England World Cup Qualifying Thread (11 Viewers)

[Deleted member 11652]

We will/ should win but we are playing just 4 attack minded players against Albania .
Against good sides he will play 7 defensive players

With the squad available I’m not sure what else he could have done. Is there much difference between ward prowse and Phillips? Wait till the euros when it’s 5 at the back plus rice and Henderson

 

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[Evo1883]

With the squad available I’m not sure what else he could have done. Is there much difference between ward prowse and Phillips? Wait till the euros when it’s 5 at the back plus rice and Henderson

Frankly it's a depressing thought ...I've just listened to him talk about Albania and you'd think we were playing Holland

He's not nor has he ever been a good enough manager for this job imo

"If you want to be a top side you've got to come to places like this and dictate the game " it's Albania , we are expected to dictate the game Gareth

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

I like the Albania stadium.

 

[Evo1883]

I like the Albania stadium.

Yea it's quite nice

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Lad upfront for Albania could be a potential striker on loan for us. At Vitesse on loan from Chelsea where hes scored 9 in 23. 6ft 3 and looks like he can move half decent. Think hes the sort of player we should be looking at and could maybe happen.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Who just gave the ball away then?

They almost scored.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Rubbish stuff from England so far v Albania- pointless having Phillips on in this game (together with Rice) , when you need a creative player on. Maguire on a slow pitch looks so ponderous knocking it around with Stones. Rant over/

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Treat qualifying like Capello and the finals like Sven

 

[David O'Day]

We're perfectly set up to just play the ball about in front of the Albanian defence without really troubling them so far.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We're perfectly set up to just play the ball about in front of the Albanian defence without really troubling them so far.

It’s like City v Wycombe

 

[Evo1883]

This is not what I expect from any England side tbh

 

[Evo1883]

1-0 nice finish ...appalling half though

Might open up a bit now

 

[Evo1883]

Over 400 passes this half so far and 5 shots to show for it
Really poor to watch

Should be 2 nil

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Can’t believe he hasn’t put that away, terrific ball

 

[Evo1883]

England need to get back to front much much quicker .

 

[Hutch11]

We need a forward thinking adventurous manager that won't play 2 holding midfielders every feckin game

 

[Nick]

That was a sitter.

 

[Evo1883]

Looks like we switched to a 4231 in the later stages of that half .

You can't be pleased with the first 35 , very slow with little urgency .

Need a proper central midfield player to get hold of the ball and drive forward .

Poor but very Southgate esc performance so far

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

We need a forward thinking adventurous manager that won't play 2 holding midfielders every feckin game

CCFC or England?

 

[Hutch11]

I'm in the 'Robins in' camp , not for England though although he couldn't do any worse than colonel beaky

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Spain losing to Georgia, some crazy results the last few days

 

[Evo1883]

I'm in the 'Robins in' camp , not for England though although he couldn't do any worse than colonel beaky

Southgate has no right to be managing at this level

 

[Evo1883]

Spain losing to Georgia, some crazy results the last few days

Think the one thing England and Spain have in common is they pass for the sake of passing

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

England and Southgate really are an international CCFC.

Note: this does not equate Biamou to Kane, perhaps McF to Maguire.

 

[Evo1883]

England and Southgate really are an international CCFC.

Note: this does not equate Biamou to Kane, perhaps McF to Maguire.

Don't know mate , Robins doesn't have a plethora of attacking options at his disposal , old Gareth does

 

[Hutch11]

England and Southgate really are an international CCFC.

Note: this does not equate Biamou to Kane, perhaps McF to Maguire.

CCFC have actually won things in the last 10 years

 

[Evo1883]

CCFC have actually won things in the last 10 years

England did win the we nearly won the world Cup trophy tbf

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Don't know mate , Robins doesn't have a plethora of attacking options at his disposal , old Gareth does

Even if Robins did he’d probably ignore them like Gareth

 

[Evo1883]

Even if Robins did he’d probably ignore them like Gareth

I doubt it mate , respect your opinion though

 

[Hutch11]

Ha I want a hat like that

 

[Evo1883]

2-0 Mason Mount, took it well .

 

[Hutch11]

Very nice finish

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The whistle cures Raheem Sterling’s injury immediately

 

[Evo1883]

Commentators talking rubbish ..England have always breezed past sides like this in the last 20 years or so ..it was only recently Denmark took 4 points off us , the teams that have a bit more about them England tend to struggle partly because it's very negative too often and plays into their hands , 1 win v Belgium and Spain since 2018 but we've lost to Belgium 3 times , Spain, Holland and Denmark in that time frame

Our record against good sides under Southgate is Shite

 

[ccfctommy]

I find the whole 'why are we playing two DMs' question a bit puzzleing to be honest. We have four attacking players and are comfortably winning. This is how we are playing in the Euros and we have one more competitive game after this.