TAA looks a tailor-made wing back imho, Southgate has run out of ideas and seems out of his depth. Done a grand job up till recently but this is one tournament too far - Bellingham and Foden are getting in each others way and GS has shown no sign of being able to solve this problem. If Mainoo starts in the next game then either Foden or Bellingham will have to be dropped but GS lacks both the vision and bottle to make such a decision. It's strange because he started in 2016 with 3-5-2, reverted to four at the back, then went 3-4-3 to match up with the Germans in the last Euros but now he's inflexible and rigid. I'd play Jude to partner Rice like the last world cup, Foden as number 10 and Gordon on the left. I know I'm one of 60 million England managers but it's got to make an improvement to what we've seen so far.

Absolutely. Last night was as close to being a fee hit as we could've hoped for but still no real change. Risk aversion is one thing but this is something more than that.

That's where the Denmark game was so disappointing - win that, and last nights -as Spains was the negith before - was a true free hit, and playing a second string would have been possible (though I still dont think GS would have changed anything). The last chance was HalfTime. but at 0-0, he was never gonna try anything drastic. I was incredibly surprised he pulled Gallagher so early. didn't think it was in his Dna to make early changes.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

It's a similar problem to what we had with the 2004/2006 team - we're trying to get all of our 'best' players on the pitch at the same time, rather than trying to build the best team.

Foden is clearly an incredibly talented player and is phenomenal for City, but he's now got 37 caps for England and I'd struggle to think of one good performance.

He's got 2 goals in his last 34 for England, scoring against Wales and Scotland.

Palmer looked more of a threat in 20 mins yesterday than Foden has in 270.

How many opportunities do we need to give him?

Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (26 Jun 2024 3.29pm)

Yup, Sky & the bbc have minutely reported it.

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this is the most worrying part, despite all of the evidence of the first two matches, Southgate thought that yesterday's starting 11 was the answer. Don't expect major changes for the knockouts, it's just not in his nature. The only major changes will come if his hand is forced e.g. Foden having to go home for a family matter, another player injured or such like