HerrLjunga
Vital 1st Team Regular
It's nice seeing a team attack us...
We played plenty of big teams in the nations league only in june!But it's all too easy; once again we'll go into a tournament not battle hardened.
My biggest fear for England is the pointless ball retention for the sake of it between defenders and keeper, which achieves nothing, but means if you lose it, the other team are pretty much guaranteed a one on one - we saw it last night and have seen it plenty of times in recent years. When I saw it in the flesh at Wembley a couple of years ago in a match v Scotland from a vantage point bang in line with it, seeing full backs, CBs and the keeper pass the ball across the box at pace a foot from the opposing striker frightened the life out of me. Sadly, I think this is something ingrained in Southgate's psyche and one thing I don't think he'll change - can see us suffering again because of it.
Every england team has done that since i remember. IThis team does it the least out of all the teams of the last 20 years from my memory. Capellos team was big for that. In fact i think erriksen and capello introduced it to england. They call it patient play. We are told thats how its done on the continent and international level. If we remember the sad draws vs usa and algeria (if i remember the teams correctly), we failed to break them down completely and seemed to just want to pass it across the back. Rooney used to get so annoyed by it he'd come really deep to try to get it and start some creative play to get at them, but then the shape of the team was off, as wed be short of a striker up top for him to pass to! Part of the reason weve done better recently, and why people enjoy watching us more is that we do it far less.
This summer I believe.When did the rule change come in that at a goal kick the keeper does not have to boot the ball out of the area?
Moore's pass to Hurst was quite long for the 4th goal, wasn't it? How good would Moore be in today's game?Southgate and the team should watch the '66 team in action - quick passing and constantly working triangles and rarely was there a long ball played. Everton did it with similar effect with Ball, Harvey and Kendall working the triangles.
Yeah but as we know it was all over by then. When the Gills were away, I'd often go to Upton Park to watch players like Moore and Byrne and many others. Moore barely broke into a sweat because he was such a good reader of the game. He rarely jumped for a ball with an opposing forward but would pick him off and pass the ball but he was always talking and marshalling. Johnny Byrne never stopped talking and pointing to where he wanted the ball played and scored at the rate of one in two.Moore
Moore's pass to Hurst was quite long for the 4th goal, wasn't it? How good would Moore be in today's game?