Euros 2020 - in 2021

Personally I rate Rice and would go with him as the only holding midfielder. Play attacking flair players like Foden, Grealish and Mount (if he's available). Poor German side but they will be solid and hard to break down. We need to get after them from the start.

All totally irrelevant really. We're going out on Penalties.

Well done to the Czechs and hard luck to the Portugese. England? I can't remember an England team that I'd less interest in.

Well there was certainly some entertaining games last night! The French were terrible in the first half then turned it around only to fall apart again. Well done to the Swiss as they battled and never gave up.

The winner of Italy vs Belgium next week will win this tournament now i reckon, i think the Italians have by far the best defence so i'll go with them.

To be honest, I’m not impressed by any of the teams I’ve seen so far and all are beatable. England don’t seem to have got out of second gear yet so if they can ratchet it up tonight then I don’t fear anyone.

Whitesince63 wrote:To be honest, I’m not impressed by any of the teams I’ve seen so far and all are beatable. England don’t seem to have got out of second gear yet so if they can ratchet it up tonight then I don’t fear anyone.

Absolutely right, so this is Gareth's moment to become a legend.

Ditch the two holding midfielders and go out to win the game rather than not lose it.

There's talk of us playing 343 today but i bet he will still play Phillips and Rice.

I would go 433, play one holding midfielder and just go for it. The German defence looks shaky and will panic with the likes of Grealish, Sterling and Saka running at them.

I've already started on my "Gareth Out" bedsheet.

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— England (@England) June 29, 2021

Just seen the team.



Two right backs, two holding midfielders and no Grealish!

The man is taking the piss. We'll lose, of that there is no doubt.

Shame on Gareth.

It is 343 then, plenty of width but no creativity in the middle of the park.

Negative team that...

I don't think England have shown what it takes to go all the way. We're not creative enough, we're not positive enough...

If the last few games have shown us anything, getting a goal, or two in front means nothing. Teams can and do fight back. If we get ahead we need to keep going and kill teams off.

Hello Biggie, long time no see 

What a fucking pussy Southgate is, that team is the worst starting lineup we could have expected, so negative and defensive, just fuck off Southgate you tw@t

Come on England!

Never in doubt!  Great result. England 2-0 Germany

Things happen when you drive at defenders, as Sterling did, but you need front men to make themselves available for passes. Kane finally managed to do that!

I'll take it but for fooks sake we should have been down by two.

Grealish had a hand in both goals -- would seem to me that he can start the next one.

Great result, but I'm not having it that Gareth had a master plan.

We were absolutely dire for 75 minutes, we could and should have been two down before we scored. Until Grealish came on we were absolutely no threat whatsoever.

We lost the central midfield battle again with both holding midfielders playing way too deep. Neither seems capable of passing the ball quickly forward which is why Henderson must come in.

Credit to the defence and keeper, but how the fook Muller missed that simple chance right after we scored is beyond me.

It'll be interesting to see how Gareth sets up for the next game, surely it won't be two holding midfielders against a team we should beat?

We also had 3 decent chances before our goal...so don’t see why we should have been 2 down.

I thought Southgate got it spot on today against very comparable opposition. Three at the back looked pretty good to me after a nervy start and enabled our front 3 to play closer together and be much more effective. It got Kane his goal, Sterling his third and we beat the Germans by a 2 goal margin. What is there to complain about?

It's dull to watch but we had all better accept the fact that we aren't going to play exciting free-flowing football because Southgate ain't listening to anyone but himself. Can't see him changing much in the next game either, unless he decides to start Henderson, and why should he? W3, D1, L0 without conceding a goal. He will only be remembered by how far he took us in this tournament and not by how cavalier we were in defeat.

Enjoy it! You've had enough practice watching shite football since Megson took over in 2007 so surely you can tolerate it for another couple of weeks.

COME ON ENGLAND!

Ps. Sluffy, I'm not responding if you defend Megson