Day 3 | Poland vs Netherlands | Slovenia vs Denmark | Serbia vs England

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.

Surely if he is going to persist with Trent then he needs to play Gordon on the other wing to offer the possibility to stretch play both sides? Foden isn’t really a threat out there
 
Serbia is playing right into Southgate’s hands by dominating England in the second half.
 
League One level from Bellingham after Arnold made that amazing shot from 500m.
 
England has enough quality to score a second, and Serbia seems to lack the cutting edge. In the end it will be comfortable enough.
 
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.
Trent loses the ball against those teams in positions he's lost the ball in this game, we'll be 3-0 down by the time he'd play one of his incredible long balls. Especially the way Spain press.
 
Kane is just too easy to defend against for most athletic centre halves. Great finisher and good movement in the box, but this is why he drops deeper and deeper these days because he’s trying to avoid confrontation with centre halves.
 
I was thinking that England is one of favourites but they are nowhere near to France or Germany.
 
Fek me Shearer is a bad commentator. Shut up about TAA already...
 
Ridiculous how deep we are playing now, we are trying to concede.

It's not like this has never happened under Southgate before. Why expect any different?

We can swarm teams from the start because we start play at Premier League pace. Once tiredness sets in we can't keep it up and our technical level is exposed...

... especially if you don't actually have a midfield.
 
Let's see if Southgate will take off TAA soon. Hopefully the same for Foden.
 
No control in midfield for England. Maybe the Manager should make a change and put an actual midfielder in there.