@AaronBastani Yes easy to lump everything together. I agree with most of your analysis. England used to be technically inferior, make stupid mistakes often losing possession. Since 2018 it's been game management. Can forgive the young team in Russia in 18, 2021 Italy was bad this is a new low.
@Kabir_THFC I think De Zerbi made this call early. He felt very let down by Romero's disappearing act at the end of the season. Quick pursuit of Van Hecke and Senesi show this to be true.
@tancredipalmeri Tottenham 1st team to have 3 world cup winners in a row 2018 Lloris, 2022 Romero and 2026 guaranteed regardless, with Porro, Senesi and Romero.
@sbtsfg@TimeForReform29@TheAthleticFC Well you seem to have skipped the history class!
1st sighted by the Portuguese.
1st landing by the English, John Strong, 27th Jan 1690
1st French & British settlements in April 1764 & Jan 1765 on the two separate islands 150k apart.
Argentina arrived in 1820π€
@Ykjulius@franheavey81@themichaelowen Argentina's 0 shots on target in the first half. An xG of 0.19 at the time England scored! All they did was break up play through fouls to try to frustrate England. Please tell me how Argentina were on top when they were 1-0 down on 60 minsπ€
@GuillemBalague I don't think it is solidarity but it is leadership on the pitch. It's always difficult to diagnose a problem in a national team because different eras have had different flaws.
The centre backs should have stepped out and corrected the tactical mistake.
@franheavey81@themichaelowen England were the better team until 60mins. It wasn't by much but they had the edge. 1st half Argentina needed to persistently foul to stop counters.
But agree to be the better team you also have to control the match at 1-0 which they absolutely completely & utterly failed to do.
@MsMelChen π― and from an England perspective too we've seen this film before. Croatia in World Cup 18 and more so Italy in Euro 2020. Getting leads and then surrendering the initiative.
@Baddiel Our greatest strength was attack and particularly attack on the counter, but we decided to throw that game plan out the window. Suicide football.
@GeoffreytheC@AaronBastani The players instinct was to retreat after the goal. At that stage it was Tuchel's job to give them a rocket and the belief to go again. Defending deep was ok against with 10 men against Mexico, but was suicide against the most dangerous player in history.
@AaronBastani We would have been better off not scoring. The goal changed the game for the negative. We surrendered all our attacking threat which was the strength of this team.
@NadMk2@FPL_Salah 2022 Argentina didn't even play a top 10 team until the final
GP - 1-2 loss Saudi Arabia
GP - 2-0 Mexico
GP - 2-0 Poland
R16 - 2-1 Australia
QF - 2-2 Netherlands (pens)
SF - 3- 0 Croatia
2026:
3-0 Algeria
2-0 Austria
3-1 Jordan
R32 - 3-2 Cape Verde
R16 - 3-2 Egypt
QF - 2-1 SUI