Football & All Things Related

Bellingham very quiet

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England doing England things so far

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Really like Trent as a player but don’t think this midfield playmaker role is working. He’s absolutely pedestrian and far too deep

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Boring boring England- I don’t understand why they can’t play like they all play in the premier league

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Southgate

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Fuck that was painful. Denmark deserved the win.

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Hopefully Southgate’s last tournament, nice guy but produces dull, uninspiring teams.

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He has a team of fantastically gifted players that have all had sterling seasons for their clubs and doesn’t know what to do with them. Tactically inept.

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We were flying in the final last time round and he bottled it and sat back letting Italy in. He’s negative. These players love high tempo pressing football which they are mustard at doing at club level. None of which was on show today. Poor in every department. The substitutions looked like a desperate panicked attempt.

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Italy Spain in a bit :muscle:t3::sunglasses:

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No gameplan
No creativity
No tactics
No balance
No idea

A team full of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup winners, and we are playing like this. Utterly bewildering

Of course the narrative that will come out of the camp is we are top of the group and through.

I like Southgate, he speaks well but serious questions need to be asked of what the plan is.

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Looking forward to that, hopefully lives up to the billing.

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Well that was a bag of wank

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You wonder why Southgate is not on the touchline screaming at them to get up the pitch. Unless of course it’s his plan for them to sit so deep? Definitely the worst game of the tournament so far.

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When he resigns/is fired he won’t get a job at a serious club who want to win stuff. Total FA blazer man.

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I heard Kyle Walker (admittedly straight after the game) saying that people expect them to steamroller sides. I genuinely don’t think that’s the case for most fans, what they do expect though is for them to pass to another player wearing the same shirt, not get caught in possession and pass the ball forwards more often than sideways or backwards. The sort of thing they do most weeks.

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Kane was much more honest in his interview, basically saying the tactics were wrong and they didn’t know who should be pressing. Madness.

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Wtf have they been doing in training all week?

I’m so glad I didn’t pay hundreds of euros to go and see that rubbish.

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Italy Spain was good fun. this Spanish side play exciting football, Yamal is going to be huge and Nico Williams was brilliant but I dunno if they might lack a killer instinct against a better side. The most lightweight Italians I can remember had given up by half time and resorted to the classic azzurri dark arts, the sly body checks, the anguished looks at the ref, the constant disruption but for once it didn’t work

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Yep. Spain looked like they were playing with 12 players and a magnetic ball. Lovely to watch.

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