Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
What a pulsating game that was this afternoon against Croatia , I know this competition's got it's critics and I get that but that was a full on competitive game .

To come from behind the way they did after conceding a soft goal and far the better team was a delight to see .

Relegated Croatia too , happy days .
We shouldn't get blinded by the scoreline here. The game was dead and buried at 1-0 Croatia. England totally out of ideas and unable to get the key players into the game. Somehow we've scored 2 scrappy goals out of nothing. Credit to the boys for pulling it out but let's not kid ourselves. We are easily nullified by the better quality opposition once the game settles. England started exceptionally well and missed 3 guilt edged chances which fortunately hasn't cost us but it should've. Croatia were in control 2nd half, no doubt about it. We had no answer regarding gaining any sort of territorial advantage or possession. We've somehow dug a result out.


We need a quality midfielder. Its blatantly obvious. We have made steady progress under Southgate but this team can't go any further until we find the quality in midfield, a world class player in there and we can seriously start to think of being tournament contenders.