Italy v England

[millertop]

Sounds like over the top police
one fan knocked unconscious
No surprise

[ragingpup]

Blo*dy wife bought ticket to a show last night so had to miss a rare England game. Sounds like we ripped them apart in the first half and should have been out of sight. Looking very good on the offensive side if a team doesn't get to grips with Bellingham and the midfield with speedy releases to the front. Great that Southgate seems more inclines to play to the strengths of the team with some good attacking talent coming to the fore.

From sounds of 2nd half, seems it was a case ot Italy getting brief of playing round and through the midfield and imposing their obvious quality on us and pressing on our clear weak point - defence. And once the pressure started, Southgate sounds like he struggled to adapt and help the team out with responsive subs that could make a difference. But to be fair, Italy have much great talent in their team that started to gel and would press most teams back hard.

Overall I think there is a good progression within the team and manager buidling through and from the world cup now that we're goinig out more on the front foot instead of protecting our weak defence. Good to see and hope it cotinues. Hope for more of the same on Sunday but guess we'll start facing the low block teams so interesting to see how we deal with that.