Interesting that the Bosnia manager is taking charge of his first ever game as a manager. On that basis, I'm putting my name forward to succeed Southgate.
Getting difficult to leave Eze out the final squad at this rate
Players always seem to do their best for England when they're fresh into the squad. In that sense it's hard to leave out Eze, Gordon and Plamer as they haven't been ground down yet. Hard to get them all in though with Saka and Foden sure picks
Amazing depth that Grealish and Maddison are on the bench, and not because they are being protected, when Rashford, Sancho and Sterling haven't even made this squad.
Amazing depth that Grealish and Maddison are on the bench, and not because they are being protected, when Rashford, Sancho and Sterling haven't even made this squad.
I appreciate that he's still only 29 but I think we've seen the last of Sterling in an England shirt for the reasons you've suggested in terms of the strength of the squad and certainly all the time Southgate is in charge. In fact, I could see him going to Dubai sooner rather than later and he would then be very much "out of sight, out of mind".
Slight concern that we're struggling to break down a team that are packing their box defensively.
Suspect we'll have to deal with that in the Group games, however our line up for those matches should look very different - Difficult one, as those out there need to show they deserve a place, whilst avoiding injury.
You take Kane out your side (which we have the last 4/5 games) it completely upsets the whole attacking balance. These sides sit back and Kane is the expert at playing against them. Watkins has had 3 touches and they’ve all been shite.
Really surprised that there is VAR for this game, and we didnt get a penalty in the first half when Watkins was held back, prior to getting a shot away
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Surely we should be giving another keeper a go?
If something happens to Pickford, we’ve not tested either of the other two & they’ve had hardly any game time 🫣
Suspect we'll have to deal with that in the Group games, however our line up for those matches should look very different - Difficult one, as those out there need to show they deserve a place, whilst avoiding injury.
Highlight of the game so far is Kane's face when someone else took and scored a penalty
Dunk off - Konsa moves to centre back (and Gomez on at left back)
Three positions across the backline in one evening. The lad can do it all!