England v Brazil | Friendly | Match Thread

[Mr Kobayashi]

@BlueHammer85 you said you never watched the game so why am I reading your usual copy and paste reply to every single post?
It’s getting weird this obsession of yours to defend a man who stands in the way of the national team having success.
Also, stop with the credit for losing a pen shoot out against Italy. Instead rewatch the game and see a coward of a manager shit the bed after going 1-0 up due to his negativity.

Support England as much and as loud as you want but don’t try and change things that the whole world witnessed. You want a steady, boring manager who’s nice to his players, fine.
Others expect a bit more that’s all.

Fair post that. Even as someone who has given a balanced defence of Southgate without hitting the heights of fan boy felatio. The performance was completely dour and timid.

Needs to pick more players who can run with the ball and who aren't one dimensional. Danilo had Gordon in his pocket for the whole game.

Realistically England are going to be playing defensive first football regardless of who the manager is, but you do actually need to produce some attacking quality and not just rely on moments of magic from big players.

 

[KentBlue]

There is something seriously amiss going on between the English FA and the rags. For about the past 30 years rag players have been shoehorned into the international set up regardless of their ability. If they play for the rags they WILL be chosen for their country. End of.
I'm pretty certain that a quick Google search will show just how many have rags, past and present, have been chosen to represent England, and the moment that same player leaves the vermin he is almost certainly going to be dropped by the England set up as well.


Personally I can't remember the last English rag player who actually warranted his cap. Not one.

 

[ancoats]

What is England's DNA, What is our style of play, What is the go-to setup,

Most international teams have a DNA style and a default style that all their players understand and just slot into.
Southgate and England put square pegs in round holes to fit players who demand a start because of the club they play for, Only the goalkeeper place is nailed on because only a keeper can play in that role.

Southgate is a very poor manager with little top-level management under his belt for a start, Then you see him play a back 5 because of his lack of knowledge(championship) level and the fear of the the teams we play, In open play, we look so poor on the ball, We lack creativity on the ball in the middle to open teams up, Our only weapon of choice is freekicks or corners,

Enough is enough, What is the point of going to the euro's with properly the best young squad in world football and defending and playing for freekicks and corners,

let's get a manager with creativity ideas and open up and attack and up the fear in the other teams minds

 

[Cobra]

There is something seriously amiss going on between the English FA and the rags. For about the past 30 years rag players have been shoehorned into the international set up regardless of their ability. If they play for the rags they WILL be chosen for their country. End of.
I'm pretty certain that a quick Google search will show just how many have rags, past and present, have been chosen to represent England, and the moment that same player leaves the vermin he is almost certainly going to be dropped by the England set up as well.


Personally I can't remember the last English rag player who actually warranted his cap. Not one.

Wan-Bissaka doesn't have a single England cap. And Sancho has only played for England once since he joined Utd.

 

[kaz7]

Indeed , even if we won last night night - it all gets forgotten as it’s just a friendly during PL season which fans don’t want.
This thread would of been 20/30 pages shorter also.

Be less wumming from you as well , you know we dont rate international football and dont get behind england but you insist on being here ,for all their games , dont your hammer forums love england that you could enjoy posting on during the break ? Just asking

 

[TinFoilHat]

"Doesn't matter it's only a friendly"

It may well be but Brazil showed the faults France and other big fish in the Euros will exploit. Doku will probably do the same next week.

For the record I think Kyle deliberately smacked Slabby with the ball for being a useless ****.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Pep but even someone like him needs a time and will not be an immediate impact for national team atleast in early days.

Buy given the time the useless Southgate has had and this squad I'm convinced he would have won something.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I’d somewhat agree but can’t be proven until he’s in the hotseat. Capello and Sven won trophies galore before taking England job and both ‘failed’

It’s easy to just say ‘Pep would make us play better and win trophies’ but international football is just a different beast to PL football.
Pep had the best side in the world and how many attempts did it take for Man City to win champions league ?
Euros/World Cup is a similar format, it can often be out of the managers hands why a team gets knocked out. So many variables.
Unless we win a trophy the next manager has zero chance of pleasing regardless of who he picks, how we play, what formation etc

It's easy to say because everyone knows it's true apart from you BH and a few twats at the FA.

 

[jimharri]

Sounds like they gave a lot of tickets away to schools. I know a few people that had them. The crowd even sounded like a schoolboy international.

I thought only Sheikh Mansour did that?

;-)

 

[BlueHammer85]

Be less wumming from you as well , you know we dont rate international football and dont get behind england but you insist on being here ,for all their games , dont your hammer forums love england that you could enjoy posting on during the break ? Just asking

Was tagged in to give my views and answered questions.

If you don’t like international football and don’t get behind England the bigger question is why do you watch and comment ?