Tryasize10
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Grealish is the type of player you need against teams that sit in.
Yep he’s cr6p there.Putting trippier at left back should be a sackable offence. Been terrible at right back all season so let’s play him at left back
I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it would be worth starting Saka LB, just to give us some width down the left side until Shaw is fit enough to play.A game that was mainly about getting the players up to speed and connecting with each other.
It wasn't great, but if Kane puts that big chance away, Palmer scores that 1v1, then people would be talking a different game. Iceland still had some decent chances too.
Fine margins.
However, we were missing:
Our #1 GK
Our best LB (injured),
Our best RW
Jude Bellingham
Once Pickford, Saka & Jude come into the team, we will look a different animal.
The one problem I have is on the left.
Trippier just doesn't work. He's a shadow of his former self and he's coming off the back of a terrible season, by his standards. He's also not a LB and doesn't hold the width.
So if we go with Trippier at LB and Foden LW, then that left handside is going to have zero width, which in turn, won't allow Jude any space in the centre.
The balance feels all wrong with Trippier at LB.
We either need Foden to sacrifice his own game and play wide....even though he's arguably the best #10 in the world (I don't for one minute think Southgate will play Foden as a #10 though)
Or we drop Trippier and play Gomez...very unlikely given Gomez has rarely played there for England.
Or he plays Gordon LW....but then where does Foden go? And there's no way we should be dropping Foden.