Uwe 3,543 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Great ball in by Grealish 👏👏👏 Link to post Share on other sites
Rioch's Braves 711 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Southgate would be mad to drop a quality class player like Sterling 😁 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe 3,543 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Oh dear Scotland 1-0 down 😂 Link to post Share on other sites
sanddancer 1,964 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Ref is having a blinder….. Link to post Share on other sites
SmogDane 4,052 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Looks much better tonight, lads ... More intent and drive. You should be glad, Grealish chose to be English, as he played International Youth games for Ireland 😎👌 I hope you stay at Wembley ... And I think it will be Portugal coming for a visit. Link to post Share on other sites
Neverbefore 10,695 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Scotland game is a cracker! Link to post Share on other sites
TeaCider24 12,403 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 All good so far, though the Czechs have threatened. Could do with another England goal. Hopefully Croatia score again too. Link to post Share on other sites
Dynamo Kev 1,552 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 sterling needs to stay higher up on the shoulder. he's literally brainless when deeper. absolute liability. when we press higher in forward positions we look decent. but our build up from defense to midfield is dire. we are like a totally different side in different areas of the pitch. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
pikerman 1,089 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 England look better, but The Czechs are unlucky not to have been on the scoreboard, a couple of timely blocks there. Sako is giving us some drive and pace but that midfield of Rice and Phillips is just not working, they are essentially occupying the same space 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Brunners 7,952 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 minute ago, pikerman said: England look better, but The Czechs are unlucky not to have been on the scoreboard, a couple of timely blocks there. Sako is giving us some drive and pace but that midfield of Rice and Phillips is just not working, they are essentially occupying the same space Which is so weird because they showed vs Croatia that Phillips can play higher Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,229 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Well that was definitely better than the Scotland game...though it would have been hard to be worse. Not surprising that the 2 new guys, Saka and Grealish combined to set up Sterling for the goal (with a bit of help from Kane). Unlucky not to have scored with his chipped effort that hit the post. A rare moment of quality in an otherwise fairly mundane first half. Nice to see Kane at least getting a shot on target. Still a tad frustrating how slow, laboured and defensive-minded England are. Our ONLY outlets are Saka and Grealish. The only times we've even tried to get forward have been when they have been on the ball. We've allowed Czech Rep more time and space to play than is really comfortable and consequently they've had some good chances of their own. Against better teams we would have been punished. England really need to change their mindset and play style if they want to progress much further. Hope we can up the tempo a bit 2nd half, or make some changes and start creating more. Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,229 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 42 minutes ago, Rioch's Braves said: Southgate would be mad to drop a quality class player like Sterling 😁 He's class when he's in goalscoring positions, but an absolute liability when he drops back and tries to contribute to build up play. Link to post Share on other sites
DanFromDownSouth 1,706 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Biggest problem with England for me is our fullbacks being camped in our own half with 2 holding midfielders. Playing 2 holding midfielders should give more freedom to the fullbacks (dullbacks). 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe 3,543 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, AnglianRed said: He's class when he's in goalscoring positions, but an absolute liability when he drops back and tries to contribute to build up play. I feel the same when Kane tries to do that too Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe 3,543 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hopefully Henderson stays back and allows Phillips to push a bit further forward Edit It looks like Phillips will start back and allow Jordan to go forward Link to post Share on other sites
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