Slovakia v England - World Cup 2018 qualifier

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Slovakia sitting back and England failing to create any chances.

SOUND FAMILIAR?!
 

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Spurs boys are fucking woeful. Dier especially. Don't know what's happened to them.
 

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Spurs boys are fucking woeful. Dier especially. Don't know what's happened to them.
Probs because Pochettino demands so much physically from his players and they're all knackered.
 

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I think we're winning the ball back very quickly, but that's the only real positive to take from this half thus far
 

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Going to be 0/0
 

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Tuned in 10 mins ago and we've barely been out of our own half. Panicked passing around our back 4 then boot it at Kane. Promising stuff.
 

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God the pitch is awful (so are we so its not much of an excuse)
 

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Why can't we just accept we're shit when gifted possession against sides who drop back and up the tempo and take some risks?
 

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Why can't we just accept we're shit when gifted possession against sides who drop back and up the tempo and take some risks?

I don't think we've kept possession for the sake of it, it's just a case of having the ball with no real option/opportunity. Sam isn't going to change this side in a week.
 

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I don't think we've kept possession for the sake of it, it's just a case of having the ball with no real option/opportunity. Sam isn't going to change this side in a week.
But the midfielders are happily taking their time before passing it from side to side. Get it into Kane's feet as soon as possible and get Sterling/Lallana/Rooney in and around him. Or failing that, get Vardy on up front and try and get their centre backs turning the other way. Either way we'd lose the ball a bit but I'd much rather that than this turgid shite that has proven to be ineffective.
 

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No matter who's in charge, we play the same tepid, boring, slow and deliberate style of football. I want to use the word methodical, but that implies we have we have a plan. Even when we have a chance to move it quickly we seem to choose not to.
 

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Is it more of the same, mates?
 

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An attacking midfield with Rooney who at times is so deep he's in our own half, then Lallana on the left who is confused by that huge space left by Rooney that he doesn't know whether to play left or centrally, that he does neither.

No width means no crosses, so we're trying to use Kane on the shoulder of the defender for through balls, which is not his game. Either play wide and cross to Kane, or play narrow and replace Kane with some pace. It's not rocket science.

It can't always be the manager. The players surely can figure stuff out for themselves also.

Oh a couple of crosses this half already, Sterling switching left.
 

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Slovaks maybe should be down to 10 men?

Too slow at the moment.
 

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That team is a harrowing indication of where things are heading. We're moving towards the Scotlands of the world.
 

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That team is a harrowing indication of where things are heading. We're moving towards the Scotlands of the world.
Sometimes in life mate you've just got to accept you are shite. As for Scotland I don't give a monkey's chuff whether they win, lose, draw. Not a great lover of international football.

Btw....the commentators are knobheads.....
 

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Dele Alli still has the first touch of a league one player
 

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Sometimes in life mate you've just got to accept you are shite. As for Scotland I don't give a monkey's chuff whether they win, lose, draw. Not a great lover of international football.

Btw....the commentators are knobheads.....

I've accepted that we're shit, it's the constant failures to create a brighter dawn that stings. Old, talentless men at the helm causing harm to some talented young players.

Even Roy mastered the groups.
 

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Two passable impressions of a clown within a minute from Walcott - that's good going.
 

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