England v Panama

[BURFORD BEE]

My 13th World Cup finals tournament following .
It took Jordan Henderson as a late replacement, to settle the team and he ran his socks off in that short time.
Why cannot some of the younger players put such shifts in?
I will always support the international side,butthis team needs to up the effort. in the remainder of the tournament!
Come on England.

If only it were that simple. Part of the problem last night was the two wide men running at the defence and invariably losing the ball before getting a cross in. Everyone put in a shift, nobody young or old was shirking it's just that we found it difficult to deal with a low block much as others have. The centre back pairing didn't work and we left our best right back at home or rather in Spain.

 

[BURFORD BEE]

There's a reason they've lost literally only twice at the Azteca EVER!

To add to the problem we won't have anything like enough to acclimatise to the high altitude. It will be our biggest test if we are to go all the way. Let's pray Mexico lose to Ecuador!

 

[Rob-BEE]

To add to the problem we won't have anything like enough to acclimatise to the high altitude. It will be our biggest test if we are to go all the way. Let's pray Mexico lose to Ecuador!

Well Ecuador's national stadium is at an even higher altitude than Mexico's! So I guess whoever we play, if we get there, will be a lot more used to it than us.

 

[Gee Bee]

My 13th World Cup finals tournament following .
It took Jordan Henderson as a late replacement, to settle the team and he ran his socks off in that short time.
Why cannot some of the younger players put such shifts in?
I will always support the international side,butthis team needs to up the effort. in the remainder of the tournament!
Come on England.

What? Anderson put in hard yards for 80 minutes to be replaced by Henderson for 10.
It wasn’t a perfect performance, in fact at times it was poor. However we moved the ball quicker, played with more width and certainly worked hard.
In later rounds, oppositions will be better and want and need to win. I think Tuchel has a squad that will be better on counter against sides who press higher, like Croatia did first game, and our best performance. Defensively we don’t seem to be together as a unit and could be the undoing, but that could improve!!
Let’s not be down until we are out.

 

[Hullbee]

Personally the defence are not getting the protection required from the midfield and that is the root cause of their issues

 

[gbems92]

It's hard to look into the defensive structure yesterday, because we simply won't play like that against a decent team. The personnel in defence is more of a concern. TAA and slab head should have been picked imo. I don't particularly rate maguire but he's always been decent in an England shirt

 

[Rob-BEE]

We weren't very good at the last euros either and got to the final

Indeed. We played a lot better at the Qatar WC and didn't get as far. Need luck and big moments, not perfect performances.