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England to make the final, Wales to finish bottom of their group, Scotland to find some extraordinarily unlucky way not to make it out of the group.
Hope you didn’t bet on that Ferrite!
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Topics: 4Not with Southgate as coach.
It was like a typical Scunny derby game. Scotland fired up and ready for it and England far too timid and cautious. Do we need both Rice and Phillips?
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It was a very turgid performance and no we don’t need both Rice and Phillips.
Southgate is very cautious and is playing them in preparation for when we have to play, defend and probably lose to one of the top teams. Like Eric Dier, not sure at all about Rice.
Kane yet again looks unfit at a major tournament.
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How can the 4th ranked team in world football ( yes it’s funny but apparently true ) fail to beat the 44th ranked team at Wembley. We’ll it’s easy, play two defensive midfielders and keep passing side to side and backwards, oh and don’t bring on your most talented player till the last half hour whilst leaving both your defensive midfielders on. It’s so bloody frustrating watching a bunch of very talented players played in this way, just take the bloody shackles off them Southgate and let them play. Oh and Kane should not be playing because he clearly is not fit, play the Everton lad up top instead.
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Slothgate is an FA yes man. Poor manager at best.
Tactics are stereotypical English play they will win nothing.Players too busy on social media,and generally doing everything bar from not playing football.
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England 4th in the world? Or in Europe? How on earth is this calculated? I’d safely rank them behind Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, France…. and maybe more. Maybe even behind Scotland after last night’s showing.
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Topics: 4Got to agree with much of the above, almost like watching The Iron. One shot on target, pedestrian build up and a large percentage of passes backwards. They just don’t give the ball away as much as we do.
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Tactics are stereotypical English play
Disagree. They are set up to match continental sides.
England don’t often concede these days, but despite filling their boots against the likes of Bulgaria, Kosovo, San Marino and Montenegro struggle to find the net against the better nations.
With this young talent we keep hearing about we should do better.
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The full backs for England were poor compared to the Scots, too few runs forward, James always looking behind rather than forward.
Before the tournament the questions were about Alexander Arnold’s form and Southgate left him out. Not sure what questions Southgate was asking because the stats from the last 2 years provide all the answers for him.
AA, 74 games, 6 goals, 20 assists
James, 56 games, 1 goal, 4 assists.Then we have Rice,
70 games, 3 goals, 4 assists from midfield.
It’s clear what Southgate’s priorities are. Hopefully now I’ve posted this they will go on to win the Euros!!
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BS wrote:- “Southgate is a poor manager, but obviously a yes man to the league bosses”
There is a hint of familiarity here isn’t there?
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The Germany v Portugal match last night was the best game I’ve seen so far in this tournament, lots of good attacking play from both sides and plenty of defensive mistakes being exposed as a result. The Germans certainly did look like the Germans of old and Portugal appear to be the best counter attacking side in the tournament when facing such good opposition. Cracking stuff, more please.
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BS – any chance we can keep the taking the knee debate out of this thread and focus on the football? It’s been discussed multiple times before and guess what, we don’t all agree.
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Tonights match between Germany and Belgium was how football used to be played,
Germany haven’t played Belgium. They may have looked good against Portugal but were poor against France (who themselves looked lethargic against Hungary).
that James full back is the most pathetic fullback ever to play for England,
Yet he’s excellent when he plays for Chelsea.
the players continue to Take the Knee as they insist on being the only team to continue doing the waste of time activity that many supporters do not agree with.
Most do agree, and what’s more the players and coaches agree, so stop whinging.
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