England v Switzerland - Sat 6th July, 17:00 | Euro 2024 Quarter-Final

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I see the press are out to float the idea that Foden didn’t want to take a penalty due to him being subbed and Alexander Arnold talking openly to his mates about who didn’t want to take one. Anything to get a negative angle on a City player from these snidey cunts, surprised there hasn’t been a pile on for John Stones for not cutting out the cross for the goal. All the tribalism for clubs is still running strong in this England team with clicks and players openly slagging each other off by looks of it.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Not always the best team wins the tournament but the luckiest, and England are having that in bucket loads. We can win this now, the Dutch are an absolute shadow of previous years, so I'm expecting a boring England win, then who knows what

 

[Blue Mist]

I'm glad there is an ignore button. He's nearly as boring as a Southgate team talk.
Talk about wumming a thread.

 

[Gordyola]

This is the same Swiss side that stuffed Italy and drew with Germany with many predicting us to lose.

Yet when we win its ‘we should be comfortably beating these sides’

- I would much rather we played Man City style football and win comfortably against ‘lesser’ teams - but I’m realistic to know it’s NEVER been like that for England and international football is a different beast.

Ive watched plenty of other matches this tournament and entertainment wise it’s not much different to England. France, Germany, Italy etc all been under par and involved in boring games.

I don’t get hung up about tactics, formations, hating individual players etc - it’s tedious and depressing- every fans has a different idea. I’m in the support camp and enjoy the ride regardless if we’re playing well or hanging on for dear life.

We’re lucky under Southgate to keep reaching these late stages of competitions- didn’t happen to often before he come in.

I can get the frustration for many that they continually scream and moan that Southgate is the worst manager ever, his tactics are the worst, he plays players out of position.
Pickford is shit, the defence is shit, rice is a plodder, Mainoo is shit, Saka is shit, Bellingham is the anti christ, Kane is shit … and yet we can’t stop winning and progressing. Must be hard to comprehend. So have to use the ‘we got lucky this time but not next time’ card.

We don't keep winning though
If the squad was shit then id be behind him but, the sum of the parts is negative and that down to him I have no complaint about any of the players effort or application

Ultimately the tournament has been poor with only Spain consistently performing its mainly defence v attack and goals at a premium and often disallowed due to a toe nail but that's VAR spoiling things as usual

 

[stonerblue]

He was England's best player by a considerable margin.

Yep. Motm for me

 

[stonerblue]

I'm guessing you watched a different game like Rio and Richards did.

i watched every kick and Saka was motm. Excellent goal, defended very well and smashed his pen away.

 

[bluemoon32]

The pens were brilliant, Palmer showed guts & then 4 young black men stepped up, knowing that if they missed & England went out, then just like the last Euro's, they would receive a load of abuse, a lot of it racist.
That took bollocks the size of fucking space hoppers, forget club rivalry, kudos to all of them.

 

[Sky Blue]

I'm glad there is an ignore button. He's nearly as boring as a Southgate team talk.
Talk about wumming a thread.

I stuck him on ignore for the tournament. Probably leave him there after. Thinks he owns the site.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

That would be the last of my worries.

Pickford is 3 from 4 in shootouts for England.

The rest of England’s goalkeepers in history are 1 from 7.

Its unusual in that only one penalty attempt in all the shoot outs so far has not been on target.
Even that one, by Felix for Portugal, hit the post.

 

[Gordyola]

As predicted, all of a sudden Switzerland are not a good side.

Yet pre match it was full of people saying how tough this will be and how we’d be beaten.

Are Holland a good side ? Or do we just wait to see if we beat them or not before deciding

We drew with them after 120mins and won a penalty shootout
Incidentally ranked 19th England 5th Denmark 20th Slovenia 57th Slovakia 45th Serbia 45th

 

[Protein Junkie]

The Positives
England through.
Brilliant penalties.
Saka.
No City injuries.

The Negatives
A corner and a free kick in promising positions both ending up with the ball at Pickford’s feet.
Rice - should know where his pass is going before he gets the ball.
Trippier-out of position. Can only play inside.
Kane -passable impression of bar football.
In General, no movement ahead of the ball.
Bellingham -vastly overrated.

Just my opinion.

 

[stonerblue]

I'm glad there is an ignore button. He's nearly as boring as a Southgate team talk.
Talk about wumming a thread.

Yay, you managed a post without slipping in a childish name for Bellingham..

 

[mimicmickmickdoyle]

I'm guessing you watched a different game like Rio and Richards did.

Had to switch off listening to them two after the game, how quickly they change there opinion to suit the result. We were very poor but listening to them after the game was embarrassing.

 

[lust overlord]

I see the press are out to float the idea that Foden didn’t want to take a penalty due to him being subbed and Alexander Arnold talking openly to his mates about who didn’t want to take one. Anything to get a negative angle on a City player from these snidey cunts, surprised there hasn’t been a pile on for John Stones for not cutting out the cross for the goal. All the tribalism for clubs is still running strong in this England team with clicks and players openly slagging each other off by looks of it.

Did Foden bow out of taking a penalty?

Who knows.

I'd rather a player who wasn't confident holding his hands up and admitting it,rather than stepping up and fucking it up for everyone.
It's all speculation,it could have been Kane backing out of the pens for all we know.

 

[Keeper!]

I see the press are out to float the idea that Foden didn’t want to take a penalty due to him being subbed and Alexander Arnold talking openly to his mates about who didn’t want to take one. Anything to get a negative angle on a City player from these snidey cunts, surprised there hasn’t been a pile on for John Stones for not cutting out the cross for the goal. All the tribalism for clubs is still running strong in this England team with clicks and players openly slagging each other off by looks of it.

Same could be said on here about people slagging off Saka and saying Foden played well, the foden I see for England is not the one we see in our shirt.

Club rivalry always comes into play for the National side.

A reason I can't wait for this crap tournament to end and get back to proper football.

 

[Keeper!]

I'm guessing you watched a different game like Rio and Richards did.

Two of the biggest wankers in the game along with Shearer, that BBC show last night was as embarrassing as the performance on the pitch.

 

[give it to gordon]

Two of the biggest wankers in the game along with Shearer, that BBC show last night was as embarrassing as the performance on the pitch.

I only listen to about 10 minutes as the missus wanted to hear what they say. I have no reason why she did !!.

In the end I had to turn it over as I was beginning to question myself over what I had just watched. Their view was 100% the opposite to what I saw. Totally bizarre

 

[Keeper!]

I only listen to about 10 minutes as the missus wanted to hear what they say. I have no reason why she did !!.

In the end I had to turn it over as I was beginning to question myself over what I had just watched. Their view was 100% the opposite to what I saw. Totally bizarre

Propaganda in full swing, we get it with royalty now if got into football

 

[meeesh]

Had to switch off listening to them two after the game, how quickly they change there opinion to suit the result. We were very poor but listening to them after the game was embarrassing.

Not as embarrassing as his latest tweet, talk about trying to cause a divide, fucking pisses me off, I really hate that **** me, and told him so at a CL game at city -fucking diving about studio when Vini Jnr cracked that one in against us

 

[Blue Budgie]

The record books will say Southgate got to two semi finals and a final minimum.

WC 2018 (ranking at the time)
Tunisia (14th)
Panama (55th)
Belgium (3rd)
Colombia (16th)
Sweden (23rd)
Croatia (18th)

EURO 2020
Scotland (44th)
Czech Rep (40th)
Croatia (14th)
Germany (12th)
Ukraine (24th)
Denmark (10th)
Italy (7th)

EURO 2024
Serbia (32nd)
Denmark (21st)
Slovenia (57th)
Slovakia (45th)
Switzerland (19th)

Denmark semi final in 2020 is the only time we’ve beaten anyone in the top ten.

The equivalent of this euros run in comparison to last season’s final standings would be City or Arsenal (depending on individual quality alone you think England are the best or second best team in the competition)

Cardiff City
Leicester City
Exeter City
Portsmouth
Burnley

Never known a manager to get an easy run so much and struggle to get through with the talent he has available.

Great post WNRH and I'll add to it by saying in 2018 we lost 3 of the 7 games we played to get to the semi. Then Euro 20/21 we played 6 out of the 7 games we played at Wembley ffs. All these stats prove that whatever we've achieved under wastecoat is inspite of him despite of him and favourable draws or venues.