Clarke_B":3tbezjmp said:
Definitely not with Martinez in charge !
Martínez is far from popular. The feeling here is that the KVBV hired him because he was cheap, rather than the best man for the job. The pressure he's under is extraordinary - this group of world-class players have arrived more or less by chance rather than by a systematic structural change to youth coaching as in France and Germany, and every Belgian football fan knows that it's unlikely to be repeated. Anything less than the semi-finals will be (rightly in my view) seen as a failure.
I'm far from convinced by his tactics (Carrasco as a left wing-back?), he has never managed to get the best out of Kevin de Bruyne, and he still can't organise a defence. Putting hatfuls of goals past Panama and Tunisia is one thing, but I really wouldn't trust them to keep it tight against more technically gifted and defensively organised sides. He does have a very good relationship with Romelu Lukaku from their Everton days together and his goals may well get them out of trouble, but I wouldn't be particularly surprised if England beat them next week.