Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA

A half wasted by negative play - England have the better side; if Southgate stops being so negative we will actually create chances.

All three chances have been created through fast passing, not lethargic side to side bollocks.
 
US the better team in this first half.

Not quite sure what Southgate's thinking is with this set up.
 
one concern with the defensive shape when US goes 433 ala Liverpool style defensive shape is the space between the mids and CBs....if mount can find that space it'll hurt us
 
Kane dropping too deep again. If you're gonna do that, you need the pace of Rashford on to exploit that space.

Mount is the highest player on the pitch, may as well play Foden if you're going to use him as an offensive player.

The less said about Trippier, the better. We can't get Walker back soon enough. Every ball from him is a useless ball lumped towards the corner flag.
 
So 1 player, who would make it in any league in the World.

Any others? We've spent fortunes with Dortmund and never got the player we were expecting.

Akanji, gundagon. Lehmen, Rosicky, Auba

It's more a Utd thing rather than a Dortmund thing.
 
shame reece james isn’t fit.

trippier is playing scared and barely moving away from the centre backs
 
They had 1 shot on target in the first half and Wales dominated them in the second half. The USA only have one way of playing and are not that hard to figure out, if Rob Page wasn't such an enormous bellend Wales would have won that match.

1 shot on target, but they should have had many more. Wales were hanging on there... Agree on the second half, the USA didn't do anything after the break.
 
Why are the yankee commentators behaving like its a boxing match >?
 
curious to see if the 75 degree weather and 70% humidity will take a toll on the players in the second half
 
Those last two balls showed that England haven't been finding Shaw enough in this half.

Saka, Trippier, and Bellingham have been guilty of overplaying the ball instead of passing it to Shaw in some decent positions.
 
Zero control in midfield, not enough movement, slow as feck.