England have not got a scooby v Spain if they somehow beat the Netherlands, especially with Lamine Yamal on their team.
Watching the Spain v France game, and it’s absolutely baffling how anyone can justify the Gareth Southgate approach to football. Teams win big games by being brave. It’ll actually be a disgrace if he engineers another stinker.England have won 1 game and drawn 4 . They have struggled against Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
He first came on my radar last August – I was working on a marketing research project for a Nike-owned brand which was looking to get a list of potential brand ambassadors who were still very young, not yet super-famous, could attract the Gen-Z crowd and were about to be the next big thing in their respective sports. My research into soccer prospects brought me to highlights of Yamal – and I can say this now without sounding crazy that he reminded me of a more athletic Zidane/Bergkamp.
Post-Switzerland, nothing about the performance was any different. I acknowledge my bias but all statistics show that England and Switzerland were either evenly matched, or that Switzerland was the marginally better team on the day. If someone primarily cares about performances, nothing about the Switzerland match should have changed anything.
We all know that you cannot treat fanbases as a single entity, any given group of fans will have contrastingly different views. There is always a risk of taking the viewpoints of different people and mistakenly concluding that individuals are being contradictory or inconsistent. But conscious of this, I am pretty sure I have seen the same exact pundits and Mailbox contributors being critical of England/Southgate pre-Switzerland, now acting confident and optimistic post-Switzerland.
The alternative argument is that too many ‘fancied’ teams have relied on their stars, who have failed to come through. The less fancied teams have done well off the back of sheer getting stuck in, balanced formations, bags of effort and not a small amount of skill to disrupt the more fancied teams. And the use of excellent young players – Guler, in the case of Turkiye. But in a short time frame, that effort is hard to sustain.
Let’s hope Billy Bean was right and we get yet another one of our ‘stars’ using their inherent skill to get us over the line again.Strap in folks, it’s a Harry Hooler whirlitzer coming Southgate has the best ever England squad – Nope. even generously can’t call Southgate’s squads the best ever. In the main, defenders win tournaments and there have been about 5 better back lines for England in the last 40 years that Southgate hasn’t had the pleasure of managing. He may have had squads that have had the most individual world-class players, but even then that is speculative at best. His squad is nothing on 2002-2006, that’s for sure.
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