Something Jose would know about.Jose Mourinho on Eng v Sco : "I could feel England were more on the side of pragmatism. I didn't see any risk or desire to try and gamble and win the game."
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Something Jose would know about.Jose Mourinho on Eng v Sco : "I could feel England were more on the side of pragmatism. I didn't see any risk or desire to try and gamble and win the game."
I really disagree here. Foden all season has been nothing but exceptional. Yday he was well below par.
Kane I've seen it before he goes missing in big games way to often. It's why I've always said nobody has bought him yet I love Kane to bits and he's everything we needed at spurs for so many years but at the very highest level when the games matter most he hasn't delivered throughout his career. I'd love to see a stat on the amount of match winners Kane has got for us and the teams he's done it against. Always felt like Son, Alli, Eriksen, Lucas were the match winners in the big games throughout the years.
The defence yday played well, midfield decent. Mount is a very good player and the lack of creativity seemed to be more down to him than Foden going off. Foden was lively but just lacked on the ball yday. Sterling did OK but at times takes too much sting out the build up.
It was a game of attackers not doing their bit for me yday the rest of England played well for me.
That's also true, and we are equipped to play that way with the full backs we have. Hold the centre and attack from the flanks. Not necessarily how I want us to play, but we have the players for it. Was surprising how subdued James and Shaw were.
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh ill not watch it again so I'm open to me being wrong lolWe'll agree to disagree. Don't get me wrong, he's capable of much more. But I thought he was far from awful. One of our problems is we're not getting the ball to him anything like enough, and while the likes of Rice and Phillips are both playing, and playing extremely safe, that will continue to happen.
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh ill not watch it again so I'm open to me being wrong lol
There's the saying somewhere about defenses winning you titles. That's 2 clean sheets now whatever way you look at it and gets you through if you keep another in the next match.
IMO, Kane needs a man behind him making runs towards the goal from more central areas. Mount is more the creative player that likes to create from the central area and feed the attacker or wingers with through balls. The squad up to the front 4 in sterling mount Foden and Kane are very well balanced and working well. The attack is lacking fluidity.
Its a really tough puzzle and quite like the lampard, Gerrard era midfield where you have these quality players, including on the bench, but you need to make brave decisions on who works best together for the team. The easiest attackers to put on the bench currently are so based on least amount of pushback from fans and media etc. Totally agree with the view hes playing it safe but from a different viewpoint.
If I made the decision, I'd be trying Mount with Rashford upfront. Foden and Sterling either side. I think Foden and Mount are the 2 that need to start.
Trying Sancho instead of Sterling, despite me thinking Sterling well, and Rashford over Kane wouldn't be a bad look either.
After watching bits of it again ( glutton for punishment) we were so slow to the ball,didn't complete for the second ball and totally toothless up top.
The two holding midfield players is a head scratcher, its not like we were playing Brazil...
Just watched the highlights from last nights game…Scotland’s players and fans celebrating at the end as if they had actually won the Euros, contrast that with England whose players and fans looked as though they had just lost at home to Gibraltar
Hard to argue with that.Paolo Di Canio: "Scotland played theirs, an excellent match for what are their qualities," Di Canio began. "England are a group of great talents put together but without identity in the game, with two cumbersome playmakers, without any inventiveness, without any through ball. When the midfielders don't make passes, the central defense should intervene, but there is no front. it was the movement that favored these situations ".
A pished cunt in traffic. What isn't to love? The guy was doing us proud.Why is that funny? Whoever is laughing is a fucking moron.
A pished cunt in traffic. What isn't to love? The guy was doing us proud.Why is that funny? Whoever is laughing is a fucking moron.