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England Suffered A Big Embarrassment During Training Ahead Of Netherlands And Italy

England Suffered A Big Embarrassment During Training Ahead Of Netherlands And Italy

Gareth Southgate has a problem to fix before the World Cup that's for sure.

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

There was a time when England fans could have been accused of blindly believing that their team was going to win whatever tournament it was they entered. That is no longer really the case and training yesterday proved exactly why.

Once upon a time England won the World Cup, I'm led to believe it was in 1966, you'd have thought commentators could bring it up occasionally when England play wouldn't you.

Since then they've reached the semi finals of the 1990 World Cup and Euro 1996 and that's the extent of their success, oh apart from victory in the Tournoi de France in 1997, it's not exactly been a sustained period of success then.

Check out Gazza's ultimate England XI, what a player he was:

Despite that miserable record there was a time in the early to mid 00s when England fans still believed their 'Golden Generation' would help the country finally be successful. When that didn't happen and we failed to qualify for Euro 2008 thanks to the Wally with the Brolly all hope died.

Now England head into tournaments with the sole aim not to embarrass ourselves, something they've struggled to do in the last couple. So off they go to Russia this summer hoping not to leave red faced, either embarrassed or beaten up, but it's not a good start for the former.

At training yesterday, ahead of friendlies against Netherlands and Italy in the next week, the Mirror report that during crossing and shooting drills the players had 28 attempts on goal, finding the net just once!

Check out England's training session here:

That's nearly 30 shots with just one goal, in a training session. Now there's no stats on how many were on target so maybe we should just give major props to the goalkeepers but somehow I doubt that's the case.

The Three Lions are without Harry Kane at the moment with the Spurs striker missing because of injury but no matter how you paint it those stats are utter trash.

What were Marcus Rashford, Jamie Vardy and Danny Welbeck playing at? Never mind the rest of the team.

The young United striker did later prove he can still find the net in training:

One goal against that defence, I just can't get over that.

Those strikers better have their goalscoring boots on when Southgate's side take on the Netherlands on Friday night before next week's game against Italy, losing to two sides not going to Russia might be even more embarrassing than the training session.

Then again perhaps they're just prepping us fans!

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Topics: Football News, Russia 2018, England, Gareth Southgate, World Cup, Harry Kane