Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
No chance. Spain would probably have more possession but i doubt they'd dominate. Remember they couldn't beat Sweden, Poland or Switzerland in 90 minutes and conceded 3 to an average Croatia side.
Italy would be tough but we've seen tonight they're not as great as people make out. Spain could've scored 3 easily.
By no means saying it’s a foregone conclusion that whoever wins tonight is going to run away with it. Only that I think it’s mad to have us as favourites should we make it past Denmark.
I’ll put it as 60/40 in favour of the winner of this tie.
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
You think this Italy team would dominate a game Vs us? Spain may have more possession but dominate? We must be watching a different tournament. Severely underrating us. As said before, if our name was France or Portugal or Germany people would be wetting themselves over us
Nah, we’re decent but these two are clearly the best two football teams in the tournament. They are still beatable but if England can do it, it won’t be because we’re a more attractive side. It’d be a scrappy 1-0 with a late goal or something in extra time. Against good teams, we play to grind out results, don’t get too giddy over a 4-0 against Ukraine.
Clearly? Genuinely baffling. Italy scraped past Austria and beat a Belgian side that were at about 50% if that and struggled. Spain weren't comfortable against Croatia at all for most of the game, then beat a side who shouldn't have been there and got past them on pens. Severely overrating them and underrating us.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
You think this Italy team would dominate a game Vs us? Spain may have more possession but dominate? We must be watching a different tournament. Severely underrating us. As said before, if our name was France or Portugal or Germany people would be wetting themselves over us
Nah, we’re decent but these two are clearly the best two football teams in the tournament. They are still beatable but if England can do it, it won’t be because we’re a more attractive side. It’d be a scrappy 1-0 with a late goal or something in extra time. Against good teams, we play to grind out results, don’t get too giddy over a 4-0 against Ukraine.
Clearly? Genuinely baffling. Italy scraped past Austria and beat a Belgian side that were at about 50% if that and struggled. Spain weren't comfortable against Croatia at all for most of the game, then beat a side who shouldn't have been there and got past them on pens. Severely overrating them and underrating us.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
They can have off days and so can we. Nil nil draw against Scotland anybody?
These two teams have the capability to score against you at will. I would be baffled if we kept a clean sheet in a potential final.
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
These are 2 very beatable teams. Home advantage as well.
Ok, so 4 Lol’s here - so they are not beatable teams then? We should be fearing either of these 2 teams in a potential final? Like we should have feared Germany?
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
You think this Italy team would dominate a game Vs us? Spain may have more possession but dominate? We must be watching a different tournament. Severely underrating us. As said before, if our name was France or Portugal or Germany people would be wetting themselves over us
Nah, we’re decent but these two are clearly the best two football teams in the tournament. They are still beatable but if England can do it, it won’t be because we’re a more attractive side. It’d be a scrappy 1-0 with a late goal or something in extra time. Against good teams, we play to grind out results, don’t get too giddy over a 4-0 against Ukraine.
Clearly? Genuinely baffling. Italy scraped past Austria and beat a Belgian side that were at about 50% if that and struggled. Spain weren't comfortable against Croatia at all for most of the game, then beat a side who shouldn't have been there and got past them on pens. Severely overrating them and underrating us.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
I mean England didn't exactly look incredible against Croatia either.
You could point to Scotland as well as an indicator that England are just as capable of looking poor as these two teams.
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
You think this Italy team would dominate a game Vs us? Spain may have more possession but dominate? We must be watching a different tournament. Severely underrating us. As said before, if our name was France or Portugal or Germany people would be wetting themselves over us
Nah, we’re decent but these two are clearly the best two football teams in the tournament. They are still beatable but if England can do it, it won’t be because we’re a more attractive side. It’d be a scrappy 1-0 with a late goal or something in extra time. Against good teams, we play to grind out results, don’t get too giddy over a 4-0 against Ukraine.
Clearly? Genuinely baffling. Italy scraped past Austria and beat a Belgian side that were at about 50% if that and struggled. Spain weren't comfortable against Croatia at all for most of the game, then beat a side who shouldn't have been there and got past them on pens. Severely overrating them and underrating us.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
I mean England didn't exactly look incredible against Croatia either.
You could point to Scotland as well as an indicator that England are just as capable of looking poor as these two teams.
How many goals did Croatia score against us? In fact, how many clear-cut chances did we give away.
We've had by far the best defence at the tournament, that counts for a lot.
Honestly don’t know what to make of this from an England perspective. Italy giving up quite a few chances and Spain can’t finish. Spain’s pressing is causing problems but their defence is so high up that the counter is on every time. Good luck working this out if we get there Gareth.
We'd be the underdogs against either tbh.
Don't see how, bookies wouldn't have us that way, highest seeded team?, superior squads to both, game's at our gaff, we have looked the most convincing in the knockouts. The positives go on
So what exactly makes us the underdogs? I fancy us to beat either of these, France were our only concern and they had an off day
Either of these teams dominate the game against us. We beat them by keeping it tight at the back, waiting for mistakes to pounce on. Tactics won’t change from that perspective, that’s been the Southgate way the whole tournament.
You think this Italy team would dominate a game Vs us? Spain may have more possession but dominate? We must be watching a different tournament. Severely underrating us. As said before, if our name was France or Portugal or Germany people would be wetting themselves over us
Nah, we’re decent but these two are clearly the best two football teams in the tournament. They are still beatable but if England can do it, it won’t be because we’re a more attractive side. It’d be a scrappy 1-0 with a late goal or something in extra time. Against good teams, we play to grind out results, don’t get too giddy over a 4-0 against Ukraine.
Clearly? Genuinely baffling. Italy scraped past Austria and beat a Belgian side that were at about 50% if that and struggled. Spain weren't comfortable against Croatia at all for most of the game, then beat a side who shouldn't have been there and got past them on pens. Severely overrating them and underrating us.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
I mean England didn't exactly look incredible against Croatia either.
You could point to Scotland as well as an indicator that England are just as capable of looking poor as these two teams.
Group games, we played them brilliantly and now as a result are the freshest side left in the tournament. I never judge any team by their group stage performances, watched enough tournaments to know the real stuff starts in that ro16 game.
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Best ref I've ever seen. I give him 5 out of 10.
I’ll put it as 60/40 in favour of the winner of this tie.
We will revisit this after we put away Denmark and beat either of these in the finals to nil 😉
These two teams have the capability to score against you at will. I would be baffled if we kept a clean sheet in a potential final.
I stick by my 60/40 assessment. ;-)
I would rather Italy go through as our midfield would seriously struggle with Busquets, Pedri and Koke.
You could point to Scotland as well as an indicator that England are just as capable of looking poor as these two teams.
We've had by far the best defence at the tournament, that counts for a lot.
I would much rather play Italy on this showing
And worse defensively
The intensity, skill level and pace in this game is way above anything seen in this tournament by far.