duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £35m
Isnt also to stop a lot of pointless friendly fixtures? Its in its infancy so will have to see how it goes.
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Today's Football 2018-19 Season
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duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £35m
3-0 now
Holland well worth this win. Turning into a rout as well.
The German golden era is well and truly over. Hummels, Boateng, Neuer, Kroos, Muller all been woeful.
The German golden era is well and truly over. Hummels, Boateng, Neuer, Kroos, Muller all been woeful.
centralTon
Player Valuation: £10m
Aye, well worth it too.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
GIBRALTAR WIN
Played 22, lost 22, scored 5 against 107
But tonight Henrikh Mkhitaryan and his Armenian team became their first ever victims
Armenia 0 Gibraltar 1
'WATCH: Gibraltar's emotional first win'
http://www.skysports.com/share/11525485
Probably thrash Scotland too now lol
Played 22, lost 22, scored 5 against 107
But tonight Henrikh Mkhitaryan and his Armenian team became their first ever victims
Armenia 0 Gibraltar 1
'WATCH: Gibraltar's emotional first win'
http://www.skysports.com/share/11525485
Probably thrash Scotland too now lol
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
Mikey, I recall well your championing of Van Dijk ...and the pooh-poohing you received for it. It'd be nice to say that you got the last laugh...but unfortunately 'that lot' did.
centralTon
Player Valuation: £10m
We both did mate, was talking him up for us for a long time.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
Always loved the Dutch but hate what koeman did to us and don't really like any of their players anymore so it's hard to support them.
Not quite the likeable players of Dr boers, seedorf, davids, overmars, Bergkamp and van persie of previous years.
Not quite the likeable players of Dr boers, seedorf, davids, overmars, Bergkamp and van persie of previous years.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
The Nations league is a league of glorified friendlies with very little extra meaning for any even second rate nations, perhaps means a little more for those below that like Scotland and Gibraltar though lol.
On Croatia vs England...
I was encouraged and thought they played reasonably well, they kept the ball well, there was no sign of England reverting to type or abandoning this experiment of playing more out from the back, they tried to keep possession and they didn't look afraid of the ball as they very often often used to do.
The growing influence of Harry Maguire and John Stones at the back is now very evident, and those two can be the foundation of this team, allowing Southgate to experiment a little bit more further up the field with new players that he's bringing in. These include exciting players that on the fringes at the moment like Sancho.
I thought it was a good performance on the whole against the World Cup finalists, who despite a post World Cup dip, are still a very good side. We had the better chances and if Marcus Rashford hadn't shown the type of finishing that has so exasperated José this season, missing two gilt edged chances, we would have won the game. To do that away from home, albeit in an empty stadium, was a pretty good performance.
There was a lot to be positive about but it's far easier to be negative and the red tops specialise in it.
On Croatia vs England...
I was encouraged and thought they played reasonably well, they kept the ball well, there was no sign of England reverting to type or abandoning this experiment of playing more out from the back, they tried to keep possession and they didn't look afraid of the ball as they very often often used to do.
The growing influence of Harry Maguire and John Stones at the back is now very evident, and those two can be the foundation of this team, allowing Southgate to experiment a little bit more further up the field with new players that he's bringing in. These include exciting players that on the fringes at the moment like Sancho.
I thought it was a good performance on the whole against the World Cup finalists, who despite a post World Cup dip, are still a very good side. We had the better chances and if Marcus Rashford hadn't shown the type of finishing that has so exasperated José this season, missing two gilt edged chances, we would have won the game. To do that away from home, albeit in an empty stadium, was a pretty good performance.
There was a lot to be positive about but it's far easier to be negative and the red tops specialise in it.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Southgate, new contract freshly signed, has taken the 3-5-2 formation about as far as he could, it's one playing style the team has grown into, but it's deficiencies have also now been exposed, now the time has come to move on, he hasn't been slow to bank that and develop another.
The signs change was needed were there in the defeat against Spain, and to a lesser extent in the victory against Switzerland three days later. They were getting penned in not holding possession and consequently not getting forward enough and scoring goals.
The flaws in the 3-5-2 system had become too obvious to him in reviewing the semi-final defeat by Croatia when a tired England side just struggled to control the game, especially in the second half. They now have the confidence and ability to pass the ball out from the back, and the cover of five defenders that ensured some leeway for errors, meant we suffered further up, switching to the four four two can alleviate that a little.
In the 3-5-2 we had scope to develop the passing game, bringing the ball out from the back with the safety net of numbers, but didn’t cover the pitch further forward, getting penned in. Harry Maguire and John Stones now know each other well enough to play in a different way, a back four when necessary.
One system is now embedded and has been taken as far as they possibly could, alternatives have to be developed and taken to the same level, so England can adapt and do both
Southgate has said that it was the right time for a change.
Against Croatia, they applied better pressure on their back four and on their midfield players. Our defence is no longer very new and the comfort of the five not quite so needed, there are signs we have learnt the lessons and are moving on.
There is very limited time, Euros 2020 will soon be upon us and he needs to get more men in advanced positions with confidence and ability to use the ball. Chalobah, Winks, Barkley and maybe or perhaps Loftus-Cheek or Foden, but don't pick anyone without enough first team football. There are others still very much on the fringes like Madison and even Mount, but they're nowhere near yet. Getting more in advanced positions is a start and a new formation can help.
The dependence on Kane isn't helped when Vardy rules himself out, Sturridge isn't playing often enough and Welbeck neither. Southgate still has confidence in Sterling and Rashford, who despite his troubles the other night, did score against Spain and Switzerland, and so retains his manager’s faith.
Southgate is reacting and he's doing it now. As with the build up before Russia 2018, the planning stage is a year or more before. Pre Russia, the 3-5-2 'passing from the back' revolution, the new progressive style was barely noticed by the usual perennial sceptics, there were still the predictably lame posts of 'Same old England' from those who barely even watched, and then so confidently argued 'we never change'.
We are moving on and in time.
The signs change was needed were there in the defeat against Spain, and to a lesser extent in the victory against Switzerland three days later. They were getting penned in not holding possession and consequently not getting forward enough and scoring goals.
The flaws in the 3-5-2 system had become too obvious to him in reviewing the semi-final defeat by Croatia when a tired England side just struggled to control the game, especially in the second half. They now have the confidence and ability to pass the ball out from the back, and the cover of five defenders that ensured some leeway for errors, meant we suffered further up, switching to the four four two can alleviate that a little.
In the 3-5-2 we had scope to develop the passing game, bringing the ball out from the back with the safety net of numbers, but didn’t cover the pitch further forward, getting penned in. Harry Maguire and John Stones now know each other well enough to play in a different way, a back four when necessary.
One system is now embedded and has been taken as far as they possibly could, alternatives have to be developed and taken to the same level, so England can adapt and do both
Southgate has said that it was the right time for a change.
Against Croatia, they applied better pressure on their back four and on their midfield players. Our defence is no longer very new and the comfort of the five not quite so needed, there are signs we have learnt the lessons and are moving on.
There is very limited time, Euros 2020 will soon be upon us and he needs to get more men in advanced positions with confidence and ability to use the ball. Chalobah, Winks, Barkley and maybe or perhaps Loftus-Cheek or Foden, but don't pick anyone without enough first team football. There are others still very much on the fringes like Madison and even Mount, but they're nowhere near yet. Getting more in advanced positions is a start and a new formation can help.
The dependence on Kane isn't helped when Vardy rules himself out, Sturridge isn't playing often enough and Welbeck neither. Southgate still has confidence in Sterling and Rashford, who despite his troubles the other night, did score against Spain and Switzerland, and so retains his manager’s faith.
Southgate is reacting and he's doing it now. As with the build up before Russia 2018, the planning stage is a year or more before. Pre Russia, the 3-5-2 'passing from the back' revolution, the new progressive style was barely noticed by the usual perennial sceptics, there were still the predictably lame posts of 'Same old England' from those who barely even watched, and then so confidently argued 'we never change'.
We are moving on and in time.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
In the second half yet ?
tsubaki
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88 minutes gone.
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