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Actually it's surprisingly common. 2008 CL final for example both teams brought on a player to take a penalty at the end of extra time. Both scored.
Poll: UEFA Euro 2020 Final Italy v England ** spoilers ** [Sunday 11th July 2021]
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Actually it's surprisingly common. 2008 CL final for example both teams brought on a player to take a penalty at the end of extra time. Both scored.
True they are far above. You can only dream.
Relatively to you and me? Yes but there's massively varying degrees of ball striking ability among top class players and Sterling is at the bottom of that list. Players scuff shots regularly and certain players far more often than others.
As usual we've fallen at the first difficult hurdle.
This team is no better than previous teams. At least previous teams played with some flair and looked like they could beat top teams on a good day. England in 2010 against Germany actually came back against a brilliant side. England in 1998 looked like winning. Went toe to toe against Portugal twice.
Southgate's teams grind out results even against weak teams. What would they have done against going down 1 or 2 goals? This result was no better than when england lost to the Italy side containing Pirlo. A much better Italy imo.
Equal opportunities gone too far.
Totally agree, well said!
I agree about the physcology of it. But these players at this level can all kick the ball in the net from the penalty spot.
Which is why having the last three players all young and fairly inexperienced doing it was stupid.
Sounds as if the subs were made with pens in mind. The takers chosen over the past few days by analysis (recent misses/scores etc)
This. I don’t trust you to win the game before penalties but I’ll happily let you take the fall with penalties. Hopefully Sancho puts that behind him and has an amazing career at United
Football has become a quasi religion here. It attracts the same arrogance and blinkerd devotion to some akin to a deep south nut-job "church" or foaming-at-the-mouth rabid zealots in some cult or other. At the heart is an unwavering devotion to the club and then the national side (usually in that order it would seem) and complete inability to step back and see things in the round.
Italy were the better side tonight - cheating cynical fouls aside. The ref was unreasonably lenient in the 2nd half, when the trend was set, but we could and should have played a different system 2nd half and instead we went to sleep. We'll never know if a different system would have done the job, but there is no excuse for the lacklustre 30 mins which gave Italy the ascendency and lead to their goal. Even the commentators on both channels (I was switching between the two) were saying the same - England have gone to sleep here, they look leggy and a yard off the pace" etc etc. I imagine it was the occasaion, the "we;re almost there" thoughts creeping in and then a feeling of "wtf, what's going on? panic! panic!"
Does Saka score or even take many penalties? To analyse misses...
Only 4 of the players in Serie A's team of the season play in this Italy team. 3 players in the PL's team of the season play for the England team.
The French XI that won the 2018 world cup had 1 player who plays in the French league.
Top PL players being English has never been an issue for the national team.
I disagree. They can all strike a ball from the penalty spot well enough at their level technique wise. If they can't, they shouldn't be anywhere near the team.
It's all mostly psychological at this level.
you think millionaires with agents do an advert when they don’t want to?
I put my phone on charge, and poured myself a large vodka and tonic, I’d told her the truth,
Italy had creamed England, what else do you think that I should have done?
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They'll include training data of course, otherwise nobody takes them often enough to analyse really
Tactically Southgate got found out this time, was very similar to the Croatia game at the World Cup where we tried to defend a 1-0 lead especially in the second half. When you look at the players we have in the squad we should atleast we good for 50-50 possession but instead we played like burnley for most of the game and just lumped it up the field.
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If he has I can’t remember. I don’t recall him taking one when we beat Liverpool on pens in the Community Shield last season.
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I wouldn't call the French league a major league. Which is why their players play elsewhere.
Taking off a proven pen taker and putting on kids is a bit beyond that.
Who cares then what? You asking if she sent a private only fans clip to make him feel better?
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