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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited June 2021
    Laddick01 said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I am sure most "fans" think you can play 5 attacking midfeilders, over lapping full backs and two up front..... 
    Liverpool did and won the Premier League.

    Play to your strengths sometimes.
    Mate they played 3 holding midfielders!

    They changed to 2 and Tiago and won sod all.

    Man City didn't play with a holding midfield in 1 European game, and lost that. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,417
    cfgs said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I am sure most "fans" think you can play 5 attacking midfeilders, over lapping full backs and two up front..... 
    Walker is very fast and a good defender but some will judge him by what he can't do. Managers like him as his pace is an insurance policy, even Pep who likes his players to all be brilliant on the ball.
    He's fine, he's just been at the Ben Watson School of Dodgy 5-yard Passes today. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    Croatia seem to be targeting Trippier everytime they go forward. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,017
    edited June 2021
    Blimey... Jude Bellingham coming on

    Didnt expect to see him in this sort of scenario

    Certainly not for Kane
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,501
    Is this park the bus for 10 minutes?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,810
    Yep.....Southgate definitely got his coaching badge the same time as Bowyer.

    No main striker on the pitch now.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    Rashford up front I guess on the counter. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited June 2021
    golfaddick said:
    Yep.....Southgate definitely got his coaching badge the same time as Bowyer.

    No main striker on the pitch now.
    Need at least 3 strikers on the pitch, have you ever seen Man City play, they are awful.

    How Spain ever won the world cup...... 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,017
    Well after all the worry today, the defence has been pretty solid
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,417
    Ref has been excellent today. For us.

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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,017
    Chunes said:
    Ref has been excellent today. For us.
    Think he's been pretty fair across the board
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,022
    Slightly surprised we’ve not made more changes, with the heat this afternoon 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,762
    Please please PLEASE not a repeat of the Russia game in '16
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,516
    Surprised Trippier has lasted the whole game. Been struggling a bit this second half defending the crosses
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,501
    The order of these subs has been a bit weird.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,166
    se9addick said:
    The Red Robin said:
    Phillips is so underrated by a lot of people in this country. We’ve needed a player like him for a long time. 
    I think he was underrated by me before this game, he’s been bloody brilliant!

    Pleased for Sterling too, will be interesting to see how the media manage to put a negative spin on it in tomorrow’s paper!
    Probably because you don’t see a lot of Leeds on TV etc. He’s being doing it for two years at Leeds. 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,501
    Mount is a machine. Doesn’t stop running.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,017
    Great hands from Pickford to come get that ball
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,022
    Having more hair is definitely helping Pickford’s decision making 

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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Job done! 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,862
    Get in, great start!
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,212
    Well done, lads. 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 95,017
    edited June 2021
    Job done... Need to be better but the hardest task in the Group Stages is out the way for me - Czechs could be difficult but we smashed them at Wembley last year
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,640
    Fucking get in, great start
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,837
    Brilliant. Well done England 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    Not that impressive but a win is a win.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,613
    Well that was nice, but it did feel rather like a pre-season friendly a lot of the time, and not just because of the weather.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,240
    Philips MOM
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,501
    Big winner: Phillips

    Czech’s could be the tougher game.

    If we had Modric in there I’d really fancy us. What a great player.

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