Group D: England, Croatia, Scotland, Czech Republic

[Ring master]

The 2 best players on the pitch may have been Gilmour for scotland and Pickford for England, I dont know maybe

 

[kenada_blue]

He was woeful. Absolutely last. Worst player on the pitch, and was one of the worst last game too.

I hate when goals disguise performance, does my nut in.

But it's Harry Kane's fault cos he didn't chase long balls well

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Can understand the logic in having Rice and Phillips line up against Croatia with Modric, no disrespect to Scotland we should never sit back and be defensive.

 

[MrGrumpy]

I’m gonna defend HK, he got no service at all, corners hit the front man.
England arnt a team there a bunch of very good players who all want to THE MAN so don’t pass. Look at JG just kept the ball

 

[Magus]

DCL absolutely would have. Game was crying out for a presence to stick on Hanley and get us up the field. Kane and Rashford offered nothing.

Grealish and DCL should have been on at half time.

I admire your faith in DCL, I like him too, but England seldom play to his strengths. The only one who has even tried to get him into games is Grealish, the rest play to their BIg 6 mates

 

[duncs pigeon]

I hate Souness. He said Scotland were brilliant and England were awful- how come they didnt beat us then? And Robertson can do one as well

 

[kenada_blue]

DCL absolutely would have. Game was crying out for a presence to stick on Hanley and get us up the field. Kane and Rashford offered nothing.

Grealish and DCL should have been on at half time.

Kane and Rashford rely on intricate play, throughballs, or in Kane's case runners past him.

Neither happened. We hoofed it. Didn't even cross the ball from wide positions. Clueless.

 

[Tubey]

But it's Harry Kane's fault cos he didn't chase long balls well

Love Kane as a footballer but he's either not fit or not suiting the system.

Again, symptom of a terrible manager. Afraid of reputations, not managing the game. I'd be gutted if Southgate was the Everton manager.

 

[BlueStevie35]

A good manager would look at that tonight and drop players for Tuesday. An ideal world it would look like this

Pickford

James
Stones
Maguire
Chilwell

Mount
Phillips
Grealish

Sancho
DCL
Saka

 

[RomanReigns]

horrible management by southgate

i would sack him now and replace him with hodgson or allardyce

 

[d34noj]

To be honest it is unlikely that DCL would have done any better. England have some extremely gifted players, but Southgate is safety first. I can't understand why he took Foden off and left Sterling on, but when push comes to shove he always goes with the media faves to avoid any comeback.

DCL would have held the ball up and bought Grealish into play

 

[Eggs]

I hate Souness. He said Scotland were brilliant and England were awful- how come they didnt beat us then? And Robertson can do one as well

…but his teeth are very white.

 

[Zezti]

On BBC Sport's match feed:

Surprised he even has that much support. He looks f*****.

 

[Ring master]

horrible management by southgate

i would sack him now and replace him with hodgson or allardyce

To be fair, every one of these major tournaments England play and fail in, the 1st thing most of the time is the England boss should be sacked

 

[Tubey]

I admire your faith in DCL, I like him too, but England seldom play to his strengths. The only one who has even tried to get him into games is Grealish, the rest play to their BIg 6 mates

It's not even faith in DCL, it's how the game was going. Even bloody Kieffer Moore would have been better than Kane/Rashford in that game tonight, because Scotland were funnelling us out wide and challenging Sterling and Mount to do something, and they couldn't.

Grealish, Sancho, DCL and you win that game at a canter. It wasn't even a difficult call - 99% of England fans would have correctly identified the issue there, but England are so ingrained with the 'top four/top six' culture that the manager never makes the correct call for fear of pissing off the clique.