Philips has been superb again. I wanted him off at HT but 2nd half he’s been the best player on the pitch.
He has. But it was something I noticed in the euros, he really does have a regular tendency to have one half where he plays like one of the best midfielders around and another where he looks like he's never played football before. Denmark was the obvious game, looked like someone who had won a competition first half. Had a good tournament generally but it's weird how he's so poor for the occasional 45 mins. Don't remember seeing it too often for a player in his position previously.
Anyone questioning why Bellingham doesn't start should have their answer tonight. If they didn't already.
He's young and has plenty of itme but I'm not entirely sure we need to play 2 DM's against lesser opposition. When it comes to better teams next year I really hope we go 4231 and playing Rice and Phillips is probably the way to go then to be fair.
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Will they take their games to the next level?
Do they need it?