The Official England Thread-The Team We All Support [Vol 3]

[epom]

I think it’s about time the English public and tabloids brought Bellingham down a peg or two, who does he think he is ?? Beckham, Rooney ?

[MiniMan64]

epom said:

I think it’s about time the English public and tabloids brought Bellingham down a peg or two, who does he think he is ?? Beckham, Rooney ?

From his post match interview you can tell what the team think about how the National press behave.

[Murph7355]

epom said:

I think it’s about time the English public and tabloids brought Bellingham down a peg or two, who does he think he is ?? Beckham, Rooney ?

Judging by his interview he has a 3-digit IQ, so no.

He's a massive talent, and speaking as he does at just 20yrs old. Amazing really.

[andyA700]

S600BSB said:

Murph7355 said:

Couple if problems for us to solve....

Belgium did well at defending. 6 or 7 players back in the box at key times.... And we couldn't break that down. Need to find better ways.

Out defence was shocking for the two goals.

Pickford is always a brain fart waiting to happen. It feels like the defenders know this.

Dunk was foolish for the second. But who the fk was watching play/Tielemanns. It looked like the rest of the defence were sleep walking.

They got caught out by Brazil too.

Hard to see who could play back there and give confidence.

Chilwell was poor in both games.

Dunk and Chilwell shouldn’t be anywhere near the England team.

I have to agree with this.
On the latest England showings, I would keep Bellingham, Toney and Saka up front, with Foden, Rice and Mainoo in midfield, Shaw, Maguire, Stones and Trippier or TAA in defence and still have Pickford in goal. If Kane is available, then he would take the place of Toney.
The reason I would stick with Saka, is because he has scored 11 times in 32 games for England.
I would like to see us using more width, because I do wonder how many of these players are capable of making cross pitch, raking passes.

Edited by andyA700 on Friday 29th March 11:51

[272BHP]

Murph7355 said:

Judging by his interview he has a 3-digit IQ, so no.

He's a massive talent, and speaking as he does at just 20yrs old. Amazing really.

Indeed.

His maturity and confidence in front of the cameras is almost as impressive as his ability on the pitch. He was clearly just ticking over in the friendly matches which makes sense with the big matches for both club and country imminent.

He is much more talented than either Rooney or Beckham.