Going into a tournament, when we do next summer, the attacking options we have are frightening really. Kane, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho, Calvert-Lewin, Grealish, Foden, plus whoever else too. It’s the defence, central midfield, and please not Pickford in goal which could really let us down.
I’d have Pope in goal, sort out the defence somehow. If all fit, it’d have to be TAA, Gomez, Maguire, Chilwell. Midfield 3 of Henderson, Foden, and one other, Rice needs a big season in my opinion. Front 3, we have a wealth of options, but it has to include Sterling and Kane either way.
The starting eleven probably won’t be an issue if Southgate gets it right. It’s the depth when you take away certain players.
Going into a tournament, when we do next summer, the attacking options we have are frightening really. Kane, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho, Calvert-Lewin, Grealish, Foden, plus whoever else too. It’s the defence, central midfield, and please not Pickford in goal which could really let us down.
I’d have Pope in goal, sort out the defence somehow. If all fit, it’d have to be TAA, Gomez, Maguire, Chilwell. Midfield 3 of Henderson, Foden, and one other, Rice needs a big season in my opinion. Front 3, we have a wealth of options, but it has to include Sterling and Kane either way.
The starting eleven probably won’t be an issue if Southgate gets it right. It’s the depth when you take away certain players.
Id have Reece James ahead of Alexander-Arnold in the big games
Going into a tournament, when we do next summer, the attacking options we have are frightening really. Kane, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho, Calvert-Lewin, Grealish, Foden, plus whoever else too. It’s the defence, central midfield, and please not Pickford in goal which could really let us down.
I’d have Pope in goal, sort out the defence somehow. If all fit, it’d have to be TAA, Gomez, Maguire, Chilwell. Midfield 3 of Henderson, Foden, and one other, Rice needs a big season in my opinion. Front 3, we have a wealth of options, but it has to include Sterling and Kane either way.
The starting eleven probably won’t be an issue if Southgate gets it right. It’s the depth when you take away certain players.
Id have Reece James ahead of Alexander-Arnold in the big games
Right back is not an issue at all, to have 4 of them in the squad shows that really. James has done well, but personally I would preferably have TAA. Even if it’s his relationship with Gomez and Henderson, and his crossing and dead ball ability.
Sancho isn’t fit enough to play 2 games in 4 days.
That back 3 definitely needs protecting, especially against KDB and Lukaku. Think Southgate has probably called this correctly, although time will tell.
The problem is he's so fixated on a back 5 it's going to become a problem at the Euro's. Most of this side play 433 for their club sides, in fact there aren't many top club sides who don't play it. So why persist with a back 5 to the point where you're even playing a right back at centre back?
We have so many good attacking players and we're leaving them out just to be negative. There aren't many other sides who'd leave out Foden and Sancho, and we can't even argue that it's working because the defence is utter shit regardless.
Problem is, you play Sancho, Foden, Grealish, Kane etc and you’ve got nobody to try and protect shit like Dier, you’ll be more than 2-0 down to sides like Belgium.
Problem is, you play Sancho, Foden, Grealish, Kane etc and you’ve got nobody to try and protect shit like Dier, you’ll be more than 2-0 down to sides like Belgium.
Exactly hence why Southgate protects the defence so much at the moment... Reckon we'd just have Henderson in front of the back four if we had the defence from the "Golden Generation"
As it is we've made steps forward with attacking players but we've massively gone backwards with defence minded players
Means Southgate is wary of that fact so if he goes too attacking then he leaves the back horribly exposed and he'll no doubt have fans questioning why we're conceding so many - In effect we'll do a Peterborough at this level, we'll look great and score loads but we'll concede too many at the same time which still wont trouble the bigger teams
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I think they will struggle to make judges houses tbh
I’d have Pope in goal, sort out the defence somehow. If all fit, it’d have to be TAA, Gomez, Maguire, Chilwell. Midfield 3 of Henderson, Foden, and one other, Rice needs a big season in my opinion. Front 3, we have a wealth of options, but it has to include Sterling and Kane either way.
The starting eleven probably won’t be an issue if Southgate gets it right. It’s the depth when you take away certain players.
this is still nothing like our best team
Sticking 5 at the back with defensive midfielders and still conceding goals way too easily.
I know we’re missing players but this system has to get in the bin.
We have so many good attacking players and we're leaving them out just to be negative. There aren't many other sides who'd leave out Foden and Sancho, and we can't even argue that it's working because the defence is utter shit regardless.
This team doesn't look like they've trained together at all.
Surely its on the club Managers to make the players better?
As it is we've made steps forward with attacking players but we've massively gone backwards with defence minded players
Means Southgate is wary of that fact so if he goes too attacking then he leaves the back horribly exposed and he'll no doubt have fans questioning why we're conceding so many - In effect we'll do a Peterborough at this level, we'll look great and score loads but we'll concede too many at the same time which still wont trouble the bigger teams