Huge odds. Their group is a piece of piss.
Southgate will stumble on a formula like Bobby Robson did in 1986 and 1990.
Senegal will dump them out in the Round of 16 and they’ll completely flabbergasted by it. It’ll be reminiscent to what I’d imagine England v Cameroon was like in 1990 except they won’t get away with it this time.
They have zero creativity in their team, think they’ll struggle in their group, USA and Wales will be no pushover.
I think they have enough talent to overcome southgates mediocrity and get out of that group. They’ll fall against the first or second decent team they meet (they might pox a game against one)
I see grealish has covered himself in glory again cc @Plastic_Paddy
He is some idiot.
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You have very good individual players but not sure about the collective. Players who were flying in the Euros have lost form. That said, it is tournament football so poor form going into it is not terminal.
they need to fuck off creativity, they don’t have it… pick a big aggressive team, go old school, tackle hard, run hard and don’t worry about having the ball.
Get James Ward-Prowse in the team as he is one of the best dead ball specialists in the game and get it in the box and win it with set pieces like they almost did in the last World Cup.
Southgate has gone fairly fancy since.
England at a major tournament have the smell of a team who should be playing an old school 4-4-2, or a 4-4-1-1 type job.
England will be in the same division as ourselves in the Nations League now, well assuming we don’t lose to Armenia. That’s actually hard to believe given we’ve only ever won one Nations League game in about 14 attempts.
I’m all in on Mexico myself.
I know it’s winter but won’t it still be fairly warm in Qatar. Slow sterile football as unable to do full pelt for 7 games in 3 weeks.
I watched it there tonight. Harry Kane needs to be told to fuck off and play on the last man and don’t be dropping in to midfield… he’s a fucking carthorse in there. play a 4-5-1 even. Pick the biggest strongest team they can pick and carry Ward-Prowse for set pieces
me too… that’s that fucked too
What would you say is their strongest team?
I dunno where this weather thing came from, the max temperature for december in qatar is 24 degrees
GK Pickford
RB Reece James
CB Marc Guehi
CB Ben White
LB Ben Chilwell
RM Mount
CM Bellingham
CM Rice
CM Phillips
LM Foden
CF Kane
I was more of the mindset he should be picking creative players until recently, they’ve gone that root and have been absolutely dog shit… their only chance is going old school
He’s stone fucking useless…the cunt!
Weren’t they saying the stadia are air conditioned?
Tbh, I doubt the heat will be a factor. They play regularly in a lot hotter even in London
Yeh I’d imagine the bigger factor would be 7 games shoehorned into the middle of a regular season. A different kind of challenge to playing in the summer heat and having Paul Scholes blowing out of his arse after 50 minutes.
He should’ve developed Foden in central midfield rather than as a wide forward.