Phil foden

Southgate said after the match 'it wasn't a game for Foden' because we needed someone who is disciplined to do some defensive work.

If thats the case then there's no chance of him starting in the knockout games.
 
Southgate said after the match 'it wasn't a game for Foden' because we needed someone who is disciplined to do some defensive work.

If thats the case then there's no chance of him starting in the knockout games.
Exactly he doesn’t trust him

You don’t risk things in knock out games.
 
Foden is the most gifted player we have on the ball. He certainly should be playing instead of Mount, but he does like the work Mount does off the ball. Although Foden does work hard, strange one for me.
 
Foden is the most gifted player we have on the ball. He certainly should be playing instead of Mount, but he does like the work Mount does off the ball. Although Foden does work hard, strange one for me.
This is the main reason why he likes Mount. Mount isn't creative enough to play the no 10 role though. So many moves broke down when he received the ball.

He doesn't play as a traditional no 10 for Chelsea. He plays as one of 2 attacking midfielders.
 
Without the ball, for an attacking player mount is very good and there were worse players than him tonight. Saka was awful as was Bellingham (who I love). He could have brought Foden on for Saka.

It scares me how similar to Boro this team are. Full of talent but too easily dragged down lower than a poorer oppositions level. Southgates way is to pass and remain patient and not give the ball away cheaply. We did that all night and I don't think he will be one bit happy with that performance.
 
Bbc openly questioning it as well

Foden for mount was the obvious choice.
I liked that Williams asked why Wilson couldn't have replaced Kane for the last 20 minutes as well. Kane looked very leggy all night so it would have made sense.

There was a moment late on in the game when we had a chance to counter. Maguire played the ball forward for Kane to run onto but he had no chance of getting there, whereas Wilson probably would have and we'd at least have been able to keep the ball.
 
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