Exactly what I thought when I saw the first goal. The back three are marking space, not players. The cross comes in under little pressure. The goalscorer makes a fairly standard run in front of his marker and is not followed. Goal.
It is so predicable at this stage I cannot see a game coming where the opposition plays well and we do not concede at least two goals.
As an aside, I saw an interview many years ago where Venables was making the point that when he played a back three with offensively minded wing backs the left and right centre backs would ideally be competent full backs. The main reason was so that they could make that move across and deal with danger wide (Neville and Pierce being those players for England when he did it, Tony Adams being in the middle). This in turn meant the shielding defensive midfield player in front of them (Ince in the same England team) became a key player.
