[Football] Scotland vs England

[Jim in the West]

I am constantly baffled how England managers take players who are excellent for their clubs, and turn them into League One hoofers. And some of them just didn't seem interested. Reece James struggled to break into a sweat! Kane just lumbered around like an overweight Ricky Lambert. Foden looked lively every now and again but continuously turned backwards. or took the easy option. Kalvin Phillips obviously did all his running last weekend, as he looked completely knackered. Sterling lost the ball or mis-controlled it pretty much every time. And don't get me started on Mings!!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

This team won the WC quarter final 2-0, outclassing Sweden.

(NSC slagged off) Henderson rarely lets England down, anchoring that entire midfield, look at all the creativity, pace and goals ahead of him.

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Rice, Phillips, Foden, Kane, James and Sterling had shockers tonight. As did Southgate.

Don’t think it’s the team, it’s the formation for me.

Having Rice AND Phillips is pointless.


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[GT49er]

We started like grapes and ended like raisens.

Southgate is teetering on the edge of being a prune.

Steady on, old fruit!

 

[vagabond]

Souness and Keane are in hog heaven right now. They’re enjoying a good slating of England.

 

[Curious Orange]

Southgate played it safe to tonight, two defensive midfielders in front of a back four meant that England were never going to get an overload on Scotland, and vice versa, so a draw was pretty inevitable.

As an aside I found myself wondering how much better our play out of the back could have been if you'd had someone with a better passing range than Mings alongside Stones. Someone like, I dunno, Lewis Dunk for instance.

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

Yes but quite a few NSCers live by the stats....


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I agree with sofascore, we were poor.

 

[Eeyore]

So good he got pulled off against fecking Scotland. Flat track bully

Last four seasons he has 28 goals in 34 European matches and 117 in 159 EPL.

Is there any track that isn't flat ?

 

[dwayne]

We were awful but I thought Ming's was quite solid !!

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[jcdenton08]

I think Mings had one of his better games, actually. There was also a brilliant comedy skit when he tried to score what appeared to be an arthritic overhead kick from a corner. That was great!

 

[martin tyler]

We were poor.
Created very little. Disappointed by both full back in terms of creativity. I know he’s injured by TAA was cried out for tonight.
Midfield of rice and Phillips isn’t good enough to break teams who sit and Southgate a man who allegedly picks on form picks favourites as per normal.
Grealish as much as he’s a cheating ******* at times is in all honesty the most creative player we have by far and needs to play. Sancho has had a blinding 2nd half to the season and should have been on for Sterling by half time.
Can’t see anyone in the last 8 onwards being worries about England

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Souness and Keane are in hog heaven right now. They’re enjoying a good slating of England.

Well, they aren’t wrong are they

 

[Weststander]

Don’t think it’s the team, it’s the formation for me.

Having Rice AND Phillips is pointless.


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I think it’s both.

That’s why I mentioned Southgate.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Well, they aren’t wrong are they

Quite.


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[Robinjakarta]

Did you used to watch a load of club and England football in the 80’s and 90’s. Gazza was amazing for Newcastle and especially Spuds, so often England MOTM, running complete games (pre and post injury).

The greatest English player in my 48 years of watching, by a country mile.

Yep.

1991 FA Cup Semi-Final Gascoigne 2 Arsenal 0 after 10 minutes including THAT free kick and opening up the defence for the other. Magic.

Shame about the Final.

 

[GT49er]

Yes, but all our subs were wrong

Almost Hughtonesque in their too-lateness and not-enough-ness ....................

 

[Is it PotG?]

My God, Southgate does get the juices flowing in these interviews.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Southgate played it safe to tonight, two defensive midfielders in front of a back four meant that England were never going to get an overload on Scotland, and vice versa, so a draw was pretty inevitable.

As an aside I found myself wondering how much better our play out of the back could have been if you'd had someone with a better passing range than Mings alongside Stones. Someone like, I dunno, Lewis Dunk for instance.

Or Ben White or Adam Webster…

 

[vagabond]

Well, they aren’t wrong are they

Not wrong, but they’re enjoying it. Souness is being utterly gleeful.

 

[beorhthelm]

seems pundits talking Scotland up, talking England down. we were lacklustre, not poor but not great either. Scotland played a bit better in midfield for a few spells but didnt really offer threat.

we dont seem to play to our strength, fast, energetic players getting into opposition with movement and speed.

 

[amexer]

What a good old fashioned CF is Lyndon Dykes