England should sack Gareth Southgate and bring in Liverpool legend Jurgen Klopp mid-tournament. Plus, five reasons to be positive about the Three Lions, invisible Saka, England managers ‘get screwed over’ and more..
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.. Five reasons to be positive about England I worry that our relentless negativity is only going to make things worse for England.
Time to turn those frowns upside down: England struggle against a low block. Who’s going to play a low block against us now?! Hojbjerg running slowly towards 5 England players was enough to cause Rice to boot it out for a corner. We’ve dreamed for years about being able to have enough space to play counter-attacking football.
The moment is now. England have two of the best players in world football at scoring from crosses (Bellingham and Kane) but never cross the ball. We also have one of the best players in world football (TAA) at crossing a ball.
We’ve literally scored or almost scored from every cross we’ve put in this tournament. Southgate’s clearly saving crossing for when it really matters. England have somehow created a bad midfield out of two 100million pound centre mids.
Hojbjerg bossed the game yesterday, which is crazy. But he is a decent player playing in his natural position surrounded by other decent players playing in their natural positions. Bellingham spent his game wondering where Toni Kroos was.
Rice spent his game wondering where TAA was. Imagine what .
