It's a decent system that needs tweaking, not throwing out. The system that beat Germany and thrashed Ukraine, then overcome a strong Denmark. He needs to tweak it to bring Kane into the game.
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No chance, making a final has bought him at least two tournaments worth of grace.
I mean I agree with you that coming first best loser is no achievement at all, but in this country we seem to be so accustomed to being glorious losers that just making a final or semi final is practically immortalised.
losing mentality = perennial losers
England never win penalty shootouts
Everyone should know this and do everything to try to avoid them
Instead Southgate spent all of the last two matches trying to draw
Maybe he was looking at the others and Saka was the most confident of the lot though? Says a lot about the rest of the side that Saka ended up taking that kick, there's just no way that there were 6 other guys were busting to take that kick but the manager turned them all away in favor of Saka.
Whatever you think about his managerial capabilities, that would be a ridiculous level of self sabotage.
Confidence is a two way street in that context.....
How much faith/confidence did Gary show in Jack & Sancho during the tournament?
Also ,don't think it's right to say Jack's tweet throws Gary under the bus either..... The tweet itself literally backs the manager's decision. He's just kicking back at the trolls.... Good for him.
totally agree, we would have been better of chucking on the attacking players for extra time and going for it, was inevitable once we got to pens.
The very last play of extra time we get a throw deep in their half, its got to go into the box but it got thrown backwards to Phillips and the ref blew.
indicative of the negativity in the team.
Agreed, but blaming him for it going to pens at all is one thing, blaming him for the 5 names chosen to take them is a more complex issue though.
It's always going to be tough to swallow Kane & Sterling being the only attacking players on the pitch when you look at this squad.
Nah, his words are backing Southgate, but the intent there is to absolve himself of any blame, which in this instance puts it squarely onto Southgate.
Southgate, a guy that's already said it's on him and not the players, so there's no need for this, not the day after.
It's a petulant tweet solely to say "don't blame me"...
I agree. He's too conservative with the players at his disposal. He needs to change that.
That was the closest Kane has come to matching Berbatov in taking the ball at ridiculous angles and instigating play. Wish he had the body to do that for 90 consistently.
If the rest of our attackers came as close to their peak as Kane did, he would have had a brace, or, we would have won comfortably as others should have scored or put him in (so many last second blocks in the ball after Kanes, or, the ball back in to him).
If the rest of our attackers came as close to their peak as Kane did, he would have had a brace, or, we would have won comfortably as others should have scored or put him in (so many last second blocks in the ball after Kanes, or, the ball back in to him).
The back 7 when you're strongest areas player wise are attacking is not a decent system, it was unnecessary and cowardly, allowed England to rack up clean sheet stats against largely weak opposition, and absolutely should be thrown out.
It was boring and functional, limited Kane, and people got overexcited with wins over a past it Germany and a poor Ukraine.
Grealish is stating a fact after people like Keane are implying that he chickened out.
I wonder, looking at the history of the tournament, does Southgate have something against JG?
I wonder, looking at the history of the tournament, does Southgate have something against JG?
This is only true if you completely disregard the content of his tweet.
He's not a runner. Southgate loves runners. If Forrest Gump was real and had an English Granny he'd be starting for us.
What do you think the purpose of his tweet was then?
I don’t think it’s sabotage just cluelessness