Mainoo is on the pitch.
Round of 16 | England vs Slovakia | Spain vs Georgia
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
Shittest ref I've seen for ages
Anybody else but definitely not Mainoo. Player playing so deep also needs to be aware of threats and react sharply. Mainoo is not that man. Other team can get past him easily.
Why is Kane so deep there? Did they not learn from when Rooney was doing it for England? Yes he’s good at it but there’s nothing up top to capitalise on it, when he wins it back.
Ref is a right bellend
You want Kane to drop to our defence to collect the ball?
Bellingham looks awful today like he's playing Sunday league junior c
Being English it's honestly infuriating.
The 'talent' is greatly overexaggerated.
Yep. Yet Slovakia are coping well enough.Is Dixon already trying to blame the pitch
Huh?
You didn't see the slo-mo close up when England was in Slovakia's penalty box? Turf was flying everywhere.Still whining about a perfectly good pitch.
Errr….
Goos news for England is Jude looks much better today
I'd keep this shape but get Foden out for Palmer and TAA in for Saka. The latter stops the ball too much and you need a right footed player there given you already have the problem of Trippier on the other side
Might actually be a good idea to take off Trippier for Gordon actually
I'd keep this shape but get Foden out for Palmer and TAA in for Saka. The latter stops the ball too much and you need a right footed player there given you already have the problem of Trippier on the other side
Might actually be a good idea to take off Trippier for Gordon actually
Why was he so deep?
Not sure I’d want to take responsibility for this tbf, it’s like taking responsibility for setting fire to your pet dog
I used to be big England fan as a child, now much less so, but still love Mainoo and quite like guys like Trippier or Bellingham
I don't think have ever been this bad under Southgate, they've certainly regressed, even at an individual level. These 11 players should be playing better than this regardless of who the manager is.
Refs shite.
That wasn’t a foul, blew up for a Slovakian player down when clear no head injury, goalie taking ages.
No excuse for England but he’s really not helping
That wasn’t a foul, blew up for a Slovakian player down when clear no head injury, goalie taking ages.
No excuse for England but he’s really not helping
Honestly, can’t wait for the return of the traditional winger. Ronaldo and Messi are ultimately to blame for this shite we have to suffer most weeks nowGuehi is the designated goalkeeper blocker? Is this the newest England set piece tactic?
Kobbie has been playing with such a low intensity so far, is it nerves? Very poor look imo, at least Rice and Jude are getting on the ball and making runs.
Kane is sh8
Very bad from Guehi during those two corner kicks for England.. Why the hell do you block the opponent GK like that? It's clear foul
It's a bit weird if we're being honest.
A little of both.
Kane and Bellingham does not work in 4-2-3-1. Bellingham is a central midfielder who just had a freak goalscoring season and not a creative attacking midfielder. England can do one of 2 things:
1. Drop Bellingham deeper, switch to 4-3-3 and bench Foden for Palmer/Gordon.
2. Stick with 4-2-3-1 but play Foden central, move Bellingham to play alongside Rice and play Palmer/Gordon wide left.
1. Drop Bellingham deeper, switch to 4-3-3 and bench Foden for Palmer/Gordon.
2. Stick with 4-2-3-1 but play Foden central, move Bellingham to play alongside Rice and play Palmer/Gordon wide left.
His direct opponent is a 37 year old guy, who is playing for Hertha in the 2nd Bundesliga. And yet, he is not producing anything of note.
Foden is clearly not our problem, Kane and Bellingham are absolutely useless.
There's no energy about England, far too pedestrian in the midfield. Far too conservative. You need to up the tempo and take some risks. Get some movement.
Get him on the plane to Rwanda
We need movement. Kane is too static and is even coming short for the ball whereas we need somebody to run behind, like Slovakia are doing and like how they scored their goal. We're playing in front of Slovakia and it's too easy for them to contain us. We're too narrow.
The instruction also needs to be to move the ball quicker, and that goes for the centre backs, too. Everybody is being too slow and there's very little movement all round.
Very true and it's amplified by the bad system. Two left footed players either wing, none run off the ball and then you have Kane who understandably has no mobility.
Southgate took the wrong players for the system he's playing
who's gonna take him though?
Agreed, absolute cnut. Primed and raised to give England nothing
To be honest I am surprised that the pitches in Germany aren't in better condition.
Slovakia look dangerous on the break and score one, could have scored two in reality. England usual shite, huffing and puffing, desperate stuff