47 | Phil Foden - 2023/24

[samuelyeboah]

Doesn't ask for the ball? He's was constantly doing so.

He wasn't running away from the ball, he was running into space like he does for the best team around, in a league where he was player of the year. It's not primary school footy where they all chase the ball.

He takes up a lot of good positions but England as a team unit just can't keep the ball well, move defences around and eventually find players like Foden. It's not just their inability to find Foden, even players like Saka usually rely on a big hoof down the wing and hope the bounce is in his favour.

England need to keep the ball better, learn how to move teams around if they have any ambition to get the most out of talented creative players. Otherwise they're going to be relying on moments which may win you some games but won't win you a trophy.

firmly disagree, I think he wasn't asking for the ball enough at all, I did not like the positions he was taking at all

 

[Phil1]

firmly disagree, I think he wasn't asking for the ball enough at all, I did not like the positions he was taking at all

You can disagree if you want but you’d be wrong.
He hasn’t had a great tournament but the one thing he never shied away from was demanding the ball.

 

[jimharri]

firmly disagree, I think he wasn't asking for the ball enough at all, I did not like the positions he was taking at all

Wow.

 

[Crooked_rain]

firmly disagree, I think he wasn't asking for the ball enough at all, I did not like the positions he was taking at all

You not liking his positions is OK.

Thinking he wasn't asking for the ball is nonsense though, you must have been half asleep watching the games.

Anyway, I bet the players around him at City would've found him in those positions, as they always do without much trouble.

Maybe that's Foden's fault though, he was moving into positions thinking less competent passers could pick him out, an error of judgement on his part. Maybe he should've adapted his game and move into positions to suit poor passers of the ball like Rice, instead of thinking they could pick him out like Rodri could.

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

My overriding memory of Foden at this tournament will be of him in 10 yards of space with both his hands out asking for a pass that never comes

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Phil should have been dropped after the first or second game. He might have been better coming on as an impact player.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I think some people on here didn’t watch the tournament, but simply read the Liverpool Echo

 

[bluealf]

Phil should have been dropped after the first or second game. He might have been better coming on as an impact player.

or played in the position he was given v the Dutch, were he showed he was the best player in the team until halftime when the waistcoat moved him back to the left wing.

He didn't play well in the other games but not for lack of effort, there are people on X with videos of his showing for the ball constantly bu t never getting the pass.

Rice, in particular, was bad for doing what Rodri does ie passing through the lines and folk wanted us to pay 106m for him, giggles insanely.

Bellingham just wanted to be the man and barely passed to Phil or indeed Mainoo either bar his overhead kick he was shit as well but somehow ended up rated England's best player lol

That was, of course, Stones.

 

[Claytop]

No surprise that England’s best 45 minutes and Foden’s best 45 minutes of the tournament coincided with each other, only time he had players able/willing to link up with him in the final third.

Apart from that England were just a moments team.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

or played in the position he was given v the Dutch, were he showed he was the best player in the team until halftime when the waistcoat moved him back to the left wing.

He didn't play well in the other games but not for lack of effort, there are people on X with videos of his showing for the ball constantly bu t never getting the pass.

Rice, in particular, was bad for doing what Rodri does ie passing through the lines and folk wanted us to pay 106m for him, giggles insanely.

Bellingham just wanted to be the man and barely passed to Phil or indeed Mainoo either bar his overhead kick he was shit as well but somehow ended up rated England's best player lol

That was, of course, Stones.

Rice was poor too. There were gaps for Rice to drive forward but he always passed sideways or backwards.

Phil was played out of his best position until the semi finals and then Bellingham was shifted out wider for the semi and final. Phil took his poor from from the Cup Final and Iceland game into the tournament I'm afraid. Fatigue might have been a factor. Palmer should have got more minutes and so should Anthony Gordon.