The main problem with England is playing a very wide system with a formation more suited to playing narrow. Add in to that the lack of basic wide players except for Saka and the lack of a wide left back and the problem is exacerbated. Add to that the unsuitable Tiki taka approach and it's clear the whole set up is wrong.
If the went more compact and kept passing short, that might work. If they stay as they are they would be better off to gegenpress and go more direct - neither of these will happen.
Next manager needs to go to back three - like nearly all modern managers. 4-2-1-3 is rubbish for us as we're really wide with a totally narrow midfield. 4-3-3 narrow would be better with the same personnel.

Red and Blue Army!

Nice of France and Belgium to have an open training session live on TV zzzzzzz

Very true, at least I feel like I can switch this off, England always feels like I have to stick with it till the bitter end

I think the dawdling on the ball is largely due to the lack of movement. Whatever central idea is underlying the organisation of the team is clearly flawed. We knocked it around with for the first half hour v Serbia, but it's been disjointed ever since. There's the left side weakness combined with Foden and Bellingham being unable to adapt their positioning and the manager being the only person on the planet who can't sse it. Roy Keane made a great point about Austria, Swtizerland, Demark and Slovakia - they play like men. There are a lot of gnarled blokes aboutr 30, not 20, who play a bit like Lerma does for us, roll their sleeves up, combine and work it out together. When the Slovaks played out under pressure the angles of their one-touch passing and the movement of the players receiving the ball meant the English players were wrong footed, and they escaped the press by combing cleverly together. Our players don't look smart enough or humble enough to do that most often, but the main reason for this failure is the players are not in the best position because they have been incorrectly set up, and they are failing as a team to adjust.

Its not only England are cr@p. A lot of teams are, and a lot have bad games/poor results.

The stark difference for me is intent.

Whilst Portugal weren't amazing last night, they gave it a go. Stuck a load of crosses in, created some chances etc. Instead of sitting back, they spent the majority of the game in the Slovenia half. Without Oblack (who was outstanding) they might have won relatively comfortably.

In most of England's games the oppo need not even have a keeper with the number of efforts we register on target.

The FA had another golden generation on their hands and the morons gave them to Southgate.

Sweet FA as usual.

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