Former England striker Trevor Brooking says Kevin Keegan faces a tough task reforming his side from one which produced one of the worst performances in living memory to championship contenders.
England’s performance at Wembley was one of the poorest I can remember.
I’d even go so far as to say that over the two legs Scotland were the better team.
But if you are looking at who might do better at Euro 2000 you’ve got to say it would be England.
Not in their current shape, though. Playing like this they will get beaten by most teams.
Kevin Keegan has been in an awkward position in that he came into the job in the middle of the qualification campaign and had no time to experiment.
Now he has six months to sort things out.
is a big test for him. He has got the motivational skills but he faces some tough tactical decisions.
He needs to find a formula to get the best out of his young talent. At the moment you are looking a group of individuals who are not playing as a team.
Keegan’s number one priority is to decide on a system that suits his players.
If he is going to persist playing 4-4-2 he needs at least two left-sided players. At the moment England are having problems finding just one.
It’s not a question of picking your best players and then swapping round systems to suit them. England won the World Cup in 1966 by picking a system, actually one without wingers, and sticking to it.
That might mean picking one or two players who on paper are not as talented as others.
Craig Brown made two changes to his side for the second leg – he brought in Neil McCann and Callum Davidson.
Both are natually left footed but neither are first choices for their clubs.
They may not be as talented as one or two others but they gave Scotland great width and shape.
With Graeme Le Saux injured, the only two left-sided players Keegan had were Steve Guppy and Steve Froggatt and I would have certainly played one of them at Wembley.