Spain v England - Sun 14th July, 20:00 | Euro 2024 Final

[coolcity]

wtf was it whenever we kicked off, straight back to dickford who just aimlessly hoofed it straight to their keeper or out of play, same with goal kicks and free kicks in our half, manager hopelessy out of his depth, its not like we did'nt have the players to play out from the back, it was like watching les dawson play the piano, all the right notes but in the wrong order, music written by southgate!

That's a brilliant analogy

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

He was very understandably completely gassed given he's not played football for not far off 6 months. Who gives a player their first starts in 5 months on a final and makes him do the full 90? Cant blame him for waistcoat refusing to sub him off and not bringing an actual fit left back with him.

I wasn’t having a go at Shaw, and agree with you on Southgate.

 

[Winchester]

Unlucky tonight lads
Great Equaliser
But not our night

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They MUST be playing the way the manager wants them to. Phil struggled until he was allowed to take a more central position.

Mainoo did well enough but probably tried too hard, gave the ball away a lot or tried to go through players when a pass would have been the better option.

I don’t think Southgate knows how to coach an attack. He’s very good defensively, but then can’t create patterns of play, so unless the players click into some formation that works, we always look disjointed.

Look at Spain. They had a system that their players played in. Rodri gets injured? No problem, Zubimendi knows what is expected of him as a 6. No Pedri, no problem, Olmo steps in. No formation or system change.

 

[tweety]

Was that Southgate's last game? Fingers crossed.

 

[alexmcity]

Spain deserved to win the tournament, were the best team from the first to the last game.

England need a new manager. Southgate is lucky but that's it.

 

[coolcity]

Roll on August watching City.
I spent most of the 2nd half worrying about Rodri getting injured than England losing as I knew the likely England outcome

Ditto. I was almost disappointed we got out of the group stage to be honest.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

How the fuck can we pass through the midfield when Gormless Pickford just launches it every time?

He only does that when he feels under pressure. If we’d have had Rodri instead of Rice, we’d be passing out every time. (Well, maybe not with Pickford, but significantly less!)

 

[coolcity]

Was that Southgate's last game? Fingers crossed.

Well if he has any balls he'll have resigned by morning. Problem is, he hasn't got any.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

One good 45 minutes in the whole tournament. Other than that we had moments.
In that 45 minutes we played to win but tonight we played not to lose.

To use a boxing analogy, you have to be prepared to take a punch to knock your opponent out.