We've done better than I thought we would do but we lack a proper midfield when playing the better teams. We had no creativity from midfield, all we had from the beginning of the second half was the hoof.
So both Belgium and England lose in Semi's they should win, any guess the common theme? Yup a core of spurs players, Kane missing in action and I thought he was poor in the quarters as well. NVM Euro's next.
Valiant and honourable effort, but came short against the first half decent quality opposition faced (except the Belgium game which had nothing riding on it). It was such a great chance.
We fell into the trap of ball back to defenders and hoof. Thought Henderson was ok. Just don't get Ali and Lindgard they don't put themselves into positions to pick up the ball. Kane became anonymous and just a target man. We lacked ideas and fitness.
Did better than expected and provided a world cup us fans would never have anticipated, however I think much of it down to the passage we had rather than our ability. It really doesn't stack up on that we have suddenly turned some corner nationally.
Tunisia won Panama won Belgium Lost Colombia drew ( through on penalties) Sweden won Croatia drew (lost in extra time)
It's hardly form that suggests some new dawn. What was positive was Southgate showed class and managed to create a good team spirit and will have served his players in terms of furthering them very well.
Well done England and well done Gareth Southgate and his staff, you gave me back my passion for England which had been lost/killed off under the dull direness of Roy Hodgson. We’ll never know how well England would have done under Alladyce but I feel sure we’d not have progressed as far under him. Disappointed yes, but from my pre World Cup prediction that we’d struggle to get out of the group and be home early that I posted somewhere on here a few months back Gareth Southgate and his team have proved me wrong and I am happy to admit I was so wrong.
A really good effort, Southgate proved himself to be a class act and the team can hold their heads high.
Shame to fall at the last hurdle, losing a semi final in any tournament is tough, but we lacked something in the final third, that killer pass, first touch control and general awareness.
We came out second half a different team.Instead of looking for the second goal we sat back and started to defend deep.It was only a matter of time before crotia scored. In the end Croatia deserved it and anyway being a club over country sort of person i get far more upset when west ham lose.
Has to make you wonder when he brought on Dier for Henderson....surely a wilshere or shelvey wouldve been better choice
Hell even carroll...i dont rate him particularly highly but you need to get the ball up the pitch why not lump him on hes effective with what he does...surely hes worth more than Welbeck who had no role
All in all i was disappointed as i dont rate croatia but we went a hell of a lot fruther then i thought we would
We lacked creativity from our midfield. Once we got out of the group stage, we struggled to score from open play. Good overall result from this WC as we never expected to get this far but disappointed in our performance today.
On a separate note, I didn’t even realize Kyle Walker was playing until the start of the 2nd half. Both my mate and I looked at each other at the same time and said “was he playing in the 1st half or did we make a substitution?”. We had to look up the team sheet to figure it out. And it had nothing to do with the fact that we were watching the game in a bar. ;whistle
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It was a fun ride, but just not good enough in the end.
I was odd to feel joy and not embarrassment whilst watching the national team.
#proud
;hmm
World Cup.
Tunisia won
Panama won
Belgium Lost
Colombia drew ( through on penalties)
Sweden won
Croatia drew (lost in extra time)
It's hardly form that suggests some new dawn. What was positive was Southgate showed class and managed to create a good team spirit and will have served his players in terms of furthering them very well.
Disappointed yes, but from my pre World Cup prediction that we’d struggle to get out of the group and be home early that I posted somewhere on here a few months back Gareth Southgate and his team have proved me wrong and I am happy to admit I was so wrong.
Shame to fall at the last hurdle, losing a semi final in any tournament is tough, but we lacked something in the final third, that killer pass, first touch control and general awareness.
Was a fun ride ;clap
But the young lions did us proud and put a smile back on our national team...
Look forward to watching England again....
In the end Croatia deserved it and anyway being a club over country sort of person i get far more upset when west ham lose.
Hell even carroll...i dont rate him particularly highly but you need to get the ball up the pitch why not lump him on hes effective with what he does...surely hes worth more than Welbeck who had no role
All in all i was disappointed as i dont rate croatia but we went a hell of a lot fruther then i thought we would
Good overall result from this WC as we never expected to get this far but disappointed in our performance today.
And it had nothing to do with the fact that we were watching the game in a bar. ;whistle