Final: Italy vs England

I'm not at all nervous today. I was nervous for the Scotland game and absolutely bricking it for the Germany game, but today I'm just really looking forward to seeing England play in a final for the first time in my lifetime.
 
Shock it's always the Chelsea journalist leaking the team news every game - so which one is it more likely to be Mount or James?
 
Classical Mechanic said:
It’s what he did against a Germany to nullify their wing backs which is also Italy’s main attacking outlet. Wing backs allow you to create 2v1 situations against a back four (see Germany v Portugal for an example of this having a devastating effect) so the simple way to counter it is to match their formation so those overloads can’t happen. You can see it as a sign of respect to the quality of their players as we didn’t do the same against Denmark.
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Italy have been playing 4 3 3?
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Ostensibly yes but when they’re attacking it effectively becomes 3-5-2 with wing backs to create overloads.
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Which would create massive opportunities to score if you stayed 4 3 3 with pace up top against 2 very slow cbs.

Just hope for England's sake if he does this it works like it did against Germany
 
Stuck at home as I've got 2 young children (my son is just 3 months). How I wish I was out in the streets of Wembley just soaking up the atmosphere!

What's everyone up to and where will you be watching the match?
 
Classical Mechanic said:
It’s what he did against a Germany to nullify their wing backs which is also Italy’s main attacking outlet. Wing backs allow you to create 2v1 situations against a back four (see Germany v Portugal for an example of this having a devastating effect) so the simple way to counter it is to match their formation so those overloads can’t happen. You can see it as a sign of respect to the quality of their players as we didn’t do the same against Denmark.
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Or the opposite view is that you can overload their wing backs with the winger and the full back. However if he played like this against Germany sounds like he will do the same. In this case surely Mount should be dropped for someone like Sancho or Grealish.
 
Jev said:
It was his extreme pace that made the difference at a time you were tactically struggling, that's my only point. Do you have equally good Saka alternatives, yes. But equally fast?
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Saka isn't particularly fast. Sterling is quick, Rashford is quick, Walker could easily outrun both of them. Saka, by comparison, is kind of average pace for a winger.
 
TheGame said:
Or the opposite view is that you can overload their wing backs with the winger and the full back. However if he played like this against Germany sounds like he will do the same. In this case surely Mount should be dropped for someone like Sancho or Grealish.
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True but Southgate is never going to go for a shootout in major tournament final. He wouldn’t even do it against Scotland!
 
Ayoba said:
Stuck at home as I've got 2 young children (my son is just 3 months). How I wish I was out in the streets of Wembley just soaking up the atmosphere!

What's everyone up to and where will you be watching the match?
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Take the children with you.
No don't take the children
 
This England team with Trippier in for Saka sounds awfully negative. We don't even have the pace on the break that we had vs Germany.
 
Anyone seen the video of your man getting cheered on by a crowd as he whips coke off a key in the middle of Leicester Square?

I hope for his sake ye win tonight, because it would be awful shite to lose the final and find yourself sacked on Monday morning!
 
TheGame said:
Or the opposite view is that you can overload their wing backs with the winger and the full back. However if he played like this against Germany sounds like he will do the same. In this case surely Mount should be dropped for someone like Sancho or Grealish.
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He loves Mount, couldn't wait to get him back into the team for some reason despite him adding the square root of feck all.
 
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