Match Day Thread Czech Rep v England

I just watched the highlights, and if what I saw was the best bits of England performance, the rest must have been dire. It stank of overconfidence, particularly after going 1-0 up early on. Keane for me is not an International defender, surely we can do better than him. Having said that no one had a good game as far as I could see, even Harry was poor by his standards, maybe his confidence has been dented playing in a poor Manure side.

 

Whole thing was very poor John

 

Well, he's done ok so far but he's a long way from being great.

 

Very similar to having been in Huddersfield last weekend!

 

Playing great flowing football, semi final...... how many of them have we had in the last 50 years?

what did the so called golden generation give us?

 

Except for last night...

Like I say, so far so good, most of the time. But he hasn't won anything yet, he's lost as many in 38 games as Hodgson lost in 56, we're always likely to ship goals. I think it's still a work in progress.

 

So a question... is it still a sad indictment of British/ English football that we cannot seem to become a dominant force. Two years ago we won the Under 20 World Cup. This was the match day squad that day.

GK 1 Freddie Woodman
RB 2 Jonjoe Kenny
CB 5 Fikayo Tomori

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CB 6 Jake Clarke-Salter
LB 14 Kyle Walker-Peters
DM 4 Lewis Cook (c)
DM 7 Josh Onomah
RM 18 Kieran Dowell

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AM 10 Dominic Solanke
LM 11 Ademola Lookman
CF 16 Dominic Calvert-Lewin

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Substitutions:
MF 19 Sheyi Ojo

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MF 8 Ainsley Maitland-Niles

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Coach:
Paul Simpson

Two years on and as always I stand to be corrected the only one of that team that got near the seniors team last night was Tomori, obviously his loan here taught him plenty. Would it happen in Germany? I dont know...!!

We have a dodgy goalkeeper in team in the bottom 3, Trippier, farmed out to Spain not considered good enough for Spurs (he played ok actually), Keane as has been said never an international player in a month of (in a team in the bottom 3) Harry, we love for obvious reasons (in a team in the bottom 6) Danny Rose, better than Chilwell, I personally dont think so, .... Mason Mount played well but was replaced by Barkley who cant get a game at Chelsea and as as for pet lip Rashford (another bottom 6 player)I could go on

I dont know what the injury situation was but when you're lumping the ball to a Kane a good player and great penalty taker playing on his own hoping to win a ball to feed to Sterling playing off him and not winning many, why keep lumping it. OR if you are going to lump it, get Vardy on and turn the defenders.

I suppose what I'm saying is, surely that win, even thought they were kids should have ben the catalyst for something great. As it stands, others than a couple of that winning team, I can''t remember hearing of them since.

 

Stupid Southgate fancy not playing players who aren’t in the first team of their club or on loan in the championship
****ing idiot
You not Gareth

 

For once have a conversation without asterisks. Or is that just about where you draw the line.

Its about reasoning and opinion or do I have it wrong thats its a forum for discussion and opinion. If you read it, I said is it an indictment of British football / 90% foreign players. that our players aren't even getting game time at the highest level otherwise those names from the winning team would be known to all of us and be on the radar. Or where they just lucky winning. Youre an England footballer, you've reached the pinnacle of your career playing for your country and yet, your confidence isn not sky high its low low and yet, you get picked Consider you play for a bottom 3 side as goalkeeper, every time you go on the pitch you're expecting to concede. Same with centre back. Who do we have that should really be playing alongside Maguire, in fact across the pitch or is that were Southgates choices end. In short, is what we have all that we have, if so, theres something badly wrong when you're relying on a moment of brilliance from Sterling or Kane, or, the tactics and mental attitude of the players is wrong.

 

Having watched the full game I am at a loss as to why Southgate continues to pick Henderson and Rice .. they offer absolutely nothing to this team, they run round like headless chickens and cant pick a pass forward between them. Keane is one of the worst central defenders I have witnessed in an England shirt .. Rose isnt a defenders arsehole.. and Pickfords second name is panic .. there isnt a huge amount to choose from but dear god there must be better out there then that dross.

 

He only ruptured his ligament ffs why isn’t he playing!! Fanny’s today these players

 

But apart from that ...

 

I shouldn't worry, we'll beat Bulgaria tomorrow then the media can go back to saying 'we're world beaters' again, then at least we can all sigh.