Billy Batts
Striker
England were dump.
England 🏴 v Scotland 🏴 UEFA EURO 2020 Group D kick off 2000 ITV 1/ STV / ITV Hub / STV Player
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CissesUnderpants9
Winger
True enough, and realistically from an England perspective, the cold hard facts say, we have 4 points, 2 clean sheets, and 2nd in the group, that will do for me.
rubberface
Striker
Can't disagree.
Hobgoblin
Winger
we were awful man, with the players hes got we could go a long way into the tournament - unfortunately we havent got a manager that can go deep into the tournament, i do agree Scotland played well & tbh no one could complain if we lost but to me the whole thing comes down to the manager - starting 11 was wrong, tactics were wrong & substitutions were beyond baffling
MrBraithwaite
Winger
At least when Taylor was in charge there was an element of madcap humour involved!
Kent Boy 2
Striker
We did what every continental and South American team would do at a major tournament…. Play for the best result for winning the tournament. Tonight that was 0-0. Expect the same against Slovakia. Any draw will see them top the group and us finish second, exactly where we wanted to finish all along.
JohnKay
Striker
Phillips was class against Croatia but never in a million years will you convince me him and Rice are better players than Jorghino and Locatelli. The way the Itallian lads can use the ball without breaking stride is on a different level, we do seem to over hype our players then shoot the shite out of them in this country.
How boring was that, f***ing hell, did we even have a go at winning it? too scared to lose!
Locke's SAFC
Striker
They're average man. They could play to the very best of their ability, managed by a tactical genius, and they would have no chance of winning any major tournament.
The hype that surrounds them has not only led to a pack of hugely overpaid footballers being deluded but so are many of the people who watch them.
tunstallhill
Striker
How? It was pretty much the same team as Sunday where we played really well against much better opposition
He got the team right, the players simply didn't turn up on the day..it happens.
He should have done better with the subs..
I think we'll see a good reaction on Tuesday and end the group on 7 points.
joedurham
Striker
I would like to see this team managed by a "tacticsl genius", not by a man totally bereft of how to piece together the attacking jigsaw. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, what's the point of writing a masterpiece if the people can't read?
tunstallhill
Striker
It's the modern world unfortunately. Teams simply aren't allowed to have a bad result and performance without there needing to be an enquiry, manager sacked, and some players to never wear the shirt again
SPUFF
Striker
Gonna be another tournament where we simply do feck all isnt it.
Imagine another favourite playing how we have 2 games, you’d rightly completely rule them out.
tunstallhill
Striker
We'd played ok in the first game given the opponents
If we play equally as shit against the Czech Republic then I think we won't stand a chance against better opposition and it will be seen as a massive failure.
However if we play with slightly more energy we should beat them easily .
It's just to typical or modern football. One bad performance and it's game over. It's tournament football, no one gives a fuck how you get out of the group and chances are we'll finish with 7 points.
Hopefully Southgate is hammering them today and they've got it out of thier system. They turned up expecting an easy ride and it was the classic fa cup 3rd round tie where the premier League players don't really want to be there and the league two team hound the fuckers all game and sneak a 0-0 and celebrate like they've won the cup.
The premier League team then progresses to the later rounds and forgets all about it
safc9450
Winger
Don't forget,more of the same to come. How lucky are we !
Ilios
Winger
Scotland didn't 'sneak' anything, they had the better chances.
We were shite, and we weren’t very good against Croatia either. We got the job done v Croatia, but that's it. Croatia were impotent and poor, as they were against the Czechs tbh - it was only a bit of magic out of nothing from Perisic that got them the goal. They created pretty much nothing else in either game.
Hardyman's Yugo
Striker
If that was Germany the pundits would be reminding us of their ability to grind results out in the group stages and grow into the tournament. England will get better, whether enough we’ll see.
