England Squad (v Republic of Ireland/Belgium/Iceland from p29)

Laddick01

This isn’t a dig at Calvert Lewis either because I think he’s been very good this season. 

But it shows you how important Kane is. Our best Midfielder let alone Striker.

Chris_from_Sidcup

https://twitter.com/TheFergusonCode/status/1315309983660044289

blackpool72

Dier and Maguire. 
Ffs
Pair of pricks. 

Chunes

Pass. Pass. Pass. Long ball.
Pass. Pass. Pass. Long ball.
Pass. Pass. Pass. Long ball.

Addick Addict

It's square pass, square pass, square pass and back again. And repeat.

Chris_from_Sidcup

That does show you just how many decent right backs we have. And considering TAA is only 22, the younger ones like AWB, James and Lamptey could possibly never get more than 5-10 caps.

They should start practising with their left foot.

ricky_otto

Rice is another player that I don’t understand. Apart from 5 yard sideways passes he offers nothing. 

ct_addick

A lot of huffing and puffing with no end product and negative back and square passes. The most creative midfielder on the bench. Same old boring England 

ValleyGary

Laddick01 said:

The thing is we should be a decent team.

Southgate has a squad that should be going toe to toe with every single top side.

Right now we aren’t even top 10 in the world.

Agree. A fantastic squad that should allow him to play people that are in form. He doesn’t need to revert back to the same players all the time.

SELR_addicks

I feel one of the issues we have is that you probably need to choose one of Dier, Rice or Henderson.

Southgate wants to shoehorn in all 3. 

Bet he looks at their % pass stats and wets himself, ignoring they're all 5 yard backwards and sideways passes. 

CAFCsayer

Never a pen 😂

Chunes

Two silly penalties. 

Addick Addict

 Mount is clueless at this level

ricky_otto

Addick Addict said:

 Mount is clueless at this level

Forgot he was even playing. 

Laddick01

Never seen such a defensive side looking so poor defensively.

this is comical

ricky_otto

SELR_addicks said:

I feel one of the issues we have is that you probably need to choose one of Dier, Rice or Henderson.

Southgate wants to shoehorn in all 3. 

Bet he looks at their % pass stats and wets himself, ignoring they're all 5 yard backwards and sideways passes. 

Got to be Henderson. The other 2 aren’t good enough. 

Addick Addict

To be fair we've been crying out for one of our midfielders to make something out of nothing so we should really praise Henderson for the penalty in that respect

SouthLondonisRed

As much as Grealish had a blinder the other night, in my eyes I thought Kalvin Phillips did too. Would like to see him make an appearance today so much more mobile than Rice

SouthLondonisRed

Maguire is a waste of space as well, you wouldn't think this is the same Maguire who had a blinder in the World Cup

Laddick01

Henderson is very solid. He’s a must start.

Rice looks okay for West’s Ham but hasn’t had a good game in an England shirt.

Genuinely think we should be looking to get Henderson at the base and play attacking midfielders in front. Outscore opponents. Don’t defend.

cafc_harry

The sooner Southgate goes the better, with this crop of players we could be a very exciting attacking team and instead we’re playing 3 right backs and 7 defensive players at the same time. Genuinely painful to watch that half. 

Chunes

Rice misplaces a five yard pass straight to the opposition and they break. How is he starting at international level

ValleyGary

SouthLondonisRed said:

As much as Grealish had a blinder the other night, in my eyes I thought Kalvin Phillips did too. Would like to see him make an appearance today so much more mobile than Rice

Philips passes the ball backwards as much as Rice. 

Beginning to think they’re instructed too.

cafcfan1990

Laddick01 said:

Henderson is very solid. He’s a must start.

Rice looks okay for West’s Ham but hasn’t had a good game in an England shirt.

Genuinely think we should be looking to get Henderson at the base and play attacking midfielders in front. Outscore opponents. Don’t defend.

Agree on Rice, I'd probably go Phillips and Henderson at the moment with 3 attacking midfielders supporting the striker, probably Sterling, Rashford and Grealish on current form. Phillips gives an energy in midfield that Rice and Dier can't. 

SouthWest_Addicks

Tough watch. Both Rice and Rashford look very poor. Struggling to see what Rashford actually is meant to bring to the strikeforce.

AndyG

With the talent we have available we should be putting creative attacking teams out instead of this dross. Far to fearful and zero personality! 

soapy_jones

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Tough watch. Both Rice and Rashford look very poor. Struggling to see what Rashford actually is meant to bring to the strikeforce.

An OBE apparently...

Didn't even realise we were playing and i used to love football.

Chunes

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Tough watch. Both Rice and Rashford look very poor. Struggling to see what Rashford actually is meant to bring to the strikeforce.

He looks ill. Strolling around and passing it backwards when he does get it. Not like him at all

Macronate

Rashford is a strange one.

Great pace, had a run in the 1st minute but the majority of the time he tends to slow the play up when he receives the ball.

SELR_addicks

This team gets beat by an England team that aren't deemed good enough: 

                                      Pope 

                       Gomez    Coady     Mings
 

Maitland Niles                Phillips                      Saka

                                      
                        Grealish               Barkley/Alli

 
                            Abraham         Ings