Search results

Not at the Euros.

That still doesn’t account for winning just 1 knockout game in 68 years. The Czech Republic beat the Netherlands in the knock out stages, so clearly weren’t a bad side. As for Croatia, World Cup finalists and took Spain to extra time. As for Scotland, fierce rivalries can provide shock results...

Even this shows they created 4 big chances, 2 of which were in the sequence of their goal. xG has its usefulness, but it’s not the be able and end all of describing how a match went. If England want to carry on playing as we are, I’ve got no problems with that. That being said, we need to be...

They’re in a transitional phase, for sure. But they still have good individuals players. Havertz, Gnabry, Sane, Müller, Gundogan, Kroos, Neuer, Kimmich and you could even add in Werner. Not sure why so many England fans want to put an asterisk on our own achievements. It’s really peculiar and...

We beat Germany, scarcely an easy draw. Frankly, European football has never been more dominant. Brazil and Argentina are generally not as strong as they were nor our the other South American nations; Chile, Uruguay and Colombia. Winning the Euros is generally on a similar plane to winning...

The evidence is there. 4th place in the World Cup, 3rd place in the Nations League and runners up in the Euros. This is was achieved by the 2nd or 3rd youngest squad in the tournament. The failures hurt, for sure. But, I highly doubt anyone was calling for Joachim Löw’s sacking following...

I agree that it would have probably have been better to have started either Saka or Sancho. An interesting stat from the game was our passing completion in the final was 74.9%. This was about 10% below our average for our tournament so it’s entirely possible that the team lost its composure...

We limited Italy to low quality chances throughout and were quite comfortable. However, our transition play was non existent. So we were defending as if it were the final 5 minutes for around 65 minutes and there’s examples of Rice, Maguire, Phillips and Walker punting the ball down field and...

The Athletic has two really good articles on the final. To summarise very basically, we passed up too many opportunities to counter attack, we defended really well until we went to 4-3-3. England ‘controlled the game without the ball’ was a quote from a coach from Dortmund. From the Telegraph...

The transfer window isn’t shut and we clearly haven’t completed our business yet. Our strikers look like a strong part of our team and I’m sure we’ll look to strengthen the defence and find a replacement for Matty James too. A lower to mid table finish will do for me. I don’t think we’ll get...

I don’t think he would, unlike COH, he’d get shrugged off the ball a lot easier without drawing fouls either. I like Allen, he’s good at passing and pressing. He’s not really a CAM, but also doesn’t look like he would fit in as a CM in our system. He’d be a very good signing for a League 1...

Thank you for the information you’ve provided previously! Just out of curiosity, how much is it for a normal away game? I agree that the higher caps you have, you should get to go to games. It is more or less the same principle as buying a season ticket at Cov. If we get a big away tie against...

Disagree. Besides, he clearly isn’t going to be a starter. Our budget will be the approximately the 4th lowest in the division, there won’t really be better alternatives for that role for where we’re at now. We still have gaps to fill in defence and central midfield. Although I’m hoping Rose...

Why the negativity towards Shipley? He scored the same amount of goals as COH in 19-20 less games. He’s a good role player and he ended last season really positively!

Kane will be able to play to a high standard up to to 34 or 35 you’d think. Hope DCL can kick on to the next level as he’s an out and out striker. We still have Greenwood and Rashford to develop and mature too as well as some younger talent still in their teens. There’s plenty of development...

The host nation has not faired well in recent European Championships history. Only Spain and France in 1964 and 1984 has won the tournament as hosts. Portugal, France and now England (technically we weren’t) have lost in the finals as hosts. We’re in good shape going into Qatar 2022. For all...

Penalty shootouts favour the away team? Have you got a source for that?

Sterling has missed more penalties than he’s scored and Grealish isn’t a penalty take for Villa. Sancho hasn’t missed and Rashford has scored 13 of 15 penalties (not sure if that includes last night). Saka was a surprise choice, especially for the 5th and final penalty. But, if he’s scoring...

There’s no shame in losing to the best team of the tournament so far. Mancini is one of the best managers in international football too. The mentality has got to be ‘we’ll get to the final of the next tournament’. Under Lowe, Germany got to a final in 2008 and two semi finals before winning the...

That’s a pretty harsh assessment. This is a young team and they got beat by more experienced team. By and large, we managed their threats well, and in the end we were undone by a fortunate goal. In fairness to you, Italy were the better team with more possession and shots than us and it felt...