Tbf Shelvey has actually had a good season and he can actually play a pass.
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Can't help but feel gutted but an overall sense of pride.
Not only did we exceed expectations but our Spurs boys put in such a shift. You had Kane get us off to a great start with the 90th minute winner. He then got a hattrick in the second game. All of our boys scoring penalties in the round of 16 with Eric Dier netting the winner. Dele Alli scoring the goal that sealed our place into the semi final and then arguably our best player of the tournament opening the scoring in the semi final.
'It's coming home' meant more than bringing the trophy back to England. We got the connection back between players and fans. They gave us something to be proud about. Just look at the scenes when Trippier opened the scoring last night. I haven't seen anything like that since Euro 2004. We can thank Gareth Southgate and this young bunch of players for that. The youngest team in the competition putting their bodies on the line at times to try and make this country proud and they succeeded. They won in my eyes.
I can't even fault any player. None of them deserve criticism. Pickford was excellent. Trippier was great. Walker, Stones and Maguire were lions. Youngs set pieces were excellent. Henderson was everywhere. Dele and Lingard ran their fucking hearts out. Sterling worked hard and Kane scored our goals. Even Loftus-Cheek, Rose, Rashford etc played their part.
Proud of every single one of them. Onwards and upwards.
Eventually we will phase out the likes of Welbeck, Vardy, Cahill, Young etc. and hopefully some of the younger players can come in really give Southgate something more to think about. The likes of Sancho, Cook, Winks, Lascelles, Walker-Peters etc. who all personify Southgates England.
Thanks Southgate and thank you England for making us all feel connected once more. You gave us one hell of a summer to be proud of.
Not only did we exceed expectations but our Spurs boys put in such a shift. You had Kane get us off to a great start with the 90th minute winner. He then got a hattrick in the second game. All of our boys scoring penalties in the round of 16 with Eric Dier netting the winner. Dele Alli scoring the goal that sealed our place into the semi final and then arguably our best player of the tournament opening the scoring in the semi final.
'It's coming home' meant more than bringing the trophy back to England. We got the connection back between players and fans. They gave us something to be proud about. Just look at the scenes when Trippier opened the scoring last night. I haven't seen anything like that since Euro 2004. We can thank Gareth Southgate and this young bunch of players for that. The youngest team in the competition putting their bodies on the line at times to try and make this country proud and they succeeded. They won in my eyes.
I can't even fault any player. None of them deserve criticism. Pickford was excellent. Trippier was great. Walker, Stones and Maguire were lions. Youngs set pieces were excellent. Henderson was everywhere. Dele and Lingard ran their fucking hearts out. Sterling worked hard and Kane scored our goals. Even Loftus-Cheek, Rose, Rashford etc played their part.
Proud of every single one of them. Onwards and upwards.
Eventually we will phase out the likes of Welbeck, Vardy, Cahill, Young etc. and hopefully some of the younger players can come in really give Southgate something more to think about. The likes of Sancho, Cook, Winks, Lascelles, Walker-Peters etc. who all personify Southgates England.
Thanks Southgate and thank you England for making us all feel connected once more. You gave us one hell of a summer to be proud of.
Ha, why not. Don't we need more shithouse players in the side? We were a bit naive last night.
Might as well give him a try, must be better than blooming Hendon!
Shelvey sucks so much. A few long passes don't make him good and suggesting him for England is a joke surely!
If that's your view then why are you not digging out Kane? Sterling was our best player in the first half.
I'm only 2nd guessing but I'm assuming that the plan was to always change Sterling for Rashford. I'm saying this because last night he was the furthest man forward (not dropping deep as in previous games) i'm guessing that the plan was for him sprint, run behind, cause their defence problems etc with the aim of us scoring, being fouled and getting pen, corners or free kicks in dangerous areas which has been a strength of us all tournament. Basically to run himself into the ground, for us to capitalise with a couple of goals and then try to control the remainder of the game (maybe even go on the counter once he came off). We certainly were pushing for a 2nd goal immediately after we had scored.
Deluded cunt. Salah and Mane and Firminho were responsible for Liverpool getting to the CL final and a the Croatia midfield for them getting to the final.
I know he's a cunt but really hope Mbappe tears Lovren a new one in the final.
Oh and wait until he turns up at our new stadium on the 15th September, he's going to cop some shit!
Nope, it's not. I imagine people once said the same about Maguire and Trippier.
Give him a chance mate, he might surprise you!
It’s just not enough to work hard and to have pace
Sterling, Lingaard and Henderson just not good enough
Doubts!
I think Young has been poor all tournament, our worst player by quite some margin.Rose came on too late for Young. It was obvious to me that Young did not have the pace to deal with their right back. Dele did well fending off Modric for the first half but then when Young tired out Dele kept dropping deeper and deeper. I just don't get how the coaches and Gareth didn't see that and make a change sooner as I feel it would have given us more bite.ochsulk:
We'll never know what goes on behind the 90mins though, maybe Rose just wasn't mentally right? Doubt we'll ever know. But every time Rose played we looked better, apart from last night though it has to be said, his first 5 mins he looked good but then he was struggling also with their RB.
Who was then and why?
I started getting concerned at the amount of back passes to Pickford and too many balls getting lumped forward as it gave them confidence
They were terrified of us initially
Why would I dig out England's best player by a country mile ? Who's won the golden boot ?
I respect your opinion that Sterling played his part but I find it odd you are so keen to deflect any criticism away from him , I reckon you'd take a bullet for him !
There is an argument for this but given the personnel available to him on the bench and where the problems you were causing us, it's really hard to see what he could do. Thought bringing in Dier was the right call as too was Rose, maybe he could have done both sooner rather than later. But the problem you posed us was still the same and both Rose and Dier really didn't make any material changes to our performance.