Rioch's Braves 711 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Big problem for England good going wide but nobody in midfield who can open up a defence, totally outplayed, can't remember us having a worthwhile shot. Dier had one cleared off the line. Kane should have scored or certainly hit the target. Courtois could have thrown his cap on most of our goal efforts and Kane's attempt was woeful, he had another poor game. Link to post Share on other sites
Erimus 63 478 Posted July 15, 2018 Author Share Posted July 15, 2018 That's it then, went out with a whimper. Enjoyable World Cup and avoided a humiliation off the French by ducking out of the Final ;-) Link to post Share on other sites
Downsouth 6,175 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Honest question, did we flatter to deceive this tournament? Last 2 games certainly seems to be back to the age old problems surrounding England. And is Gary Neville right when he mentioned something may come out later about Kane, was he carried along and only played because there was no-one else. Link to post Share on other sites
richmfc 41 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Honest question, did we flatter to deceive this tournament? Last 2 games certainly seems to be back to the age old problems surrounding England. And is Gary Neville right when he mentioned something may come out later about Kane, was he carried along and only played because there was no-one else. Southgate got it spot on. He said we finished fourth be we aren’t a top four team yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Honest question, did we flatter to deceive this tournament? Last 2 games certainly seems to be back to the age old problems surrounding England. And is Gary Neville right when he mentioned something may come out later about Kane, was he carried along and only played because there was no-one else. I think he made the most out of the squad he had or near enough. We can always quibble about individual selections and I think his in game management was poor but we don't have a great squad of players. To put it into context, let's look at the last two games we've played. We don't have a player to touch Modric and Rakitic in my opinion. We don't have a player to touch Hazard and De Bruyne. Kane might be the only truly world class player we have and for some reason he really went off the boil - I don't think it helped playing in midfield half the time though. If we had Modric against Croatia I think we win that game easily as it goes. In fact, if we'd simply taken our chances in the first half we'd have won the game and been in the World Cup final. Just think about that. Belgium are just a better side than us. A number of their players would be first choice for us I'd say, that's just the way it is. Link to post Share on other sites
Rioch's Braves 711 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Honest question, did we flatter to deceive this tournament? Last 2 games certainly seems to be back to the age old problems surrounding England. And is Gary Neville right when he mentioned something may come out later about Kane, was he carried along and only played because there was no-one else. We weren't expected to do anything in the tournament so I don't think we flattered to deceive, but I didn't realise that we only had 6 shots on target in the whole of the tournament (only Iran had less) that's woeful. The defence came out of the World cup with great credit, but I don't think our midfield did enough Kane was having to come deep a lot of the time, and I agree with the pundits who said Kane is usually a lot more mobile and normally looking to get behind the opposition defence, so he may have carried an injury. Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 We only scored once from open play, we weren’t pretty to watch. Link to post Share on other sites
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