France one of the quickest and athletic teams in world football couldn't live with us on the counter today.
Rice, Saka, Rashford to name but a few. Yet we didn't even attempt to test Argentina who hate transitions in that respect when they were camped in our half.
DEEP THAT!
Julien Laurens doesn't hold back on Tuchel after England's World Cup exit💥
He says the manager should be sacked and that he hasn't accepted the blame for last night's defeat🫣
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Tuchel criticism didn’t start after the game. It started as soon as he decided to defend, and that’s the difference.
Almost every single person on planet earth saw the goal coming except for him maybe. Hasn’t he seen Argentina’s games in the knockouts? What was he thinking?
What’s worse is that he didn’t even counter attack. Argentina had two of their CBs on yellow card, imagine the damage he could’ve done with this situation and 1-0 up. But no he parked the spaceship while he has a bench that could kill on counters. I mean England had 12% possession between Gordon and Lautaro’s goals, that’s a crime.
Both teams didn’t offer anything in the first half, was MMA rather than football. Had Argentina looked scary before 1-0 and then he decided to defend after scoring, people would understand.
English fans are sick of the same talk after each heartbreak or loss in a major tournament so their anger is understandable.
England have a 1-0 lead against Argentina in the World Cup semi-final and were largely in control of the tactical battle. With 30 minutes remaining, the head coach of England who is paid £5 million a year and entrusted with the task of delivering results against elite international opposition, chose to introduce a raft of defensive substitutes and parked the bus. England dropped deep, inviting sustained pressure, severing their own midfield supply lines and sacrificing the pace and threat of their counter-attacks. In the process, they handed Lionel Messi repeated licence to attack at England’s defence. A disastrous decision. It was arguably one of the most self-defeating tactical decisions in the history of the England national team.
Worst part about that for England is you bring a manager in to avoid that specific game. He's literally come in to avoid that exact sort of exit and served up probably the most egregious version of it I can remember.
International football is extremely fun, but you have to ground yourself; it's not really the highest level of football... it's just the greatest spectacle.
Christian Romero makes the semi-finals of a World Cup and behaves like this... but this is the guy who has captained Spurs to back-to-back 17ths in the Premier League... he's been dreadful. He had to be forced to show for the final day relegation battle because he wanted to watch his boyhood team in Argentina. He is so far from elite it's painful.
Meanwhile, Jude, 23, goes back to play for Madrid.
£5 million that fraud is on and he’s reached a poxy semi-final. We sold our soul to bring him in and he serves up that shit. Coward. 1st decent side we’ve played and we’ve capitulated.
Herr Southgate.
If he had even an ounce of principle he’d resign tonight.
Bummer! Congratulations to Argentina on their win tonight. Some excellent banter on here. 😆
On reflection, it would have been amazing to beat you on the pitch tonight and we’d have given you plenty of stick.. but similar to 1986 and Diego’s grubby right hand (nevermind 1998 and Simones lack of core strength) it doesn’t give you the win that you’ll never have. 😘🇫🇰🇬🇧
Watch Spain at 1-0 last night. That’s courage. That’s bravery. And then watch England at 1-0. What’s the difference?
We are a better team than Argentina, I’ve no doubt in my mind. But we deserved to get beat in the end. In fact, it could have been 4-1.
Bringing on 3 defenders at 1-0 up. What message does that send? I wrote it in my Daily Mail column after the Mexico game. Until we understand that courage and bravery is controlling possession under pressure and not booting / heading it up the field 40 yards then this will always be the end result.