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Who should he have come on for? Foden and Saka were dominating their full backs.

 

Foden,he had a average game in my opinion.

 

Really enjoyable game, I’m not overly bother by international football compared to club so didn’t feel dejected just enjoyed a very good game. I don’t particularly rate Southgate but we’ve come such a long way since the dark days of Roy, although the players are far better.

Feels like a waste as France were without 6 first team regulars and with a chance of playing Morocco in the semis you have to wonder if a better chance will ever come.

England were the far better team second half, but didn’t create enough from open play for me and Giroud could have had a hatrick so it’s a bit ott to say we totally dominated and France got lucky. Football is all about creating and taking chances, poor ref or not France showed why they’re world champions with two fantastic goals. No player really had a bad game and Saka was fantastic. Kane will be 4 years older next World Cup, I do wonder where the next number 9 will come from because at the moment I can’t see someone who’ll replace him.

Hope it’s a France V Argentina final will be a more interesting one for the neutral.

 

Have FIFA changed the last man rule, because Mount was the last man when one on one with Lloris when Hernandez fouled him from behind red card and penalty I thought ?.

 

Get the Morocco manager in. A team who do not fear the opposition and have beaten 3 of the worlds best teams (Belgium,Spain,Portugal) and drawn with a fellow semi finalist (Croatia).
All this achieved by playing football how it should be played, attack attack attack, none of this tactical shite.
I hope they stuff France on Wednesday and then go on to win it, putting us truly to shame.

 

Yet we are joint top scorers in the competition.

Morocco success has been built on a very impressive defensive unit, not entertaining attacking football.

 

I'm very anti Southgate but we played pretty well against France. Certainly the better side, even with that joker of a referee and we deserved to win the game.

However, once again his substitutions when going behind were poor, predictable and made us worse. Mount is useless (yes I know he won the penalty) and Sterling probably wasn't in the best frame of mind, notwithstanding his form has been poor for a while anyway. A competent manager leaves them both on the bench.

Meanwhile you've got James Maddison on the bench who doesn't get a single minute and Grealish who only gets injury time.

This tournament has generally been an improvement in terms of our approach to games as we haven't been as negative as previous tournaments but it's ended in failure one again. And once again to the first elite side we play in the competition.

Hopefully Southgate decides to leave. He hasn't got it in him to win the big games against better tacticians who continually outsmart him. I would have Tuchel or Pochettino who have been touted in the media as being interested but I'd be amazed if the FA went foreign.

 

Southgate is shiete. It takes real incompetence to take a group of some of the world's best players and win feck all. We will never actually win anything while he is manager and remain a nearly team

 

45 minutes to speed it up Tony or we are on the plane home.

 

The refs definitely bent 100 %

 

Got nothing from the ref but Southgate read this game wrong imo. Wrong tactics first half, right second half but subs too late to make the difference.

 

Despite the defeat the future is bright with those young players. They play far better football than the ones that won the World Cup.

 

What were the wrong tactics that he put right in the second half?

For me they played pretty much the same throughout the whole time since France opened the scoring.

 

Agree didn’t see anything stand out from him, would have subbed him much earlier and he was again a CB by trade. Saka on the other hand was fantastic and I don’t think he should have gone off unless injured.

 

You said and I quote "attack, attack, attack, none of this tactical shite". If you were watching their games either that was some rash typing or you don't know what you're watching.

 

Ah, 12 goals against the world forces that are Iran, Wales and Senegal.

 

As my earlier post..slow build up from back ending with wasted pass in their third in first half.Second was a more direct affair which was provided more of a threat.That's the difference as I saw it NM.

 

Yes, the rules about red and yellow cards in penalty situations were changed a couple of years ago to avoid double jeopardy. Peter Walton, the retired ref on ITV, said that, as Mason Mount wasn't in controlled possession of the ball, it wouldn't have been classed as deliberately denying a clear goalscoring opportunity, so it was a penalty plus a yellow, not a red card

 

Is it just me, or are we the only major nation that constantly covets foreign managers?

If Gareth does go, I want to see exclusively British managers, each building on the work of their predecessors.