Euro 2020

[PuntsWolf]

Dogshit. Fuck off.

Chill out….

I don’t think he was very good.

 

[Jack Regan]

Didn't trouble them enough they have a 70 year old centre back combination (both superb defenders) plus Chelsea's third choice left back (their first choice couldn't get on our bench for the whole tournament). You'd think with the ability we have to run at players we'd have been able to do so, but rarely threatened them for 75 minutes.

 

[Tredman]

Chill out….

I don’t think he was very good.

Well don’t call one of our best players of the tournament dogshit.

 

[sycophantia]

Subs just didn't have any effect on the game, Saka not effective, Grealish not on the ball enough, like playing with 10 after Henderson came on.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Well don’t call one of our best players of the tournament dogshit.

Who mentioned the rest of the tournament??

He wasn’t good when he came on today, but that happens. So I would factor it into my decision of giving a 19 year old the last penalty.

 

[Loki]

Bolloxs, its a sad way to end the tournament.

Subs were too late and the penalty order seemed a bit odd. On balance felt that Italy deserved it, they worked us out and we did nothing about it until the last 10 minutes.

They are all hero's though, absolute fantastic tournament, just the wrong side of the coin toss that is a penalty shoot out.

Agree with this. Don`t know why he changed tactics for the second half though, it was suicidal. Grealish should have come on much earlier.
Oh well, shoulda, woulda , coulda.

 

[AndyWolves]

Italy's midfield was just so much better than ours. Rice will get better but I don't think Phillips is good enough for this level, Mount was poor and fairly anonymous.

How good are the Italy CBs though

 

[Jinky]

Good enough to take the lead after 2 minutes, but tactics and changes after that ultimately handed the initiative back to the Italians and no one can argue that they deserved to win. Southgate obviously at fault for a large portion of that, this evening.

 

[Freddeno]

Still think Kyle Walker was the best defender in the tournament

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The right team won, we were very good first half (Rice, Kane and both wing backs were all excellent) but we could never get a grip on the game from then on and we never looked like scoring again, hanging on at times.

Rice was absolutely done physically, not criticising him coming off but Henderson had a shocker. Of course the manager can't predict that because he's done well off the bench in other games.

Have to say that our final three penalties were awful. Especially with two of them from players brought on specifically for that purpose.

Oh well. Congratulations Italy, the better team on the night and in truth over the tournament. It's been a great run and the competition as a whole has been excellent.

 

[Freddeno]

Jorginho could have seen a red though

 

[jd1981]

Only saving grace was it wasn’t daylight robbery, we were poor second half. I think we began to visualise the finish but lost sight of what needed to be done.
Humongous opportunity missed

 

[Kenny]

The competition as a whole has been excellent.

Yep. Thoroughly enjoyed it, bar 1 pen shoot out. Surprised by that as I hated almost every minute of last season and expected the tournament to be the same and I would end up just watching England and a few other games. In the end I watched as much as I could and got annoyed when there wasn't a 2pm game and rest days appeared.

 

[Freddeno]

yeah, top tournament and great games

 

[The Bion]

Yeah Italy were probably on balance the best team through the tournament, certainly tonight.

I agreed with Rashford and Sancho being brought on for the pens as they're both generally good when taking for their clubs but should've been done much sooner. In fact I'm disappointed Sancho didn't start, feel he would have had a field day against Emerson - Mount didn't really do a huge amount (not that he was alone in that) - we've seen first hand Sterling can be poor at pens so not hugely surprised he didn't step up.

Sterling probably best England player for the tournament but Shaw runs him very close - very impressive from him. Not convinced by Rice and Phillips, would like to see Bellingham bedded in ASAP.

 

[AndyWolves]

Yeah Italy were probably on balance the best team through the tournament, certainly tonight.

I agreed with Rashford and Sancho being brought on for the pens as they're both generally good when taking for their clubs but should've been done much sooner. In fact I'm disappointed Sancho didn't start, feel he would have had a field day against Emerson - Mount didn't really do a huge amount (not that he was alone in that) - we've seen first hand Sterling can be poor at pens so not hugely surprised he didn't step up.

Sterling probably best England player for the tournament but Shaw runs him very close - very impressive from him. Not convinced by Rice and Phillips, would like to see Bellingham bedded in ASAP.

Totally agree about Bellingham. I think Rice and Bellingham could be very good

 

[Sniffer]

To win that game, having been in front it needed a brave change whilst still leading. We didn’t do it and ultimately that cost us. Delighted to have reached a final, devastated to lose it, proud of the manager and all of the players.

Bugger

 

[sycophantia]

The right team won, we were very good first half (Rice, Kane and both wing backs were all excellent) but we could never get a grip on the game from then on and we never looked like scoring again, hanging on at times.

Rice was absolutely done physically, not criticising him coming off but Henderson had a shocker. Of course the manager can't predict that because he's done well off the bench in other games.

Have to say that our final three penalties were awful. Especially with two of them from players brought on specifically for that purpose.

Oh well. Congratulations Italy, the better team on the night and in truth over the tournament. It's been a great run and the competition as a whole has been excellent.

This

 

[jd1981]

It’s to raw at the moment to look at small consolations.

 

[Bigbadwulf07]

To win that game, having been in front it needed a brave change whilst still leading. We didn’t do it and ultimately that cost us. Delighted to have reached a final, devastated to lose it, proud of the manager and all of the players.

Bugger

I dont think it needed a change, certainly not to drop back 20 yards