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Maybe “lesser teams” was bad wording. Teams will still come to ours and sit back and make us play through them. It was our biggest downfall last season. Just passed backwards and sideways and unable to break teams down.
I suspect Smith (and all the others) were running on empty the amount of effort that was put in. I agree though that I’d probably have tried to keep one sub back especially as there was gonna be a load of injury time.
I felt there was a turning point in the game on about 35 mins when Snith started to take the ball off Tickle from goal kicks. We stopped lumping the ball forward and tried to play through them and we did it quite well. The Sessegnon sub at half time gave us the impetus and we moved the ball through them and quickly and dangerously. If Rankine had improved his final ball into the box there were times we actually had bodies in there. That said, Rankine finally showed us what he can do.
Came off the ground with a lot of optimism despite the late killer blow
If (and I know it’s a big if) we can play like that at home against the lesser sides then we will be fine.
Reckon Aimson is a great signing
Don’t know why you would ever change your centre backs at 0-0 when they are totally dominant 🤷♂️
Least it looks like Aimson is a good bit of business to replace Hughes based on today.
Got to be braver in attacking positions. Jones started running at them and they couldn’t deal with it
Made up for him. Struggled for 18 months at Wigan and needed a change. Hope he does the business this season
Clearly something is right at the club. This is a massive signing.
Dare we believe that until at least January we have Tickle, Hughes, Kerr and Chambers at the back 🙏
Will be gutted if he goes but can’t argue with you CW with the figures.
Plus the guy deserves the very best, stuck with us when others walked
There are more foreign players playing for these premier league teams than there are English players
Spain absolutely are technically better. Our players are unable to trap a ball or pass a ball 5 yards most of the time. That inability is not down to Southgate
Quote“”Pmsl,
Typical English fan with his it’s coming home rose tinted glasses on reply,
“We won more knockout games under him”Fantastic stat lets be proud hey,
and how many times did we play a FIFA top ten ranked side in those “knockout games”? infact in any game under him ?
And out of those games, how many did we win ?
And how many trophies did we win ?””QuoteSame old bullshit quote “How many decent sides did he beat”
From World Cup 90 until Southgate took over we won a huge 2 knockout games inside 90 minutes against the mighty Ecuador and Denmark. 2 games over a period that included 7 World Cups and 7 Euros.
Over that period we failed to beat the likes of Nigeria, Algeria, USA, Costa Rica, Romania and Iceland.
So over 14 major tournaments, the likes of Capello, Sven, Hoddle, Robson and McLaren also never beat a so called major nation in a knock out game and certainly never made a final.
Spain are better than us. They are technically better than us by a country mile. They were also better than France, Germany and Italy so no shame in losing that final.
I am sure Southgate will have regrets about the Italy final but then I’m sure City have regrets about the 2013 FA Cup Final, 2014 Semi Final and 2018 5th Round. That is football.
I don’t believe there is a good candidate to take over from Southgate. He shouldn’t have been hounded out like he has been
It will probably be Carsley or Potter so good luck with that
Best squad of players? Really?
Scholes Lampard Gerrard Beckham
Terry Ferdinand Campbell
Owen Shearer Rooney
To name but a few of the last 20 years who never got to a final and often didn’t make it past the quarters
Took over a team that had just gone out to Iceland and had the farce of having Big Sam as manager for one game.
You’ve all got your way. Let’s watch the shit show that follows
Southgate is so called not fit to burn yet we have won more knockout games under him than we did between 1966 and him taking over