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A bad player is a bad player whoever he plays for.
He isn't a bad player at all. Nonsense.
A bad player is a bad player whoever he plays for.
This WC so far has been a joke. The refs been allowing way to much and for some strange reason we see the press giving all the praise they can to all the anti football some teams are playing today.I am concerned that this WC could be derailed by the amateurish refereeing . Switzerland kicked Neymar all over the place and Tunisia just wrestled players own. Where were the yellow cards? Have they been banned for this WC?
I just think not scoring freekicks and being "shit" at freekicks aren't the same thing. He doesn't take many and when he does he tends to at least test the keeper, which is more than can be said for Young. I'm not saying he should take them ahead of Eriksen at Spurs, but in this England team he has the best chance of scoring IMO.
It was a free shot at goal from just outside the box and I'd rather see our best striker of the ball take it. Before Ronaldo's goal against Spain, he hadn't scored a freekick in his previous 46 attempts - I doubt Harry has even taken half that many for us. Big players step up on the biggest stage and Harry is England's big player at the moment.
Each to their own though, thankfully it doesn't matter now that we've won.
Keown was terrible wasn’t he. Moaning about Dele all second half yet lingard got off Scot free. Rashford and Sterling running down blind alleys and making the wrong decision time and again didn’t help.
Where were the yellow cards? Have they been banned for this WC?
The positives are:So what do we take out of that then? Good/average performance, more questions then answers?
If any of those Lingard chances had fallen to Dele, England would have been out of sight by half time.There’s no doubting that England still lack the quality of the likes of Germany, France, etc and Southgate can’t really do much about that, but at least this team tried to do more of the right things than previous incarnations.
I’m so sick of hearing English pundits say “they need to get the ball forward quicker” whenever a team is up against a well drilled bus park, and Tunisia were parked deeper and deeper as that game wore on.
First half Tunisia were awful, and a better quality team would have killed them.
Trippier, Henderson were the best performers over the 90. Alli was good for the first 30. LC decent little cameo and Rashford looked lively.
I’d have Rose in for Young and Loftus-Cheek for Linguard next game. I generally like Sterling, but he wasn’t great tonight and Rashford could start next one and see how he does.
Walker looks like he's got my nans hair net on.
He chucked Trippier under the bus trying to blame him for the penalty. So much for togetherness!
So what do we take out of that then? Good/average performance, more questions then answers?
He chucked Trippier under the bus trying to blame him for the penalty. So much for togetherness!