Clear what the swedish plan is; leave possession to England, stay solid in defense and play direct counters. Also, kudos to the fans that have made the journey.
U21 Euro Championships 2015
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Team A keeps the ball and creates nothing, Team B keeps the ball and creates nothing. Only one of the teams knows how to play possession football though...
Nearly from Kane.
FFS Ryan Gosling!
Is there no better manager than Southgate? I think that´s England biggest problem. He´s a bit better than Pearce but not by much.
Another chance gone.
Garbutt is really interesting
Would better managers want to manage an u21 side?
He's been bloody brilliant up until 1 game ago but yeah, now he's shit...
A Boro's reject
Honestly, its bloody ridiculous.
Tacking is no longer allowed it seems.
How is that a FK
That no longer happens at senior level, contrary to the much-pedalled myth.
Bloody brilliant? Cmon he done alright but being bloody brilliant is streching it a bit. But i guess with underachieving English teams perhaps it can be considered brilliant.
Ehm yea,creation is not only segment on which you judge possession football of some team,nor team A and team B having same way while they play possesion football. The fact that both teams didnt create a single thing,does not mean they copy/paste possession football of each other.
They don't know how to play possession football, and that's the issue.
Example. England have ball in own half, down the left side. Sweden have over-loaded that side with players and Garbutt forces the play down there and it is inevitably lost, instead of switching it back to the right and exploit Sweden over-exposing the other side....
I fear England are a result of the coaches they employ. There's no progression if the coaches don't have a progression in their approach to the game.
Example. England have ball in own half, down the left side. Sweden have over-loaded that side with players and Garbutt forces the play down there and it is inevitably lost, instead of switching it back to the right and exploit Sweden over-exposing the other side....
I fear England are a result of the coaches they employ. There's no progression if the coaches don't have a progression in their approach to the game.
Perhaps you are right. I don´t really have a positive image of english managers but i thought there would be more choices rather than Southgate who never did anything as a manager. Even our manager Rui Jorge (who was criticized for being too inexperienced) had a good stint at Belenenses.
What's the difference, what makes one way proper and the other way not? Please enlighten me.
That is always our "plan".
Hamren tried some fancy 4-2-3-1 but seems to have reverted back to 4-4-2 now. I think Roy is proud of us.Yes, but U-21's represents more the general development of English football since many (most?) of these players will never see an England first-team cap, whereas, the full England team represents the most technical that we have, which would explain the different in technical and mental approach to the game.
The best way to see how English football is doing, generally, is to look at the widest variety of talents representing different levels.
Garbutt has been poor in this tournament so far. At least Jenkinson has the guts to go past players.
I don't think there's a lot to it other than the fact our centre half's are not very good. If at full strength, we could be playing both Stones and Jones at the heart of the defence, both of which would confidently use the ball at this level.
You Brits love to moan and complain don't you?
Against Portugal the problem was actually the midfield. Is England missing players? It was pretty poor.
He qualified for the finals (when the likes of Spain and Holland hadn't) playing attacking, attractive football. In the mean time his team beat Germany, Portugal and Croatia twice, losing only once during the whole qualifying campaign, only Portugal could better that. What specifically has he failed to acheive exactly?
This is frustrating at the moment.
You Brits love to moan and complain don't you?
Well i think they have the right after decades of having very strong teams on paper and still underachieving.
Tibbling
What way proper or not,they dont do basics(which makes them look like they dont know how to play possession football),like movement when you have possession and reaction after you lose ball and so on. Its like our possession in the start of the season,or when Rooney do his sideway cross pass,like its good thing for possession football.
Edit: Oh and yea,who on earth thinks that Southgate is bloody brilliant.
HT :Not looking good at the moment.
In the Swedish version of FIFA 2015 we just have 4-4-1-1 and 4-4-2 to choose from.I´m sorry being bloody brilliant is someone like Lopetegui who qualified to and WON competitions. Qualifying to tournaments for a team like England, in the group they played, shouldn´t be a big deal. Rui Jorge won our group but it can´t be classed as bloody brilliant because we had freakin Norway and Israel in it. They only did their obligation. Not qualifying from groups like the portuguese and english would be a complete failure. And i look at friendlies with some perspective. I know it´s good to win but to repeat it when it matters in official competitions, is another thing. But i guess we have diferent expectations.
I don't think so. It's fair to say we miss a lot of the senior squad at this level. In an ideal world we'd have both Wilshere and Barkley playing in midfield for us. Given we can't use them I think we do quite well.
There is a real dearth of defensive midfield talent, mind you.
Garbutt must be having a laugh over this contract. Lucky to be at Everton. Terrible so far this tournament.
Those two CB's are simply garbage.
Jenkinson has played well.
Those two CB's are simply garbage.
Jenkinson has played well.
So basically, you haven't got a clue, gotcha.
With the U21s he has been. It's become abundantly clear you and Sly have watched buggar all of the U21s, and have based you're entire opinion of it based on the Portugal game. Please tell me what more he could have achieved thus far with the U21s, I'll like to know.
Not sure what England fans were expecting, Championship level players asides from Kane.
Southgate should throw Cheeky on, he has pace and is 6ft 4. He can't be worse than what we have on. Southgate is loyal to his players though.
I said this the other day and got criticised for it.