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Just now, joe jordans teeth said:

You mean the brilliant players playing in English teams with brilliant foreigners and a brilliant English man playing in a foreign team who are 6th in the league 

I’m too pissed to follow you. But I’m suggesting that Southgate isn’t good enough. 

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Wish people would stop defending Southgate, he is so clearly not brave enough for the job

We set out negative and to play for the draw absolutely unacceptable 

But he’s a nice bloke and media friendly so all is well

picking mount over foden or Maddison is absolutely moronic 

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4 minutes ago, deadredfred said:

Outplayed everywhere. Which just shouldn’t happen given the calibre of players. 

Bringing on Henderson and not Foden speaks volumes about Southgates negative tactics. 

My instinct is to totally agree , and I’m no great Southgate fan ,

 

But in the context of tournament football , he probably did the right thing 

We weren’t cohesive at all , And looked more likely to lose the game than win it , lacked some leadership....

He made us slightly more solid , take the point , get out the group and move on

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Just now, And Its Smith said:

Onto the next one. Poor performance but not a poor result. Will win the group from here 

That’s all you can say about it. Moving forwards in terms of how will we beat the first really decent opposition we face Southgate has really got to get rid of this love in for Mason Mount.

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3 minutes ago, TomF said:

Grealish was good when he came on tbf.  Despite the negativity I think we looked better with Henderson on, he does the simple things well enough 

Also thought Henderson did ok, he always makes himself available and visible, unlike Rice

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2 minutes ago, 2015 said:

Southgate genuinely played for the 0-0 in the 2nd half. Embarassing

Why? It’s tournament football against a good team that were causing us problems. Most of the USA team play top flight football in England, France, Italy and Spain. They are a good team. We will win the group now because of that point.  

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A group format + a big win in your first game + Southgate as manager = very careful steady performance.

We didn't need to take chances, and Gary doesn't like to anyway. Don't lose, we didn't lose, he'll be fairly happy.

To win anything, we need to be more front foot aggressive .

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If he gets us through top, you can't argue with it really 

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4 minutes ago, Andrew_V1 said:

Wish people would stop defending Southgate, he is so clearly not brave enough for the job

We set out negative and to play for the draw absolutely unacceptable 

But he’s a nice bloke and media friendly so all is well

picking mount over foden or Maddison is absolutely moronic 

I agree with picking mount over foden but Jesus he can’t ouch Maddison over him when the bloke is still injured 

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1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

Why? It’s tournament football against a good team that were causing us problems. Most of the USA team play top flight football in England, France, Italy and Spain. They are a good team. We will win the group now because of that point.  

It's negative. Wouldn't matter who it was against, it's negative to play that way with the squad England have

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1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

Why? It’s tournament football against a good team that were causing us problems. Most of the USA team play top flight football in England, France, Italy and Spain. They are a good team. We will win the group now because of that point.  

Draw against Wales or even lose to Wales and Iran win. Then it’s not top of the group. 

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Just now, Rossi the Robin said:

No panic, USA sat back with good shape and was a predictable outcome, we should learn to not get over hyped.

Will draw v Wales and avoid France in the quarters 

I disagree. They defended with good shape, but I wouldn't say they sat back. Even when we pushed them back they broke with real purpose and threat.

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