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Euro HOT or NOT: Sturridge, Hodgson, Hart, Sterling
What’s sexy, and what isn’t, in the England team this week…
HOT
Daniel Sturridge
It wasn’t long ago that the striker’s fragility had made him a laughing stock and his club manager Jurgen Klopp appeared to openly question his commitment. But Sturridge is gradually rebuilding his reputation, and a last-minute winner in Lens may have provided ultimate redemption. Lively and brave in his 45-minute appearance from the bench, the finish that won the match was laced with a deceptive power that undid Wayne Hennessey at his near post. A minor niggle after the Europa League final aside, Sturridge has not missed a game through injury for almost five months. And a fit Daniel Sturridge can be whatever he wants to be. Except a dancer, perhaps.
Kyle Walker
If England v Wales was the first game of football an alien had ever watched, the creature could have been forgiven for thinking that right-back was the main attacking position in the sport. Time and again it was Walker that England turned to for impetus as they probed and prodded at the Welsh defence. The killer cross or pass was generally lacking, but nevertheless the full-back’s constant willingness to charge to the by-line, or into the opposition area, kept Wales on the back-foot throughout the second half. And the key to Walker’s swashbuckling approach is having the pace and fitness to get back into defensive position whenever required. So far, this Euro looks like it could be the making of the Tottenham man.
Roy Hodgson
It would be silly to pretend that the England comeback triggered by the manager’s half-time substitutions was a result of tactical genius - throwing on all your strikers when you need a goal is a football strategy simple enough for a child to implement - but Hodgson still emerges with credit for his sheer bravery. There is a sense that the cautious man from Croydon is letting his hair down in what are likely to be the defining weeks of his career, although even this new gung-ho approach is borne out of pragmatism. England’s attack is more reliable than their defence, so putting faith in the strikers has actually become the least risky option.
NOT
Raheem Sterling
You can imagine that the winger stubbed his toe on the bathroom door and then spilled milk all down his top while he was eating his Crunchy Nut Cornflakes at the England team hotel on Thursday morning, because this was truly a day when nothing went right. The most glaring example in Lens was his horribly wayward attempt to convert Adam Lallana’s superb cross in the 7th minute, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Although Sterling persisted in trying to run at the Welsh defence, he was dispossessed at every turn, while his frequent poor control belied his plummeting self-confidence. So poor was Sterling’s all-round display that it’s hard to imagine him starting another game at these Euros, but if Hodgson sticks with the same formation there doesn’t appear to be a like-for-like replacement.
Joe Hart
England’s number one let everyone know he was up for it by belting out the national anthem like Stuart Pearce and swearing at everyone in the tunnel before the match, but it would have been preferable if he’d just concentrated on making routine saves instead. The strike that beat Hart was not the best free-kick Gareth Bale has ever taken, or even the 100th best, and he would have been grateful for Hart’s failure to parry it to safety. The 61-time capped keeper has enough credit in the bank to let this setback slide, especially because the mistake ultimately went unpunished, but he might do better to exert calm authority rather than pumped-up bravado in future.
Harry Kane
“A bit tired,” was Roy Hodgson’s post-match summary of the player who came into the Euros as England’s main man, but who has started the tournament looking like a weak link. Kane has only suffered one dip in form in the past two outstanding years, when it took him nine games to score his first goal of last season for Tottenham. On that occasion, Kane was soon back to his best after he had broken the duck, but time is at more of a premium at a major finals. With Sturridge and Vardy both scoring from the bench, it means that in just one and half games Kane may have lost the place he has done so much in the past two years to earn.
