DenverSpur
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Don’t think he’s got the minutes in him to start.
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DenverSpur
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I disagree that Kane was poor tonight. He’s had a poor tournament but he was good in this first half. We got the ball out wide quickly, Bellingham and Foden found good positions.All that gave Kane much more space to work in which is what he didn’t have in the previous games. In the second have we reverted to type again and there was no service from the flanks and Kane was no worse than anyone else.
Im surprised that you thought Toney would come in. The way the Dutch were set up in the final 15 minutes the space was in behind and that’s were Watkins thrives.
DenverSpur
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Same starting line up as today in the Final.
Trent Crimm
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Has anyone seen the Ross Kemp videos on Twitter. Awful staged shit. Was funny a few years ago. Now not so
ComfortablyNumb
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Got lucky, knockouts innit.I'm guessing you didn't follow the European cups this season
muppetman
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Really? Best moments of your lives?
Maybe I’ve lived a blessed existence but this was up there with the birth of your children and so on?
Hey leave him be!
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Serves them right, they shouldn't have been so arrogant, a little humility and they could have come second and been in our side of the draw.
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Each to their own, although I didn’t say where I ranked it in my best moments. I mean, it was great but wasn’t as good as Moura’s third in Amsterdam.
Monkey boy
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as long as the same ref is in charge it’ll be a breeze. Forget the disgraceful penalty award some of his other decisions were borderline match fixing and if it had been the other way around then he’d be receiving all kinds of abuse in the media for weeks and years to come.
amathews3416
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Ref had nothing to do with the penalty. VAR called him to pitchside monitor and they are going with VAR everytime this tournament on those decisions. Not quite sure how it's disgraceful. It could have gone either way but you can't have any complaints when you are going in studs first on an attacking player. We learned the lesson the hard way with Romero against Chelsea.
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The Kane stuff is just weird in my opinion.
If Kane is getting criticised for his performance last night then both Rice and Bellingham need to be criticised even more so. Rice was abject all game, and generally has been this tournament. The Dutch chances all came from either Rice giving the ball away in midfield again, or Bellingham failing to track his runner in the box.
Bellingham has bought into the hype and seems to think he is some kind of Messi reincarnate, when in actual fact he needs to go back to doing what he used to and keep the ball moving.
Foden showed more class and ability in that 10 position last night than Bellingham has all tournament.
The fact is that we are in the final, and I think the only change that will be made is Trippier not starting, Lamal will absolutely destroy him!
If Kane is getting criticised for his performance last night then both Rice and Bellingham need to be criticised even more so. Rice was abject all game, and generally has been this tournament. The Dutch chances all came from either Rice giving the ball away in midfield again, or Bellingham failing to track his runner in the box.
Bellingham has bought into the hype and seems to think he is some kind of Messi reincarnate, when in actual fact he needs to go back to doing what he used to and keep the ball moving.
Foden showed more class and ability in that 10 position last night than Bellingham has all tournament.
The fact is that we are in the final, and I think the only change that will be made is Trippier not starting, Lamal will absolutely destroy him!
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It'll be a neverending story...
Mr Pink
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Ha, if you cant see how the Dutch changed it to good affect thats on you.
And if you can’t see that Southgate changed it to bad effect that’s on you. 4-2-3-1 hasn’t worked at all, why did he switch to it when we had finally played well
Why should it?
Mr Pink
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What the Dutch did had a much more significant impact on the game than Southgate's change of formation.
You can keep pissing in the wind with this if you like though.
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What an extraordinary take
Love your debating style. Two teams change their formation at half time. First of all you just ignore the fact that one of them did. Then you just definitively state the Dutch change had more impact - how the fuck do you know that? The changes didn’t happen in a vacuum. All I can see is that Gareth changed from a system that was working to one that hasn’t worked at any point in the tournament. If he had started the second half with a back 3 then changed to counter the Dutch move if it wasn’t working that’s one thing, but he didn’t - he sent us out in a different formation before he even knew the Dutch had made a change. And it didn’t work, our attacking players totally disappeared second half and they were the better side second half. The fact Watkins scored a brilliant goal out of nowhere doesn’t change that.
Southgate is clearly an excellent man manager - the players love him. The downside is he’s an over cautious tactician. But the most important trait is he’s lucky, so Napoleon would love him
