Day 17: England vs Germany | Sweden vs Ukraine (Ro16 7&8)

Everything takes so long. It take about 10 touches to make a decision to pass.
 
Walker was too frit to put a cross in.

That has to be 100% an effect of manager instructions making him second guess his own instincts.
 
Watch how passive Southgate won’t change anything until right at the end because it’s going alrightish. Never bold. Kane needs to come off in the second half. Just need more movement up front.
 
No service to Kane, hence why he's absent. If he drops back, then nobody is ahead of him through the middle. He's made some runs, but no ball/service.

It's indicative the fact that there's nobody running of him or him being able to link up, aside from wide players. So you either play the ball early to him via cross or ground pass, but neither are happening.
 
As predicted, this is completely drab compared to last nights offering.
 
Dreadful pass.

Why on earth are the players doing such pointless movements before passing?
 
Harry Kane is non-existent.

The two worst teams on this tournament were North Macedonia and Russia. Even among those, Russian striker Dzyuba and North Macedonian Pandev did more for their teams than Harry Kane has done for England so far. So basically, he is the worst striker of the tournament. Pathetic
 
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What's worse? Having a striker like Kane who gets absolutely no service or having a striker like Werner - getting service but bottling every chance?
 
Germany are sitting VERY deep. I think they're afraid of the pace of Sterling/Saka.

I guess the obvious counter to that is to put on Grealish. But then Germany would probably stop playing so deep.

I don't think we're in desperate need to make a change. England have been comfortable so far.

Couldve been losing 0-2 already.
 
Long ball down the middle with the solo striker not even in the opposition half.. what is Kane doing?
 
Kane playing like he knows if he moves too quick, he'll blow one of his porridge ankles and lose his big move to citeh.
 
And that was a better movement, but so rare. It's a little bit open, but you need support through the middle when you're not crossing early from the wide areas.
 
Harry Kane is non-existent.

The two worst teams on this tournament were North Macedonia and Russia. Even among those, Russian striker Dzyuba and North Macedonian Yaremchuk did more for their teams than Harry Kane has done for England so far. So basically, he is the worst striker of the tournament. Pathetic

He is living off scraps, though. He is getting less than even those players. There is no passes through the middle. Everything goes out wide.
 
This is where you need a strong leader to make the difficult choices. Would sub Kane second half. Possibly Rice too.
 
Jenas needs to be poked in the eye with a kebab skewer every time he refers to a player by only their first name.
 
If England are smart they're targeting Ginter. Force a mistake out of him.
 
He is living off scraps, though. He is getting less than even those players. There is no passes through the middle. Everything goes out wide.
Don’t buy this argument. His movement would also drive how often he receives the ball. His movement is non existent. Yeah service could be better but he hasn’t made himself available at all.