Robin Wood Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Watch England absolutely dreadful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Sinclair Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Absolutely Dier (sic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Can we have one possession where we don't pass back to our CB's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Walking pace football, when Belgium got the ball, urgent, direct, attacking play... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottie Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Where’s Jesse Lingard these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Sums England up, passing back to defence, Dier received the ball, does a pass to the right to Walker and tells Walker to pass back to Pickford, even though there was no pressure on Walker. This game is calling for a Sancho and a Grealish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchred Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Absolutely diabolical, but what do you expect with that fraud in charge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Wood Posted October 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 That came totally out of the blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottie said: Where’s Jesse Lingard these days? Presumably doing some sort of celebration dance in his back garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 I for one blame Lee Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 20 minutes ago, TheCulturalBomb said: Sums England up, passing back to defence, Dier received the ball, does a pass to the right to Walker and tells Walker to pass back to Pickford, even though there was no pressure on Walker. This game is calling for a Sancho and a Grealish. We aren’t a very good team are we. We are ok, we have decent individuals but rarely look a team. Belgium are well structured, have good players who know what they’re doing. They are happy to defend when they have to, but know they have a plan to exploit England when they have to ball. We try to play like we are the best in the world, we don’t respect teams like Belgium. In reality a draw is a good result. But we ought to be able to play a better style in achieving results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 9 minutes ago, JonDolman said: Very poor. The left side looks awful. Trippier obviously being left footed, but more importantly I don't think he's the answer in the side at all. Rashford very poor. Deny him space and he will often lose it when trying to do his tricks. So often doesn't play well for England. Maguire been okay but left of a back 3 I was hoping I would never see again. Dier been weak. Rice and Henderson neither are playmakers. We look best when we go long. Now it is 1-1 we should go long more and when we do want to keep possession try and do it further up the pitch. I predict we will give away a goal by playing around with it at the back poorly. I am not sure what Southgate is thinking with this. We should really go back to basics and go 4141 or something similar. Get 3 hard working midfielders in there and I don't see why 4 at the back should be less solid than 5. If anything it should be more solid. How does that correlate? Are Rice and Henderson 2 of the 3 hardworking midfielders in your alternate system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCulturalBomb Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Walker putting in a very Man City shift, aside from a mistake in him he can bring it out of defence with ease, both with the ball and making forward passes, and his pace puts you at ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinny Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 When were they last a fun team to watch? Euro 96? I treat England matches like Women's football, I take a look for a game "nope hasn't changed much" and then not watch for 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_BCFC Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Christ - beating no1 ranked side in world without Sterling and Kane starting. What a joke England are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_BCFC Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, Prinny said: When were they last a fun team to watch? Euro 96? I treat England matches like Women's football, I take a look for a game "nope hasn't changed much" and then not watch for 6 months. Last nations league when we beat Spain away?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 That'll disappoint a few people, so all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_BCFC Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Essentially, will probably need to avoid defeat in Belgium to win group. That’s a great effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Can't argue with a 2-1 win over Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 17 minutes ago, Prinny said: When were they last a fun team to watch? Euro 96? I treat England matches like Women's football, I take a look for a game "nope hasn't changed much" and then not watch for 6 months. You weren’t watching the last World Cup then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Was a LJ esque sh**housing performance.. We got lucky, Belgium poor from 30th minute. I still don't rate Southgate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North London Red Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 11 minutes ago, Alex_BCFC said: Christ - beating no1 ranked side in world without Sterling and Kane starting. What a joke England are. Some of the negativity when we were 1-0 down (eg on the BBC live text feed) was staggering. Playing the number 1 ranked side in the world - and missing a number of our more creative / offensive players - yet we still managed to dig out a win with a much improved second half performance. We had a dodgy spell of 20 minutes or so in the first half when we looked second best by some distance (against, let’s not forget, the number 1 ranked side in the world), but improved towards the end of the first half, and then improved again significantly in the second half. And won. And yet still some people try to outdo each other with negative, sniping comments about how awful everything was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Just now, The Dolman Pragmatist said: You weren’t watching the last World Cup then? Where we lost 3 games and beat Sweden, Panama and Tunisia.. Yeah we were so fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinny Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said: You weren’t watching the last World Cup then? I don't remember the games being fun. A fun team to watch. The actual team playing exciting football. Not "It's fun to see us in a semi final after several really dull games" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbird1 Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Robin Wood said: Watch England absolutely dreadful Support England, if you are English of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Wood Posted October 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Blackbird1 said: Support England, if you are English of course. Second half much better the first half was crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 City top of the Championship; England top of UEFA Nations League Group A2. What's not to like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbird1 Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Robin Wood said: Second half much better the first half was crap It's a match day theme on here, too quick to complain ...England have a good talented squad, beating Belgium is a good marker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_BCFC Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 Not sure what people were expecting vs Belgium. You aren't going to batter them for 90 minutes - they have KDB who aside from the obvious 2 is the best player in the world. If Southgate can improve the tactics, like he did today 2nd half, then England have one hell of a chance at the euros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidercity1987 Posted October 11, 2020 Report Share Posted October 11, 2020 What a shit thread. Beat the number one team in the world, great achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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