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[Albion] England squad for Nations League



vagabond

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May 17, 2019
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I’ve just been reading a Twitter feed with Spurs fans calling for Potter to replace to Southgate. That surprised me somewhat.

That’s my one fear with the Southgate out movement

Who would replace him? GP is a natural England manager one day. Not a long while yet hopefully.
 




vagabond

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I’ve been a big critic of his lately, but I have to admit, Southgate came off well in the Sky post match interview with the tough questions on Foden and Greenwood.
 






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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
Anyone else find the whole “Yorkshire Pirlo” title a bit, I don’t know.. stupid?

Pirlo. One of the finest footballers of his generation. Dominated games, incredible ability to keep the ball and thread it through the eye of a needle.

Then you have a twatty Yorkshire chav in a manbun.

Let's not be peevish, now.

He was alright and I'm sure little Leeds are entitled to a bit of enhanced clitoral blood flow when they think of him :shrug: We would, if it were we.

We were better in the second half. I like the Wolves lad.

Sterling is a class above.

We have nothing up front, though.

The manager is not....really....sorry, what was I saying?
 




Hugo Rune

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I’m actually a fan of Southgate’s and I want him to continue but he has to learn the lessons from this game. Southgate has made a series of big mistakes both in man management and tactically.

1st Mistake.

He picks players he likes and trusts like Dier and Trippier rather than specialists. It seems he’d prefer four right backs he knows well in the squad than a specialist left back or left wing back. Sessegnon would have done a better job than the limited Trippier.

2nd Mistake.

No discipline or respect from the younger players. His handling of the brawling Blockhead gave the green light to Greenwood and Foden to run a muck. His handling of the Sterling-Gomez fight was weak and poor, he has lost control of the dressing room and needs to get it back.

3rd Mistake

Other than Sterling, Kane & Sancho; he failed to start with any really creative attacking players. This was in part due to Greenwood and Foden being sent home but he still should have started with Mount or Grealish.

4th Mistake.

His 3-4-3 formation was a joke. It creates hardly anything. His priority was shoe horning some of his favourite players into the team, unfortunately, they are defensive players starving the team of creativity.

5th Mistake.

No understanding of how Denmark would play. They played very defensive against our team full of defenders and defensive midfielders. 0-0 was the only outcome.

6th Mistake.

Too many DMs. Phillips, Dier & Rice. You only needed one defensive midfielder against Denmark, he had three. As a midfielder playing at the back, Dier looked more like Shane Duffy than Webster as he never really ventured forward and looked a liability defending.

Southgate now needs to cleanse his squad of average players. Leave Blockhead, Foden & Greenwood in the Wilderness for a year or so too. Install some ****ing discipline in the squad.
Play a back four or two up front against defensive set-ups like Denmark had. And pick specialist players, we’ve got some promising young left backs - they’d all have looked better than the round pegs in square holes we had at left back/left wing back in they last two games.

Even the summariser was at a loss as two why Southgate was not playing two out and out Strikers with a back 5 and two DMs.

Sort it out Gareth. The goodwill from the last World Cup is running out.
 


portlock seagull

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At least my painted wall is now dry
 


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Saunders

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How on earth is he ahead of Grealish in the pecking order,

Because he is a deep lying defensive midfielder (yes that is where he plays for leeds ignore Tyler) and Grealish is an attacking midfielder and for some bizarre reason Southgate wanted two defensive midfielders for this game Rice and Phillips.
 


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I’m actually a fan of Southgate’s and...

Challenging start, but after that.....agree with the rest of your post.

To paraphrase Richard Richard, if only everything has been completely different, it would have been great.
 


Feb 23, 2009
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Brighton factually.....
for some bizarre reason Southgate wanted two defensive midfielders for this game.

Says it all really, doesn’t it.....


Absolutely no chance in the Euros, we are light years behind France, Belgium and even the Germans.
When Denmark scare us into a defensive formation we might as well not even bother.....
 




Saunders

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Oct 1, 2017
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Let's not be peevish, now.

He was alright and I'm sure little Leeds are entitled to a bit of enhanced clitoral blood flow when they think of him :shrug: We would, if it were we.

We were better in the second half. I like the Wolves lad.

Sterling is a class above.

We have nothing up front, though.

The manager is not....really....sorry, what was I saying?

We call (I use "We" loosely) Webster Webdini. Do they really think he is the new Maldini or is it the same as Leeds fans and Phillips?
 


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We call (I use "We" loosely) Webster Webdini. Do they really think he is the new Maldini or is it the same as Leeds fans and Phillips?

:lolol: :thumbsup:
 








Swansman

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May 13, 2019
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Says it all really, doesn’t it.....


Absolutely no chance in the Euros, we are light years behind France, Belgium and even the Germans.
When Denmark scare us into a defensive formation we might as well not even bother.....

Dont underestimate Denmark. They are a good team. The only positions where England is obviously better is RB and the front three and considering Pochettino/Southgate turned the Hurricane into the Harry with a cane, the difference is not as big as you would expect up front either.
 




Saunders

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Oct 1, 2017
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Dont underestimate Denmark. They are a good team. The only positions where England is obviously better is RB and the front three and considering Pochettino/Southgate turned the Hurricane into the Harry with a cane, the difference is not as big as you would expect up front either.

We arent underestimating them we are pointing out the flaws in a manager that is being lauded as the next world cup winner.
 




BeHereNow

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Mar 2, 2016
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Says it all really, doesn’t it.....


Absolutely no chance in the Euros, we are light years behind France, Belgium and even the Germans.
When Denmark scare us into a defensive formation we might as well not even bother.....

#TeamsLikeDenmark
 




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