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[Football] Euros 2024 - Matchday 7
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jackalbion
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Despite my initial positivity in the first game, his game management was total shit today. Poor subs, bizarre tactical choices, TAA worked fine first game, why he continued with it beyond HT today, baffling.
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I’d rather watch Burnley every week!
It was the same V Serbia, we lucked out because they didn't have the players in midfield
Trent was poor against Serbia, he was out of position and gifted Mitrovic a golden chance.
My 4 point plan to rescue our tournament:
1) fire “Trent” back to Liverpool out of a cannon
2) chloroform Southgate
3) get the players from clubs that can press and beat the press to take training. Work on nothing else.
4) sit Kane on the bench for so long he gets splinters in his paceless, effortless, drop deep ar**hole.
1) fire “Trent” back to Liverpool out of a cannon
2) chloroform Southgate
3) get the players from clubs that can press and beat the press to take training. Work on nothing else.
4) sit Kane on the bench for so long he gets splinters in his paceless, effortless, drop deep ar**hole.
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I love Italy's National Anthem ... and France ..... and Germany, sorry Spain just doesn't do it for me 
Justice
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Højbjerg running the midfield was impressive, can hardly get a start for Spuds.
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England manager Gareth Southgate, speaking to BBC One: "Clearly not what we would have hoped [for]. We're not using the ball well enough and we have to accept that if you do that you will suffer at times as we have tonight. We know there's another level we have to find."
On whether he tells the team to drop deep after scoring: "No. I think we've played teams that are quite fluid in back threes and it's not easy to get pressure on them but we've got to do that better than we have in these last two matches. Not keeping the ball has been another problem."
On why he took Trent Alexander-Arnold off: "I wanted Conor [Gallagher] on. We needed energy, we needed to press better. Conor does that very well."
On how he thinks Trent Alexander-Arnold is doing in midfield: "He's had some moments where he's delivered what we thought he would. We know it's an experiment. We know we don't have a natural replacement for Kalvin Philips. We're trying different things and at the moment we're not flowing as we'd like."
On taking off Harry Kane: "We needed energy. We've had two games in a short turnaround and we needed fresh legs, energy to press. I think Harry has only had one 90 minutes in over a month so that was the decision we took."
On how much work England still have to do: "There's a huge amount of work, that's evident from the two performances we've given and we've got to be tight. We understand people will be disappointed with the performances and rightly so and we've got to make them better."
"We know people will be disappointed with our performances. At the moment we are not pressing with the intensity that we need to and that's meaning we are having to sit a bit deeper. They are the problems and we need to find the solutions. We need to asses the two performances and work through it together. If you allow players to pick passes then they can play passes which can hurt you."
On whether he tells the team to drop deep after scoring: "No. I think we've played teams that are quite fluid in back threes and it's not easy to get pressure on them but we've got to do that better than we have in these last two matches. Not keeping the ball has been another problem."
On why he took Trent Alexander-Arnold off: "I wanted Conor [Gallagher] on. We needed energy, we needed to press better. Conor does that very well."
On how he thinks Trent Alexander-Arnold is doing in midfield: "He's had some moments where he's delivered what we thought he would. We know it's an experiment. We know we don't have a natural replacement for Kalvin Philips. We're trying different things and at the moment we're not flowing as we'd like."
On taking off Harry Kane: "We needed energy. We've had two games in a short turnaround and we needed fresh legs, energy to press. I think Harry has only had one 90 minutes in over a month so that was the decision we took."
On how much work England still have to do: "There's a huge amount of work, that's evident from the two performances we've given and we've got to be tight. We understand people will be disappointed with the performances and rightly so and we've got to make them better."
"We know people will be disappointed with our performances. At the moment we are not pressing with the intensity that we need to and that's meaning we are having to sit a bit deeper. They are the problems and we need to find the solutions. We need to asses the two performances and work through it together. If you allow players to pick passes then they can play passes which can hurt you."
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fruitnveg
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Can't we skip the middleman and just get someone with a WHOLE footballing brain? F**king sick of Southgate. He's been useless since day dot and and his results in tournaments to date do not disguise his uselessness to anyone who watched.
Spain have shown more energy in the first 5 minutes of their game, than England showed in 90.
jackalbion
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You could see the logic against Serbia, and for the first 35 he was decent, but yeah two games now and he provides nothing going once we are 1-0 up. Was confident he might change things up today especially after the equaliser, but he did nothing. Only positive was he spoke well post match and agreed that he thought we were poor.
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Recent form hasn't been great even before the Euros - England have won just two of their last seven games.
They lost to Iceland and Brazil, and drew with North Macedonia, Belgium and Denmark.
The wins came against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.
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That took me back to watching Brighton under Potter boring shite football, clueless over the half way line score a goal and wait for the equaliser, stroll back to the train queue.
jackalbion
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Don’t disagree with a lot of that, but this is what I expect from a pundit not a manager. The Kalvin Phillips comment is odd, the natural replacement for him is Gallagher so why not start him. Glad he thinks we need another level to see that he isn’t completely blind to how poor we’ve been.
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- Jul 28, 2003
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We seemed desperate for entire second half. A sense of panic on and off the pitch pervaded through my screen, at least. As if the whole Team England knew they would be slated post match and there was absolutely nothing they could do to avoid.
It reminded me of us against Iceland, under Woy. Abject.
The only positive I took is at least the players, manager and coaching staff all agree they can and must do better. Nobody’s in denial about that.
It reminded me of us against Iceland, under Woy. Abject.
The only positive I took is at least the players, manager and coaching staff all agree they can and must do better. Nobody’s in denial about that.
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Italy’s kit is gorgeous
jackalbion
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Was incredibly potter-esque wasn’t it
. The “England DNA”