England Senior Team General Discussion Thread

Southgate has managed to improve from an mostly awful Nations League to an excellent tournament before so I could easily see him doing so again.

 

Southgate must be telling them to retain possession at all costs, they got to the edge of box on so many occasions and decided not to cross or shoot. I’m fine with that but have some other patterns of play/trained automations if your going to do that rather than just passing to Grealish so he can get 8 uncontested touches

 

I won't know because there's only 3 more games till the world cup

 

I just wish a pundit would call Southgate out on Maddison's exclusion problem is they are all his mates

 

Only for the FA. The sporting press don’t care really. You can tell from the coverage. Plus draws against Germany and Italy are not too bad results.

 

If they are his mates then they likely know why he is being excluded.

 

I'm not talking about the press you muppet

 

Why would the FA sack him weeks before to likely hire someone most people haven’t yet heard of. Very unlikely.

 

Michael Owen just highlighted the big difference between England and Liverpool .

 

I'm a bit drunk right now but one goal from 3 games is awfu

 

Agree! There were many times I noticed that when receiving the ball in midfield we had time and space to turn or play first time balls into more advanced players, Ward-Prouse a few times fwiw but instead we played the ball backwards and sideways. Way to safe and really all it needs is better communication with our players talking to each other to let them know they have time to turn. Frustrating and actually felt sorry for Abraham, he had nothing to feed on whatsoever.

 

When was the last time we knit an attacking play together.

I actually can't even against a minnow team. I don't understand what we're trying to do.

 

Anyway Germany have only made three points. If we could beat them in September )not entirely unlikely) they could be relegated. I feel the September matches will be better.

 

I am hoping for a goal feast on Tuesday. We do have it in us.

 

Do you think we'll be more hungary for goals

 

There will have to be a drastic improvement in our attacking play and on current form, I’m not too sure about a goal feast.

 

At this point in time, id rather take a 1-0 win and come out of this international break with some dignity.

 

At least we had more possession than in the Euro final. That is progress in one way. We have gone backwards in other areas through.

 

The nations league for some countries has been crazy enough for that to happen.

 

That wasn’t the same Italy we played in the final was it ?

Italy XI:

Donnarumma; Di Lorenzo, Bonucci, Chiellini (c), Emerson; Jorginho, Barella, Verratti; Chiesa, Insigne, Immobile.

 

This was pretty much a reserve team for England

 

It still hard to beat any Italy side on Possession. And we have been rubbish at keeping possession recently.

 

Not quite as weak as their team tbf

They had novices coming on for novices

 

By his standards, I didn’t think it was his best game barring one excellent cross. He just didn’t get forward enough for my liking and his touch until I commented was off.

 

Really only maguire rice and sterling would be considered first choice. Maybe Mount as well