Inter why have your players been shit for us but good in the league. So frustrating.
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Great game, but fuck Southgate
That lad was running around his bedroom 10 years ago with his arms up
And the crowd goes wild for Bellingham
Living the dream lad, living the dream, and worthy off it.
Southgate out here instructing the team to adopt the "9 minutes into the Euros final" tactics with the amount of backwards passes from an attacking position.
I just dont understand how jack manages to get so many fouls against him
It's those massive calves. Larger surface area.
Great 2nd half by England. Bellingham, Rashford, Foden and Kane have turned up big time and Italy have had no answer.
Bro San Marino scored against Denmark
Very pleased to see Guéhi getting a proper chance
Just think lads that this time next year we would have won the euros
Lmao that’s ambitious
You played one of the weakest Italy squads possible and had a lot of trouble, relying on Jude Bellingham literally being Zidane and Scalvini making mistakes like a 19 year old defender is expected to.
If you think that game showed you're not going to have trouble even seeing a semi-final, you had about 15 beers too many
Shame so many left the stadium when we just qualified
It's not a surprise you qualified yesterday, it would have taken one of the craziest sequences of events possible for England to fail to qualify, so why should all of those people get themselves stuck in traffic and unable to get home for an extra few hours just to celebrate a formality?
Act like you've been there before for christ's sake
Is Bellingham Jesus reincarnated?
Jesus was just a prophet letting us know that Jude was on his way
Who's ready for another stream of Bellingham posts in the sub and people acting angry about it in the comments? 🙋♂️
Haha, what is she talking about? That atmosphere is shit considering we’ve just qualified for a major tournament!
You’re there are you?
Just listened to vindaloo all the way through for the first time in years, what a tune, what nostalgia
We've gone and done the double over Italy, amazing from the lads.
There were some interesting and risky tactics by Spalletti to play with a back 5 in the defensive phase with El Shaarway dropping to LWB, and transiting to some kind of 2-3-5 in possession with Udogie stepping in the midfield, and Frattesi stepping into the forward line, and Di Lorenzo constantly overlapping on the right. It worked decently in the first half, but was ultimately this was way too unbalanced as every goal was conceded from too few players in defensive zones during transitions. I preferred last weeks tactics where Darmian stayed back so that we always had 3 defenders while Dimarco had freedom to push up the left flank and Raspadori/Kean could drift into the middle.
Ultimately this team is built to play in a traditional back three system, so if Spalletti is going to insist on a 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 he needs to pick a first XI and keep the team and tactics as consistent as possible. Pressing is the most important feature in Spalletti's teams and it's not going to be easy for these players to pick up the right patterns when they only train together ever few months, so he needs to make things as simple as possible for them. You could see today they were confused about who needs to step where.
Considering all of our defenders play in back 3 systems at club level, we need to be more defensively stable and conservative if we're going to use a back 4 against top teams. If we play with Dimarco as LB, the RB needs to stay in defensive positions to support the CBs (Bastoni/Acerbi/Scalvini/Mancini/Gatti who are always used to having a 3rd player), like Darmian did to great effect against Malta. Di Lorenzo was a great defensive RB in previous seasons, but he's gotten a taste for goals and assists and is way too eager to join the attack, leaving use hugely unbalanced in defensive transitions.
Overall the game today wasn't as bad as the scoreline and comments make it seem. There were some good moments and some bad luck (Udogie almost scoring to make it 2-1; Phillips not getting the second yellow he deserved) against some of the most in form players in the world, but Spalletti has a huge job on his hands if he expects to turn this team into anything like what his Napoli was.
Honestly, it was hard to concentrate on this game after hearing what happened a couple hours earlier.
Bellingham is magic and Kane is just class though.
What happened?
As much as I am annoyed with him about the Henderson thing - can’t really fault Gareth on what he’s built here, this team just eases through the gears so smoothly.
Embarrassing play by the referee, Philips should have been expelled in the first half or at least given a straight red card in the second half, there was a clear pen for England in the second half.