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

[Pell]

Pickford is a great keeper but his distribution is very poor. It only takes a few games watch City to understand why Pep feels this is so important. Hoof the ball to Spain, they have the possession, this is minutes and opportunities lost to score for us. They turn possession into attack, gain corners, have more chances to score. We have no possession. They din't score - Pickford gives it back to them. Repeat possession and chances for them - lost minutes for us. We've wasted a lot of time giving them possession from Keeper.

This is the managers responsibility to tell him this is not your strength, pass it to a Def- Def to Mid - more possession for us - less chances for them - leads to attack from Mid - more chances to score. It's simple stuff but I feel watching City every week makes this stuff seem simple.

He gave the initiative right back to Spain after the equaliser. They were reeling, and the thing they needed was a breather and a chance to pass the ball around and regain confidence. Watching it, reminded me why there is so much emphasis these days on having a goalkeeper who can play out from the back.

 

[cleavers]

I’m in Maine and the locals have absolutely no idea there was even football on.

For the most part tonight, I'm not sure there was much football either.

It was quite amusing in the bar I watched when England equalised, the sudden increase in tension of the staff and customers, however I never had any doubt about the outcome.

Sat on our roof terrace now, the horns are still going, the odd firework, but Spain weren't great tonight, they just beat a quite shite england, who'd largely been shite for 4 weeks, and fluked it to a final.

 

[citymad]

I am scared of going to bed, I'll have nightmares of Pickford launching a long ball to nobody like 22 times and his manager standing on the side doing nothing about it. I need to unsee that shit somehow!

Launching it to the big man upfront will never win a tournament.
In a side note I thought Laporte outstanding as was Ruiz, Williams and Olmo. Even when we equalized they weren’t ruffled one bit they just got back to their beautiful football.

 

[Barcon]

Missing lad in Canary islands as if you didn’t know :-)

I honestly thought it was the kid from the inbetweeners.

 

[Mike N]

‘Pickford is a great keeper’

I’m off to bed.

 

[Vienna_70]

Big, big fan of Guehi by the way. Really impressive.

I agree. He has been very good, as was Konsa, when Guéhi was suspended.

Hopefully, this means the end of the international career of Magliar.

 

[RayCTID]

Compared to past Spanish teams they certainly are.

Still the best team in the competition though!

They were missing Pedri he isn't a slouch. Yamal is a precocious talent. Rodi isn't bang average either.

 

[glauberbertistossedshirt]

MacDonalds are always hiring.

Joking aside come on. He couldn't deal with a Mc Flurry machine

 

[i kne albert davy]

Compared to past Spanish teams they certainly are.

Still the best team in the competition though!

They were best side in tournament and deserved to win but England took them all the way and gave them a better game than France or Germany and as football fans we had a great ride.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Every time England turned up they scored. Never, never in my lifetime have I seen a football team that were being told to not play to their strengths til a goal down, then have a go and score only to fall back again. It worked too often, not with Spain though, gladly I must say.

Anyway, I didn't see England in the semifinals tbh, it was a very efficient ride. Although I think millions of European football fans would have liked to see a pressing Arsenal style England with too much physicality for most opponents. You missed a huge chance! If you have a coach with more corones one day you could be a joy to watch and a real title contender.