| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? 21:01 - Mar 21 with 3388 views | Scuzzer |
Cos' I cant see any difference. Typical PL sterile stuff so far. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:01 - Mar 21 with 2956 views | J2BLUE |
No so we should turn on Tuchel now. He's had an entire half. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:02 - Mar 21 with 2947 views | BrianTablet |
The U-21 game is a much better watch. Like Championship viewing. Non-stop action. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:03 - Mar 21 with 2936 views | sjg |
Sideways sideways backwards, walk forward 5 yards, sideways sideways, repeat |  | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:07 - Mar 21 with 2898 views | Trequartista |
Why the hell are the U21s and the first team playing at the same time? |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:09 - Mar 21 with 2880 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:02 - Mar 21 by BrianTablet |
The U-21 game is a much better watch. Like Championship viewing. Non-stop action. |
Some pretty dreadful defending when I was watching. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:11 - Mar 21 with 2859 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Broja looks like he is limping as soon as he has come on! | |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:15 - Mar 21 with 2799 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:09 - Mar 21 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Some pretty dreadful defending when I was watching. |
And some more from Eng U21's.
So so easy. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:17 - Mar 21 with 2762 views | Scuzzer |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:01 - Mar 21 by J2BLUE |
No so we should turn on Tuchel now. He's had an entire half. |
Oh dear. Let's do a bit of stirring. | |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:47 - Mar 21 with 2630 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:17 - Mar 21 by Scuzzer |
Oh dear. Let's do a bit of stirring. |
I did think it was brave of him to criticise Southgate. I don't think it will go well if he intends to get England playing samba football. It might be better to watch but it will be less effective if he does. If he manages to both get them playing it and succeed, fantastic but I can't see it myself. | |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:49 - Mar 21 with 2591 views | textbackup |
Jude B still has me wanting more |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:52 - Mar 21 with 2570 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:03 - Mar 21 by sjg |
Sideways sideways backwards, walk forward 5 yards, sideways sideways, repeat |
Not surprising given Albania are camped |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:54 - Mar 21 with 2562 views | jontysnut |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:03 - Mar 21 by sjg |
Sideways sideways backwards, walk forward 5 yards, sideways sideways, repeat |
I rarely enjoy watching England for that very reason. I flipped over to Comic Relief. Good cause but good grief. Settled on Ian Dury on BBC4. |  | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:56 - Mar 21 with 2527 views | Pique |
Very, very ponderous and predictable tonight.
Rashford is incapable of doing anything other than cutting inside, so even an Albanian full back has him figured out after five minutes. As for Foden, I genuinely forgot he was on the pitch.
Two bits of class from Bellingham and Kane saw us through, but there's an awful lot of work for Tuchel to do.
Lewis-Skelly was a big positive though. [Post edited 21 Mar 21:59]
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 22:14 - Mar 21 with 2436 views | NthQldITFC |
As someone who couldn't give a monkey's about international football (except I'll jump right onto the bandwagon if we get to a semi), can anyone tell me why some of these qualification groups have three teams, some four, and some five? Seems most peculiar. Is it some kind of wnkaerish money-making scheme by FIFA? |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 23:03 - Mar 21 with 2302 views | Bigalhunter |
Tuchel’s a smart cookie.
He’ll realise soon enough, that you can’t alter the plodding, physical, laborious and overly deliberate nature of English players and turn them into replicas of their technically superior Spanish, Argentinian, Brazilian, Italian counterparts just by talking a good job.
Expecting an immediate spike in performance against opposition that comes to defend for 90 mins is a bit optimistic.
He’ll hope to replicate Southgate’s recent runs to semis and finals but instill that little bit of risk, belief and positivity, as opposed to the fear that paralysed the team when they got within sniffing difference of the prize. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 23:42 - Mar 21 with 2234 views | MattinLondon |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:07 - Mar 21 by Trequartista |
Why the hell are the U21s and the first team playing at the same time? |
Maybe cos they are different teams, using different players. |  | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 06:25 - Mar 22 with 2036 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 22:14 - Mar 21 by NthQldITFC |
As someone who couldn't give a monkey's about international football (except I'll jump right onto the bandwagon if we get to a semi), can anyone tell me why some of these qualification groups have three teams, some four, and some five? Seems most peculiar. Is it some kind of wnkaerish money-making scheme by FIFA? |
I thought that the other day, so looked it up. All a bit convoluted but because of the nations league malarkey the four teams playing in the final stages of that slot in to the 3 team leagues. Or something. So they'll all have at least 4. All a bit ridiculous, the 48 team world cup means 16 European teams get through. |  | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 07:19 - Mar 22 with 1923 views | GeoffSentence |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 22:14 - Mar 21 by NthQldITFC |
As someone who couldn't give a monkey's about international football (except I'll jump right onto the bandwagon if we get to a semi), can anyone tell me why some of these qualification groups have three teams, some four, and some five? Seems most peculiar. Is it some kind of wnkaerish money-making scheme by FIFA? |
The ones that currently have three will have four later. Eight teams are missing at the moment, their grouping is to be determined by their performance in the Nations League. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 07:50 - Mar 22 with 1831 views | Blue_In_Boston |
Nothing to do with who the England manager is. If teams turn up with no intention of winning the game, putting everyone behind the ball it will be a bore fest. | | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 10:34 - Mar 22 with 1606 views | ronnyd |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:54 - Mar 21 by jontysnut |
I rarely enjoy watching England for that very reason. I flipped over to Comic Relief. Good cause but good grief. Settled on Ian Dury on BBC4. |
BBC charity shows are nauseating. | | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 12:28 - Mar 22 with 1469 views | stonojnr |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 10:34 - Mar 22 by ronnyd |
BBC charity shows are nauseating. |
CR used to be quite good (Im thinking 30 years back maybe) but its now turned into something approaching ITV telethon levels of cringe.
I kind of wish theyd just played the Utterly live stage show from 86, as I remember that was actually quite funny at the time. | | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 12:44 - Mar 22 with 1419 views | bournemouthblue |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 21:03 - Mar 21 by sjg |
Sideways sideways backwards, walk forward 5 yards, sideways sideways, repeat |
That's been England since about Venables |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 13:11 - Mar 22 with 1366 views | Pique |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 07:50 - Mar 22 by Blue_In_Boston |
Nothing to do with who the England manager is. If teams turn up with no intention of winning the game, putting everyone behind the ball it will be a bore fest. |
True, but we really don't help ourselves. Playing Foden and Rashford 'wide' made us so predictable - cut back inside, channel the play through the middle every time, which is exactly what a team playing a low block wants.
Luckily for us Bellingham picked a brilliant pass through the congestion to set us on our way, but we won't always be able to rely on that.
Good to hear that Tuchel recognised the problem afterwards though, and it sounds like those two won't be getting too many second chances. Rashford's not at that level anyway currently, not sure what he's doing in the team in the first place. And Foden as anything other than a 10 doesn't work, so he needs to learn to suck it up and compete with Bellingham for that role in the team. | | | |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 13:46 - Mar 22 with 1286 views | vapour_trail |
| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 13:11 - Mar 22 by Pique |
True, but we really don't help ourselves. Playing Foden and Rashford 'wide' made us so predictable - cut back inside, channel the play through the middle every time, which is exactly what a team playing a low block wants.
Luckily for us Bellingham picked a brilliant pass through the congestion to set us on our way, but we won't always be able to rely on that.
Good to hear that Tuchel recognised the problem afterwards though, and it sounds like those two won't be getting too many second chances. Rashford's not at that level anyway currently, not sure what he's doing in the team in the first place. And Foden as anything other than a 10 doesn't work, so he needs to learn to suck it up and compete with Bellingham for that role in the team. |
Compete with Bellingham and Palmer for that role in the team.
Unless Bellingham is played deeper, it really looks like like only one of those three can be on the pitch at the same time. |  |
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| Anybody notice the change in style of England tonight? on 16:42 - Mar 22 with 1140 views | michaeldownunder |
Playing with three No.10's will never work and with some times Kane dropping deeper we had 4 No.10's. Just like the old days trying to play Scoles, Lampard and Gerrard in the same team will not work. Dan Burn at c/half had an ok game but as soon as they brought of a half fit forward he looked very nervy. I understand his attacking threat at corners but some of his defensive heading was very weak, he could not seem to get any distance with them. We know that Albania were going to sit deep so wide players were needed rather than Rashford cutting back inside most of the time |  | | |
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