England Squad for Euros

[WTF11]

To our advantage I don't see many teams stacked with talent at the moment. I think it will just be a case of who has the best 'very good' players at the tournament and who picks players in form and not on name. Should be a good one, I'd fancy our chances but with Soutgate as manager it will be 3 centre backs, 2 full backs, 2 holding players and then Kane with some other poor pleb desperately trying to score.

Watched Italy v NI, OMG borefest. If the chaps in blue are supposed to be "on the up" then God help this competition. For al I think we should have kept BPF he was complete bollox for Italys second, and that fact that Italy actually GOT a second shows how pi55 poor NI were (sorry Dallas lad, but you should have opened to play for Scotland!)

[WTF11]

To our advantage I don't see many teams stacked with talent at the moment. I think it will just be a case of who has the best 'very good' players at the tournament and who picks players in form and not on name. Should be a good one, I'd fancy our chances but with Soutgate as manager it will be 3 centre backs, 2 full backs, 2 holding players and then Kane with some other poor pleb desperately trying to score.

Watched Italy v NI and caught bits of all the rest......I do hope no-one operating complex heavy machinery was doing the same or people could die, jesus keeeriiiisst what sh1te

[spaldy]

I think the 3 lions should stick with their tried and true model.

Select a group of very highly paid, over the hill primidone's that are uncoachable and don't care if they win or lose. It helps if you get a coach that's more worried about upsetting the players than representing the country with pride. Mix in some boring tactics and poor long term strategic planning and you have the recipe for success that has made them such as dominant world power the last 50 years.

They were really good before TV came along and ruined it all for them.

[joellufcprice]

Worries me how Southgate doesn't use Phillips properly, gives him two chaperones in midfield which he doesn't need and he looks a bit lost trying to figure out why people are right next to him all the time.

Leave Phillips to it and get a Grealish or Foden on instead of these donkeys.

Must say Ward-Prowse looked good, don't think he is good enough as he has no pace and isn't good enough creatively to be an attacking mid or defensively to be a defensive mid but technically he is a great player.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Worries me how Southgate doesn't use Phillips properly, gives him two chaperones in midfield which he doesn't need and he looks a bit lost trying to figure out why people are right next to him all the time.

Leave Phillips to it and get a Grealish or Foden on instead of these donkeys.

Must say Ward-Prowse looked good, don't think he is good enough as he has no pace and isn't good enough creatively to be an attacking mid or defensively to be a defensive mid but technically he is a great player.

Mason Mount looked very good too

[joellufcprice]

Mason Mount looked very good too

Mount and Ward-Prowse fall into same category for me of being good but not quite good enough going forward i.e lack of pace or skill and not good enough defensively to play a bit deeper. Great players but think they lack that edge we need that the likes of Foden or Grealish bring

[cherrypie7]

Mount and Ward-Prowse fall into same category for me of being good but not quite good enough going forward i.e lack of pace or skill and not good enough defensively to play a bit deeper. Great players but think they lack that edge we need that the likes of Foden or Grealish bring

England had Gerrard, Rooney, Beckham. Now its Grealish and Foden? Really?

[Billyni]

England had Gerrard, Rooney, Beckham. Now its Grealish and Foden? Really?

And now Southgate too.
Takes Philips as least 2 games to get over the &hit that Southgate has installed in him.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

And now Southgate too.
Takes Philips as least 2 games to get over the &hit that Southgate has installed in him.

I think Southgate said he already knows his starting team for the Euros - morning like incentivising the new caps!

[Tichi1]

Pope should be no 1 goalie.

Agree Alf, I always think that keepers in teams like Burnley are better as they have to be, They get a lot more practice than keepers in the top teams. Look at Ramsdale, Dean Henderson last season, Patrico at Wolves, McCarthy at Saints, Meslier at Leeds - keepers that have more to do each game tend to hone their skills to a better level - and have sharper reflexes - Just my opinion like