England - Spain (21:00, Berlin) : football

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

love that spain won, absolutely deserved winners, Southgate's mentality midget tactic of sitting back the moment they equalize is fucking egregious, how little time it took to create the best chance of the game with the Rice header, 4 minutes after conceding? why can't they play attacking football like that all the time? England has the most stacked attack of all teams and they play defensive football when that's their biggest weakness.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Southgate's mentality midget tactic of sitting back the moment they equalize is fucking egregious

There's a really interesting (if a little overblown) piece in The Guardian - basically arguing that England's entire failure can be attributed to (or at least embodied by) one throw in that Kyle Walker took not long after the equaliser. Instead of chucking it into the box, he threw it 40 yards back to Stones, who gave it back to keeper, and England didn't touch the ball in Spain's half again for about 15 minutes.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah they had a bit of momentum, gave the ball away and spain refused to give it back

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I always suspected a late goal would take them out sometime. It's weird he seems to play for a draw I think anyone else would want a solid goal or two lead.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Fuck yes!!!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm expecting this to be a boring one. I hope I'm wrong

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Finals are often tense affairs so you're probably right, it's rare to get something like Argentina - France. At least Spain has been playing well so far, which gives me a bit of hope. Though I imagine England will try their best to underwhelm.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Second half was good :)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Great final, always a joy watching Spain

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Vamooooooos

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Tense game so far. It’s Spain’s game but England are putting the pressure on.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Game got really interesting in the second half. Great job Spain and England

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah he's been disappointing

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't say he's been a disappointment. His role as a striker has always been more akin to what he's shown in this tournament than what some might expect of him, and especially with this team you could predict that his playing time would mostly be spent on refining offensive possession rather than scoring.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Kane shouldn’t be in the team, never mind the captain. Saka’s carrying them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Finished with an exact prediction! 😁

The right result for the tournament and on the night.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Same here ha ha

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to this game.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fuck me what a boring game. Finals are often cautious but this is intensely uninteresting.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Niko is such a delight

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[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Spain were the better team but England proved they deserved to be there.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

not really; 30 minutes of decent football (which is kind of expected considering the quality Southgate had available) and nothing more.

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