Rice was poor too. There were gaps for Rice to drive forward but he always passed sideways or backwards.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.
So Phil was out of form and fatigued but the best 45 minutes he played was the 45 minutes he played as an AM coincidently the best 45 minutes England played all tournament.Rice was poor too. There were gaps for Rice to drive forward but he ways 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.
I will help you out. A good 45 minutes in 7 games represents a poor tournament for Phil.So Phil was out of form and fatigued but the best 45 minutes he played was the 45 minutes he played as an AM coincidently the best 45 minutes England played all tournament.
Help me out?
Surely the thought process should be he should have played at AM every game?
Palmer did himself no harm in limited minutes but coming on late in games is different than playing in an aimless team for 80 minutes.
Gordon, hard to shout about he had 4 mins and he could have been good or shit with more minutes, it should have been Jack who rarely let Southgate down in the past.
So again you miss/or ignore the point that he wasn't played in the correct position but when he was, he played and England played the best they'd played all tournament.I will help you out. A good 45 minutes in 7 games represents a poor tournament for Phil.
I would have much rather seen Grealish on the left side of midfield. Phil hasn’t done enough for England to justify the England team being built around him. Southgate was fair to Phil picking in his more favoured position in the last 2 games.So again you miss/or ignore the point that he wasn't played in the correct position but when he was, he played and England played the best they'd played all tournament.
Ok, he was shit, you win.
Of course, you need to be passed to so you can contribute more, it has all been explained already.I would have much rather seen Grealish on the left side of midfield. Phil hasn’t done enough for England to justify the England team being built around him. Southgate was fair to Phil picking in his more favoured position in the last 2 games.
Even though playing out of position, a player of Phil’s ability should have contributed more.
I am sorry that you lot are too biased to have actually watched the games without rose tinted glasses but he was absolutely not asking for the ball and constantly positioned himself in the wrong place to be able to receive it. i can't remember a single sprint he made the entire tournament which he seemed to have jogged through. it was a very very passive tournament from him, and he looked like he didn't really care, which again, i have no problem with because england aren't playing in sky blue. we saw a completely different foden than the foden we see here week in week out, and its not just due to tactics or teammates, it was partially on him too.Wow.
Which is why the sooner he bins off England the better for his career. Too many arm chair coaches now popping all over the internet. I would even call waistcoat that. City plays sophisticated football, that's Rodris comment. England patently DO NOT, and many of their so called superstars are anything but. I'll take Kuns assessment of Foden over many a keyboard warrior, and there's many of them on this board now.I think he 'knows his place' in the England set up. Didn't Southgate send him home once, so he might just realise he is not the shoe-in like 'Arry or Bellingham, and ends up following the letter he has been given by the manager. He rarely seems to exhibit the flare we see week in week out at The Etihad. It's quite clear that Phil responds to Pep far more than he ever would do with Southgate.
I watched the final three times so far, he asked for the ball more than any other player on the pitch. Bellingham, rice, saka et al are clueless. When they did pass to him, more often than not it was an uncontrolled pass out of his reach. Phil tried to do his job, it's not his fault the others are not as competent at theirsYou 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.