Would def go 352 with what we have. With doubts over trippier, guehi out, foden/bellingham unable to play in same team and Walker unable to do anything remotely useful in attack Pickford Walker Stoness Konsa Taa/Trip mainoo Bellingham Rice Saka Kane Toney/Watkins Depending now wanted your front 2 to play. Toney will be a more target man for good crosses from TAA and by-passing any sort of press by going long. Or Watkins to run in behind and stretch to allow Kane to drop a bit deeper. Kane needs someone up there with him so he can come get involved as he’s doing nothing being up there as a target man. Can get TAA in that right side role with less of a worry about defending with Walker behind him and both rice and mainoo in middle providing cover. can easily go from 352 to lopsided 343 with saka pushed up higher.
He won't drop foden. Watkins has blabbed the tactics so probably won't play. Toney has said he got the hump over his sub in so why should he play. Etc Etc I'm sure that Southgate is just waiting to launch fat shaw at us and it will be a 4231 again. His main concern is he barely got to trust guehi, BARELY. As he is out Southgate is up all night worrying how to play konsa who he clearly can't trust in a back 4. Hence throwing another cb in. It'll end up as a 541 formation I'd he got less with 3 cbs to.cover konsa imo. Oh and John stones is a doubt too.
Well, if all our CBs are unavailable, maybe Southgate will be forced to play more attacki.... ah, nope, that's not right is it? He'll just play Kane as the central CB in a back seven.
Strange that out of the entire German football they haven't produced a proper striker since Klose, and I say proper as Muller isn't a striker.
Muller shouldn't even have been there. There had to be someone else they could have brought and subbed on there
If anything, France were even worse than England in that game.* Their goal tally for the tournament still stands at two OGs and a penalty. *hoping England don't say "Hold my beer" to this.
