A passionate committed performance from England. Well deserved win with a slice of luck with the penalty. Too bad some England supporters chose to jeer the Danish national anthem. Hopefully the ignorant idiots will respect other countries national anthems in future. Also hope they're able to find the laser shining idiot too and ban him for life. It's one thing showing support for your country but let's respect others whilst doing so.
Having now calmed down a bit, and now rewatched the entire game again - Denmark will be, and rightly so; proud of having reached a Euro's SF BUT - can you imagine if Gareth did what their manager did in extra time and take off your two best players, for us say take off Kane and Sterling, with the hope of holding on for penalties. Only, then a goal is conceded and you need to chase the game with your two best players subbed off. Gareth does that and he would be absolutely demolished.
I think we have to look at the different expectations of the teams. The Denmark manager could see they were compromised as a force and a draw was the result they were trying to achieve. When England got the lead, that was the result England were trying to achieve and Grealish was taken off. Had a ten man Denmark scored from one of their two late corners, I reckon Southgate would have been demolished.
It takes a certain courage to do these things, but they are done because the manager thinks they are what is needed. If they achieve the right result they are vindicated and if not they are wrong and that is absolutely how it is in high stakes tournament football.
Yeah, Pickford was jittery and his kicking was rushed, but how on earth does he save that free kick? Oh yeah by knowing where it's going to be hit before it's hit, sure, that works
Come off it. It was central. He got his feet all wrong and isn't helped by his teeny tiny arms. A taller keeper would have saved it even with Pickford's poor reaction, but he didn't move to it quickly enough and set off wrong. Failing to save a free kick bang in the middle of your goal is not good no matter how hard it's struck. Which is a shame because he's had a good tournament all together
Having now calmed down a bit, and now rewatched the entire game again - Denmark will be, and rightly so; proud of having reached a Euro's SF BUT - can you imagine if Gareth did what their manager did in extra time and take off your two best players, for us say take off Kane and Sterling, with the hope of holding on for penalties. Only, then a goal is conceded and you need to chase the game with your two best players subbed off. Gareth does that and he would be absolutely demolished.
I think we have to look at the different expectations of the teams. The Denmark manager could see they were compromised as a force and a draw was the result they were trying to achieve. When England got the lead, that was the result England were trying to achieve and Grealish was taken off. Had a ten man Denmark scored from one of their two late corners, I reckon Southgate would have been demolished.
It takes a certain courage to do these things, but they are done because the manager thinks they are what is needed. If they achieve the right result they are vindicated and if not they are wrong and that is absolutely how it is in high stakes tournament football.
Agree with this. You could see that a lot of the Danes were out on their feet, clearly bringing on the fresh legs to try and hold on and sacrificing any attacking hope they had was probably the only move he could have made. From later in the second half the game was only going one way and he had to do something to try and stop that.
Yeah, Pickford was jittery and his kicking was rushed, but how on earth does he save that free kick? Oh yeah by knowing where it's going to be hit before it's hit, sure, that works
Come off it. It was central. He got his feet all wrong and isn't helped by his teeny tiny arms. A taller keeper would have saved it even with Pickford's poor reaction, but he didn't move to it quickly enough and set off wrong. Failing to save a free kick bang in the middle of your goal is not good no matter how hard it's struck. Which is a shame because he's had a good tournament all together
It was to one side, at pace, and dipped just under the bar. I'd like to have seen anyone save that
Yeah, Pickford was jittery and his kicking was rushed, but how on earth does he save that free kick? Oh yeah by knowing where it's going to be hit before it's hit, sure, that works
Come off it. It was central. He got his feet all wrong and isn't helped by his teeny tiny arms. A taller keeper would have saved it even with Pickford's poor reaction, but he didn't move to it quickly enough and set off wrong. Failing to save a free kick bang in the middle of your goal is not good no matter how hard it's struck. Which is a shame because he's had a good tournament all together
It was to one side, at pace, and dipped just under the bar. I'd like to have seen anyone save that
Yeah, Pickford was jittery and his kicking was rushed, but how on earth does he save that free kick? Oh yeah by knowing where it's going to be hit before it's hit, sure, that works
Come off it. It was central. He got his feet all wrong and isn't helped by his teeny tiny arms. A taller keeper would have saved it even with Pickford's poor reaction, but he didn't move to it quickly enough and set off wrong. Failing to save a free kick bang in the middle of your goal is not good no matter how hard it's struck. Which is a shame because he's had a good tournament all together
He’d have stood a better chance if the Danes hadn’t illegally moved their wall to close the the gap
It also swerved away viciously. It was a hell of a hit
It was a good free kick
Pickford also could have done a bit better, they aren't mutually exclusive.
It swerved and dipped, and move at pace, would have been a hell of a save if he got to it
But that's the point, if he'd have been a foot or two nearer the middle of the goal rather than leaving 2/3 of the goal gaping, he would have got there.
And yes, it would have been a good save, but he's supposed to be a good keeper and you'd hope he makes good saves.
Does feel like a fair bit of clutching at straws is going on when the debate is happening around whether a goalkeeper should have saved a well hit free kick.
If he tips that over then it would have been seen as an incredible save.
We won thats all that matters,but,I thought the Grealish Trippier swap was a disaster waiting to happen,once grealish went off,we invited them on,and virtually gave up up any thought of a 3rd goal.They had plenty of corners with some big lads,all managers do it,but why give the other team the initiative.
This is untrue. The Trippier sub was excellent. Grealish was sacrificed because we needed pace on the counter to go with our solidity and Foden and Sterling provide that with speed and invention in a way Grealish doesn’t. Denmark were always going to attack in that second half and we set ourselves up to control, absorb and counter to push the ball up the pitch. Trippier was now there to both defend and use his fresh legs to drive up the pitch when in possession. Walker was now a spare man to do the same more centrally as the tired Danes couldn’t get near his pace. It was an exemplary piece of game management. It wasn’t a disaster waiting to happen because...nothing happened, as expected. We had multiple opportunities to score a third but preferred to hold the ball and drag the Danes around rather than risk giving them the ball. It amazes me that even now we’ve got to a final only conceding one free kick goal there are still armchair commentators pointing out ‘mistakes’ the manager has made at times when his choices got us to where we are. Mystifying.
At the end of the day,we are all armchair commentators with differing opinions.Grealish was an outlet,whenever he had the ball,he caused problems and earned plenty of set pieces.I just do not like settling for a score and taking attacking players off and replacing them with more defensive ones to defend the lead.Yes we were still the better team,and Trippier let no one down.But they had several corners,and with big lads to aim at,might have scored.it worked,decision vindicated,no problems,but how many times have we seen managers make similar decisions and regret it when the opposition makes use of the conceded attacking threat.
Having now calmed down a bit, and now rewatched the entire game again - Denmark will be, and rightly so; proud of having reached a Euro's SF BUT - can you imagine if Gareth did what their manager did in extra time and take off your two best players, for us say take off Kane and Sterling, with the hope of holding on for penalties. Only, then a goal is conceded and you need to chase the game with your two best players subbed off. Gareth does that and he would be absolutely demolished.
Even worse than that, they ended up with 10 men because of an injury and he'd used up his 6 subs.
As it's the next day....how the effing blazes did most of you expect Pickford to save that absolute screamer of a free kick, ffs
By being better positioned.
Pickford position for the free kick was textbook. The problem last night was his kicking was shite and he threw the ball to the opposition on a couple of occasions He did one punch which most League 1 keepers would've caught.
I missed Nick Pope's composure last night. TBF Pickford normally has crazy moments for Everton not England so he has got it out of his system and he did do a decent save to his right even if it was given off side.
As it's the next day....how the effing blazes did most of you expect Pickford to save that absolute screamer of a free kick, ffs
By being better positioned.
Pickford position for the free kick was textbook. The problem last night was his kicking was shite and he threw the ball to the opposition on a couple of occasions He did one punch which most League 1 keepers would've caught.
I missed Nick Pope's composure last night. TBF Pickford normally has crazy moments for Everton not England so he has got it out of his system and he did do a decent save to his right even if it was given off side.
Text book given the initial position of the wall, he should when he became unsighted taken a step more central.
Not that any of it matters we won and he made a couple of saves and punches.
Worth noting that's two games running he's been a bit ropey.
I find this piece of humour distasteful. It disrespects a hero to associate him with an act of reckless stupidity which could have potentially ruined our day of glory.
I find this piece of humour distasteful. It disrespects a hero to associate him with an act of reckless stupidity which could have potentially ruined our day of glory.
I find this piece of humour distasteful. It disrespects a hero to associate him with an act of reckless stupidity which could have potentially ruined our day of glory.
Behave.
Associating a hero with actions of a complete idiot! You either have standards or don't I suppose.
I find this piece of humour distasteful. It disrespects a hero to associate him with an act of reckless stupidity which could have potentially ruined our day of glory.
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It takes a certain courage to do these things, but they are done because the manager thinks they are what is needed. If they achieve the right result they are vindicated and if not they are wrong and that is absolutely how it is in high stakes tournament football.
Anyone else would have been sent off, bad idea.
Pickford also could have done a bit better, they aren't mutually exclusive.
And yes, it would have been a good save, but he's supposed to be a good keeper and you'd hope he makes good saves.
It's something that's been picked up before about Pickford.
He also uses the wrong hand, should always use your upper arm when trying to save one of those near crossbar shots.
For example:
Dear me! In the first three games he was awful, looked like an absolute liability to the team.
Last night? Looked like the best centre forward in the world.
Confidence is an amazing thing.
Pickford position for the free kick was textbook. The problem last night was his kicking was shite and he threw the ball to the opposition on a couple of occasions
He did one punch which most League 1 keepers would've caught.
I missed Nick Pope's composure last night. TBF Pickford normally has crazy moments for Everton not England so he has got it out of his system and he did do a decent save to his right even if it was given off side.
Not that any of it matters we won and he made a couple of saves and punches.
Worth noting that's two games running he's been a bit ropey.