Complain about this comment (Comment number 68). This is typical Hodgson. Pirlo's classy chip compared to Young's hit and hope. This was awful and they got what they deserved. So the game goes into 'Extra Time'. Also the Italians couldn't score for their lives. Put things right. Our most creative player (Gerrard) stuck running around doing a key defensive role....the list of mistakes is long.Let Hodgson manage a small club where he's good, kick out the chumps who run the FA and BBC please get a chief football writer who knows a bit more. Complain about this comment (Comment number 23). Come August no one will care about England and we'll go back to total club focus unless and until we get to Brazil in 2014. In England's case the relationship has to go down as 'estranged'. Study best experience in Barcelona if you are short of knowledge. We need a grass roots revival, but the FA are too busy lining the silk pockets of their blazers. @6 Give Hodgson a break! Pretty please?7. BBC © 2014 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. He's also so slow. Have to disagree with your assessment on Hart Phil - from the very first minute last night he looked nervous, and there were too many times during the tournament that he had to rely on his defenders to bail him out. Opinions. At least by the end came the acknowledgement of the vase gap in class. You can expect miracles with unproven players. By all means express an opinion, but do at least try to include a modicum of balance and maybe just a just a touch of humility. Certainly wasn't passing the ball to a team mateWorst England Team I've seen for the 45+ years I've been watching football, Complain about this comment (Comment number 81). Gerrard and Rooney wandered around like lost souls. If the unthinkable had happened and England got to the semi finals, I'd expect the Germans would have taken a can opener to the defence and it would have been 4, 5, 6-0, Complain about this comment (Comment number 60), Time for root and branch reform of English football (am I first to call for it this time? What you saw was what Hodgson has got – an honest group short of sparkle when it mattered on Sunday. Then in the next breath they are slating Englands possession of the ball and passing, something that should be pretty high on Gerrards list of 'must do well in this game'. Everytime Hart had a pass back to him he booted it in the air back into the Italian midfield giving the ball away. As maligned as he seems to be, Carroll did hold the ball up well and won most of his headers, there was just no one running off him, and that's not his fault. He kept Young and Rooney, having England playing with Rooney, Young, Carroll, Walcott, trying to win the match. In Chamberlain and Wilshere we have true potential let's take care of them.Credit to Hodgson for not hurrying Chamberlain too, that was wise. Rooney is and will remain the most overrated player to ever wear the England shirt. Complain about this comment (Comment number 33). This detail needs to change. England should not be too downhearted. Rooney has never performed for England and is not world class. Absolutely not. Cigar for Roy for uniting the players....no cigar for the out-dated system and his inability to change it during a game...when it is clearly not working. Complain about this comment (Comment number 77). Credit where credit's due. This game was a brutal illustration of where England are. Allow, if necessary, Jamaica team, Pakistani team, Polish team, Nigeria team and create a Diversity group somewhere within the leagues hierarchy. there training facilities there focus there social and sporting structure are far superior to Englands..one thing which struck me over the last few days was Englands over Confident and egoistical body language ...Players like Rooney giving Interviews saying we can go all the way .. when in effect he personally knew himself that he was not fit.. Even Belgium in the friendlies at Wembley had more possession. Euro 2012 – England vs Italy What started as a crazy first ten minutes resulted as a game of strength on strength. So well done.Read a stat this morning that England's most successful completed pass was Hart to Carrol (and he was only on after 1hr)Why do England keepers always hoof the ball forward in hope? I'm sure we would have loved a more attacking team but realism needs to kick in with some fans that in two weeks he was never going to turn them into a great attacking side and that if he was to be successful he needed to make England hard to beat. No. These are multi-millionaire sportsmen who supposedly play in the best league in the world so why are we so far behind the comparable countries at international level?We've asked the question thousands of times. Sorry, but we got what we deserved. Probably. Chelsea’s captain was magnificent in his defiance as Italy swarmed over England. If he'd played an attacking side England would have found themselves on the end of a cricket score. Gerrard had far too much to do, even more than he has when he plays for Liverpool. England-Italy UEFA EURO 2012 . Those clubs are stacked with Scots, Welsh, Irish and a many overseas players and I hardly think these clubs would be as successful without them.England won their group and got knocked out narrowly by one of the true traditional powerhouses of European football. Well, I'm sure he does, but potential, by it's very nature, hasn't happened yet, and £15m+ Henderson certainly hasn't. This is why he has failed at big clubs. Why was he in the squad? I certainly didn't approve of all Hodgson's selections and tactics, but I am also aware that a man given just over one month to prepare an injury ravaged squad of increasingly exhausted players (no mid season break, remember) with limited technical capabilities (not his fault, try blaming the FA's policies over the past 20-30 years) has done as well as can reasonably be expected. Poor show..again. England's performance last night was not unsurprising given the way they conceded possession in the group stages but still no more palatable.Their seriously needs to be a root and branch inquiry into English football to look at the causes why England have produced such poor teams over the years.We need to curb the excesses of the premier league season and look at ways to develop young talent, with a focus on technical skills and possession football.The gulf between England and the better European nations isn't just a deficit in the quality of players but also a deficit in our respective footballing cultures.The days of playing 4-4-2 and the long ball are over. Pretty much.2. In conclusion, England set themselves a low performance target and failed to achieve it and with Hodgson we just looked like West Brom. England suffered penalty heartbreak at Euro 2012 after losing 4-2 on penalties to Italy after being outplayed in the quarter-final in Kiev. You could see it in their energy, enterprise and on their faces. Typical armchair England manager. Without wanting to single too many players out Milner and Parker sum up English football at the moment. Phil, A lot of what you have said makes sense - we are short on quality and Pirlo was magnificent. I hope he goes on to have a great career (except against United) but right now, he doesn't deserves those caps. Complain about this comment (Comment number 75). Gerrard has it all, a diamond amongst a team that stinks of mediocrity.... id like to see you do better. Lots of endeavour but nothing to show for it.Practicing penalties? This is the way things go in sport. However, this isn't going to happen, Hodgson has shown his hand already and will "keep faith" with this squad. He did not take his chances and that hurt us, but he's a flair player in a workhorse role. This is not a progressive approach.10. Welbeck, Carroll, Defoe were not ideal choices and wouldn't be automatic choices for their club sides. I'm afraid England are a journeyman team, lots of endeavour, not much class. I can't see it happening. The class gap was obvious. To those dissing Rooney, he was heavily marked as the only real threat, and Italy cut off the Gerrard supply. Roy did his best in the time available and the players he had at his disposal. Complain about this comment (Comment number 32). Outclassed and out skilled in yet another major tournament. Really? Rooney was well below match fitness and abandoned his picking up of Pirlo after 20 minutes. Some may even feel England over-achieved given the short notice the manager had to prepare this campaign. Complain about this comment (Comment number 47). Let the street rivalry be solved on the foootball pitch, with rules. What cannot be denied, or indeed ignored, was the chasm in class between the sides. Well done England. Alessandro Diamanti struck the decisive penalty as Italy edged past England 4 … However, we almost certainly will. "correct.No where. I would have taken off Rooney, Gerrard and Young instead of Wellbeck, Parker and Milner.Rooney should have taken Pirlo out of the game but got bored of it. Complain about this comment (Comment number 64). The skill isn't there. They did not have possession as they were manoeuvred about by master manipulator Pirlo in such a manner that Italy would never have forgiven themselves had they not gone forward to meet Germany in Warsaw on Friday. It is not the fault of those who miss poenalties or the coach. It was a long, harrowing night for England and in these extreme circumstances it was to their credit that they hung in and drew the match despite being outclassed. Italy deserved to win. His first touch is atrocious for a supposed world class player. 2012 NSC Olimpiyskiy - Kyiv. football - the relationship between the foot and the ball. Italy played with a diamond narrow with a spare man. Photo: Getty. Complain about this comment (Comment number 86). Rooney was his usual bottling self in big games, worst player on the pitch by a long shot contributing nothing whatsoever, but he would have been first player on the team sheet, shouldn't have even taken him. England Why leave the useless Ashley Young on for 120 minutes and then let him take a penalty? . Actually Rooney was pretty good last night but he is only one player. Not to mention the blog is merely criticism rather than a critique, there is no suggestions of how to improve things or what he (as BBC's expert) believes the next steps to be.Anyway, after that rant is finished, let's get to the game. Can we all just agree on this and move on? Not to compete, but to survive? To support Glen Johnson? I am not saying Rooney is not a good player but he is not world class, and if Hodgson thinks that he is the white Pele, and the saviour of English Football then he is sorely mistaken and one would have to question his reasoning behind that. Further to that, look at the alternatives... Not one of them would inspire any sort of fear in a team. Pirlo was great, but Italy couldn't score; England could have sneaked it if one of the chances in normal time or ET had gone in; they were one bad penalty and one unlucky one from going through. England lost on penalties. I've only been watching football for 45 years, and I don't know enough about it to get paid by the Beeb for pontificating, but I didn't think you could get 'thrashed', 'hammered' or 'slaughtered' 0-0? I'll be blunter. Disappointing that we didn't get through. Yeah, of course we should get rid of Hodgson, 2 months into the job, having inherited someone else's team and preparation, with a host of players injured and with limited time to impose a complete shift in thinking and tactics....In a nutshell: Young was dire and should not have been on the pitch to take the pen. Complain about this comment (Comment number 92). Greece won it that way. He offers nothing but possession to the opposition. We just stand off. For the latest updates across BBC blogs, visit the Blogs homepage. The pass count was 833 to 364. An average France too now I think back. What I saw is, when he tried to change the game, he brought Carroll and Walcott in and the team improved going forward. Complain about this comment (Comment number 66). It's a disgrace that these players who are paid millions could not even string more than 3 or 4 passes together. The conclusion may have been the same as manager Roy Hodgson gathered England’s desolate squad near the centre circle in rapidly emptying Olympic Stadium. Our players don't all press for the whole game. I also don't think it matters who the manager is, the players we have can only play to a certain level. Complain about this comment (Comment number 65). You don't make a racehorse plough fields. about history. They left nothing behind. We were however, totally outclassed by a better team overall and for that fact am happy that Italy went through. @6All very well looking for a different formation, but without the quality in the squad it doesn't matter what formation you pick - Young was disappointing all tournament, but when you consider that his replacement on the left would be Downing, and other players were also under parIt is inexplicable how players who seem to be able to pass the ball at their clubs suddenly become so incomptent when they put on an England shirt - you can't even blame it on unreasonable expectations this time either.. Rooney was off the pace, never really "looked at the races", yet the media and Hodgson rant and rave about what a truly wonderful player he is and what a game changer and match winner; unfortunately as is always the case he is not; yet Hodgson stuck with the Man Utd players, Young was awful, and well we have seen what Rooney did, or did not do, we would have been better off taking players who have a proven goal scoring record for England.Although you cannot blame hodgson; one is left to wonder why he has such an allegiance to the Man Utd players? Perhaps Scholes was the solution for England but Scholes is 37 heading to 38 and not 29 heading to 30. Complain about this comment (Comment number 13). All written quite true and painfully familiar. Captain Steven Gerrard consoles Ashley Young. Exactly the same under Capello. Did Buffon do that once? FA should develop a strategy to get the kids out of the street gangs and into football. Olympic Stadium (Kiev)Attendance: Attendance56,500. Euro 2012: England vs Italy Quarter final- as it happened England and Italy are vying for the last semifinal berth at the European Championship, and the winner will play Germany. Pirlo’s penalty in the shoot-out, chipped audaciously and gently over goalkeeper Joe Hart, sat so easily alongside the rest of his performance. I am English and have been playing football in Germany for 15 years. The second half as well as extra time illustrated that there was no plan B. It comes as no surprise to anyone that England were defeated, well except to certain members of the press looking at some rags this morning. These are some of the popular topics this blog covers. England will surely have more than an attritional approach when facing the likes of Poland, Ukraine and Moldova en route, they hope, to Brazil in 2014. In my opinion he is NOT world class. He has been manager for just over a month and not lost in normal time for the first 6 games he has managed!I have to agree with the Rooney comments, he is not "World Class", another tournament where he hasnt delivered..Italy deserved their win, far superior, but credit to England for their determination. Luckily Jack Wilshere might be fit soon and hopefully Tom Cleverly will develop into a top quality player so there is hope.Dogeared, Glad to see yet again its someone else's fault that Gerrard failed to influence against a big game for England. As we have known for a long time, England have no good wingers.

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