The sun has gone, England are out and Trump is coming over.
What a come down.
The sun has gone, England are out and Trump is coming over.
What a come down.
On a conference call. Not really listening.
Football doesn't often get to me like this but although I think we'd have lost in the final just to be there...we had a real chance
Dele was shit all tournament! Stupid useless Spud!
Kane had a stinker but you may be right about lack of service. Plus it seemed like kind of like Messi is for Argentina, Croatia had several men on him and telling the others to step up which none of them had the talent to do.
Sterling faded in the second half but for all the ridiculous abuse he gets, he ran Croatia's defence ragged in the first half and you saw how utterly ineffective Rashford was when he came on. Hoping Southgate didn't buy into the narrative and sub him off for that reason.
I guess Croatia are the slightly better team on paper so it was a fair result ...... but damn .... with a few better decisions that game could have been won and we could have been in a WC final!
I think the 'they're a young side' does have something to it, look ar Germeny, Low took young players, built them up and did well.
Assuming most of these guys stay on form, i'd expect that team to do well at the next Euros, even though we won't again be lucky enough to have Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal falling away so easily...
I also hope some of our own young guys might play more of a part next time, for example, if AMN keeps improving he could easily break into the side
Ok, maybe i shouldn't have said xenopobic, and you may have a point re lack of demand. But I still don't think most of them have the appetite to open their horizons - someone here said they wanted to be near family etc, well fine if being near to mummy is more important than going somewhere different, and btw being helped witth your move and pampered all the way so there's no hassle, fine, but i think it shows a lack of ambition and or / curiosity that can only be a bad thing
Agree re walli and sterling, and yes Croatia were the better team
As for Kane, i thought he was starting to look off his game before last night, he really seems to be unreliable form-wise, plus i agree with those who say he was too deep, but was that southgate's instruction, or was it him thinking he had to do a 'captain's job' and help the team?
No idea why Sterling was taken off. I thought Kane went into a shell after missing that early chance in the first half. Southgate should have taken off Alli or Lingard for Rashford. Heck, even Danny Welbeck would have injected something into the game at the latter stages. Wasted subs. Dier, Rose and Vardy made no difference.
I think in general "them foreigners" have more of an appetite to work in England than English people do have to work abroad. Part of that might be the "island mentality", I think part of it is the language thing. English has become somewhat of a lingua franca so them jonny foreigners are always going to find it easier to come here than our players will to go there. Bah.
Alli usually plays in that role Sterling was in and relies on someone like Eriksen to put him in. He rarely got into goal scoring positions because he was asked to play deeper along with Lingard - a role neither of them are used to. They’re not creative players and so Kane was isolated and dropped deeper too. Midfield was the biggest problem and using those two players there was exposed once the Croatian midfield took control in the second half.
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