Gums
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Maybe Maguire shouldn‘t be the player to build the defense around then. If the choice is to either try other CBs that may be more suitable for a more offensive setup, or to stick with Maguire but then be forced to play negative, defensive football, then I would hope to see the former.They lack a decent CB pairing and goalkeeper. Pickford looks good in an England shirt because we play low block football with two DM. The likes of Liverpool and City can play attacking football because of their world class CBs. England simply can’t do that. Play attacking football and see how exposed Maguire looks. Exactly the same scenario as United this season.
Not sure how accurately I remember, but Smalling wasn‘t considered good enough with the ball at his feet and was replaced. Maguire doesn‘t seem to be good enough unless you protect him by having almost every other player shielding him.
I disagree with the stance of many here, that a semi-final and a final should be seen as positive signs. I‘m not going to kid myself and claim England has a fantastic squad and should be winning things. But I also don‘t buy into this whole narrative of „we only got that far by playing pragmatic“. I‘d rather see England crash and burn while trying to play positive, attacking football than still not win anything but in a passive, dull fashion.
I don‘t understand how anybody can realistically think England are going to win one of the real tournaments with this approach. Everything was already aligned as good as it‘ll ever get and it still wasn‘t good enough.