- Sep 1, 2008
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There will be many praising Southgate and to a degree they are right, but I felt his tactics invited pressure far too much. Having just Henderson sitting in the middle of the park, and not addressing the Croatia middle 3 was a mistake. Croatia's width in the second half was outrageous at times, and it seemed like it was beyond Gareth to negotiate a way forward for us from that. Losing to Belgium was a blessing, and all the cards landed the right way up for us to progress as far as we did.
Full credit to getting where we got to, we just weren't as good as we wanted to believe we were, but we could be, so I dare to be optimistic going forward. If we can find an England player that can create, a la Modric we will be gravy.
Full credit to getting where we got to, we just weren't as good as we wanted to believe we were, but we could be, so I dare to be optimistic going forward. If we can find an England player that can create, a la Modric we will be gravy.