| England lack depth in technical/tactical… Slovakia, Denmark… 11:25 - Jun 19 with 1629 views | unstableblue |
I found England’s performance last night akin to Ipswich under the Marcus reign managers!
Definitely lacked enough energy and fight (Mick did achieve this at the start of his tenure).
But technically and tactically we fell really short, and looked devoid of ideas. And resorted to sideways and backwards passing.
Yes in terms of players technical capabilities in terms of basic skills you can see how England players have leaped forward, control and passing, and some technical elements of moving into space after passing a ball to give a return option.
BUT I look at performances from lowly teams such as Slovakia and Denmark and I am seeing much better technical and tactical set-up, thinking and reading of the game. Transitions, moving as one, stretching shape.
Clearly our pressing, overloads and second ball - hunting in packs - was also sub optimal
If you then step up to Italy or Belgium or France and their technical and tactical pedigree we look miles miles off.
Is this to do with Rice and Philips??? De Bruyne, Kante et al are another level in terms of orchestrating play.
But for me I look at Italy… the way they are moving as a team, options between the lines is off the scale at the moment… are they coached to be technically and tactically more astute??
Yes the England players have picked up so much from their foreign colleagues in the Premier League, but have they picked up some of the inherent reading of the game and is Southgate anywhere near a Klopp or a Guradiola!!? Not even close.
I think we need to think about what make England different… firstly we need much more energy, we need to be much quicker, we need to stretch… we need a system to feed Foden and Sterling/Sancho in dangerous areas and we need to flood forward…. The disconnect between rice/Philips and the front 4 was ridiculous last night and that’s a tactical blunder and a technical failing of the players to fix it
Very down on our chances now… and even now in 2021 why do Slovakia and Denmark still look better with and without the ball??? |  |
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| Mullet… on 15:05 - Jun 20 with 185 views | unstableblue |
| England lack depth in technical/tactical… Slovakia, Denmark… on 13:08 - Jun 19 by Mullet |
I love how being so wrong about Mick still causes you lot to post stuff like this. Darkly comedic.
Italy look brilliant but you clearly haven’t been paying attention to them til now. Which is understandable but fairly typical of this sort of faux analysis. |
Another memory jogger for you Mullet
I thought with TWTDs excellent questionnaire up and running with 1000s of town fans across a cross section of the blue army…
90%+ agreed removing Mick McCarthy was the right decision for the club
But I think more importantly in the previous season look at this:
https://www.twtd.co.uk/questionnaire/chart/807/how-would-you-rate-mick-mccarthys
Whoooooaaa?! 30% very poor, 35% poor, 27% average… just like 30% of Cardiff fans (and growing despite a stellar season), people go to games to win AND watch decent football…
Shall we go back to 15/16, where we finished SEVENTH, yes SEVENTH… BUT:
To the same question ‘how do you rate mick mcarthys performance as manager’, this:
4% very poor
10% poor
31% average
As I have stated many times, mick was our best manager under evans, he worked in ridiculous conditions with no CEO and no structure, he was a great man manager, but his football product was not what the fans wanted or the club needed in the long term. | |
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| England lack depth in technical/tactical… Slovakia, Denmark… on 15:59 - Jun 20 with 159 views | judespiveyg |
There is never, ever, a good reason to play two defensive midfielders at once. Chelsea put in one of the best defensive performances I've ever seen in the Champions League final with only one (Kante). That being said I was very impressed with the England in the Croatia game, with Phillips offering a lot of attacking value further forward. However his true position is defensive midfield and he clearly slipped into that against Scotland.
Defensively minded managers (I don't necessarily think Southgate is one) are infinitely weaker than attacking minded managers, because while they might have the brains, they don't have the guts to truly let the team flourish.
Mourinho (at least at his peak) and Simeone are fantastic managers, but I much would rather have Guardiola, Klopp or Wenger (at his peak). [Post edited 20 Jun 2021 16:16]
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