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To all those jumping in I bumped this because Croesy Blue predicted that Sterling would carry his Citeh goalscoring form into the WC. I demurred and quoted a few statistics. At international level HRK and Simon Church have much better goalscoring records. Of course Sterling is head and shoulders above them as a player but put an England shirt on him and he turns into Eddie Johnson circa 2009.
I rate him. Of course he's not a De Bruyne or a David Silva but then he's not expected to be.
He's direct, explosive, is 1v1 dominant and scores and creates goals. Technically he is much weaker than De Bruyne but he is effective.
At this moment in time, England need players who primarily can play the pressing game the y want to play, and second whose movement will generate a large number of chances.
Someone who doesn't get many chances, but when he has one on a plate will tuck.it away 9/10 times is the wrong guy for this England team. Perhaps if they had a team of elite creative passers, but they don't.
Sterling (and Lingard) get in good positions all the time. Sterling has an obvious confidence issue when playing for England but he's very effective. If one goes in from a few yards, he could really explode. I think he's unplayable on his day but then again, I've always been a fan.
Also, they've got Kane who will score despite not doing anything. They lack creativity in midfield, and Walker really looks like a full back playing inside at times but they'll do OK.
I think walker showed why Southgate has him at the back a couple of times last night. There were one or two occasions when Tunisia managed to beat the press and sent balls through for their attackers to run on to, but walker is so quick that he snuffed them out immediately every time.
With the players around him and amount of chances Citeh create, Eddie Johnson woukd have a decent strike rate.
I agree he does deserve to be there.
Jeez you really are a fan aren't you
I am basing my opinion on what I see, what people write on here and what I see on tv.
I don't read the papers often, just scour them online and certainly don't give the ones who are getting personal as you say, the time of day.
Sterling is a good player who scores a lot of goals. He gets in good positions constantly, same as Lingard. I'd much rather someone who spurns chances than someone who never gets there. I'm not going to comment on the rags though, that's been done to death and it is completely shameful.