I was definitely wrong about Phillips, he was incredible. Still don't believe in this 'Southgate's choices have been vindicated!' stuff though. Croatia were so poor. That game was there for the taking and after the goal our midfield was popping it about nicely, in complete control. No no no! We cannot have that! Gareth steps in, takes off Foden and Kane and leaves us with Sterling and Rashford on at the same time and we literally never got the ball back after that. Trippier did ok, but what because we won 1-0 it was now the 'right' choice to not field an actual quality LB?
I get it's the first game, it was hot, but we should be doing better if Croatia are gonna be that poor. You're not safe at 1-0 up, one mistake away from dropping 2 points. I'm not just being negative for the sake of it, its just painful watching when we do actually have the players can keep the ball for long time now, we saw it after the goal.