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

G-manc

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Just abysmal.

Southgate is more frightened of losing a game than trying to win one.

Nailed on that the only potential change will be Gallagher for TAA in the next game. Gallagher man, all I keep hearing is ‘energy’; don’t seem arsed whether he can play football.

The most damning assessment I can give is that it was a bit like watching United last season.
 

Adz_99

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It's an absolutely bizzare admission. Philips hasn't been at it for several years now and he hasn't had time to think of plan B. Nonsense.
Mediocre manager likes mediocre player. Not surprised.

Well actually calling Southgate mediocre is an exaggeration but you get my point. Any half decent player will be able to tell what a useless spoofer Southgate is.
 

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That was like watching us at times.

Southgate would really be a perfect fit for us. Just not in a way anyone here (including myself) wants.
 

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He actually said that about Phillips? My oh my :lol:
It's one of those sounds worse than it actually is though. He's had 4 games to work with Mainoo and Wharton - they weren't real options in November. It's mismanagement that he's trying TAA in there 2 games in a row after the first was already an unmitigated disaster. That he still doesn't have a complete picture of his team 2 games into the Euros, but there are mitigating circumstances and still time to fix things. If not, the next guy will get the chance to fail with England ;)
 

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I just looked up the words to the Italian national anthem and it turns out the first 8 lines are exactly what they sound like:

Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!

Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia! Ee-tal-ia!
 

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Why are no Spanish players singing anthem?

…..they don’t know any of the words?
 

Samid

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Just look at the difference in delivery in the anthems. Italian players are passionate and going to war. Spanish players looking timid, scared and refusing to sing.
 

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Declan Rice is the biggest negative for this team….he drags the team back and just doesn’t appear to have the level required for international football. I know he’s great for Arsenal but he is not good enough at International level.
Today's Rice performance was one of the worst I've seen from him, and I've seen alot of him obviously.

With that being said he does need help in there, TAA is a pointless experiment, and Gallagher whilst competent isn't adding anything that Rice isnt doing already

You've got to give one of the young lads a go. With Rice making sure he is covering any small mistakes that a young lad may make at first.
 

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How much would Calafiori cost I wonder? Super talent
€30-35m when italian teams approached Bologna (Juventus in primis, were linked a lot last month but now theyare more focused to Douglas Luiz and Koopmeiners deals).
So probably £40m for English clubs
 

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I'm loving the contrast between the two anthems

Italian players absolutely belting out their anthem while the Spanish players look on respectfully during their's
 

Dazzmondo

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€30-35m when italian teams approached Bologna (Juventus in primis, were linked a lot last month but now theyare more focused to Douglas Luiz and Koopmeiners deals).
So probably £40m for English clubs
Wouldn't be a bad option for us at all tbh. Better defender than the others we've been linked with imo (though Branthwaite is also good).
 

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"19 on his back, 16 on his.. birth certificate"

Where do ITV find these galaxy brain commentators?
 

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Williams looks dangerous on the left. That's twice in the first few minutes he's got in behind Italy.
 

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"19 on his back, 16...... on his birth certificate," made me crack up a lot more than it should have done.