by Franchise FC »
06 Jun 2021 20:14
Ascotexgunner Royal Rother I just find it pathetic - every fcuking major tournament we take injured / just returning players. Every fcuking time they are a liability.
When will we get a manager with the balls to stand up and say no?
This is going to be downfall of Southgate.
Preparation seems to be farcical for England. Most of the other countries have played their best players and given all their players games. Most of the England first selections have hardly kicked a ball since the season ended.
Going straight into a tournament having had no England experience or competative knockabout is a tad dangerous.
Six of the starters will have played last Saturday (assuming Chilwell is selected, otherwise Shaw played today)
Walker, Stones, Foden, James, Chilwell & Mount
Pickford and Kane played Wednesday
Rice (assuming he plays) played both Wednesday and today
Leaves a centre -back (Coady or Mings and they both played Wednesday and Mings today) plus presumably another midfielder (who knows, but James Ward-Prowse did himself no harm today)
I don't think it's that bad, particularly given that it would have been impossible to predict two English teams in the Champions League Final when the games were arranged.