superb. Gerrard and Lampard were the penalty takers in their clubs. Hargreaves was the only one who scores, and even in that shot, Ricardo touch the ball, the same in the ½ final, with Zidane's penalty.
Sven was a great England manager. The problem was the rivalry between the clubs being carried into the England dressing room.
I blame players like Neville and carragher tbh.
Either way good memories
How can you say that after 2010 with Spain winning the WC with an entire team full with barca and madrid players?
@@vin8754 There were only like 3 Madrid players.
@@vin8754 ... because England isn't Spain, duh!
@@vin8754 I think the England squad were based across multiple clubs and they all hated each other, apparently some of them were so stuck up that they didn't even eat with players from other clubs in the England squad. I doubt Spain or any other team for that matter had an environment that toxic.
Shoehorning Rooney into the world cup 2006 when he was recovering from injury and not fully fit whilst taking Walcott as another striker spot. Rooney ended up repaying that faith by stamping on Carvalho's balls and getting sent off to cost us vs Portugal.
Watch the referee that clip again and you'll see Rooney got sent off for pushing Ronaldo. Not the stomp.
We had 20 players that wouldnt have anything to do with each other. They didn't want to win the world cup together, they wanted to win the Premier League and Champions League with their mates.
Carragher trying to push the reason he missed his penalty on Robinson suggesting he wasn't a good keeper; when the reality is Jamie was a bottlejob and didn't rise to the occasion.
Love when mangers talk about there mistake good to learn from
We know he aint got the best rep in England but come on 3 videos slating a previous England manager, the press was and still is a mistake over here
I lost £200 that summer. I had England to win the World Cup. Kept that damn betting slip on me for an entire month. I was actually in Germany when they went out. No one was more gutted than me and I’m Scottish 🏴
why is no one saying that Engaldn had a lot of decent but over hyped players, which was the real reason they could not win a tournament
They had top quality players in every position except left wing
@@yingyang1008 the fact you consider Beckham top quality says it all
@@pentz1 bloody brilliant player - go back at look at his games with Man U, one of the best passers and strikers of a ball in the game at the time and a brilliant athlete throughout his 20s
He slowed down a lot in his 30s
Ying Yang Beckham is not a striker and he is just good for passes free kicks and crosses. He lacks in finition, speed, shooting, dribbling, heading, vision, mentality. He is a very good player but not world class
@@henrichvonstaufenberg4841 Yeah - world class is a big call - but he was bloody brilliant in his prime
I remember everyone in England slagging Sven off for taking Owen Hargreaves into the Team and he turned out being one of England's best players at the 2006 World Cup and coincidently he was the only one who didn't miss his penalty.
Retrospectively I would have gone defensively with 3 at the back. A trio of Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, John Terry on paper would have done brilliantly. Sol at the Heart, Rio at the right, John on the left. They could play out from the back, launching early long balls for the runs of pacey Rooney or for Crouch to flick on to the Midfield.
You’d have to drop either Beckham or Neville. Hear me out. Three at the back means you’d need two players to provide width Ashley Cole would solve England’s no natural left footed winger. While right side would be covered by Beckham.
Heart of the center midfield would be covered by Hargreaves on the left and Gerrard on the right.
In front of them would be Lampard and Rooney.
And up front Crouch.
Robinson
Ferdinand - Campbell - Terry
Beckham - Gerrard - Hargreaves - A. Cole
Rooney - Lampard
Crouch
If leading and a need to shut the opposition completely, bring Carrick on for any of Gerrard, Lampard or Rooney. Whoever’s tired, has a yellow or isn’t playing well.
If need reinforcements in attack bring Owen or Joe Cole. If even more defense required bring Neville on for Beckham.
As Sir Alex Ferguson put it brilliantly, defense wins you titles and Italy showed how it was done basically.
Also look at the Liverpool team in the 13/14 season. Amazing midfield/upfront, who created so many goals but their defence was abysmal. Fast forward to the Liverpool of 2018-2020 the strength is reversed.
Scholes instead of lamps, and then switch Gerrard and scholes around. Gerrards best form was a number 10. Good line up though. Main issue was beckham not being quick or nibble enough to play as a winger in a front 3 to accommodate for a 3 in midfield, so makes loads of sense.
Biggest problem: If you think you will lose then you will lose, never ever start think about losing because then you will certainly lose..
To this day I'll never understand why he didn't try Gerrard, Scholes and Lampard as a 3 in midfield.
I said at the time and I still believe we should have played 3 at the back and wing backs, we had some of the best players in the world through the spine of the team and very few good wide players
E .S 433
@@12000gp Not a bad shout tbh. Would you have played Beckham at wing back? It's unorthodox but I think it could have worked
@@12000gp Actually the 3-5-2 England played at the 2018 world cup would have suited the "golden generation" to the ground. Especially with Ferdinand as the middle centre back.
Jack Beswick probably would have played Beckham wingback, not great defensively but he had a hell of an engine and would have run up and down all day. Ashley Cole was also born to play wingback, he was fantastic going backwards or forwards.
Playing Beckham. He was one of the worst England players ever.
I find it baffling / impressive that Carragher doesn't mention the way he was unfairly told to retake it... the keeper was. not saving that first penalty. Having to score a second penalty is a whole new ball game... do I go the same way.. do I change? Ten times more difficult. He either REALLY thinks it deserved to be retaken (baffling to me) OR he just refuses to moan (very impressive considering the hurt).
Jamie: I know what the preparation was like, I obviously took a penalty and missed one, But when you come away from England was there anything you would have done differently?
Sven: Yes, I wouldn't have played you!
LOL
Oh I can think of a few more mistakes.
Not using Scholes effectively, not using a 5 man midfield, not taking Defoe to the 06 WC.
Hoddle had England playing well until he resigned. Then the sun got Keegan into the job, worst mistake. Sven was conservative in some regards, like he mentioned... what we call 'golden generation'... when standing in front of Ronaldinho were mental midgets. They gave them too much respect.
they knew they were nowhere near as good as the likes of Ronaldinho, Zidane, Totti and that's why they parked the bus against any good team.
How england never won the world cup with that squad is beyond belief
Bad management, as usual.
Rip, sven. Absolute gentlemen.
He right about England mental frailty, not just in penalty shoot out. The fact that the teams England produced over the years for the most part weren't good enough against the top 5 or 6 teams was really the main problem. The team that's there now as of 2020 Kane & Co is probably the best in my lifetime I'm 49 years old. Only teams that can compare is 1986 Mexico Gary Lineker, Glenn hoddle and Chris Waddle team which got knocked out by Maradona hand ball and the other (ran from his own half goal) that Argentina side that went on to win the world cup and make the final 4 years later losing to Germany was incredible side, Bobby Robson said without "Maradona they dont win the game" trouble is they did have him and thay did win. Lineker was sensational in the tournament, considering he only started the last group match with England needed to win in order to progress from the group having lost to Portugal 1-0 in the opening game. If England are to win a major tournament they need to fight harder than any big team they play and no fall at the same pit falls as what happened in the semis at the last world cup, I still believe theres only maybe 2 or 3 teams
' better ' in world football but probably 5+ teams that could out smart England if the pressure was on in a big tournament.
Should of played a 4-5-1 formation with Gerrard as holding mid, lampard to be the attacking box to box with scholes in the middle creating everything plus 2 wide men and Rooney as 1 man up top
Absolutely right should have brought in a mental coach or a psychologist. People underestimate the influence of pressure on football.
El Dio Players weren’t good enough. Simple
@@pearcegreatesteverleftback03 They were good enough wirld class players in nearly every position his tactics and set up were the problem
LFC Shanks Sorry I Disagree. They were pretty decent but not near good enough to win a major tournament like the world cup
The problem was how he set up the team and you need psychological support
Hahah love the swedish English accent
You weren't on holiday though... You were at work! Love ya Carra but there was just so much wrong mentally with England at the time.
not svens fault you shanked 2 penalties carra
He's quite right. England didn't do well in that world cup because of his insistence of playing Rooney up front on his own. Well done.
If only he had a Defoe type player to pick from eh 😂
Honestly, when you've got a team that includes: Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Beckham, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Sol Campbell and Rio Ferdinand - you shouldn't need to win a penalty shoot-out - you should win in the 90 minutes easily. IMO, Eriksson was a poor coach.
Tactically naive and poor motivation skills.
Looool. Ronaldinho then was better than every single player you just mentioned and that's not including kaka
Even if we'd got past Portugal in the quarters take a look at the France team we'd have faced in the semis. Zidane, Henry, Abidal, Vieira, Makelele, Gallas, Sagnol, Thuram, Trezeguet, Ribery. No guarantee we would've beaten them.
That means nothing. Portugal had a great squad, also. They had great tournements in 2000 and 2004. Could fall for any side.
Love the passion of the english football. Even 20 years later there is this burning question, did the coach pick the right team or not. It's a mystery why England doesn't win the world cup every time...
I don’t buy that idea that you can’t replicate the atmosphere of a penalty shootout. Surely a player who has practiced penalties over and over again, committing it to muscle memory, gives himself the best possible chance.
Should have been Scholes and Gerrard in the midfield, with a proper out and out winger to help Cole, Lampard is too similar to Gerrard.
No football nation in the world loves, recreating winning a football tournament as England does!
Let me think world cup 2006: Let's say you had beaten Portugal "Figo", by the way, their golden generation was better than yours.
You still had to beat a very strong French team with Zidane and a formidable Italian team of Totti, Pirlo and Cannavaro Del Piero. A team, that knew how to play together better than any team out there. You are deluded as a football nation. It's actually quite sad, they just won't let go of something that happens 15 to 20-yeas ago. Quarter-finals is not the finals, therefore you haven't got the divine right to win anything. Yet, in every tournament, they're the favourites who constantly gets sent home.
@wildebest Very well analyzed.
2006 was the best English side imagine if Scholes would also have been in the squad but not on the left for sure. But we can see that even without Scholes on the left in 2006 they still lost. I think it is more that England chokes in big moments
Because there is a stigma around England losing in tournaments. Passed down from generation to generation. Happens with loads of countries, because you haven’t won in a while, you start to believe it’ll never happen again.
Its not the manager fault for players missing penalties
You knew what Svens starting 11 would be regardless of form. He bottled dropping big names who either werent playing well or didnt play well together
I'm not English. Its just mindblowing to me they weren't able to get this squad working properly.
Just imagine this:
Neville, Ferdinand, Terry, Cole
Lampard, Carrick, Gerrard
Beckham, Rooney, Owen
I think a counterstyle would fit them the best. With Cole making runs forward, Owen cutting from the right into pockets of space created by Rooney/Gerrard. Beckham slinging that ball into the box. Carrick in there to balance Lampard and Gerrard out. If you can play with Odegaard and Havertz in an Arsenal midfield with Partey or Rice or Jorginho behind them, then you can surely make this outstanding Lampard, Carrick and Gerrard midfield work.
Rooney can also drop like a false 9, with Owen taking advantage of that. With Lampard and Gerrard even being able to take advantage of that. Beckham can also drop to a midfield position when Lampard steams ahead.
England fans are way too harsh on Sven. Before he joined, England were struggling to qualify for the 2002 World Cup, he took them to the quarter final where they lost to eventual winners Brazil, took them to the quarter finals in Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006 where they lost to a good Portugal side twice on penalties. Immediately after he left England failed to qualify for Euro 2008. He was a good manager, the players just weren't good enough.
His deployment of the greatest CAM England had ever seen was deplorable.
The quality of English players is deplorable.
How about forcing Paul Scholes on the left to squeeze Lampard and Gerrard in?
Biggest mistake was giving him the job to start with
Think I'm the one person who actually likes Sven as coach
Yes you are the only one.
Yeah tbh
@Colloquial Soliloquy was better than capello
Anyone who isn't English likes him. It's only the arrogant English who do not.
How I wish I could go back to 2006
England's mistake in penalties is not picking the best goal scorers to take penalties. Relying on volunteers like central defenders or defensive midfielders doesn't make sense.
We had Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham, Rooney, and Owen... these players shouldn’t need a manager to tell them to put in extra practice with penalties.
The English press/media really has a habit of grabbing at straws to play the blame game towards everyone, except those who are ACTUALLY at fault.
Only Gerrard & Lampard from that list could take 1 in 2006.
And Gerrard & Rooney couldn't take 1 in 2004.
Wanted to hear more from Carraghers genuine point of view how he felt & the whole English press and families bs. Instead of him trying to focus on that 2nd pundit of the year award😑
Leaving Darren Bent out of the squad(English top scorer that season btw)...
Big mistake also..
One major mistake was playing Gerrard and Lampard together and leaving scholes out
He never left Scholes out in 2006 WC. Scholes retired from England after Euro 2004. The biggest mistake Sven ever did was playing Paul Scholes as a LM and playing David James in goal in Euro 2004. That was the biggest mistake he ever did.
Devito 1993 leaving scholes out of midfield*
It's all about the coach.... Look at spain from 2008-2012 el classico they look to kill each other but for Spain the work as a team.... It's all due to Del Bosque
God alone knows what Sven Erikson was thinking
Sven-Goran was England’s best coach in modern time.
Sven basically trolled Carragher by saying English players can't handle the pressure of taking penalties, with millions watching.
Gerrard was always taking Liverpool penalties and so was Chelsea's Lampard. Don't know what he meant by saying English players can't handle penalty pressure
@@akhilvasudevan3989 Different scenario at club level where your confidence is propped up by the quality foreign players around you. they'd go away with England and their actual lack of qualities as a collective would quickly come to the fore.
The big difference was the media pressure...under Southgate theres no real pressure until recently. Under Erikson we had such ridiculous pressure and it came through
He make mistake euro 2004 85 minute 1-0 against Portugal and he take Gerrard and schools at the same time 87 minute 1-1
Portugal tie the game at 81st minute, not later
People are too harsh on Erikson, he never lost before the QF. Lost twice on PKs and another one against a brilliant Brazil side due to a GK blunder. He left and the team FAILED to qualify to Euros and was a disaster in the following WC, almost failing to qualify in a joke of a group.
The media call this sub par 2000 team the Gold Generation. They had no keepers, no defence, no strikers. They were so bad they took an amateur who never played a pro game to the World Cup. And people were surprised when they failed to qualify to euros...
I still feel sorry for Sol Campbell he got screwed twice once in the 98 World Cup and the 04 Euro cup where he scored a goal only for the ref to say it was disallowed. Two games that we should have won
Eh, 98 World Cup was a fair decision. Shearer elbowed the Argentina keeper in the face so I can see why that was ruled out. Euro 2004 goal should've stood though.
@ashleythomas4112 Diego Simeone did 2 ridiculous dives which gave his team a penalty goal and a numerical advantage. If Argentina scored the goal SolCampbell did it would've counted for them like Maradona's hand goal 86 and it wasn't just the fact Campbell's winner with a numerical disadvantage (for 75mins!) was disallowed, the ref actually allowed Argentina to take a quick freekick to restart play and could've scored a controversial winner themselves from that as multiple players obviously including Campbell didn't know it had been disallowed as he himself didn't do anything wrong and he's a defender so England were short but Anderton ran back and won the ball but it was a very 1 sided performances from the ref.
The Beckham red card was a yellow card at best, Simeone's initial foul was worse than the reaction.
i dont care what Sven has to say after he said he'd put Nedved at Rightback
Could've played a 4-5-1. Standard back four of Neville, Terry, Ferdinand and Ashley Cole. Hargreaves as DM with Gerrard and Lampard ahead of him, Beckham and Joe Cole as wide players and Rooney as a lone striker.
Rip Sven ♥️
One of the best England's teams ever yet they provided us with some of the most boring matches of that world cup, such as england vs paraguay and england vs ecuador. Of course the result is the most important thing but for the neutral viewer they weren't anything special in these matches.
Sven - Football Genius
Hmm.. first time I’ve ever heard him called that..
Didn't he lose 8-1 to Middlesbrough?
OLI PRJ He did indeed in his last game in charge of Man City
@@MrAlwaysBlue tbh that was a sad end for him as I thought he did ok at City tbf
In my opinion the biggest problem, we never had Left Midfielder, they try to play all Central midfielders as left-wingers....I really wished Ryan Giggs had decided to play for England instead of Wales, we would a least won one euro champion....Picture, Ryan,Beckham,& Paul S..., & Steven Gerrard in midfield..... I am defender myself but I know this simple fact, everything is lost & won in midfield.
Giggs was never eligible to play for England. This is a very simple fact.
@@54356776 yes, he wanted to play from the country where is originally from which was Wales, but he was born & beard in England, so he should played for us
@@adedamolaodutayo2757
He was never eligible to play for England. He never wanted to play for England and he was born and bred in Wales. You're simply wrong about this.
@@54356776 I stand corrected slightly, he was born in Wales & came to England when he was 6, so he grew in England & plus he has British accent. He should played for us
@@adedamolaodutayo2757
Wales is Britain, his accent is irrelevant he has never been able to play for England and never wanted to. Saying he should play for England because of his accent is laughable.
Carragher blank face re caving in due to expectation!
So 433 with Scholes in the middle means you leave out Beckham's right foot and put Joe Cole or Crouch in the front three?
Defoe should've been in on the front line for World Cup 2006.
Bella persona Eriksson!!! Grande educazione, modi aristocratici, un vero signore!! In Italia è molto ma molto amato per la sua signorilità e anche perchè era un grande manager!!! Grande uomo, senza dubbio!!
No, bringing in a 16 year old Theo Walcott was a huge mistake! Didn’t even play him 😂😂
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17 year old. Your point is irrelevant given you cba to fact check.
@@bules6790 wow man he was off by two months, his point is entirely irrelevant you're correct
Priince Brvce_LUHG_ he called him up to gain experience
@@yahyaelmi8435 Gain experience by training with first team members which he would have been doing at Arsenal anyway? Regardless of that, you can't call someone up to give them experience its a detriment to the team
This guy decided to take a 16 year old Walcott with no epl appearance ahead of Defoe.
What about selecting a 16 year old Theo Walcott for the squad when barely anyone had ever heard of him. And then never bothering to play him anyway.
You cant blame a formation for a world class team surley they were mature enough to deal with it individually
His biggest mistake was not building team around scholes fergie built 4 around him and won 13 titles
They should have played Lampard Gerrard Scholes in a diamond
Drop Lampard and put Carrick for balance
17yrs on from this generation of players but it’s still the same issue plaguing England teams; pressure. Harry Kane with his 2nd penalty against France was like watching Chris Waddle at the 1990 World Cup. The penalty shootout against Italy at Euro 2020… how did Rashford miss? Until England sides can handle pressure better against good teams, they will always get beat in games of fine margins.
Didn't Hoddle get ridiculed for bringing some kind of lady shrink?
And we still lost on penalties then!
The ‘Big Mistake’ was him being manager in the first place!?
Probably, yes.
Did better than virtually all other England managers
@Boring Name Lol, England barely ever make the quarter finals. Sven got there 3 times. Keegan 2000 Euros was out in the group stages. McClaren couldn't even qualify for Euros 08. Capello out in round 16 2010. Hodgson got them to the Euro quarter finals in 2012 but then 2014 couldn't get out of the group stages at the WC. Then we have Southgate. Considering all of the tournaments, Sven has had on average the most success easily. In 20 years England have at least made the quarter-finals in all tournaments only 5 times. 3 of which were Sven's team. Pretty good wouldn't you say?
@@LordBranniganThe I agree. His record was decent. Only Terry Venables and Bobby Robson did better since 66
Yeah fa made mistake of when he said leaving and them giving him massive pay rise when he hadn’t deserved it