He needs the England Band. We all do.
Too many groups
All those shit teams
England
VAR
Taz's predictions
Nothing. International tournaments are the best.
He needs the England Band. We all do.
I just think he's completely isolated. He was free and in space a lot, but the pass through to him risked losing the ball, so instead it went backwards or sideways.Originally Posted by Manc
He's not playing like he was early on in the season when he was routinely "Quarterbacking" for Son and racking up assists, but that's not really his game. He just needs the ball somewhere vaguely near the goal.
I'd sit this one out lad.
Good things come in small packages.
Good vibes: Italy, Belgium, France
Bad vibes: England, Germany, Spain
Indeterminate vibes: Portugal, Netherlands
Heard it here first.
Face down in his sex tub vibes: Yevrah
Maybe it's Yevrage itself that unites these generations of England teams.
Meanwhile the Copa America seems to be going well.
Bolivian player suspended at Copa America for criticizing organizers
Copa America's COVID-19 cases increase 13 to 66
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ore-but-faster
Great piece, Micah-esque in his wisdom.
That was a good read 👍
Midfield balance was all wrong. Phillips had a great game again Croatia and I'm sure he will be useful if we play any other decent sides but we needed something else.
For me it should have been Phillips and Mount off after 55-60 minutes with Grealish and Bellingham coming on. Then give it 10 minutes to see what's happening and then change the front three up.
Either that or drop Rice in between the centre backs and play 343. We looked so ordinary.
I think he has been told specifically not to drop back and get involved in the build up. Even 4-5 years ago before he took on the creative burden for Spurs he was dropping back more than this. Its all a bit strange, but at the same time typical of England in a major tournament.
Don't want to peak too early lads.
Or probably at all in England's case.
Real winner was Ian Wright's suit anyway, had he just come from Ascot or something?
Above all, we need to stop looking to Sterling for answers. It's too obvious and easy to defend. As we've seen, he doesn't offer much support for Kane either. He's a spark but waiting for him to do the one piece of magic leads to a lot of wasted effort.
On the evidence of their first game I would much rather face Spain than anyone from group f.
Spain vs England would be the worst match to ever happen but they’re worse at penalties than we are.
Know I'm biased, but we needed Ollie Watkins upfront last night. He brings a lot that Kane doesn't and gets you up the pitch. No good having a player of Kane's finishing ability if he's not getting on the ball. Set pieces are terrible too. Where's Ward-Prowse? What a waste of a squad place White was.
Agree with Andy. Bellingham needs to start.
Pickford
James
Stones
Mings/Maguire
Chilwell
Phillips/Rice
Bellingham
Sancho
Mount
Grealish
Calvert-Lewin
Be ruthless and give it a try in a dead rubber.
That'd probably be my starting 11 aside from the fact I'd put Kane in. If you've got Bellingham, Grealish and Sancho on we'll actually create chances for Kane.
All the focus being on Kane is quite funny. He isn't Ronaldo, he can't force the whole team to be better. He's been shit because everyone around him has been.
We should definitely be focusing on bringing in more creative outlets, but... Southgate gonna Southgate.
He's more likely to take 2021's equivalent of playing Rooney on the left wing; drop him deeper and use him as the play maker. You lose alot of his finishing ability, but that's useless when he's stood doing fuck all anyway. He didn't have the most assists in the league by accident last season.
It's good there's still no reason why we can't win this tournament, I'd be worried otherwise.
People calling for Sterling and Phillips' heads already
You ain't doing shit, suck it up and prep for the humiliation.
Greaseman
Lash that home and worry about the flag later, Tony.
Benzema with a shocker.
And Mbappe with one too.
That was actually a great goal.
Could really do with France winning this
Mbappe and Griezmann need Giroud
Mbappe hardcarrying France again.
Long ball bastards.
The biggest whopper in football.
What a hoof.
Giroud is only a few goals behind Henry Don for all time
Dembele getting subbed off after 29 minutes or so
He was injured.
lol at France.
Is there a more hateable team than France?
Kante aside who is both likely up for the Ballon d'Or and by all accounts a top bloke, the rest of them want a good thumping.
What does this do for operation don't win the group? Seems a bit of a fly in that particular ointment. Germany to beat Portugal and Hungary, Portugal to beat France by a few, France go home?
Which Group F team are England supposed to be afraid of?
I doubt Germany win. If their game wasn’t in Munich against Hungary, I’d fancy them to go out with one point at best. Scotland could really do with Portugal winning this game. I can just see them winning on Tuesday and still somehow going out on 4 points.
You and Manc’s confidence no matter a result or performance is beautiful
I mean, you’ve watched us right? Clearly all of them.
Making a right back who plays for Motherwell look competent was some effort last night never mind a centre mid and left back in a back 3
Is this you writing off the Germans?
They were shite in 2018 and don’t look much better
I've watched England's games, yeah. Have you watched any Group F games?
He's got his shirt open claiming he could still crab it about like a modern midfielder. Sixty-eight years young.
These past two days is surely the happiest he's ever been. He was borderline ecstatic by his standards before last night's game.
He's just forgotten Grealish's name. "The winger from Villa." I think he's been drinking.
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