God is Haaland Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, Stan said: Kante gets his hat-trick! Stellar performance from him. It'd be nice if Pogba turned up today, even if it was only a friendly. Kanté doesn't get shit. Are you drunk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrator Stan Posted June 13, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted June 13, 2017 Just now, True Bender said: Kanté doesn't get shit. Are you drunk? read the rest of the thread ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Poor game management from Southgate. You get what you hire. Warning sign for the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Pogba has had a great game in fairness. Although it needs to be addressed he is allowed to play freely considering Kante is covering every blade of grass. Looks like Pogba doesn't need Sergio B. Little late to the party if you are finally realising Cahill is an average defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber RandoEFC+ Posted June 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 13, 2017 Absolutely predictable England. Been the same literally my entire lifetime. I don't think Southgate is the best manager but I just think failure is so entrenched in the English national team that it doesn't matter who manages us, we'll be the exact same . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 England need Alexis Texas to show them how to handle 10 men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted June 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, Cicero said: Pogba has had a great game in fairness. Although it needs to be addressed he is allowed to play freely considering Kante is covering every blade of grass. Looks like Pogba doesn't need Sergio B. Little late to the party if you are finally realising Cahill is an average defender. I said last year France completely wasted Kante by playing him that deep. Completely limits his ability to turn defence into attack. Him and Pogba complement each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Artful Dodger Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 France have absolutely pissed this since losing a man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 He's no Sergio B though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted June 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 13, 2017 Well that was pretty awful. Only a friendly but a massive showing of why we are miles off the top. Can't remember a side looking so bad with eleven men against ten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadLinesman Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 How did France look better with 10 men? Embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted June 13, 2017 Author Administrator Share Posted June 13, 2017 France actually went down to 11 men because Kante is worth 2 players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asura Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Cicero said: He's a legend tbf. Along with Happy Blue in my books get a grip mate, dont compare him to HB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machado Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 England can't go far in the world cup with this kind of defending. They need to have that sorted. France have quality all over the park. The only reason they couldn't beat us is because they have a less experienced side and it showed that day, but no NT in the world has more potential than them imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewolf Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Couldn't beat Scotland there was no way we were going to beat France Give France some credit as they played like we were down to 10 and not the other way round Sad to think that the last time we won something of note as a football team was when I was in nappies and too young to even crawl. To think I am going to die before we ever win anything again of note Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I can't believe how poor we have become as a nation. We can't beat Slovenia, we can't beat Scotland, and we can't beat a half strength ten man France. France are an elite country but we were both in similar positions betweeen 2010 and 2012. Years after years of not integrating a system where players are salary capped until they hit a certain age to remain focused and dedicated, and another system that allows players to get opportunities in The Premiership to develop, has really bitten us in the arse. Look at those players that won the under 20 World Cup. Our country is structured so that most of them will now get huge wage increases and struggle to break in to their sides first team over the next 2-4 seasons before eventually being moved on. IF they played in france or portugal it would be a completely different story. The FA I get are trying everything but the Premier League are singing off a different hymn sheet. It's not just players too. We've created a culture where ex professionals do not want to manage clubs and those that do find it almost impossible to establish themselves due to the longevity they last in jobs. I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it would ever be as bad that fucking Gareth Southgate would be our Manager. A Championship failure that gives off more 'ermms' in an interview than I did in a year nine school presentation. There's not one inspiring fibre in that mans body. I never thought I'd lose interest in England but I completely have. I just feel sorry for the current generation of youth who will now grow up without excitement as close as Euro 96 or feel the optimism of a Golden generation and will grow up so disillusioned with international football they won't deem it anywhere near as important as club football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Pogba looked decent. Amazing what he can do against a dead midfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carefreeluke Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 The back three were dreadful with Jones having some good moments in fairness but it's important to remember the system used was all over the place defensively, constantly the back three were under pressure and faced with one on one situations (which any Chelsea fan will tell you Cahill hates), he looked good for the majority of last season for us because he's very well protected in a system that's been drilled and drilled and drilled home by Conte, I don't think I've ever watched an England side where this has been the case. As a defender though you've still got to attempt to defend your one on ones which none of our defenders did well (in fairness this is where Jones had some good moments), it was like our defenders were playing on ice in and around our box and there was so much diving in. Basics of defending, stay on your feet lads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Dan+ Posted June 13, 2017 Subscriber Share Posted June 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Aaroncpfc said: I can't believe how poor we have become as a nation. We can't beat Slovenia, we can't beat Scotland, and we can't beat a half strength ten man France. France are an elite country but we were both in similar positions betweeen 2010 and 2012. Years after years of not integrating a system where players are salary capped until they hit a certain age to remain focused and dedicated, and another system that allows players to get opportunities in The Premiership to develop, has really bitten us in the arse. Look at those players that won the under 20 World Cup. Our country is structured so that most of them will now get huge wage increases and struggle to break in to their sides first team over the next 2-4 seasons before eventually being moved on. IF they played in france or portugal it would be a completely different story. The FA I get are trying everything but the Premier League are singing off a different hymn sheet. It's not just players too. We've created a culture where ex professionals do not want to manage clubs and those that do find it almost impossible to establish themselves due to the longevity they last in jobs. I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it would ever be as bad that fucking Gareth Southgate would be our Manager. A Championship failure that gives off more 'ermms' in an interview than I did in a year nine school presentation. There's not one inspiring fibre in that mans body. I never thought I'd lose interest in England but I completely have. I just feel sorry for the current generation of youth who will now grow up without excitement as close as Euro 96 or feel the optimism of a Golden generation and will grow up so disillusioned with international football they won't deem it anywhere near as important as club football. It's just so depressing. I'll be amazed if we get out of our group in Russia. Nothing is ever learnt at senior level. I want to care about England but I cannot ever feel any passion for such a soulless side. I barely celebrated the equaliser at Scotland. Didn't celebrate the winner against Wales much. I'm just not that bothered. It doesn't do anything for me. It's something I watch but feel nothing for. We are in such a cycle that we will win nothing in my lifetime. People can bring up Greece 2004 and Portugal 2016 but those sides clearly had something about them. We have absolutely nothing that suggests we can perform in a tournament. Walk a piss easy qualifying group, delude ourselves we're good, get shown up in tournament, rinse and repeat. Same old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadLinesman Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 11 hours ago, Cannabis said: Theo Walcott making an appearance as well..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Why play a back three when it's just a back nine? Apparently we caused France a load of problems and looked dangerous, this is the problem. We were mediocre against Scotland but it was hailed as a "never say die" attitude and we were largely inept last night but apparently it was a 50/50 of good performances and bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicero Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 What Pogba did to Cahill scares me what other players in the CL will do to him. Either get another CB or put faith in Christensen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 On 14/06/2017 at 9:03 AM, Danny said: Why play a back three when it's just a back nine? Apparently we caused France a load of problems and looked dangerous, this is the problem. We were mediocre against Scotland but it was hailed as a "never say die" attitude and we were largely inept last night but apparently it was a 50/50 of good performances and bad. I think those comments are more psychological to the players than anything. Morale must be shot to pieces and if they're getting hammered by everybody I can't see Gareth Urmm Southgate being the man to pick them back up. We've just got to massage their flacid ego's otherwise in a hiarlious circumstance we could drop points to Slovakia and Slovenia and end up not qualifying. We'd really struggle in other groups at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Honey Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 They would never have defended that badly under Allardyce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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