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That wasn't far away from them. Just a reminder of how positively they started the game.

Yeessss!! What a turnaround.

Worrying on a number of levels. 🙂

Play to the final whistle, but what a shot to save Southgate.

Yeeeeesssss!!!

Toney coming on for the all important shake of the refs hand with seconds to go.

Palmer again looking for width, but there's none.

Palmer just raising his arms. Foden had come deep and centrally and there was no options at all.

Patiently wait for the next manager. So about 10 minutes. 🙂

Sadly, the PL clubs have players, who selflessly support this lot each week. 🙂

Post! Gah!

I had that counted for Kane.

Can't wait for the TAA world class goal when he's allowed on at 90 mins

Decision making is so poor. Bellingham makes a central run. Rice prefers a far riskier ball out to the otherwise. An absolute reluctance to drive a game. They all do it, and then look to each other when it happens to them. It had to be drilled in from the coaches. And it wasn't. You can see the animosity of individuals not working as a unit, but blaming each other.

Yay!

Palmer for ... Trippier. Saka taking up his preferred...left back position sigh.

Southgate will look to the offside Foden effort, and Mainoo giving up and running at goal himself, as progress. 🙂

Quite a bit of hands in the air at each other. But they've all had their moments of doing statue imitations.

Martin always had the goal of trying to move opponents, allowing passing opportunities at pace. We got to see the best and worst of that developing. It doesn't seem as though Southgate really knows what the outcomes of trying that approach are, or how to get there. Trusting far too much on individuals in a system that requires teamwork to be effective. Then hampering it further by putting in players who aren't good fits to the system. Foden/ Trippier mentioned a lot. But setting up to move opponents, and not doing it to support Saka, who is keen to get behind has been very frustrating.

Passing it back and across. Fine, because it drew them out. Good pass through the midfield. Going well. Got to Foden, who could have gone out into the space. But he automatically cuts in and back it goes. Southgate 45 mins from the end of his time. I think he was going to choose to go anyway at the end of the tournament. But to go out with a whimper is poor. And to go out because you didn't have Shaw, Maguire and Henderson covering up basic gaps is pretty grim.

I've seen all of 20 mins of Wharton. And his direct running and passing would force the tempo. Mainoo has been offering some passing options, but they need some drive.

Trippier has been the one out wide a couple of times. But like Foden will always cut into traffic. Opponents have been dealing with that all tournament.

And there we go. As England faffed around with ineffective possession, their defensive frailties were being picked out. No real press in their half, and Bueno caught out a couple of times in a move that puts England behind. England have looked pants in breaking teams down. So they are going to have to shake themselves out of this tempo and step it up, and be more positive in their half. Plenty of top attackers to start doing it.

An effort there for England. Where they've been direct and central. It was beginning to go the same way. No movement off the ball. Never trying to pick out attackers, and stopping to go sideways, for no advantage.

Two poor efforts from Walker. Players in there. Misses them all first time, doesn't bother getting it in at all second. Then caught out as Slovakia attack. England seem almost pushed into attacking in response to Slovakia's strong start. 3 early cards.