TimperleyTangerine
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Italy deserved it.
Maybe Italy should take a knee.Southgate hang your head. Feel sorry for Pickford
NonsenseIt’s a travesty if those Italians win
100% agree, Southgate dropped a major bollockSouthgate giving lads 2 minutes on the pitch and asking them to go and take a pen. No blame on the lads.
Most of his decisions are weird.He picked players who half hadn't touched the ball. Weird.
Never mind Saka, why did he bring on those two doughnuts to take penaties?I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player look more out of his depth than Saka. The nerves must have got to him and no way should he have been on the pitch at the end..
Yes, but predictable and what a weird line up. Southgate has totally messed that up tonight and yet we’ll have to suffer his boring style for years to come.absolute shiite pens. Saka should never be on the 5th pen.
correct. tried to be too clever. To wait for keeper to dive and then miss going the other way. Very poor.You had one job Rashford, one job.
Rashford had the keeper beat and still chose the most difficult target.......the post.How difficult is to take a penalty. Just smash the ** thing. What’s all this stuttering run up?
Probably be our best chance at a trophy too and now it'll be a what if we used our best players in a positive way. Watch as people like foden take the piss in the prem next season.Southgate cost us that with his hesitant substitutions , decent pace up top in extra time would have torn them apart,
That's what I couldn't figure out, we weren't even challenging for the ball in the second half, Italy didn't have to work.We didn’t deserve it far too negative tonight
Far too defensive from Southgate should have pushed on for the second goal.
Indeed if truth be known we were lucky it went to pens.
Don’t blame Grealish or Sterling, Southgate picked the penalty takers. The manager takes the plaudits he should also shoulder the blame.The better side won, we were shit after half an hour and why did the 2 kids take pens? Why didn't Grealish stand up? What about Sterling? I just don't get it. But to be honest the best team of the tournament won. I can't say that was enjoyable, it was frustrating and to put pressure on those 2 young lads was wrong wrong wrong. I still don't like Southgate, but well done to the young team, you deserve a more attack minded manager.
100%, Saka ran round like a frightened rabbit for the whole time.Why would a 19 year old who played absolutely shite take the 5th penalty. Piss poor management
The best team did win, but now we suffer the Mystic ** Megs.Don't think it's a case of this. The best team one, that's it
I didn't wait four weeks. I said Southgate was shit going into this tournament and I say he's shit now. He has the best young attacking talent we've ever had and most of it has been on the bench for three weeks while he plays his eight man defence.
Yeah, we were shit the entire tournament, well done you.I didn't wait four weeks. I said Southgate was shit going into this tournament and I say he's shit now. He has the best young talent we've ever had and most of it has been on the bench for three weeks.
Yeah, we were shit the entire tournament, well done you.
He was doing fine, until the final. What he did in this match was counter logical to what he had done in the other games.
Anybody can win a game if it is handed to 'em. Southgate played the correct tactics in the first half, why change? If Italy were so superior they would have finished it in 90mins.The best team did win, but now we suffer the Mystic ** Megs.
They were indeed. It's just frustrating because we didn't play as well as we can. Many reasons for that.Italy were the best team over 120 minutes
Because when you win the first half 1 0 against a good team the second half will be different, Southgate maybe got it wrong but once you stop playing for the school team you can't just say same again second half lads!!Anybody can win a game if it is handed to 'em. Southgate played the correct tactics in the first half, why change? If Italy were so superior they would have finished it in 90mins.
They were given that possession, how many challenges for the ball were there in the second half? The tactics were to let them come forward and hope the defence could hold, which they did bar once, and that cost us the match.The better team won.
Italy had twice as much possession and three times more shots on target.
Southgate's luck ran out!!!
Yep, we just need to put the best technical players on the pitch and go for it with a positive style. If we lose attacking we lose.We didn’t deserve to win that game and the safety first approach hurt us. We were crying out for players to show in the second half and GS failed to adapt to the dominance of Italy. He needed Grealish on much earlier to try and get hold of the ball and to stem what was a non-stop tide. Of course the World Cup in Qatar will be much harder, but we can - and need to - learn from that.