I mean, we were winning, Czech knew they were going through, we've got bigger fish to fry in next round so I get what Southgate did....but I FUCKING HATED EVERY MINUTE OF THE 2ND HALF.
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You'll get a lot of shit for this as it's a brave post but from a certain perspective you're spot on.
Win the next 3 or 4 games 1 nil and we win and no one will ever give a shit. Seems like such a fucking waste of the talent we have.
Psssst. It's been done in the last game.
Well that was a painful 2nd half! England were obviously playing in second gear and happy to see the game out at 1-0, and the Czechs didn't know how to break our quite impressive defense down. We'll need to be better now throughout the 90 minutes whoever we play in the last 16, but I do feel we have a big performance within us. The only other dissapointment was Kane not scoring again. I thought he was a certainty to after that first half but we sat back and didn't create anything.
Some good individual performances though. Maguire and Stones looked great. Schick didn't get a kick. Sterling, Grealish and Saka looked quality in the first half when we weren't playing well within ourselves. I thought Henderson played well when he came on too.
Rashford is useless at the moment. Complete waste of a sub.
Some good individual performances though. Maguire and Stones looked great. Schick didn't get a kick. Sterling, Grealish and Saka looked quality in the first half when we weren't playing well within ourselves. I thought Henderson played well when he came on too.
Rashford is useless at the moment. Complete waste of a sub.
Genuinely promise it doesn’t open to anything bad.Nooooooo fucking way am I clicking a link from you
dont worry its 1-0 at the end of the day. yay
Only of the gem variety
Just substitute Strachan for any of their managers in the last 250 years
Thank fuck for that then because we won't play anyone as good as them next round.
Can see Southgate possibly changing the formation for the next game especially if we play France there’ll destroy us otherwise.
Careful mate.
I think he played alright to be fair. Looked desperate to score but wasn't as selfish as he sometimes is for us.
I think he will need to score for us to go beyond the last 16 but we are into the knockout phase and so far it's a zero so maybe I'm wrong.
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Well teams generally only go up a gear when they really need to. We didn't need to against Croatia or against these tonight. There's no getting away from the fact that it was a poor performance against Scotland but there aren't many teams in the competition that haven't had a dodgy game in the group stage. France have. Germany have. Portugal have. Spain have hardly shone...
I would have liked us to play at a higher tempo tonight in the second half, don't get me wrong. But at no point did I think we weren't not going to win the game. The players did enough. If this was an old Germany side everyone would be complimenting them on how efficient they are and that they will step it up when they really need to. Pretty sure our guys will know as much as you or I myself do that they'll now need to find an extra gear or two.
Well teams generally only go up a gear when they really need to. We didn't need to against Croatia or against these tonight. There's no getting away from the fact that it was a poor performance against Scotland but there aren't many teams in the competition that haven't had a dodgy game in the group stage. France have. Germany have. Portugal have. Spain have hardly shone...
I would have liked us to play at a higher tempo tonight in the second half, don't get me wrong. But at no point did I think we weren't not going to win the game. The players did enough. If this was an old Germany side everyone would be complimenting them on how efficient they are and that they will step it up when they really need to. Pretty sure our guys will know as much as you or I myself do that they'll now need to find an extra gear or two.
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We've not played against 1 decent striker yet...... There's been a few wasted oppo chances in each game.
Again; I would like to have seen this gear whether it was outright needed or not..... Tonight ought to have been that night.
If, buts and maybe's. The facts are we haven't conceded a goal yet. Over the three games Pickford hasn't had more than a handful of saves to make. We obviously will concede at some point now we're facing the best sides, but that's so obvious that it's barely worth mentioning.
You can say the exact same thing about the Italian defense, the Spanish defense etc.
Why?
...Momentum.
....To prove to the lads that they do indeed have it in them.
...To send a message to other teams.
Did you hear Gary after the match? He said we went 3 in MF to ensure we didn't get over-run.... He evidently didn't think CZ had the handbrake on and posed little concern.