France played counter attacking football when they won it. Kante work ethic, Pogba passing range plus the pace of Mbappe and Griezmann. There are many ways to win a football match.
Yep, England should have won the Euros final but inherent negativity got in their way. They were better than Italy but stopped playing, trying to hold out for 70 minutes. Crazy tactics, Southgate really fecked it.
& that’s a damn shame, more English players should play abroad
As a neutral I was on England side during the euros final (due to united players) but I got pissed as the game went on. It was just Chiesa who looked a threat for Italy while England had a good number of top quality forwards.
Carrick.
Alright let's not get ahead of ourselves
Calm down ffs
They don't have one, main reason they have won only 1 trophy even though on paper they should have won more.
I don't see how we were better.
I would be genuinely interested how Foden would get on as an 8....endless options with likes of Rashford and Grealish for left midfield so he's going to struggle to play much in that position.
Best hope is for Angel Gomes to keep developing in that position.
No, you can't put that on Southgate. If he did it, we'd he mad he's playing players in roles they don't normally play in. Putting square pegs in round holes.
You say that but due to all the injuries going into the World cup Deschamps basically had no option but to move Greizmann back into more of a central midfield role and that generally worked very well.
That's a big difference though isn't it.
They won a World Cup and nearly repeated. I mean I'm not sure how they can't be considered successful. A regista is one position. It won't make or break England.
For the team they had, they should have won either another WC or the European cup. I did not say they were not successful, I said they were not as successful as they should have been.
And you think not having a regista is the problem? They were a penalty shootout from repeating as champions without one...
But also dominated on midfield most of the game.
Ancelotti is a great coach. Still boggles my mind we didn't go for him when Fergie retired.
Trent lacks the positioning required to play in midfield.
Argentina played better for sure but the possession wasn't that lopsided. The point is a regista is not a requirement for any team to win a knockout tournament. England should be fine without one.
No its not required, amazingly important though.
No thanks.
They won the feckin WC, and played other 2 finals. Could have won one another one, if Lloris wasn't so bad at penalties.
Many teams win without one so I'm sure why it's so important. Teams don't have to play a certain way to win.
I mean, everyone wanted. We knew we missed out when he went to dortmund over us. It wasn't like he was some big kind of secret
The most consistent ones do.
Had to check, Özil was a bit older at 21 when he joined Real and with Ronaldo around not the most decisive player but apparently he scored 10 and assisted an insane 28 goals across all competitions in his debut season.
It's an excellent move by Ancelotti. Bellingham's biggest strengths are his attacking abilities. He can still be a 10 that contributes a lot against the ball but one of his few issues at Dortmund was that he lacked tactical discipline and sometimes vacated his position in the pressing formation or was too attack minded when Dortmund could just have seen the game out.
I see that from his Birmingham days. A beast when he’s defending which masks the fact his determination can see him overcommit.
How's his brother looking by the way? Can't watch the championship where I live
What's the other?
2 goals in 3 games. Sunderland need a striker badly though.
World Cup 1998.
They’ve won the Euros twice too.
Strangely enough I was meaning with these players.
