My main TAKE on penalties is that, as of now, any club that does not have a guy that can do the multiple stutter thing that is apparently legal is not a serious club.
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My main TAKE on penalties is that, as of now, any club that does not have a guy that can do the multiple stutter thing that is apparently legal is not a serious club.
I would like some statistics on the two types of penalty. Haaland doesn't do the silly run and misses very few, no?
My feeling would be that it doesn't improve the conversion rate of good takers by much, but it probably has a significant effect on the ones that aren't that good, but then again, almost all the defenders (who you'd think are not as good as the main takers) seem to just do a straight run and always hit the corners.
Your either good at taking penalties or good at saving them. Ollie Watkins has less than a 50% conversion rate compared to Palmer who has 100%. Its no lottery.
The real gains would be if you could teach someone to reliably take a no-backlift penalty, or to be able to run up straight and it be unpredictable whether they're going to take with their right or left foot. The stutter run-up can be dealt with if the keeper learns just to wait for the planted foot and then go.
Haaland definitely does some sort of stutter at timesQuote:
Originally Posted by Adramelch
Trippier at right wing back. At this stage he must have something on Sir Gareth.
The only way it makes sense would be in that it is unpredictable as to who is going to win, rather than on an individual level it being complete chance as to whether you score or not, but I doubt that was the intended meaning.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
But then Rio also said England could win the Euros 'playing ugly' which seemed to misunderstand the difference between having a plan to play a destructive/unambitious game, and doing it well, and just playing shite and getting lucky.
People just know a wet blanket when they see one.
His hairline is further up the pitch than our striker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
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The Southgate Paradox is no such thing, he has managed like any other England manager, generally losing to the first decent knock out opponent faced. He's just managed to have 6 or 7 knock out games against dross in the expanded format era, and not botched a qualification because it is almost entirely impossible to do that now [props to Italy]. His is a binary situation, either he wins this tournament, and we all have to accept that it worked and he was right, albeit in a begrudging Didier Deschamps sort of way, or he doesn't, and he is adjudged a total failure by all. No middle ground.
How many times have England been knocked out by a pissant nation? Just Iceland other than the odd group aberration, which is now impossible? It has always been Argentina/Germany/Portugal/Italy/Brazil/France.
I've just woken up and that has ruined my day. What in the actual fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luke Emia
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Originally Posted by Manc
Flourish? The fuck has this Mr Burns cunt been watching?Quote:
He created an environment in which players could flourish
That article is actual propaganda.
Trent should fake an illness and come home.
Sir Gareth changing his system up to accommodate attacking wing backs, only to not use the best one on the planet is some going. Knighthood guaranteed.
When you think he can't do anything worse, he does. It's genuinely unbelievable.
Fuck faking an illness, he should just call absolute bullshit on the whole thing publicly and fuck it right off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
It is however extremely on brand for him.
I'm not even English and I'm angry at that.
It is and I think I'm also annoyed with myself for not realising that he'd do it as it's bloody obvious when you think about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
When Dan Ndoye sends England out :drool:
We are losing tonight.
There's very little rationale for what I'm about to say (other than Switzerland already having had their scalp, which isn't much on its own) but I don't think we are. However, if we do, I think I'd like us to get the humping we truly deserve so it's as hard as it possibly can be for anyone to paint this tournament as anything other than the absolute disgrace it has been. Reach a semi-final and that's much harder to do and thought pieces like that absolute arse from Ronay will be everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
"Well, we did reach a semi-final, how often did England do that before Sir Gareth?"
:mad:
Reece James hasn’t been called up broQuote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
Reece isnt even the best James.
He’s probably the closest England have had to having the best player in the world in a position since Ashley Cole. Shame he’s got no hamstrings.
You don't lose to teams like Switzerland.
Iceland springs to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I think he picks Trippier for the free kicks. That's about Southgate's level of thinking. Even if that was the case, I'd pick Trent. Hell, I'd give Saka a run there before the square peg. Give Kane the armband and get on with it.
He picks Trippier because he's more defensive, he can't help himself.
Generally then - that was a freak result. Just like the last round and Slovakia, Switzerland wouldn't have the minerals to see it through when faced with a big team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
They eliminated France and then got Spain to penalties in the previous Euro.
Hamstrings, unfortunately, being somewhat central to the playing of football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
James is a good player and all but you can't really be considered the best in the world if you literally never play.
Alexander-Arnold wouldn't be some magical panacea as a wing back anyway, seeing as the rest of the team will be entirely static. The problems run deeper than the respective shapes of pegs and holes. Not least since this entire presumptive system seems to rely on a player who has played as a right winger/right forward for his club for many seasons being the left wing back. :cab:
Still going to worm our way through today in all likelihood, and then again against whichever shell of a side we face in the semis. The final could be where the Yevdemption defeat to end all things comes but it's unconscionable to want that, other than in some perverse you never get what you really want with this England side sort of way.
Choking for England to shit their way to the final and lose 1-0 so Gdawg gets an 8 year contract extension @ 7m Euros p/a.
In higher-level-tournament news, Canada beat Venezuela to make it to the Semis. Canada being the best Concacaf team is something I did not expect to see.
Aye, it's troubling that just every pass is sideways and laborious. There's no directness, no movement. We have the players to do that but it's like we're scared of daring.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
I'm looking through Southgate's games in charge at the moment. I don't know why but I assumed we had more confidence at the start of his tenure. Turns out that was bollocks. The real confidence didn't start until the 2020 Qualifiers where we scored for fun against the Balkans. We did beat Italy twice in qualifying for this tournament, at least.
Honestly, see it all laid out is very schizophrenic. We've been free-scoring, we've been tentative cowards. We've beaten the likes of Spain, Italy and Germany but we've also been humbled by Hungary twice.
Gallagher isn’t better than Kante because the former is always fit. Shite logic. James is a better player than anyone who plays right back. Not up for debate. Case closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
James even played centre mid (something ‘Trent’ can’t do) in his first professional season as a footballer and was the best player in the league. Levels
Funny. I watched him play football a few times last season when he was actually fit and he was dog shit. I don’t get this with James, he can barely put 15/20 games together where he is fit. That’s a massive part of being a footballer, you can be the new Messi but if you can’t get on the pitch you are of absolutely no fucking use. You say his first season as a professional was that in League One or the Championship?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
You seem to have described society in general. All or nothing, success or failure, win or lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
There's no room for middle ground or balance.
3-0. Tripper x 2, Kane.
We usually get one comfortable performance per tournament, so this will probably be it.
You’re a Liverpool fan and voting conservative your whole life. Fuck upQuote:
Originally Posted by Luke Emia
And you’re a sniffhead and a Dundee United fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Chelsea Fan. I don't know about the sniff.
‘Sniffhead’ :D
Oh la la
I'm struggling here. 7hrs on a sleeper bus last night, 8hrs on a train tomorrow. I'm knackered and kick off is 11pm local. I ain't seeing this through.
Evolution not revolution.
We'd really better not get played off the pitch by the fucking Swiss. The jocks got a draw so I'm quietly confident they are terrible.
I thought he was drastically changing it?