I was wondering whether there had ever been another World Cup final where one team had had zero shots on target in regular time. The answer is … Argentina in 1990 and Argentina in 2014.
@BenRamanauskas Reminds me of seeing a production of Sartre’s No Exit at the Edinburgh Fringe next door to a comedy show. The rolling laughter track really hinted at the road not taken for postwar French philosophy
@timabrahams@KarlreMarks I was a great Southgate defender! And accepted our limitations in previous tournaments. But actually feels similar to Sven where we have a foreign manager who’s such a footballing Anglophile he’s absorbed some of our own neuroses rather than challenging them
@timabrahams@KarlreMarks Makes sense and I did say fatigue could be a big factor. But lack of attacking out ball and squad selection big questions/failures. It’s not that he went defensive, it’s that it was so crudely done
@timabrahams@KarlreMarks Then again always happy to admit defeat and accept Roy Hodgson as the most astute manager and psychologically insightful figure in English football
@timabrahams@KarlreMarks Saka and Rashford on bench who are pacy players who know how to defensively press; not leave Wharton at home in favour of Mainoo and Henderson (who you don’t play)…
@timabrahams@KarlreMarks I’ll fully accept Argentina were playing within themselves in first half and it was more that they turned it on post goal, but it was pretty well matched until then I thought