Don't get me wrong, they are at a decent level - but they have what we don't - tactical nous and playing to players strengths. Will be interesting if we meet.We shall see, maybe. I’d make Spain the favourites if we meet in Euro24.
Oh the irony, eh! He would probably not give him the room to work, as he has done in the past.Women have won the euros but he cant , they also lost in world cup final though , he is a boring manager , he has left raz out despite him playing well but he continues to stick with henderson, baffling
We shall see, maybe. I’d make Spain the favourites if we meet in Euro24.
You’d hope so, but I’m sure Gareth would make it as boring as he could..Don't get me wrong, they are at a decent level - but they have what we don't - tactical nous and playing to players strengths. Will be interesting if we meet.
Don’t disagree with most of that. The missing bits are mental rather than technical. If Kane was Spanish, they’d win a lot of trophies.I don't think Spain have enough of a cutting age. They've got excellent technical players, particularly in midfield, but they've not got quite the same ability to dictate a game and create chances.
On your earlier post regarding our midfield, I think Bellingham genuinely changes it. The Italy game was one we'd usually show promising signs in but manage to lose any rhythm or control due to our midfielders passing backwards or sideways. Bellingham demands the ball, goes looking for it, conducts things and it helps drive us. We have players who are more comfortable on the ball now, and better at keeping the ball under pressure.
If we're to win the Euro's, even if we do play two "holding" players, we will need to see more from Rice. I still don't buy into the hype with him. He needs to run things from the deeper area, or, if there's nothing on - keep the ball the way Stones does to create that little bit of space. He sometimes drives forwards, but too often he's just passing it backwards. If he can develop his game a bit more, I think England have a great chance of winning the Euro's. We've got defensive options to challenge Maguire now. But we'll have to keep Bellingham and Kane fit and I'd say Stones as well.
Getting to a final and semi final is ‘failing’ lol. Ok, so the only possible chance a manager has with our (online) moan brigade nation is to actually win a major tournament , in a knockout cup competition with loads of other very good sides - we have no divine right whatever squad or manager we have. I’ll just support our young lads whatever club team they play for.
But if you want your own nation to lose then it must great to just sit and snipe through every win in hope we will eventually fall short like the rest of the 99% of the teams that go into it.
Don’t disagree with most of that. The missing bits are mental rather than technical. If Kane was Spanish, they’d win a lot of trophies.
The Rice/Phillips axis is our weakest part of the side. Pep would bench Phillips and play a more attacking 6/8. Our options there aren’t great though.
I need to watch more of Bellingham to see how he works defensively. He’s almost a false 9 for Madrid at the moment and a roaming 10 for England.
Horses for courses. More attacking player needed against low block, defensive sides and a more defensive one when playing better sides where stopping transitions is as important as attacking.He works hard off the ball, the issue England have is that Kane can't press. He can't play that high intensity football. He trots about which, as we know, means the whole high press system can't work. So England are therefore drilled to be a bit more selective in their pressing and we probably need an extra holding player as a result. If you play Foden, Bellingham and Rice then due to Kane's sluggish press, we'll soon be passed around and sliced open.
England fans have for years said about the squad being the best and the wrong players being picked. Throwing an attacking player in for Henderson/Phillips will not suddenly see us win every game. Hopefully we can come up with the right system to get the winning result in a major tournament.
Foden won't play if Saka is fit. He is far too talented for that useless twat waistcoat.Foden won't play "up top".
Horses for courses. More attacking player needed against low block, defensive sides and a more defensive one when playing better sides where stopping transitions is as important as attacking.