Italy v England | Euro 2020 Final

[Pam]

Only a tactical genius would put the lad up to take one. Feel for the kid.

He wouldn't have agreed to take one if he weren't confident.

 

[N1985]

Not for me, great moments but some equally poor ones too.

Calvin-Phillips by a mile, a worthy replacement for Dinho if we can get him.

Imagine Pep coaching him.

Hahaha I'd rather have a Wright-Phillips.

Either one would be a better choice than that sheep shagging carthorse.

Fucking Yorkshire Pirlo. Not a chance.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Well Ukraine apart I thought we looked pretty crap/rank average from match 1. Not remotely surprised we lost, just a bit surprised it took Italy untill extra time to do it.

I'm just a bit gutted I didn't put a few Bob on my pre-tournament prediction of Italy bearing England in the final :-(

Italy have good defenders and the odd good midfielder, but their forwards are actually very poor. They had all that possession in 120 mins tonight yet only came close to creating a proper chance twice outside scoring from a corner.

England are better than we played tonight but both our tactics and our forwards were fucking terrible.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Why's Southgate consoling the players, they don't look arsed.

why wouldn’t he be doing that?? Bizarre post

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Exactly. Bobby Manc is a City legend. Why shouldn't we be happy for him?

Liked him at City but can't be happy for him to beat England. Italy can get fucked.

 

[BigOscar]

Unfortunately Southgate manages like a man trying not to make a mistake that people will criticise him for, rather than a manager who tries to make changes that can win the game. Went far too negative far too early and it cost us, then we're too negative with substitutions to take advantage of a knackered Italian team in extra time. They were there for the taking and we just let them play for pens. Gutted, that was a trophy we should have won.

A good manager with an average teams beats a good team with a poor manager apparently.

 

[M Gaudino]

Foden?

He’s not a midfielder and never plays there for City.

 

[andyhinch]

England's defenders were good in general to be fair to them.

Slab head didn’t play two games not saying any weren’t good but they’re the best players for me

 

[Gray]

Great penalty but has he scored one since?

ITV just informed us he's missed his last 3. Most on here were dreading sterling taking one, no chance he should be in the 5.

If he had missed one he would have been straight off to the Tower.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Shearer's nearly as boring as Owen.