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

Woodzy

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And as a surprise to absolutely no one aside from the English pundits, it turns out Southgate isn’t actually that much of a manager.
 

Buster15

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Mainoo would have been perfect in this game to get forward while Rice sat and provide control.
Too many stupid sideways and backwards balls. Mainoo has the ability to turn and go forwards.
 

Yagami

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What's worse about this performance is that it's on the BBC so we don't even get the pleasure of listening to an irate Roy Keane.
There should be a rule where Keane is allowed to work for everyone. BBC, ITV, Sky, TNT.
 

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The amount of long balls, feck me Southgate is just ruining a talented squad. If England go out, I wouldn't care now as it means this clueless manager goes.
 

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Southgate has had the best job in football for nearly a decade. He’s been fecking shite for the whole thing but was blessed in 2018 and 2021 with the luck of the draw and an unofficial home tournament.
 

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I think we’ve just witnessed the players completely lose any confidence they had in Southgate this evening.
 

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Southgate ball once again. Go one up, drop deep and do nothing.

Proceed to isolate players with no support, and resort to long balls with 5 minutes left. We look toothless.
 

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If United are stupid enough to appoint Southgate as manager at any point in the future we deserve everything we get. Absolutely atrocious manager.
 

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Oh well, we can watch the tournament stress free without any expectations. As bad as I’ve seen England since Hodgson was in charge (then with a much worse squad).
 

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England being involved in the two worst games of the tournament so far might suggest we’re going to do a Greece and bore our way all the way to the trophy. Greece were a bit better organised though
 

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Garbage from England. Meet an half decent side and we have no plan. 3 years since the last tournaments and yet we still have Southgate trying out experiments. His in game management is absolute shite still as well.

Every game in the round has had excitement at some point until the moment England plays, it feels like so far.