This is where you need someone who isn't Maguire as your left CB, for a bit of quality on the ball to break their stupid tactics truck press.
This is where you need someone who isn't Maguire as your left CB, for a bit of quality on the ball to break their stupid tactics truck press.
This has been absolute dross so far.
Not sure how Trippier hasn’t got a yellow card yet.
I just can't believe how slow we are on the ball. Ponderous, fear-filled shite. No ambition.
Mount off, Rashford on.
I’ve also just realized Phil Foden is on the bench. How in the fuck does Mount play ahead of him? Good god.
Stones is alright, but Maguire and the two full backs are killing us here. We just can't get the ball out of the press because these guys are so cumbersome in possession.
Is 'tournament football' when you win your first game and don't even try in your second game? Both us and Holland have done it today.
Rice is a passenger so far - not in the game at all.
How in the fuck can your lot not have Foden in your starting 11.
There is fuck all difference between a draw and a loss for USA, right? Might see them go for it second half.
Mount.
My theory with Mount, and I have watched him a shit ton, is that his arse goes in the big moments. He does massive amounts right. He does everything managers want him to do. He's probably amazing in training. He can have five great touches in a move but the key sixth one is so often a whiff. It must be mental.
You can probably get away with that in club football, to some degree, but in international football, if you're aiming to be in the final stages, no chance.
EDIT: Not to say you were suggesting you could Jim.
How Captain Hooknose hasn’t made a change yet is beyond me. We look like absolute shite.
Oh and this isn't quite Algeria levels, but it's got to be up there with one of the worst performances we've ever put in in an international tournament.
62 minutes in as well and no changes from Southgate. He has five subs right? Unbelievable.
Why haven't we changed anything for 63 minutes?
I’d love Murica to score now.
HENDERSON.
Jesus Christ almighty.
Must have been a few too many forward passes.
Southgate wants a point.
I think Southgate thinks 0-0 is a good result.
Henderson for Bellingham Give me fucking strength.
At least he's got Sterling off.
Seventy-ish minute, like-for-like substitutions. I've missed this at club level.
Southgate is a fucking dinosaur. To think that a pleb like him is overseeing a squad with genuine depth and quality beggars belief. We will never get international football right because we’re a nation of twats.
Look at this lot finally catching up to us legends, Yev.
The US are being stupid, they have to go for it more here. We're there for the taking.
He also makes his substitutions solely on name recognition.
This is a very Southgate performance. Prefer not to lose rather than trying to win. He'll gleefully celebrate the clean sheet, given how much he moaned about conceding two the other day.
I actually can’t believe Foden can’t get off the bench yet we’ve got Mount and Henderson on the pitch.
That Lee Dixon comment about 'do not lose the game' is why England haven't won anything since colour TV.