TeaCider
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It's extremely rare the best team loses.
It really is not.
It happens every week in football matches across the world.
It's happened multiple times just in this World Cup alone.
It's extremely rare the best team loses.
It only happens when it's your side that fails to win or your Chris wilderIt really is not.
It happens every week in football matches across the world.
It's happened multiple times in this competition, with sides that are not england. Happens all the time, and often in cup competitions otherwise Man City would win the domestic cups every single year.It only happens when it's your side that fails to win or your Chris wilder
Or woodgateIt only happens when it's your side that fails to win or your Chris wilder
You also have to consider where the abuse is coming from. Your average fan knows very little about football. Imagine Brian Cox getting abuse from the crowd in one of his shows. It doesn't happen because the crowd recognize that Cox knows more than they do about cosmology. Folks like Zain claiming to be students of the game. I assume by that he means he watches the odd televised game.Judging from his comments in interviews since the match, it sounds like he might well resign because of the abuse over the last 18 months.
I hope he doesn't, but I think he can leave with his head held high if he does.
Of course it impacted, we should have had 3 penalties, their first goal shouldn't have happened instead we should have been linining up for a free kick in a dangerous position, and the number of late and off the ball fouls should have led to yellow cards for french defenders which would have put them at risk of a red, and thus given more opportunity for Saka and Foden to exploit.It was a funny game. The ref didn't help but I don't think that ultimately cost us over 90 mins as we had a chance to make it 2-2 with Kane's second penalty.
I don' think it is, he's bettered that in 2 competitions recently. Historically it is, but that's a changing.Southgate is a quandary. He had done really well but the QF appear to be about our level for whatever reason.
Maddison has had about 5 training sessions with these team mates, completely pointless bringing him on. As for Wilson, it was an option but you need to change the formation for multiple players to do that, unless you are suggesting Harry Kane off? Changing formation could just disrupt what was going our way.Thought the subs weren't utilised correctly, yet again.
Chasing the game and he didn't bring on Wilson (our best chance of a goal) or Maddison (our best chance of creating a goal).
I don't think I'd part ways with Southgate, but he definitely needs to improve his in-game management.
The ref lost his mind in this game and in a game of fine margins such a poor performance is clearly influential. People miss penalties it happens, and yes if Kane hadn't missed we would probably have gone on and won, but that isn't the entirety of the story of how the game developed and was lost.
Not a lot was going our way after the penalty though.Maddison has had about 5 training sessions with these team mates, completely pointless bringing him on. As for Wilson, it was an option but you need to change the formation for multiple players to do that, unless you are suggesting Harry Kane off? Changing formation could just disrupt what was going our way.
Maybe, but I watched the first half last night and just how much that ref got wrong and let the french get away with. It would always be a tight match between probably the two best teams in the competition, I think we had the better of it in the end, a third penalty award for us would have at least seen it go to pens, and maybe a win for us in extra time as we were dominating late onI know what you are saying and I probably agree with you in all fairness. Think the result would have been a coin toss though.
but then you don't have the midfield numbers to play through the thirds, you have to lump it longer, and we don't play that way and to be honest you rarely break down a good team like France by hitting it more direct. It's meat and drink to any decent defenders.Keep Kane on, but sacrifice a midfielder for Wilson.
But we needed to change it as it wasn't working.but then you don't have the midfield numbers to play through the thirds, you have to lump it longer, and we don't play that way and to be honest you rarely break down a good team like France by hitting it more direct. It's meat and drink to any decent defenders.
I don't agree we had controlBut we needed to change it as it wasn't working.
You are playing the world champs, there aren't going to be 20 opportunities. We did create plenty though we created 3 pens, multiple free kicks on the edge of the box, a bellingham chance and a kane chance from the edge of the box, a Kane one-vs-one, a Maguire header against the post, stones was inches from another. The opportunities were there.Over the whole game we didn't create a lot of chances. Certainly not enough anyways.
It is undoubtedly easier to play through the thirds if you have a central overload, it's a key part of our way of playingAre you suggesting teams who play 4-4-2 can't play through the thirds and create chances?
Spain had pretty much full control against Morocco.I don't agree we had control
I never said we neede 20 chances.You are playing the world champs, there aren't going to be 20 opportunities. We did create plenty though we created 3 pens, multiple free kicks on the edge of the box, a bellingham chance and a kane chance from the edge of the box, a Kane one-vs-one, a Maguire header against the post, stones was inches from another. The opportunities were there.
but if it isn't working, then it needs fixing.It is undoubtedly easier to play through the thirds if you have a central overload, it's a key part of our way of playing