Day 7 | Slovenia vs Serbia | Denmark vs England | Spain vs Italy

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Talksport will be fun with all the whinging. I'll have to avoid Agbolanhor though
 

eire-red

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The worry for England is that they've played the majority of these 180 minutes with their strongest team and look so disjointed.
 

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Said it months ago. He's already not great for England and at this point he drops so deep that if you are occupying that space and don't have the runners around him he's useless.
We should have runners around him though. Saka and Bellingham are more than capable of playing off him. Gordon and Bowen too.

We just don't have a manager with the foresight to put one of them on the last man

The blueprint was there with his partnership with Son
 

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Honestly,when he's on form, it's ridiculous how good he is. He makes difficult things look so easy to the point you'd wonder why aren't more midfielders playing like that
Watch him week in/week out and you start getting annoyed at others: “how difficult can it be!?” :lol:
 

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England are shit and they so often make the matches they play in shite. Just an awful, boring team.
 

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What annoys me about the media is they've been hyping up this England team for months now. We've all been saying this for months/even years. They seem so shocked like they were expecting a 4-0 or something.

And these guys are ex footballers. Makes you wonder if they even watch the games.

I mean our recent friendlies, Begium/Iceland/Brazil we were horrible.
 

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Hopefully Southgate gets absolutely pelters from the fans and media alike.
 

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Look at these feckers' positioning off the ball. It's atrocious. They're not moving as a team at all.
 

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Can't see how England should be considered THE favourites after the 2 games I've watched vs Serbia and Denmark.
At this point I'd be very surprised if they manage to knock out the likes of Spain or Portugal, let alone Germany and France
First big team we play, we are going to be on the flight home.

All it takes is a decent team press and our lack of movement kills us dead. So static. The weeping angels from Dr.Who have more movement.
 

Yagami

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Mate you believe Southgate's subs had more to do with losing to France than Kane missing a penalty
That makes me unhinged?

Also, if Kane had scored, we would have done the same thing we always do when we go ahead. Park the bus, invite constant pressure on ourselves, and most likely concede.
 

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Is England fecking incapable of dribbling / passing and playing on the ground? Why the feck is every single attempt to go forward a long ball to the forwards resulting in giving away possession?
 

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giorno thinks it's arrogant for England fans to say Southgate is a limited manager and that they could have done better in WC 2018 and Euro 2020 with a better one.
:lol:

I'm not a fan of Southgate. I don't give a rat's arse about him. I try to be the voice of reason for the unhinged england fans because I find it amusing
Well this one game of Southgate running Bellingham into the ground and giving him no midfield support is exactly the kind of game where you're showing your unhinged comments, the same way England fans have been for the past 8 years.

It's amusing seeing your frustrations about Bellingham getting potentially injured playing for his country which can be basically replaced with 'insert any other England player/tactics/in game subs/coaching'.
 

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Haha...they look like Man United
A bunch of individuals trying to win on sheer talent but no structure
 

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Through to the knockouts despite the shiteness
 

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1-1, 3 minutes left and there's 6 of them standing looking at a free kick on the half way line that gets pumped forward anyway.

Lovely stuff.