In the 6 spot, England lacked a player who takes responsibility in generating quality interplay especially through the central channel to get Bellingham-Kane involved instead of recycling out wide every time.
In the 8 spot, England lacked a player who excel in small spaces + break down defences with quick connections or passes through gates which have been so effective this tournament.
If only...
Much will be scrutinised about substitutions and in-game management, but the fact remains that both Argentina and Spain are better football teams than England.
It's also no coincidence that those two teams have the strongest long-term, culturally embedded, football identities.
as i grew older, i learned that the key to surviving the day is not positivity. it's acceptance. accepting that not all days are good and happy. you will have bad days. you make mistakes. you fail. you mess up. everything’s not going to fall into place and that is completely okay
your relationship with discipline changes so much when you shift from doing things from love rather than shame. from 'i have to clean'- to realizing i deserve to have a clean home. from 'i need to work out'- to i deserve to have a healthy body. you deserve the best from yourself
Will probably jinx it but, as I've been saying, France's settled possession is nothing special.
Against a team with such control, they'll have to be much braver in trying to generate transition moments. Either pressing more aggressively, or being vertical + counter pressing.
This is the one that haunts me. The 95.5 guy will likely blaze his own path and do something outside of a structure. The guy who pushed up 4 points between midterm and final looks like the biggest loser in the world at the midterm but is actually above average.
This is the death of society. The median citizen looted, buried, and shamed, because THEY DIDN'T LIE, while everything rots from the head as incompetent liars fill the upper ranks.
Society dies with Mister 59.