So Anthony Gordon gets player of the tournament at the U21's last year then scores 10 and assists 10 in the league. More importantly - and I think this kind of thing flies under the radar at times - his goals came against Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham. He's a big game player (my main issue is him going missing in the "little" games). He's not getting on the pitch this tournament is he?
Rice / Gallagher / Bellingham - nobody in the centre of the pitch is moving the ball anywhere near fast enough.
Bobby Robson is the only manager in my limited memory that people didn't say the same about .. and they might have called him an idiot too, I'm just too young to remember.
Our defenders as well as our holding players are more than good enough to manage Serbia and Denmark while our world class attacking players play cohesive attacking football.
Mate ... he was only in the squad as cover for Harry Maguire (Gareth's cunning plan 3b) .. and now that Harry ain't here ...
If I'd been a gambling man I'd probably gone for the draw, both teams want to avoid a defeat more than win as it pretty much ensures qualification.
**** me ... we're holding on ... Denmark a much better team ... 'England have the best front four in the tournament' now seems a little off kilter
The problem isn't the defence, it's the fact we are inviting pressure by sitting back and have no cohesion going forward. You do that even with world class defenders and you'll put them under the same pressure.
Oh they did. He got pelters for being reluctant to play Gazza, for example. Even though Gazza was a ****ing liability for much of his career.
