Trent Alexander-Arnold lacks the physicality and nous to play in that position. Rice needs a more disciplined partner than TAA.
Day 3 | Poland vs Netherlands | Slovenia vs Denmark | Serbia vs England
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran discuss a horrific month of December and a depressing FOUR defeats in a row - the latest coming against Wolves and Newcastle.
They discuss how much blame is on Ruben Amorim and rank our squad against other Premier League teams.
Do we have any chance of avoiding defeat at Anfield?
Barely completed a pass all night, let's do a pirouette on the edge of my own box. fecking clown.
I mean didn’t Bruno have a fair few stinkers earlier in the season? You also finished 8th and he’s your captain. Maybe I’m being harsh now.
This game isn’t going well. Serbia have started to gain a foothold.
England have been complete wank so far this half
Serbia are wank. I thought with them having a smattering of high profile players, they be somewhat decent but they're only interested in fouling.
Foden seems like a ghost in this match, gordon needs to come on
This is exactly why Southgate is a shit manager. His in game management is appalling. Fails to adapt to anything which changes.
Looks lost.
Make the sub Southgate for feck sake. Everyone knows what you need to do apart from you apparently.
Yep. Pretty much. Hopefully, a new coach will fix that problem.
Gordan for Foden and Mainoo for TAA needed now.
Trent Trent Trent. Southgate loves him in midfield but he’s a liability and will cost us this tournament
That was nice from Vlahovic.. Finally one good play after embarassing 50 mins.
England team lacks balance on the left (oldest story), if Shaw is fit enough get him on!
How did Mitrovic have such a bad first touch there?
TAA's best position is kicker for an NFL team.
Second half thus far is showing exactly why everyone dislikes Southgate.
This is my issue with Southgate
It’s not working fecking hook him now.
We can all see it but apparently Southgate knows best.
Really going off of International football. We’ve got 10 EPL players out there but Southgate has them playing at a snails pace. If they played at EPL pace we should wipe the floor with this lot.
Ridiculous how deep we are playing now, we are trying to concede.
Its like watching United on mutv and moaning that the commentary is biased.
TAA’s positioning is asking for trouble. Rice needs an actual midfielder next to him.
You can sort of let Trent off a bit because he isn't really a midfielder and has only had a handful of appearances there, Foden's got no excuse.
England need more physicality out there
So this is another tournament of pundits jizzing over average performances until we get knocked out by the first decent side we play and everyone acts shellshocked.
What is England playing? This is hard to watch.
He also lacks the first touch as well. The most important skill needed for a good centre midfielder is a good first touch when pressed in tight areas, TAA lacks that and it's why he'll never be a midfielder (even if he had the physicality and positioning).
There's a reason why Klopp despite having had problems in midfield and a midfield injury crisis never pushed him into midfield.
Seen Trent a couple of times do the old Mctominay trick of standing behind an opposition player so that he’s not on for the pass in a tight area rather than finding the space to receive it. He knows himself he doesn’t belong there
Yeah 100%, for all the good he can do he has made several mistakes that against a Spain and a France would lead to a goal.
All just feels a little aimless again, similar to Iceland except we've got the early goal this time.
Ye and their clear as day. Stand of them and try and counter using Saka.
Get TAA off.
Commentator is constantly getting the names wrong
I actually think it would make some semblance of sense to play TAA against one of those teams. His main marketable skill, long cross field balls, may actually be useful against a decent team who are capable of pinning us in as we could bypass the press.
We should be looking to control games like this one though, and we have midfielders better suited to that than him.
Big expectations for them. Plus one would expect the bias.
Would it be full? Or merely slightly inconvenienced?
There seems to be an unwritten rule in football that no matter how bad someone is playing you’re not allowed to sub them off until at least the 70th minute.
I don't mind praise, it's the over the top exaggerations of how good players have been or how good England have been I can't stand.
Southgate so useless.
Now i am really worried. If we hire Southgate one day we are doomed.