England Squad - Euro 2024

[dronefromsector7G]

Mainoo - PMSL
Had to Google Wharton

 

[Vienna_70]

Don’t forget; this is the provisional squad.

Some of them won’t be going to Germany.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Don’t forget; this is the provisional squad.

Some of them won’t be going to Germany.

And someone will be 'injured' to justify bringing back Rashford.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

They'll have to send someone round to the pub in Ireland to find him though.

 

[KS55]

There are so many ways to cover it. It doesn't need Bellingham and Foden to resolve it specifically. Both work hard on and off the ball for starters. Secondly, you make sure your shape in possession covers for it. Rice/Mainoo drifts to the left if you lose possession. You drop to a back three with Walker covering right, Stones central and X covering the left side. Shaw pushes up to close the space. Or Stones steps up and enables Rice/Mainoo to close the space instead.

We've often had Gvardiol on his own wide left, with no options but to pass back inside because Phil and Kev were both in the number 10 space. And we stuck with that because it was creating overloads elsewhere.

Your idea is fine, but it is beyond the thinking of Waistcoat. When he says “we don't pin people to the touchline” he is talking rubbish. In the WC he was screaming at Foden to stay wide. He will do again. This is a guy who thinks TAA is a top midfielder.

 

[hihosilva]

Listening to Southgate's press conference i have the feeling that Foden will be starting left. If this is Sothgate's thought process then he's sacrificing England''s best No 10 to accommodate Saka & Bellingham which is a poor move.

 

[Scaley]

Mainoo - PMSL
Had to Google Wharton

On performance Wharton has a bigger shout than Mainoo.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[RayCTID]

Wharton is decent but he isn't a Wonderkid.

 

[supercity88]

Your idea is fine, but it is beyond the thinking of Waistcoat. When he says “we don't pin people to the touchline” he is talking rubbish. In the WC he was screaming at Foden to stay wide. He will do again. This is a guy who thinks TAA is a top midfielder.

I'm sure you are right mate. Weirdly, and completely irrationally, I'm usually very nervous and concerned when it comes to City games but always hopeful and positive with England. Figure that one out.

I'll retain a hopeful approach that Gareth will get things to work. I also recognise, where others perhaps don't, that this England side is defensively weak. It's not City's backline he's working with, there's no Rodri. He has to keep a little bit more of a defensive shape because of that.

But he did talk about adapting, and I think he might unleash Phil by playing someone at LB who is purely defensive and doesn't push much further than the halfway line.