World Cup Day 5.
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This is what turns me. Linekar saying it was a 'pretty exceptional performance, all-in-all'. Jaysus.
If you submitted it for GCSE art you'd get a C
That good???
Let's face it, it's one of the easier opening games on paper, but I think many of the opening games have shown that nerves can get to teams on the first day.
As for the game, I thought Young and Walker were bollocks. Walker fucked up big time before the penalty, dropping his shoulder into trouble on the edge of the box. Henderson marshaled it fairly well and did play a handful of good long range passes and a great ball early doors that should have resulted in a goal.
I think the injury to Dele changed it, it coincided with a lack of pressing, we started to step off their defense and Sterling and Lingard showed that while we have a top quality striker, we lack consistency either side of him, for all their pace and guile. Snatching at chances and not being clinical enough.
Southgate should have taken Dele off earlier, it was obviously a problem. There's no point gambling on him, he'll be needed in more important games.
As for the ref, I'm loathed to blame conditions or poor officiating, but he was utter dross. Two penalties missed by him and VAR (what's the fucking point?) and that moment when their player wouldn't move away from the freekick, he blatantly ignored it despite being alerted to the issue. There were plenty of niggling cynical fouls from Tunisia that would normally have resulted in a card, did he produce any?
Terrible officiating, not the greatest of conditions and a poor individual mistake giving us jittery nerves, we got through it, now we need to push on. Overall we did ok, job done.
As for the game, I thought Young and Walker were bollocks. Walker fucked up big time before the penalty, dropping his shoulder into trouble on the edge of the box. Henderson marshaled it fairly well and did play a handful of good long range passes and a great ball early doors that should have resulted in a goal.
I think the injury to Dele changed it, it coincided with a lack of pressing, we started to step off their defense and Sterling and Lingard showed that while we have a top quality striker, we lack consistency either side of him, for all their pace and guile. Snatching at chances and not being clinical enough.
Southgate should have taken Dele off earlier, it was obviously a problem. There's no point gambling on him, he'll be needed in more important games.
As for the ref, I'm loathed to blame conditions or poor officiating, but he was utter dross. Two penalties missed by him and VAR (what's the fucking point?) and that moment when their player wouldn't move away from the freekick, he blatantly ignored it despite being alerted to the issue. There were plenty of niggling cynical fouls from Tunisia that would normally have resulted in a card, did he produce any?
Terrible officiating, not the greatest of conditions and a poor individual mistake giving us jittery nerves, we got through it, now we need to push on. Overall we did ok, job done.
Exams are getting easier I hear
Yeah, O-levels it's an E all the way.
England always cause this pain everytime. But a win is a win. Hopefully the timing gets better and they manage to use that space in midfield better. Too many times in the first half Henderson was stranded in midfield with all the other 6 virtually lined up against the Tunisian back line.
Wait........hold the fucking phone........your first language is English?
In what way Macca? Sorry I wasnt watching the afters
He was blabbing on that it was all down to a fortnight of planning for that game.
Southgate is a damnsight more palatable than Hodgson and Allardyce. For that reason alone, I like him. And he seems normal. I'll leave the crticism of his looks to those who give a shit about that sort of thing.
It's laughable really, because the game went anything but to plan. Going to plan would have seen us play with the same intensity to get two goals up. Instead, we saw one of our more experienced defenders make two ridiculous errors, one led to a goal, one could have led to a goal against a better side.
That saw the game plan turned on it's head, we had to dig in and were lucky in the end to get a win - though as I said poor refereeing, sloppiness infront of goal and cynical tactics from Tunisia didn't help, we ideally should have put them to bed in the first half, then things like the Dele Alli injury become less of an issue to manage.
We did the bare minimum, like what you sort of expect in CL qualifiers, when everyone is still getting to grips with playing again and you walk away with a marginal result that everything thinks is disastrous. Job done, now start talking about implementing game plans like it actually has some merit.
He only comes across as a ponce cos he's semi literate. Put him on a rugby pitch and they'd have him fetching their half time tea.
I don't give a toss about Southgate and what he said, what he wears, whatever. All that matters was the result and England got the result their play deserved, 3 points.
Tunisia got what they deserved too, SFA. Now hopefully the ref. will get what he deserves, dropped from the knock-out stages.
Tunisia got what they deserved too, SFA. Now hopefully the ref. will get what he deserves, dropped from the knock-out stages.
Maguire looks to be a bit of a conundrum. Ace at coming forward and driving into the opposition half. Wins all his headers too it seems .... but damn his decision making often gave their speedy attackers free rein which they took, and his abdication of any resemblance of adhering to a defensive line (often being 5-10m ahead of the other two) means we really weren't playing 3 at the back (unless Hendo was the third).
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