Rice and Bellingham could probably be a cb pairing. Big and strong, good defensively, keeps it simple.. Not much creativity and penetrating forward passes, even if Bellingham is quite good when he joins in attack. What are the options? Henderson and Phillips? Not much creativity there either
Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA
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I think the biggest mistake is playing Kane when he has a knock. We have the ability to rotate - we should do it. Unlike the Americans a lot of our players are coming off of playing 3 games a week
I don't see it with him at all. I don't think I've ever seen him perform for England. He must offer something, because his managers always pick him, but I don't see it.
I'd toss Maddison on for Mount, rashford on for sterling and try to get something going on the left side. Overly reliant on Shaw
He’s got to - this is dire. Can’t see USA running out of gas, as they did against Wales, as we’ve not made them work hard enough.
We’ll get hammered if we play like that against the French, Spanish or Brazilians.
Foden needs to come on. Someone needs to tell Kane there's no need for him to drop deep ffs.
Inevitable
Yes.
Sterling was jogging that entire first half.
I'd be tempted to sub him off just to make a point to the others. You can have a bad game, but you need to be working harder than that.
I'd be tempted to sub him off just to make a point to the others. You can have a bad game, but you need to be working harder than that.
He's fairly pointless alright.
If Phillips is fit I'd be bringing him on
Harry Kane will get a sneaky penalty and England will win 2-0…
I'm already tired of this Becks / Peyton commercial.
90% of these World Cup games have been boring to me. Only France and Spain have really impressed.
Agreed, USA look like they're chilling, they aren't playing with that crazy high intensity like they did against Wales, there's no way they'll tire.
Really. And the criticism is unfair, he had two good splitting passes wasted by the forwards. Even the Portuguese commentators are praising him and they are very harsh towards Maguire at club level.
I've put a bet on Maguire scoring with his huge slabhead
Annihilated.
Is Maddison fully fit?
Pretty sure he’s out.
Rice tends to drop too deep when the opposition exert pressure through the middle. He’s playing today as if he’s playing France and has to watch for Mbappe etc in behind him. He’s gotten into that bad habit for West Ham over the last 12 months as well
To me this looks like two teams that are similar enough in terms of physicality, tactical schooling and general player types. England is slightly ahead individually on a technical level but switch the shirts around and I'm not sure anyone could really tell the difference. Usually two teams cancel each other out when this happens. It reminds me of England - Sweden, two other teams with similar characteristics that seemed to always draw for a good while.
(And looking into it seems like my gut feeling was correct, from 1979 - 2012 they drew 8 times, Sweden won by 1 goal 4 times and England won by 1 goal 2 times.)
(And looking into it seems like my gut feeling was correct, from 1979 - 2012 they drew 8 times, Sweden won by 1 goal 4 times and England won by 1 goal 2 times.)
Well statistically he is England’s greatest manager. Only one with a 100% winning record.
Wouldnt be surprised if Southgates first sub is Henderson for saka
Ah feck
Foden and Maddison.
nah, much prefer it to 2018 already
Rice and Bellingham should be doing a lot more to get the ball off the CBs or at least some movement to provide passing lanes for the CBs. The tactics from US has been quite clear out of possession, i.e. let the CBs have the ball all they want.
Even walking out for the second half, they look slow and lacking energy.
Southgate is such a bottler.
Southgate is such a bottler.
FA should shup up.
Not one sub.
So the quarters will be England Holland which will end 0-0 after which we both miss all penalties until both teams just give up and fly home?
Grealish would be a good option I think. Someone to hang onto the ball and a bit of dribbling.
could score a hat trick and clear 2 off the line and it still wouldn’t be good enough for people on here
Might be recency bias but I agree.
This Beckham/Manning ad is boring -- ohh it's called soccer in the US and football in other places, let's make a 2 minute commercial for Lays chips based on that premise
Saka pretty good, IMO. But generally England is just lacking in inventiveness and quality on the ball.
Rice is playing on the defensive line, he's basically dropping into a 3 at the back when in possession it's mind boggling. So easy to cut off the passing lanes in the middle.
To be fair, Kane's own mug is a pretty close approximation of Secretariat's.
No changes?
Off to watch the Barchester Chronicles then.
Off to watch the Barchester Chronicles then.