The England Thread
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I think it’s Rice’s best position long term.
Stop obsessing with being mediocre midfielders and become genuinely comfortable on the ball centre halves lads.
People talk about John Stones being comfortable on the ball but the amount of mistakes and misplaced passes he makes...I think he’s the opposite. Being able to control the ball easily doesn’t mean you’re comfortable with it at your feet. He’s a fucking moron with the ball at his feet!
It’s not helped by loads of people applauding it insisting he needs to keep doing it, I’m a fan of defenders that can do it but if you can’t do it, then simply stop!
nailsy
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Maddison hasn't even got a cap yet and he's already creating problems for the manager:
www.skysports.com
I assume the England doctor thought whatever was wrong with him was bad enough to effect his on field performance and he probably wanted to prevent it spreading throughout the camp, but it really doesn't look good when Maddison's out at the same time the match is on.
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I assume the England doctor thought whatever was wrong with him was bad enough to effect his on field performance and he probably wanted to prevent it spreading throughout the camp, but it really doesn't look good when Maddison's out at the same time the match is on.
1882andallthat
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I wish he'd save his bad performances for the ones where he has a Liverpool shirt on.
1882andallthat
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I wouldn't go so far as saying England's defence made our defence look solid in comparison. Especially when you factor in us shipping in 10 goals in 2 games, and whilst some may say the Czech Republic aren't exactly world class so that makes the performance even worse, we could equally say Brighton are hardly world beaters and we let in 3. I do however get the gist of what you are saying.
nailsy
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He's been doing really well in Spain apparently. Saying that I think Southgate was probably planning to give them a game each.
Danny1
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So a Winks and Henderson midfield. That should be a better midfield than against Czechs. Winks is far more talented on the ball than Rice and Henderson can do what Rice does quite comfortably.
Not sold on Barkley personally but Mount was pretty poor on Friday in my opinion so can understand that. Shame that Tomori hasn’t been given a game as I think he is more talented than Mings and the times I’ve seen mings live for Villa I think he has been poor.
Not sold on Barkley personally but Mount was pretty poor on Friday in my opinion so can understand that. Shame that Tomori hasn’t been given a game as I think he is more talented than Mings and the times I’ve seen mings live for Villa I think he has been poor.
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Great to see Winks starting! Think he could be England's solution to a holding midfielder. Dier and rice are far too limited with the ball at their feet, winks can actually spin out of trouble and find a through ball at his best, much more potential as a more natural midfielder (although personally don't see him as the answer to spurs' midfield but this will help him!)
chrissivad
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Yeah, wasn't so good on the replay.
Would expect you keeper (maybe not ours) to keep that out.
