I do think the England players shat themselves as well. They got so passive. Just sat there in their own penalty area, so many players behind the ball and yet couldn’t defend any of the dangerous spaces in a meaningful way.
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Because that’s what we needed…
Another defender.
“We decided to go to a back give”
Coward. Not even owning his decisions.
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Well, it´s not a great side is it.
Bellingham is a good player but a moments player, Kane and Stones are over the hill, two very good full backs, two work horse midfielders who apparently can´t pass through teams, and then lots of mediocrity.
Sack the coach then as he has no clue, you just give the initiative away and rely on luck or poor finishing.
Need proactive front foot coaching not negative all hands to the pump shite.
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I will say this. It’s only England. When Liverpool lose a big one it hurts, a lot. And it lingers. But England? Even as an Englishman I tend to get over it fairly quickly. I just don’t have the depth of feeling for them that I have for Liverpool.
My focus is rapidly switching to preseason, the transfer window, and seeing what Iraola will do in his first steps as Liverpool manager.
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Not my point.
Maguire’s mum about a side note of schadenfreude.
Main point is he had the personnel and the situation shat the bed.
At least with Southgate he stayed true to his conservative approach.
Tuchel about turned like “Brave” Sir Robin of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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At one point they had a side that was effectively just a single man in midfield, and even he was more of a ball winner than than user. It was side purpose built to not be able to relieve the pressure they were under. That is on Tuchel, but I was shocked at how bad a team set up to defend actually defended. What is the point of filling the box with english CBs if they’re not going to head the ball away?
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Different player that game to what I had witnessed this season!!
(Is is always this annoying to watch, Argentinas behaviour was shocking, babies)
I don’t rate him as a keeper, but as you say he exudes the wrong energy, panic.
Supposedly he has “rave on” printed on his boots, says everything about him.
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Yeah that was utterly crazy.
ONE midfielder on. What did he expect to happen?
But as you say, defending was slack. Kane constantly around our box doing nothing. Their wide right player was constantly free. For the goal Messi took a corner and I was screaming he´s unmarked on a 2v1 and their player just passed it back to him and they scored. So poor from us.
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He’s far too emotional. For a keeper you have to be boring, calm, non emotional. Alisson, Van de Sar, Courtios etc.
He comes running out after saves screaming and jumping. Cant imagine that relaxes his team much
Yeah, I thought the same thing at the time; they were frozen with fear and looked drained—no longer fresh enough. That’s why I can see where Tuchel was coming from when he said he wanted to support them with his substitutions. From the outside, it was clear what was coming. That’s where the Argentinians really played on their vast experience.
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Called it
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It’s a side of very good players. I mean Kane just wrapped one of the most productive seasons of all time. But it is a side that was purposefully constructed to only be able to play within a very narrow tactical range. That got even more limited as the subs came on and so it was a team that was put in a situation of “defend or die” because every other player who might have offered a tactical alternative was overlooked. This is the way Tuchel tried to win his world cup. It is not the way a manager was required to try to win it with the players available.
It may well have even been the best approach in the end. Going out in the semis doesnt neessarily mean alternatives were better. But when you lose playing the football the team was put together to play and you do it poorly as they did today, that doesnt reflect well on the manager
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French last night, English tonight.
Christmas in July
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Ever heard of the tactic to stop the crossing at the source. Tut tut
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He’s got Jay Spearing energy
Konsa needs to work on his crossing
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