Foden won’t start the next game. Even tho it’s out of position he‘s been the weakest of the 3 behind Kane. Them scoring 2 after he was subbed out didn’t help him either.
I see your angle...
However Phil's pressing and energy did help keep England in the game...ie only 1nil down.
The lack of pure flair and creativity on display from central mid hampered England...
What I did notice was that Foden was the the go to player for every free kick or corner,either side....that's respect. The other players have seen in training etc, that Foden is the most accurate ball player in the squad. That is a given . ..so why, after using the dead ball scenarios ,where I counted he put the ball on Kanes head 4 times,....when you add that to the number of shots / runs into the box....he has,imo , done as much as he can ,stuck put on the left.
Imagine how much Kane would appreciate a two footed centre mid supplying balls to him in open play....I cannot believe I'm having this conversation tbh, it's not rocket science....
I've watched Foden crawl into the England team over the years and been sidelinded.why ?
I've watched mainoo ,after not even a full season , be fast tracked into the full international team,in his favourite position, and that just is not right. The utd player has made a couple of decent passes,done his best, but there have been great gaps in centre mid and some sloppy marking
That should not be occurring with the amount of robotic defensive mids we have wandering about.I read this morning that Mainoo had made made the worst euro 11 so far line up ....we can see how that played out.
And now the team is crying out for creativity in the knockout stages,
The premier league player of the year is spoken about as if he is to be dropped. That cannot be right .
Play Foden Centre and drop one of the robotic side ways pass merchants.
When City went to Spurs at the end of the season, Gareth must have seen Foden get kicked to bits in a difficult 1st half, but then have the resolve to turn up in advanced centre mid and spray a wonderful defence splitting ball out to Doku, with back spin and precision ,playing the pass as tho he was on a beach,,....surely Gareth would have seen right their ,the ability nobody else has in the squad, ..just the sort of defence splitting/ in the blink of an eye moment of brilliance that wins games.
For that is the purpose of playing knockout stage football.?
I started watching England under Ron Greenwood. Watching the modern day England, despite the ' new ' tactics, it's almost as though I was a child again...because nothing seems to have changed....at the top.where it matters.
Southgate, imo,should not have set out on this new passing journey, one that was ,from my recollection, alien to him at kick and rush vintage Crystal Palace as a player, and certainly not a feature of the relegated Boro side he managed....begs the question, who put this man in charge.
I digress.
