‘What is he doing!’ – Roy Keane slams England star after Greece defeat

Roy Keane slammed Jordan Pickford for his deficiency of attraction astatine Wembley connected Thursday arsenic England slumped to a 2-1 decision against Greece.

Deploying an highly attacking lineup, England looked susceptible connected the interruption connected respective occasions and were yet punished erstwhile Vangelis Pavlidis fired location successful the 2nd half.

Jude Bellingham thought helium had grabbed a melodramatic precocious equaliser to spare England’s blushes but Pavlidis’ injury-time victor condemned England to their archetypal competitory decision at Wembley in 4 years and their first-ever decision against Greece.

It could person been overmuch worse for Lee Carsley’s broadside connected the night, with Greece spurning aggregate chances and having 2 goals ruled retired for offside.

Pickford, who gave the shot distant cheaply successful the build-up to 1 of Greece’s disallowed goals, committed different calamitous mistake successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile helium dallied successful possession extracurricular his box.

The Evertonian was saved heroically by Levi Colwill’s retreating goalline clearance but Keane issued a scathing critique of the keeper erstwhile reviewing the mistake astatine half-time.

‘It sends a connection astir attraction levels, and that spreads passim the team,’ helium said connected ITV. ‘Again there’s a deficiency of urgency from him.

‘What’s helium doing?! Do it quickly. [It’s] superb defending, precise unlucky by Greece but not a bully connection from Pickford to send.

‘That volition ever beryllium determination with Pickford. He’s not going to alteration now.’

Keane besides tore into England’s defending for Greece’s opener which saw Pavlidis squirm done a flurry of achromatic shirts earlier firing past Pickford.

‘This sums up the England performance. You’ve got bodies backmost but nary 1 really doing their occupation properly,’ the erstwhile Manchester United midfielder said.

‘They’re thinking, “Are you going to bash it? Am I going to bash it?” How tin this happen? Five oregon six England players astir him, superb from the striker, beauteous finish, but my goodness someone’s got to enactment a tackle in.

‘If that happened successful grooming you’d halt the league and say: “Are you taking this seriously?”

‘We speech astir the words implicit the past fewer months, state and benignant and attacking play but you inactive person to bash the basics. I spell backmost to it successful presumption of defending properly, and urgency, England didn’t look to person urgency.’

Speaking aft the game, Pickford defended his side’s set-up but said the squad indispensable larn rapidly from the errors arsenic they look to support their Nations League hopes alive.

‘I deliberation everyone tin spot that we weren’t astatine our champion level tonight. We’re disappointed with ourselves but setbacks hap successful football,’ helium told reporters.

‘We tin larn from them but we’ve got a speedy turnaround and we’ve got to get acceptable for Sunday against Finland and spell and enactment a show in.’

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