Alistair20000
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You are Bunter and I claim my 5 EurosOnto glory beautiful Brexit England!!
Associating the England football team with BREXIT or politics doesn't seem right. If we had lost would you have posted "Beautiful Brexit England". Please keep politics to the Politics thread and let's look forward to the Ukraine match in RomeOnto glory beautiful Brexit England!!
Winning is all that matters in football....but we are playing with seven defensive players really when you have Phillips and Rice just in front of the back five...the wingbacks seem very cautious to get out of their own half to support our front three as well, Shaw in particularly lacks drive for me despite his role in the build up to Sterling”s goal, I’d have Chilwell in there if he’s available against Ukraine....Stones and Maguire have been superb at the back equally so Mings in the first couple of games, Pickford well worth a shoutout too... I hope Southgate will play with a bit more adventure against Ukraine and sacrifice either Phillips or Rice as I worry he will leave it too late to make changes if we end up chasing the gameA win is a win but it was hardly an inspiring performance and I worry about what we'll do if we go behind.
No real complaints defensively but our attacking was so slow, predictable and ponderous that it gave the German defence all the time in the world to ease themselves out of their armchairs to close down Sterling/Saka whilst marking Kane out of the game. I put this down to the 3-4-3 we started with. It was no surprise that, following the changes, the two times we actually went forward with some speed and purpose, we scored.
It could’ve been very different if Muller had put his chance away. I mean, if anyone should be able to find the corner…
Don't really disagree with any of that. Dropping one of Rice and Phillips would probably need a change of formation but i wouldn't be against that either. Under 3-4-3 i think Shaw and Trippier were slightly reluctant to get forward because of the space it left behind them but, then again, Southgate does seem to be a "get to 60 minutes at 0-0" type of manager so that could've been what they were told to do. The problem it creates though is that the front three are isolated. There were a number of occasions when Sterling and Saka lost the ball by trying to do too much, largely, it seemed, because there wasn't a pass on as Kane was alone in the middle with three defenders around him and there was nobody making a run from midfield.Winning is all that matters in football....but we are playing with seven defensive players really when you have Phillips and Rice just in front of the back five...the wingbacks seem very cautious to get out of their own half to support our front three as well, Shaw in particularly lacks drive for me despite his role in the build up to Sterling”s goal, I’d have Chilwell in there if he’s available against Ukraine....Stones and Maguire have been superb at the back equally so Mings in the first couple of games, Pickford well worth a shoutout too... I hope Southgate will play with a bit more adventure against Ukraine and sacrifice either Phillips or Rice as I worry he will leave it too late to make changes if we end up chasing the game