Where was Sterling?
Poll: UEFA Euro 2020 Final Italy v England ** spoilers ** [Sunday 11th July 2021]
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He doesn't take them as a rule.
Why? He's just lost the tournament with the strongest squad. He was gifted a route to the final (apart from a far from prime Germany team) and still couldn't see it over the line.
Anyone could see the pressure building and did nothing to change it.
Soldato
How come 3 youngsters were taking them, where were the experienced players?
Anyhow fairplay, the slightly better side won.
England can hold their heads up high, fantastic tounament.
Anyhow fairplay, the slightly better side won.
England can hold their heads up high, fantastic tounament.
He's a massive talent, very versatile player who excels in every position he's asked to play. He's single handedly carried Arsenal's attack for most of the season. He's had a solid tournament and is usually one of the best performers when he plays for England. He had a stinker today and shouldn't have been in the first 5 to take a pen.
Caporegime
Looked like in the huddle Southgate was telling Grealish he was taking number 5 but then Saka took it. Very odd.
Italy were 100% the better team, but...
...England were hamstrung by Southgate, and could have done a lot better.
Everybody calling Southgate a tactical genius can now kindly shut the hell up.
Southgate is a terrible manager/tactician and always has been.
Soldato
Feel so sorry for that last lad to take the penalty.
Man of Honour
Somewhat doesn't feel as bad with how the England fans have behaved inside and outside the stadiums in the last few games especially.
Just dont get why we're so bad at taking penalties. It's beyond a meme at this point. Surely they must spend hours practicing them.
Just dont get why we're so bad at taking penalties. It's beyond a meme at this point. Surely they must spend hours practicing them.
Caporegime
Its a tough one, he did well up until this point. But the writing was on the wall in the final after 30 minutes and ultimately he did nothing to change it until extra time.
Soldato
Just this
For the 4th decade in a row.
You're not picking Sterling to take a penalty. Other than maybe Grealish for Saka, I couldn't think of another penalty change.
Italy probably spend hours more. Plus their keeper is better.
Caporegime
Have you seen our squad. Strongest in the competition and we played like the most budget team in the competition. ******* disgraceful tactics from the manager.
This is the strongest, most balanced side we have had in decades, we played all but one game at home and had the easiest draw we will ever have to win a Euros.
Suppose our performance in the last WC was great too.
But no, Southgate has been great
As soon as we got to 60 minutes and they were spanking us for fun I said to the mrs, "if we don't make 3 changes now we're done for". She turned, nodded and said, "but he won't will he." "We then sipped our beers in quiet lamentation as that catastrophe unfolded. And all the BBC pundits now doing their "it's a cruel game (wtf just happened?)" routine when they've been saying how "Southgate got it so right all tournament long" and now suddenly, it's not what we did wrong or could - should - have done differently, it's just "ah that's so cruel". You make your own destiny and if you sit back and in the words of itv "stick when you need to twist" then you reap the results of that. Gutting, but it;s been overdue since Scotland so meh.
Caporegime
Gutting to lose on penalties, but this squad can hold their head high, they've done great. Southgate has done brilliantly: first the semis then the final, we can build on this next year.
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Grealish maybe but not Sterling he's a bottle job and never steps forward and to be honest you probably dont want him to.
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