Match Day Thread Euro 2020 Final. Italy v England

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John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
A disappointing end to the evening, but if we had said at the beginning of the tournament we would be losing finalists, only conceded 2 goals, and be unbeaten in 90 minutes in all the games then I think most would have taken that.

On balance IMO Italy was just the better team, they kept the ball better and looked to win the game, whereby we, after scoring the early goal, looked to sit back and see the game out, which against a good Italian side was not the right thing to do. Maybe we scored too early, and that put us in the wrong mindset for the rest of the game?

Having said all that, we defended on the whole very well and kept them to a minimum of chances, and their goal was a tad fortunate, if Pickford's great save had gone round the post rather than hitting it, then the outcome might have been different.

Rice up to being replaced had a very good game as did the back line. I thought Henderson was poor when he came on and never seemed to get into the game.

Sterling and Kane for the most part were handled well by Italy, apart from the first 15 minutes kept the quiet most of the game.

IMO Southgate should have brought on the likes of Grealish earlier, Mancini kept freshening up his team with substitutes and we IMO left it too late.

Bring on Rashford and Sancho as late as they did and expecting them to then take a penalty was asking too much of them IMO.

Nevertheless, we have been kept entertained for the full tournament for once, so credit to all concerned for getting to the final.
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My sentiments entirely. Rashford and Sancho should have been brought on at the beginning of the second half of extra time to get Match warming up and into the game. They are not exactly poor players. And asking the youngest member of the team to take the crucial last penalty was a mistake unless of course all the older senior players wimped out.
 
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Yardley Tiger said:
My sentiments entirely. Rashford and Sancho should have been brought on at the beginning of the second half of extra time to get Match warming up and into the game. They are not exactly poor players. And asking the youngest member of the team to take the crucial last penalty was a mistake unless of course all the older senior players wimped out.
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If Southgate acted too late or nominated wrong pen takers, that is 100% down to him.

He risked and lost.

No way would Mancini taken that risk.

Fine margins but that's what happens at the later stages of these big tournaments.

Southgate will keep his job because he;s a good company man, regardless of how well/badly he does.

Disappointing to see the vicious political infighting, media scapegoating and negative reporting......but totally expected.

They never look at themselves or their own cynical/sensationalistic reporting.
 
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It amazes me that a handful of accounts in Mexico or the UAE can post the word '******' a few times on Twitter, and within an hour our national media are ushering in a full day of lambasting white English people as bigots. This epitomises the idea of a 'strawman'. Nobody ever questions it, nobody ever looks into it, they just assume the accusations are true and accurate and moralise accordingly.
 
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Erik said:
It amazes me that a handful of accounts in Mexico or the UAE can post the word '******' a few times on Twitter, and within an hour our national media are ushering in a full day of lambasting white English people as bigots. This epitomises the idea of a 'strawman'. Nobody ever questions it, nobody ever looks into it, they just assume the accusations are true and accurate and moralise accordingly.
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All that media space reserved for the victory story......so they had to fill it up with some other stuff.

It's what they do.
 
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