Kane's got a belly!
England national team
- Thread starter Nikhil
- Start date
England's defence a bit sloppy.
Great covering Trippier
I'm a solid 5 minutes behind here
Super nervous at the back, surviving
More bad defending
Dier getting booked.
Lovely goal
You were saying
Proper good assist from rashford that. Looks like Southgate is going to persist with starting him.
Another quality goal
England are class
And so he should
You were saying
I’ve been harsh on Southgate but fair play to him on recognising the need to evolve tactically after the World Cup.
17 passes for the first goal.
I have a lot of faith in Southgate.
Guys... I was watching the match for the first 10 minutes and Spain looked like a far better team. When I came back, I found out England has been winning 3-0. Can someone explain to me what's going on?
Barkley looks a bit lost to me.He seems to try the opposite to what is needed.Killer pass when he should keep it simple and vice versa and when he ran at them towards the end of the half he should have smashed it at De Gea but he just got himself in a right muddle.Winks looks okay though.Fecking loving the counter attacking football we're playing.
Sancho's cameo against croatia has put a rocket up rashford and sterlings arse. Should be good going forward, competition for places is nice to have.
It's coming home.
He did do one killer pass in fairness.
I agree. Everything points to the fact that it is indeed coming home again.
Barkley doesn’t process fast enough. It’s something I’ve noticed in the last few years. He’s far too pensive and he tends to not make instinctive decisions, which kills most one touch play
I'm not saying he shouldn't ever but against teams like Spain who keep the ball so well sometimes it's good to keep things simple yourself.
Do ya'll still imagine southgate is the wrong man for the job and clueless?
What on earth are we doing?
In the end I think that was far more impressive than the world cup.
Scrapped the back 3 that didnt work at the world cup and aside from some chaos in the first 15 mins, Alcacer's goal and Rodrigo pinching the ball off the goalkeeper overplaying - most of the 2nd half at least, England defended decently as a team with Maguire and Gomez doing well. Still room for improvement but still far better than in the world cup.
Barkley, Rashford, Sterling and Kane were electric going forward. They scared the hell out of Spain and rightly so. The Spain setup couldnt handle the fast and direct movement and passing that England brought to them tonight. Having said that England's midfield and front players have owed that performance for some time because they were wasteful in the world cup.
I haven't been a Southgate fan at all, but in scrapping the back 3 and the myth about playing the ball at the back and playing the way we actually had a chance of hurting Spain he has shown that he's learned from mistakes.
Positive stuff, very good result.
Scrapped the back 3 that didnt work at the world cup and aside from some chaos in the first 15 mins, Alcacer's goal and Rodrigo pinching the ball off the goalkeeper overplaying - most of the 2nd half at least, England defended decently as a team with Maguire and Gomez doing well. Still room for improvement but still far better than in the world cup.
Barkley, Rashford, Sterling and Kane were electric going forward. They scared the hell out of Spain and rightly so. The Spain setup couldnt handle the fast and direct movement and passing that England brought to them tonight. Having said that England's midfield and front players have owed that performance for some time because they were wasteful in the world cup.
I haven't been a Southgate fan at all, but in scrapping the back 3 and the myth about playing the ball at the back and playing the way we actually had a chance of hurting Spain he has shown that he's learned from mistakes.
Positive stuff, very good result.
No, he's learning from his mistakes. Thats the best news.
I'm actually enjoying watching England whenever I catch a game. I can't remember having that feeling since the early Sven years.
Southgate has the right philosophy
How can you seriously claim it didn't work at the world cup yet it got England to a semi final? It largely suited the type of personnel available at the time
The 3-5-2 in the world cup wasn't a mistake. Neither is this switch to 4-3-3. Both times he has used formations that largely suit the on form player available for England selection
What a fantastic result.
He's done a brilliant job.
He's done a brilliant job.
Because it didnt work against the first decent team we played against. We never had a problem against minnows and teams who arent any good. We couldnt beat the good teams. And all the composure that was talked about fell apart against those teams. Mishit clearances, passes losing the ball in our own half and so on. As nervous as we've ever been.
We played a good team in Belgium, we lost. We played a good team in Croatia, we lost. We played a good team in Belgium, we lost. Same as England of old just like Carragher says. That was the old problem too good against the easy teams but not enough against the big teams.
Southgate has scrapped the 3 at the back and tonight he scrapped the idea of creating from the back. We went route 1 with Pickford launching the ball forward and Kane being a good focal point, finding the runners. We blitzed Spain with speed and direct play. Thats how we could hurt them. Not Stones and Maguire trying passes through the middle.
Excellent game, nice to see Spain - England instead of something like England - Slovakia and don’t give a shit. Messed up result, but football is about scoring goals - especially when the other (superior) team acts naively at the back with a high line. Remember Roma against Liverpool, this was just the same. Excellent pass by Rashford to Sterling, very de Bruyne-esque. Now watch him go struggle against the packed defensive lines in the Premier League
Looks like they'll be favourite for the Euro's, can definitely see them winning it.
Am I doing it right?
Am I doing it right?
I don't get this, really. More technical, yes. Superior... Debatable. They have not been a force in ages.
Doing what right?
It's nice to have something to get behind again. Our international football and its support was looking pretty dead for a while.
Really happy for England, but that’s not a great Spain side. Still a fantastic result, but Spain don’t have anything like the players they’ve had over the last 10 years...