Soldato
Lee Carsley asking Ten Hag for defensive tips?
UEFA Nations League Group Stage Matchday 3 & 4 [10th - 15th October 2024]
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Caporegime
I'm glad Greece won because Carsley isn't of sufficient calibre to manage England, but that was a penalty against Madueke.
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Centre of the park is a huge problem for me. Rice seems stuck in their on his own and he just isn't good enough to do that. Foden, Bellingham and Palmer just wander off anywhere so there's just so much space in there for teams to walk through on goal
He did it for Arsenal quite a few times last season when Partey was injured. Did quite well then against better opposition although it probably helps having a decent defence behind you.
All we’ve done is replace an inexperienced manager with another amateur.
Hopefully we’ll get a proven manager in now.
Associate
I can't believe that those they interviewed thought there was any positive in that.
Greece just scored 5 goals against us.
Greece just scored 5 goals against us.
Soldato
I think you can play them just not in this system and not necessarily exactly how and where they would like to play. They need a system and defined roles within it for me what is really a challenge is getting Foden, Saka and Palmer in the same team maybe we should play 4-2-3-1 with Bellingham alongside rice in a deeper role and the other three behind Kane as an out and out target man?
What I do know is playing Bellingham and foden upfront and badly implementing a high press won’t win you many games!
Caporegime
Rice just isn't as good as people seem to think he is. He has relatively very little ability on the ball and had some terrible missed tackles last night.
Associate
Other teams seem to manage to get the most out of their best players and be able to play them in the same team apart from England. That's the difference between winning and losing in a major tournament. We just always fall short. These are the best players in England right now and are so called world class, so there is no reason why they can't play together. Just because they playing out of position doesn't mean they end up playing like school kids. Every England player on the pitch had no idea what they were doing. I guess they are not world class after all. Fair enough, this is just the Nations League and doesn't mean much, but with performances like that I can't see us winning anything.
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Yeh was reading Rio Ferdinand's Twitter after the game
Mentioned a few things lastly saying one team looked like they wanted to play for their country and one did not.
Hard to fix that sort of thing...
Associate
Exactly, no pride and passion. How many times have we seen this from England? It's only the Nations League, but when you put an England shirt on your back you should be giving it your all. I don't see that from the players. I suppose it's just another day at the office for them.
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Caporegime
Bellingham looked like the only that cared.
Regularly chasing down the ball when it was passed back to the keeper, pulling his socks up, tucking his shirt in and trying to get the crowd going. All small things but they all add up, I'd give him the captaincy now tbh.
Regularly chasing down the ball when it was passed back to the keeper, pulling his socks up, tucking his shirt in and trying to get the crowd going. All small things but they all add up, I'd give him the captaincy now tbh.
Associate
Agreed, he was the best player for England, but that wasn't very hard to achieve.
Yeh he took ownership.
Every-time the camera panned in he was sweating like a mad man.
And of course, scored.
Associate
Yeah, I noticed he was sweating like crazy. Stones didn't have a drop on him
