- Messages
- 20,403
- Name
- Simon
- Edit My Images
- Yes
What disappointed me most about last night's result was the way we reverted to old fashioned football and lost (as usual), pass back to the keeper and get him to punt it upfield in the vague hope someone/anyone gets on the end of it, which resulted, as always for Lord knows how many years, the opposition having the ball and coming forward. Why did we revert to that when the lads clearly showed they were very capable of passing out of defence and going at the opponents goal with real skill, either down the wing or varying it by going straight down the middle, there was none of that last night, just a punt up the sides and a hopefull cross virtually every time, it hasn't worked for the last 40/50 years who thought it would work last night, the coach? If so I hope he's learnt his lesson,
England last night were boring, old fashioned and lacking skill in attack, which wasnt how they had played in previous games and frankly I'd prefer to lose playing skillfull attacking football rather than what I watched last night.
Time for Southgate to go back to exciting football, he has the players to do it, both those that played last night and those that were injured or not picked.
You obviously didn't watch the first half? Our best performance of the tournament given the opponents and match. Controlled that half and looked comfortable. Lots of good passing. Had we managed to get the 2nd goal our performance deserved I think we would have gone on to win. I think in the 2nd half we got tired, and Croatia are not the sort of team to have 2 bad halves. We sat back and looked reasonable at the start but was crying out for a change at 60 mins. Funnily enough, Sterling who I had criticesed made a real nuisance of himself 1st half, and looked tired 2nd and I think this led to us dropping deeper. Yes, I think Southgate should have made changes sooner, at 60 Vardy (or Rashford) for Sterling and Cheek for Alli.