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We have more fall-out for the England win over Switzerland and there’s a growing clamour for Harry Kane to be dropped.Personally I would take the oily, cheating one. Because he’s only mostly a passenger – not a complete one.
The tournament structure has also been a disaster, with all four favourites ending up on the same side, while England get the likes of Madagascar, The Falklands, Vatican City and Tibet en route to a finish they’ll still f**k up. Personally, I’m firmly in the critics camp. I still give Southgate credit for creating a positive environment, but he’s the walking personification of the phrase ‘better to be lucky than good’. It’s impossible to argue getting an equaliser with a 95th-minute overhead kick that is your first shot on target is clever management.
Finally, Gareth had a response to the criticism that he was fiddling while Rome burned in the Slovakia game, famously making one unenforced change in the 90 and that not until the 83th minute. This time, he makes three changes, but as with every time we do make wholesale changes under his management the shape is completely lost as we look like we’ve never prepared for a different approach at all.
Tactics be damned…chaos, chance, and bald-faced luck are working way better so far. Nice penalties, to be fair. If I wanted to be picky, maybe Gareth could crash-tackle his skipper a bit earlier and bring Eze on, as he’s been on the pitch every time we’ve scored a goal lately.Ivan Toney refusing to look at the ball and instead staring directly at the Swiss keeper for his peno was incredibly impressive.
* Harry Kane seems – or acts – like he’s working hard, but there’s so little to show for it. The options to him are worthy ones. * His worst critic would have to admit that Southgate has a certain caginess when it comes to tournaments. England have never really dominated a major-tourney group under his charge, seeming to do the absolute minimum to succeed, which often means winning the group. But get out of groups he does, and his knockout record is impressive. Still, it bothers me how seldom he lets his teams off the leash.
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