Feels ridiculous that you play trent in midfield when kane kept dropping deep and not making runs in behind then ollie watkins who constantly makes those runs in behind comes on after trent is off
yeah one of the issues is that Kane, Foden, Bellingham and Trent all want to be in the same sort of area. I had hopes for Eze but he was terrible unfortunately. Gordon will get a go next game I suppose, dislike him for his fouling and playacting but he is a good player so let's see
It's ridiculous that he would play TAA in midfield when dropping deep is what Kane does. This is all down to Southgate's tactical ineptitude. Bringing someone like TAA into midfield but still have your forward line look to play transitional football, is just completely baffling. It's as if TAA was given one set of instructions, and everyone else got something else. The man is a buffoon.
I'm always blown away by your analyses of games. In amongst the chest thumping and dumbed down commentary and punditry, you actually give coherent, tactical analysis of what is actually happening in matches. It is so refreshing.
I’m just glad Adam is saying what v few have, Bellingham as an 8 is not the answer to the issues we have. Putting in a proper 6 is the problem we have.
So easy to dive on the bandwagon attacking Southgate to get clix , with your obvious amnesia,it was Southgate who has taken us so close to getting silverware and lifted the nation in the process, so get behind the team instead being a Dick!
This was painful. There was absolutely no synergy or cohesion in this England team. We're playing Alexander Arnold to fire incisive through balls, but the winger opposite and almost every single forward play besides Saka comes SHORT. We gave Foden the free role without any synergy with Bellingham. So both Foden and Bellingham are switching who is number 10 but aren't switching. This meant Bellingham spent the entire game watching Foden not knowing when it was HIS TURN to get the ball. And Foden spent the entire game playing the number 10 role but also not playing it because he's sprinting back and forth since nobody it filling his other position. So we ended up somehow with NOBODY playing at number 10! We somehow had everyone coming towards the ball but nobody having any synergy or cohesive movement to receive the ball, make runs, and create space. So despite everyone coming short there was absolutely no movement. And then we went LONG all the time to Kane, but because everyone was coming SHORT we had nobody to receive the second ball. And Kane was playing DMF any way, so going LONG to Kane resulted in us going nowhere because he wasn't up front any way! Our only saving grace with the ball was Saka and Walker. Because they played RWF and RWB. Shock horror, two world class players simply doing their job resulted in our only hope. When Foden was playing number 10 he was amazing. But it didn't matter because he overwrote Bellingham meaning there was no LWF and thus we basically were playing 10 men. And even if he did have the ball EVERYONE besides Saka came short to receive the ball. What is wholly disappointing is that everyone, even those who cannot break down why, understood this England team cannot win. It doesn't matter if we have the greatest England team since 98. Because Football is played with 11 men on the pitch. 11 individuals who have no idea what is going on, or how to correct it, or what they're supposed to do, or how to play cohesively... No matter how good they are, cannot win unless the team they are playing are drastically below their level. England look tired and exhausted because they are mentally shattered. The more things don't click, the harder they are mentally working to figure it out. The more it doesn't work, the more out of ideas they become. The tireder you get. Failing is exhausting. Winning is empowering. England spent 90 minutes failing at everything they did. Of course they look shattered. Deep exhale.
Foden desperation to play at no. 10 and make an impact breaks the team structure. He was always out of position and that disrupts the balance and also negates Bellingham. Vinicius jnr and Rodrigo were doing the same thing so to outshine Bellingham in Madrid. England will qualify even with the 4 points they have now, let Southgate use the last group game to refresh the team and try to build a real real team around Bellingham Bellingham, let him play Palmer on the right, Gordon on the left, Watkins upfront, Wharton and Mainoo behind Bellingham Bellingham in midfield. Stones needs to be really assessed cos he looks lethargic.
@@rufaisarki9318 You can't name a bad team. This England squad, and the players who didn't even make it are amazing. Just about every combination people come up with can be a Dynasty. They just have to committ to a team and play to the strength of what we have. Which are sensational forward players. Its so frustrating. Fingers crossed Southgate commits to something positive and plays high.
Trent must be suffering playing with these inferior players who cannot press, move off the ball or make any kind of attacking runs. He should quit and head back to Liverpool to play alongside World class players
@@dreameroldsoul he must be suffering when his team isn't doing his job for him when he can't defend, position, run or even bring the ball out of defence. All he does is sit deep and wait for unexisting runners to ping long balls.
What sums up Southgate’s inability to make the correct substitutes is him taking off our best long-ball passer, and then bringing on three players who like to run in behind
@christopherreynolds9254 - When you say "England's best passes" I assume you refer to TAA. He's a total liability we don't have the ball, you cannot wait all day for the maybe 1 Hollywood pass. When Denmark had the ball he was invisible so we were playing with 10 men.
@@who9387 bruh it only took one touch for Trent to find Watkins when they played together last time, what are you on about🤷 Trent shouldn't start but there is nobody in that team who can play that line breaking pass. He would be a game changer if he is subbed on with Watkins Eze or Gordon in the second half if the game is too stagnant. People hating on Trent when he is asked to do tricks with his hand tied back is insane
@@sreejithps2566 That's exactly what Adam was on about in the vid. You can't just shoehoen your best players into any position on the pitch and hope to win matches. In the words of Bill Shankly - "Great teams make great players, great players don't make great teams". We need to be playing our MOST EFFECTIVE ELEVEN, not playing one guy out of position (TAA) simply because he might be able to pass the ball better than anyone else. If you are playing at international level for England, you should be capable of passing the ball, maybe not as well as TAA, but well enough. There are a lot of problems in this England side at the moment and most of them are because players are being played either out of position (TAA, Foden) or in the wrong system (Kane, Rice). Nothing to do with the individual abilities of these players, just to do with the system itself that Southgate is trying to play
I don't even need to watch this to know why we were so bad, lemme guess: 1) Foden on the left 2) No width on that left side as a result of Foden being on the left 3) Trent has no runners to find, defeating the purpose of playing him in midfield 4) Kane dropping back to scratch Pickford's arse & not playing as a striker How'd I do?
Or to make it really short: He is playing way to safe. The highest quality squad can’t assert dominance through Leads if they play all defensive… Meanwhile the own fans are so dissatisfied they start booing the players and mistakes can happen
It's genuinely insane, and kind of sad, that a TH-camr is so much more tactically astute than the actual England manager (and their entire coaching team, for that matter).
Football managers are like company CEOs; the same people just circulate round the jobs no matter how poor they prove themselves to be. There are thousands of knowledgeable people out there who have never been professional footballers who could do a better job.
@@shantiescovedo4361 Well yes, BUT it is not very difficult to adapt... And at least I didn't see a lot adaptation in comparison to the serbia game, which wasn't convincing either
This time last summer England under 21s won the euros. They did so playing dynamic, inventive football. England youth teams have in fact been extremely successful over the last 8 years being proactive in press, comfortable in possession, playing through the thirds. England have been putting a system in place with English players that are more than just comfortable at international level: they’ve been beating Germany, Spain, France convincingly at these levels. So then, how the utter f*ck has this team now suddenly regressed back to 2010, after all the foundations were being put into place to NEVER approach a tournament like that again? That is what is so depressing and upsetting as an England fan. It is completely unacceptable to claim “this is tournament football”, “the opposition were so good” or whatever the excuses are for playing brainless, one dimensional, turgid football that we’ve seen in these two games. No other serious nation is playing like this or making excuses for it. The English youth teams are proving it’s not tournament football, at all. Despicable and unacceptable.
I get the impression that half the people commenting here didn't actually watch the video. It's not about negative tactics; it's about trying to accommodate too many stars into the team instead of picking lesser lights who would be able to execute a balanced system more successfully.
@@bonglesnodkins329 This is not about specifically complaining about negative tactics. It’s about the abandonment of any coherent tactics whatsoever. Whether that’s because he picked an unbalanced team full of “stars”, or a result of playing too cautiously. Personally, don’t care which it is because ultimately the outcome is the same: England have gone back in time and are playing dinosaur football, followed up by excuses about “tournament football”.
@@LGEightZero The point is that Southgate stuck to his guns at previous tournaments, choosing certainly players who were routinely pilloried by fans and the press for not being good enough, because England had a wealth of talent that wasn't being used, i.e. he wasn't putting enough big stars in his sides. Now it feels like he has finally bowed under the pressure to put out an all-star attacking line-up, and the result is....this. An unbalanced side that can't press, can't win the ball back, can't distribute it properly. In addition, there now seems to be no natural leader in the side. Maguire and Henderson both used to be pretty good at that stuff.
Gareth SouthGOAT has it all in his plan. It's to lower expectations - make all the other teams think we're crap.. False sense of security. Then BOOM in the knockout round he'll whip out the real England team
As a German I can feel you. Looks like England have the same problem we had with Flick. A mixture of different tactics combined with players not playing on their preferred position. I highly doubt England gets this fixed in this tournament.
You’re so lucky you got rid of Flick before this tournament. I was actually feeling hopeful seeing you look so bad, before Nagelsmann came in and completely transformed you😂 Now I think you’ll win the tournament.
Glad you highlighted the danish press in contrast with the English one. Kind of shocking how much England struggled to do anything with the ball under pressure. Southgate isn't the sort of manager to throw kids in the deep end but Mainoo and Wharton need to figure in the plans for the rest of the tournament.
Dear Mr Southgate, please find out how much Adam Cleary gets paid, then double it, double it again, put him on a plane to Germany and sack whoever is your tactics coach
This is where we need personalities like Adam Clery being given actual punditry jobs. We all love ex-players, but most of them don't have the gumption or nous to break down games in the right way. They won't criticise players unless it is the prescribed thing to do, they make boring platitudes (a la Shearer), where they say nothing with gusto. It's tragic. We need more like Adam Clery doing punditry.
I’m so so grateful i decided to watch this you get it !!! And your analysis is fantastic !!! My biggest thing has been not criticising the team in a harsh way nor the coaching staff , like you said Southgate has done tremendous changes in culture for the English national team, and you nailed that as well as the understanding of attitude in that there’s a balance between finding the right system and choosing the stars that fit a system !!! And I cannot possibly express the genius behind your analyses and how you found your way into displaying the heat-diagrams and passes that worked so well in helping understand where and how they lacked game , particularly enjoyed your takes on Harry Kane not being mostly up top and needing to recover on lacking areas of press, and how Declan wasn’t in his most comfortable game clearly seen by passes, and the amount of missed passes because again left side wasn’t top form and the press was not being made and not concise, the lack of team chemistry showed from a few angles and i think you tackled a really good analysis as to why that might’ve been! To answer your question, and I loved your analysis on each individuals brilliance from individuals like Declan Trent Harry and Foden , Understanding as well that We’re not sure if any manager could match the brilliance of Pep’s tactical strategic mind, I’m a fan and have been so wonderous as to his 3-2-4-1 formation tactics and IF ENGLAND COULD INTEGRATE THAT I KNOW THEY WOULD WIN THIS TOURNAMENT! So with that , again to answer your question, i think if the right players and or general team/staff figures could find leadership !!! I also came to the realisation that Prem influences are always part of what make these players, and ofc when they mingle into the national team from that raised talent, they’re not quite as confident as their confidence is removed from them into a national performance structure, and so logically they might lose a lot of that but again im hoping that their individuals characters step up and lead their brilliance by helping this team gather confidence in a system and a game they can all rely on and build team chemistry around ! I believe in this team !
Great analysis, as always! Thank you! If I can make a suggestion: when you are showing heat maps and pass maps on the field, it would be helpful to have some indication of the direction the team is playing. I get lost sometimes.
As a Middlesbrough man I've seen all this before. Southgate came into the job with good credit as he was a good well loved player for us. He seemed smart, well spoken and informed. He had this idea for a young, dynamic squad focused on quick attacking play and then done nothing but sit back with players who didn't know how to sit back... That's all he knows, he's a defender and naturally reserved but tries to be something else. He's not evolved as a manager in one aspect and I don't think he can. Ultimately we got relegated and he destroyed us, we went from Premier league regulares, cup finalists including Europe to a bog standard championship team. Him being a yes man, a company man moved onwards and upwards. Notice he always makes sure his starters match the ones who are front and centre in all the posters for sponsorship etc.... He only knows one way of doing things and we've basically lucked our way into the places we got in the last few competitions. We will get to the final 8 no doubt then get knocked out in a limp, tired display with zero effort or heart. His way of playing ensures that at a minimum and offers zero risk of injury and creates media hype which sponsors love. More money in that than winning. The system loves him....
Did you actually watch the video? Fuck me ragged, the problem isn't negative tactics, it's selection of the wrong personnel - too many attack-minded players who don't gel together and can't run a system properly as a team.
Spot on. I'm a boro fan also and he ruined the club. We went from Hasslebaink, viduka and Yakubu to the next season only having Tuncay (who was better as a AM/winger) Afonso Alves. He should never have let Yakubu go
This was the best piece of analysis I have seen since the game. Actually breaking it all down and highlighting the key problems. Not just point the finger and say 'look at him, he's not running enough'.
Wharton to save England? He is exactly the player to make incisive passes forward out of the midfield. He’s also young and has no international experience. I doubt Southgate has the balls to start Wharton.
@@George-nd7otWharton is the same age as Bellingham, and 4 years older than the 16 year old child absolutely bossing it for Spain. Experience is grossly overrated by far too many people, especially given how most of the best footballers on the planet currently are in their early 20s. If you're good enough, you're old enough. End of. Experience doesn't trump ability.
1. One of England's biggest problems over the last 5 years or so is that Kane can't run, so he can't press and he can't stretch defences. But he's undroppable because of his goals, hold up play, and lack of a serious challenger. The likes of Wilson, Calvert-Lewin, Abraham have all had injuries disrupt their progress. Watkins is good at pressing and running but can't hold it up half as good as Kane and despite all his goals this season his finishing isn't elite. Toney looked great in his one match but his form dipped. 2. One of England's strengths was the ability to switch between a back 3 and a back 4, but they haven't played a with a back 3 in so long they've lost that. I (perhaps naively) feel that a back 3 *might* have helped them both beat the opposition press and commit more players higher up the pitch for our press. Could also allow Stones to step into midfield a la Man City, and get the best out of TAA at RWB. 3. Side point. As great as Bellingham is, I really don't like the way he takes ages to get up when he hits the deck for whatever reason, it puts such a burden on his teammates. Pep rightly talks about body language being so important, and he just wouldn't have this. You just hope they're trying to conserve energy because at the moment there is none.
yeah Bellingham was even just clapping his hands and walking in one of the rare occurances where England got forward quickly through Foden beating 2 Denmark players on his own
If you see this channels analysis from the Serbia match, we actually did play with a back three in possession with Trippier going forward. Trouble is, Shaw would be able to do far more there and Trippier just can’t.
Re Bellingham, I agree that he’s not looking sharp. Sacrilege to say but he definitely shouldn’t be playing 90 imo. Either bench him and bring him on late to finish the game off with one of his classic stoppage time goals, or start him and take him off early, but he clearly isn’t capable atm of bringing the energy needed - which is a problem, because at his best he very much is the guy that picks the rest of the team up. So when he’s subdued, the whole team seems subdued.
@@user-ed7et3pb4o I agree regarding Bellingham, he did look poor against Denmark. He has to take some responsibility for the Denmark goal, as he might have had half a chance of getting on Kane's (woeful) pass if he'd tried. But I think part of the problem is he's not, and never has been, a number 10. He was pretty much a striker this season for Real Madrid, and at Dortmund and Birmingham he was your typical box-to-box midfielder.
Yeah I'd be tempted to bench him, partly because he needs a rest, partly to get a fired up response from him, and partly because I think he needs a bit more humility.
Either the coaching is criminally poor, or the players don’t care. Either way, it’s unacceptable. And it won’t be solved this tournament, so it’s another write-off.
@@martymarl4602 You dont get it, they Are not pro athletes or something like that. There Is not a single coach who would put his players in such life threathening situation as running whole match can be... Sorry for bad english, english Is not my mother tongue And i did some alcohol🤣
It is that simple. Get those basics right then you can critique properly and go.into finer details and in-game moves. Trippier may have performed well if he had Gordon in front. Trent may have performed well if you have a nimble aggressive front three. All those wasted friendlies when Wharton and Gordon could be bedded in
Adam, when I was a lot younger, I watched a lot of you during your WhatCulture days. Stopped caring about gaming because I kinda grew out of it and started consuming football podcasts and detailed breakdowns from the likes of The Athletic etc. I am genuinely so pleased I clicked on this video! Its like seeing an old friend! Doing a great job pal!
After the fist game, Southgate literally complained about the amount of energy the players expended in the fist half. Southgate's tactics are the deadweight stopping this team.
That shocked the shit of me and wasn't picked up on by the media...he has a defeatist mentality. He's telling them to conserve energy and it's making them play worse
He was basically saying that England expended a lot of pointless energy in the first half with their press, which they then struggled to maintain in the second half. And that it would be important to get the team to pace themselves better in the next match. He wasn’t exactly wrong. However, anyone could have seen some key players flagging before half time and definitely looking gassed by 55 minutes - he should have made some subs earlier.
Play Trent but have Kane walk around and Foden going narrow. Just brilliant, Southgate. It's none of those players' faults, they aren't being used correctly. Bring TAA off the bench with Watkins and other runners if that's what you want to do.
Maybe that’s the move. Start conservatively with Gallagher/Mainoo and Kane. Then after we get the 1st goal and drop deep (because somehow we always do), sub on Trent, Watkins, and Gordon
Love this analysis. It makes such a difference when you actually see, with 'in game' examples, the impact of what everyone is talking about (not pressing, backing off, players out of position etc.) . . let's hope Southgate and his coaching staff are coming to the same conclusions and we get big changes in game 3.
The main two issues sort themselves out: Wharton for TAA and Gordon for Foden (or Saka - with Foden on the right and the RB playing up the line) so the team is not predictable and lopsided. TAA can sub in RB if attack required, and Tripier can invert as LB in attack, utilizing his right leg rather than hug the line all twisted in knots.
@@joso7228I thought he would try tweak it a bit and play with 2 8s maybe like they attempted for the first 20 against Serbia but no….. he watched that game and said double pivot! Yes! No pressing! Yes! Sitting back! Yes! More please!
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If we want most of our best players on the pitch in their most effective areas, we should play the set-up Glasner has introduced at Palace: Pickford Walker Stones Guehi Trent Wharton Rice Saka (I know, but he can do it well, at least til Shaw comes back) Foden Bellingham Kane Wharton is the key. He plays one and two-touch better than anyone else except perhaps Foden. He sees and plays an early forward ball and will find Foden and Bellingham in their best positions (Foden right pocket, Bellingham left pocket) early. You have Saka, Eze, Gordon and Palmer who can come into those pockets in this system. You have wing-backs who can overlap or underlap to great effect and even the opportunity for Stones to carry the ball forward. It's the system that makes a team as limited as Palace look like world beaters and it would work wonders with the players we have.
Bit strong. In terms of personnel, it's hardly outrageous. In fact, if you look carefully, it is only Wharton (an in-form CM who can set the tempo and close passing lanes brilliantly - exactly what we're lacking) in for Trippier (an out-of-form left back who can't offer anything going forward). But it puts most of the round pegs in round holes and isn't an unfamiliar shape to most of the team. Saka came through on the left and played WB for England in the past to good effect. If someone has to do a job for the team and is still likely to excel it's him.
Palmer and foden are same type of players with a different skin. Both need free roles in pockets of spaces rather than breaking the line. Eze or Gordon are the key
@@sreejithps2566 But they do, except TAA can't see it, England are too slow to react. Wharton knows where they are before he gets the ball then puts it there. WHARTON, he's the guy, and the clot Southgate can't see it.
Palmer drifts inside and would occupy the space in midfield where you’d have foden or Bellingham etc. I think we need to drop Bellingham to the 6, let him be our ball carrier alongside rice, he’s comfortable playing the 6, 8 or 10 so it’s not that strange of a pick and allows us to still play him. Move foden into the middle where Bellingham previously was and put Gordon on the left. Play the rest of the squad as it was tbh, maybe try Gomez at leftback instead of trippier. That way we have pace on both wings which should allow Kane to drop deep more often or at least stretch the pitch, our ball carrying issues are solved and we hopefully get the best out of foden, Kane and a lot o Bellingham’s game. Arguably our 3 best players all in positions that they’re somewhat comfortable in. If we had a lack of movement against these weaker teams we could’ve played Trent at right back, walker is needed against the Germany’s and Frances etc, but Trent isn’t that much of a defensive liability that we can’t play him against teams like Iceland, Slovenia, Serbia etc.
@@AntiAddicklet’s be real here, Southgate sees a lot more of these players than we do. From what we’ve seen, I agree with you that Wharton could be great, but we don’t know what other reasons there might be
I find it crazy that years later, in a different era of football, the problem is still that we have loads of Gerrard/Lampard/Scholes type players, and really the answer is Michael Carrick, but now we don’t have one of those. Like genuinely, tell me who you play in our midfield that’s actually best as a 6? Because Foden, Bellingham, Maddison are all obviously 10s. Rice, Gallagher, Mainoo, Loftus Cheek, Curtis Jones, Henderson, Ward Prowse, they’re all “combative 8s” at best, they’ll try but they’re more about energy and box to box than actual defending. Trent is obviously not a midfielder. Like I know people laughed, but when Southgate says “there’s no natural replacement for Kalvin Phillips”, he’s kinda got a point. Unless you’re going to give a chance to Wharton, or a Yates, or a Sheaf, England really don’t have a natural 6. This is why I could always understand him playing 3 at the back, because in lieu of a natural 6, it just makes an already below par defence even more exposed. They either have to go all in on pressing, with Gallagher and Rice, Foden and Palmer. Be really aggressive with players who suit that style and “attack is the best form of defence”. Or go all in on defence, play 3 at the back (Walker, Stones, Guehi), Trent and Saka on the wings, put Watkins on with Kane, play 3 aggressive bastards in midfield (Rice, Gallagher, Bellingham). Be rock solid defensively and hard to break down, with a wicked counter, set piece play and physicality.
Trent on the wing? What is this obsession with getting him into the team? This is exactly the problem. You want wingers, play Gordon and Saka, Trent just doesn't fit so leave him out.
@@TheSpoovy Trent has the passing ability to find these wingers that's his merit. It's only pointless fitting him in when no one else in the squad runs behind bar saka, which is exactly why wingers should be played as wingers and strikers not as midfielders if you include him
Bellingham is more of an 8 imo. But yes, you’re right. It kind of pissed me off when people clowned Southgate for the Kalvin comment, because it’s true, and if they actually thought about what he was saying for one second instead of being reactionary they would probably agree with him (provided they actually understood the issue).
It probably would be a lot better though? We’ve always looked better playing with Kalvin, and this whole video just shows the issue we currently have with the lack of midfield balance and difficulty produced by not having a proper DM that can act in a pivot
@@user-ed7et3pb4o it's a laugh because who cares what I think ? But what I think is if you don't have the players for a double pivot, don't play a double pivot. Play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 or something
Would have liked to see a solution in the video, but for me there’s two alternatives (gk and defence stay as is): 1. Bellingham to replace TAA, Foden at 10, Gordon on left Pros: Keeps Foden and Bellingham, gets a smart and rapid player on the left to complement Saka. Cons: Doesn’t solve Rice not being a 6 2. Wharton/Mainoo replace TAA, Gordon in for Foden Pros: Lets Rice play where he’s best, gets pace and width on the left as above, leaves Bellingham closer to goal Cons: Heavily relies on another very young player with limited experience, dropping Foden and TTA will make Neville’s head explode
What might solve the the cons of both of those, is going to a back three and leaving out Trippier. Then having Wharton/Mainoo as the 6, Rice and Bellingham as 8s, with Saka/TAA providing width on the right and Gordon on the left and have them track back out of possession, leaving Foden as 10 and Harry in the 9?
You’re spot on. Either of these two tweaks work for me. Heavily agree with keeping the spine the same, too much chopping and changing and experimenting mid tournament (like others are suggesting) will probably backfire, but this way we can keep a similar tactical setup to what they’ve already been drilled with but actually our players in their best positions with a more balanced team. Bellingham is actually very good at playing the 6. He’d just have to be comfortable not being the star of the show. If we did start him there I’d sub Wharton on for him afterwards. I’d also start Watkins over Kane. Yes, he’s not as good at finishing, but he brings the energy and press and runs that we need. Even if he doesn’t score, I’d far rather him wearing the defence down and us going into the second half 0-0 but in control for Kane to finish the job later, than what we have now where we score early and then fall apart. So basically, I’d take out TAA and Kane for Gordon and Watkins. (For option 1). It’s a shame to drop TAA but it does feel like we’re trying too hard with him. I wouldn’t mind having him at RB against Slovenia. We know that him and Saka can be deadly together on that side. Alternatively, you *could* start the same midfield we’ve got currently and just replace Foden for Gordon, because TAA and Gordon would be great together, but I think that leaves a few too many problems unsolved. Perhaps worth a try though.
England remind me of the real madrid team of 2004. 4 attackers who pick themselves; Ronaldo, Raul, Zidane and Figo. Trent and Rice are doing a very good impression of Beckham and Guti. Playing Gravesen is not going to solve the multiple issues.
Sadly spot on Adam, can’t believe history is repeating itself like this, and after playing favourites and teams that play like teams for so long Southgate suddenly try’s to the fit everyone in without a system. Gomez, Guehi, Stones, Walker….Bellingham, Rice, Wharton, Mainoo…. Saka, Foden
It's not about trying to make players like Foden and Bellingham fit in somehow. Just drop Foden and play Bellingham at 10, then play a proper number 8 like Mainoo next to Rice.
Great dissection and comprehensive explanation. The talent within the team is almost an embarrassment of riches, it's the deployment that clearly needs a re-work.
Very different coaching club football and international football though. Emery pours so much time into his coaching. That time doesn’t exist in international football.
Watching this game I couldn't work out what the hell we were doing but I could see how easily Denmark were exploiting our stand off nature of closing down, the room that their players had was absolutely incredible.
It's simply astonishing that the tournament has started and he STILL has no set system. The players are unsure, the tactics are all over the shop. He's basically just fumbling around now hoping that something works. How is it even possible to be that crap as a coach. England need a miracle, because they're going to get spanked by a good side.
For the last 6-8 games before the tournament (excepting injuries), we should be playing the team he intends to take to the Euros. Familiarity of playing together. Instead, half the team that played the Iceland game was different from the starting team against Serbia. Such a horrifically basic oversight.
@@SullyJ8it’s not really his fault though. Jude was in the Champions league final while everyone else was at that last camp. You can’t play your exact starting lineup without Jude. Jude, Saka and Kane have all been injured at various points in the buildup. Maguire, Maddison, Grealish and Rashford have all been important in qualifiers but are currently injured or in poor form. Kalvin Phillips is clearly not good enough but also one of the only players we have in that position. You can’t really blame external circumstances like that on Southgate. He can plan things but that doesn’t stop other issues from getting in the way, and he only gets like 4 camps a year with a handful of days and 2ish matches in each to actually get to practice and train the team. In between the players are injured or busy and there’s zero stability, because that’s just what international football is like.
New subscriber. Love these videos. Great insight and breakdown with the detail and evidence you just don’t get elsewhere. They say the “stuff” but don’t explain why. Keep it it up!
I mean I would rather England do well , play well and get knocked out by France again so maybe Southgate would stay on for the next WC. But with this performance he is a lot closer to the door
Congratulations on completely missing the point. The problem is that England put on too many attacking players who don't work together properly as a team.
@@Jacky-Boywhy England fans be acting like they are the best football team in the world when Denmark literally has more international trophies than England.
There is more wrong than right with England at the moment. Short of several miracles, this will be a disaster. Expectations have been too high, putting too much pressure on the players. This video summed up exactly how I feel also being old enough to remember the golden generation. Southgate took credit for being bold in his selection based on form, but also was limited by fitness issues and bad form of stalwarts like Maguire, Henderson, Philips- who do a lot of heavy lifting and fit his system. He now has to throw it all at the wall and see what sticks, in one final group game, when he can't risk our place in the group. Unless Adam Wharton starts and somehow becomes Andrea Pirlo for the rest of the tournament, we are going out and it's not coming home. Maybe a new manager and 60 years of hurt will help next WC.
Hi from Canada. I just subscribed. Huge England fan. I’ve been watching England since 1982. I feel they’ve got a fantastic squad. Are they going to piss it away?! They look lost.
Adam Wharton unlocks this team by fixing the main problem in the middle of the pitch. He will receive the ball from the defenders on the half turn and look to play forward. It's a lot to put on a young player's shoulders, but he's happily stepped up to meet every challenge so far and his attitude seems unflappable. Play him in the 6 and allow Rice to do what he does further up the pitch. And put Gordon wide left and tell him to hold the width since we don't have a left footed fullback who can overlap. The issue with our press is not so easily solved and requires work on the training pitch, but playing players in their positions will help.
Agree with this, but would probably go for 3 at the back and use Rice and Wharton in front for an effective 5 in defence with Wharton's passing ability to push the attackers up the pitch. No point in having Trippier on the left so get rid of that player and then use 4 ahead of Rice/Warton with Watkins up front for pace and long ball and pressing. ie 3-2-4-1. I thought Wharton might be too young and a liability in deep midfield but I think with 3-2 and Rice alongside it actually works for defence while giving Wharton his passing ability and freeing up eg Bellingham, Palmer ahead (or Foden) and Gordon and Saka out wide and Watkins or Kane up front... Would require a high work-rate but England have the subs to keep energy levels high...
I can put it down to one 'key' factor - movement! In possession, we had very little movement - especially up front - so even long balls, let alone those great passes that turn defenders were non-existent and ended up giving possession away. Out of possession, it was too casual, jogging to make a tokenistic attempt at closing 'space' with no intention of actually trying to win the ball, make a tackle, intercept a pass etc. Without 'movement', ball players have very little impact on a game. Trent (for example) doesn't have a Robertson bombing down the left, Salah on the right stretching the play with Nunez or another runner from deep to try and pick-out - it's too 'static'.
The only channel I actually look for / wait for their analysis. If a channel from a magazine can get this insightful and technical, what are the coaching staff doing? And what are the TV channels doing with former strikers desperately trying to form a thought about 'dropping short, then going long"...
Excellent analysis. For me, you have to get Wharton in midfield if he wants to insist with this double pivot, but really Wharton should be sitting in the middle alongside Rice and Bellingham I reckon. I’d like to see Trent play at RB over Walker. Haven’t been impressed by Walker in recent games and think Trent’s “defensive liability” is a lazy clutch that belies reality. He’s a decent defender AND has the ability to produce world class quarter back passes. Meanwhile Walker is just a decent defender who used to be insanely fast but is now just kind of fast. Also; Foden is a good player alongside Rodri and all the rest. I have never seen him play well for England. He’s a good squad player but I would much prefer to see Antony Gordon on the left. Can’t see anyone other than Kane playing as our number 9 though.
Great video; measured analysis and not knee jerk as you find on many other media outlets. I am still positive, 4 points without getting out of first gear is a good return from 2 games and I imagine GS and SH with their senior group of players are working on the team's setup in every training session. Onwards and upwards.
Hit the nail on the head at the end when you said it’s not the best position to suit Rice. Story of this whole team. Trent sitting back as a DM when they have been doing all their warm up matches with him as an 8 - why? Not every midfielder can play in a double pivot so why put a player who is learning in a double pivot? Stifling everything he’s good at and magnifying the things he isn’t. The brief moments he was able to go forward, he was able to create. Pure player mismanagement from Southgate as usual. And also just poor planning. Why even bother doing warm up games when you aren’t going to bother even trying to play that same way at the tournament? Might as well have given them an extra couple weeks off in that case.
Adam absolutely love the channel and by far the best football channel on TH-cam and a great video. But this is a great England team that has arrived at a tournament without any preparation or tactics. You cannot pick 11 players and send them out to play without instruction. We have 3 glaring problems, playing out from the back, our pressing (defensive shape) and attacking shape. Stones like Saliba can bring the ball out of defensive not Rice, Walker and Saka need to work better like Ben White and Saka, Foden and Rodri took teams apart in the middle when KDB was injured. Foden is our KBD. And Bellingham needs to play as an 8 on the left hand side like he has done at RM. Trent inverted for Liverpool and can play that Pirlo role if every player has clear responsibility he can be brilliant in that position. We have the players but no organisation or tactical instruction on or of the ball and that my friend is the problem. Southgate is sending these boys out to fail, he will not out think Deshamps or Nagelsmann and that my friend is where we will fail.
Grealish is the only player with real flair , can take a man on . Causes a problem for defenders Southgate is either stupid or has a personal problem with him .
I thought Grealish did well in that game too. I was surprised he didn't go. Southgate is a bit average in his tactics Klopp is available though. Although he said he wants a year off. He does look knackered tbf
Adam, once again you prove to me why you are the best analyst for games. Declan Rice is a huge point of contention so good job getting that across without upsetting the status quo. When I saw your Arsenal breakdown video I was vindicated, and on the note of playing the best balance of system and talent you are 100 percent right. There is a lack of fundamental understanding in English football of what makes teams work and give your talented players opportunity to shine. Unfortunately, people genuinely believe they just make it happen by themselves. Outside of some astounding players (i.e. Messi, Ronaldo, Hazard), virtually no-one strives in a team set up wrong, doesn't matter how good Foden is, he isn't THAT good to play beyond the players around him. Create an environment for him to thrive and he'll do the business, but this England team isn't it, and I'd rather build my team around Bellingham. We have so much potential and always will have, but hopefully the next England manager (I'm hoping Dychey) will understand this and create a way to score goals rather than just aimlessly trying to walk through defences with "talent".
Can't help but feel like were missing someone like Hendo sitting in front of the defence. Rice seems to be uncomfortable having that much defensive work to do.
Great analysis. Another issue is that we have no leadership on the pitch. Kane is mute on the pitch and not a leader. I want to be positive too but I am reminded of our performances in 2010, which had the same talk about it’s just the group stage, just to get hammered by Germany in the first knockout game.
Problem is, who do you replace him with? Some say Potter, but does he want the job? Assume he's out, then who you looking at? All the top PL managers are foreign. Has to be a "name" also or the players will not respect him. Unless Potter wants it, we're basically f*****.
@@stevenesbitt3528 All well and good Steve but name a replacement who would be acceptable to the fans, the players and the FA. Remember, he's got to be English. The only one I can think of is Potter. The time to strike would be now because he may get offered a PL job soon.
@@user-ed7et3pb4o whilst I'm not against that I don't think the players would give them the necessary respect. There needs to be a huge culture shift around England, which to be fair to Southgate he did go someway to achieving that but it would appear that the players have somewhat lost faith now, which is perfectly natural, every coach has a shelf life.
My setup would be: Pickford Walker Stones Guehi Trippier rice. Wharton Saka Bellingham Foden Kane Ive watched a lot of arsenal and rice struggles in possession as a no.6 (hence zinchenko as inverted fb/jorghino/partey) but is superb defensively/turnovers. I'm not sure how the front four work tbh. But at this level you want match winners playing. Mainly Id want a bit more positional discipline from Foden on the left, Bellingham in more of an odegaard position on the right mid (or swap them round even?!) and Kane staying high. Then rice is up higher and helping with the press/interceptions and Wharton as tempo setter/moving the ball forward. You can have a RB as LB - Tomayasu does it at arsenal. And four at back is solid.
The biggest criticism is that nothing changed after the half time "what can we do about this shambles?" pause. This proves Southgate is clueless; a good manager would have changed things to try to adapt to Denmark's play. I take no joy in saying this, but the England football team is less than the sum of its parts. Well, at least we can bring on Grealish if things get really bad,,,
They were bad but I as a non-English fan who casually roots for their national team...I think England's degree of self-hate and self-criticism is ridiculous. International football is a different beast. There's a reason why so many managers stick with reliable players who might be out of form for their club and don't just insert hotclubplayername. The rhythm and tactical fit is completely different. Nothing Southgate does is right in many fan's eyes. Prior to this tournament it was all about TAA playing more, Bellingham as a 10, Foden in the team, etc...now that he's actually doing it and it doesn't work. Can you imagine the criticism if he drops Foden and Kane? Or starts Bellingham as an 8 ("He's been the best in the world at the 10!!"). The problem is the problem many many national teams have. The best 11 players don't fit together well tactically. Do you choose the best players or the best fit which requires dropping world class players? It's a very difficult balance to get right.
Although not a pro footballer as such I played semi pro. And I have to congratulate and thank you for teaching more than I ever learned from any coach. I also believe as others have said you speak more intelligently and perceptively than any of the ex pro pundits. Please keep it up and thanks.
Well Southgate did make a point after the Serbia game saying he wanted them to conserve energy and that is what they did, in spades. So for next games they have energy, but 0 confidence
4 3 3 with Wharton as ghe 6, rice and Bellingham as the two 8s. Gordon LW. Its a risk to play Wharton but he fills that incisive passer role perfectly and allows rice to play further up
How about going to a back three and leaving out Trippier. Then having Wharton/Mainoo as the 6, Rice and Bellingham as 8s, with Saka/TAA providing width on the right and Gordon on the left and have them track back out of possession, leaving Foden as 10 and Harry in the 9? 3-1-2-3-1
Totally agree with your analysis..I can remember watching my sons play in under 14s etc.. And pub teams.. Playing well.. Just because they were organised.. And closing down the opposition. Screaming at various players.."close him down!!!"
Also, with regarding that England squad with Rooney, Beckham, Gerrard etc. is, it was a very golden generation, but if you look at other international lineups, they were absolutely insane as well. Football had many iconic stars back then. Right now, there’s a generational shift, and the general average level of football players are better than back then, but back then there were more superstars. It’s like the upper class got cut, so there’s more quality in the middle class on a broader scale.
When I watched that game, I couldn't wait for this video from you. Honestly, baffled by how bad we are, even at the world cup when we got pressed by USA we didn't have an answer.
For me out go TAA and Bellingham (who was completely Hollywood against Denmark) and looks knackered. Gordon on left to hold the width and Wharton comes into midfield to free up Rice a bit and hopefully is good enough with and without the ball. Then use your subs. Bellingham, Watkins and Trent use them early
Feels ridiculous that you play trent in midfield when kane kept dropping deep and not making runs in behind then ollie watkins who constantly makes those runs in behind comes on after trent is off
yeah one of the issues is that Kane, Foden, Bellingham and Trent all want to be in the same sort of area. I had hopes for Eze but he was terrible unfortunately. Gordon will get a go next game I suppose, dislike him for his fouling and playacting but he is a good player so let's see
Exactly what I noticed
Yup. It’s like Southgate wants to play Trent but is afraid to commit to that version of the team which will help him play well
And in a double pivot where what he does well is completely stifled
It's ridiculous that he would play TAA in midfield when dropping deep is what Kane does. This is all down to Southgate's tactical ineptitude. Bringing someone like TAA into midfield but still have your forward line look to play transitional football, is just completely baffling. It's as if TAA was given one set of instructions, and everyone else got something else. The man is a buffoon.
I'm always blown away by your analyses of games. In amongst the chest thumping and dumbed down commentary and punditry, you actually give coherent, tactical analysis of what is actually happening in matches. It is so refreshing.
Gareth Southgate should get credit for finding new ways to disappoint an entire nation
they're not new - all the previous England managers since Alf Ramsey have found ways to do that
AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
It is genuinely wild that to a man every world class player cannot replicate his club form in his team - not even one
I’m just glad Adam is saying what v few have, Bellingham as an 8 is not the answer to the issues we have. Putting in a proper 6 is the problem we have.
So easy to dive on the bandwagon attacking Southgate to get clix , with your obvious amnesia,it was Southgate who has taken us so close to getting silverware and lifted the nation in the process, so get behind the team instead being a Dick!
This was painful. There was absolutely no synergy or cohesion in this England team. We're playing Alexander Arnold to fire incisive through balls, but the winger opposite and almost every single forward play besides Saka comes SHORT. We gave Foden the free role without any synergy with Bellingham. So both Foden and Bellingham are switching who is number 10 but aren't switching. This meant Bellingham spent the entire game watching Foden not knowing when it was HIS TURN to get the ball. And Foden spent the entire game playing the number 10 role but also not playing it because he's sprinting back and forth since nobody it filling his other position. So we ended up somehow with NOBODY playing at number 10! We somehow had everyone coming towards the ball but nobody having any synergy or cohesive movement to receive the ball, make runs, and create space. So despite everyone coming short there was absolutely no movement. And then we went LONG all the time to Kane, but because everyone was coming SHORT we had nobody to receive the second ball. And Kane was playing DMF any way, so going LONG to Kane resulted in us going nowhere because he wasn't up front any way!
Our only saving grace with the ball was Saka and Walker. Because they played RWF and RWB. Shock horror, two world class players simply doing their job resulted in our only hope. When Foden was playing number 10 he was amazing. But it didn't matter because he overwrote Bellingham meaning there was no LWF and thus we basically were playing 10 men. And even if he did have the ball EVERYONE besides Saka came short to receive the ball.
What is wholly disappointing is that everyone, even those who cannot break down why, understood this England team cannot win. It doesn't matter if we have the greatest England team since 98. Because Football is played with 11 men on the pitch. 11 individuals who have no idea what is going on, or how to correct it, or what they're supposed to do, or how to play cohesively... No matter how good they are, cannot win unless the team they are playing are drastically below their level. England look tired and exhausted because they are mentally shattered. The more things don't click, the harder they are mentally working to figure it out. The more it doesn't work, the more out of ideas they become. The tireder you get. Failing is exhausting. Winning is empowering. England spent 90 minutes failing at everything they did. Of course they look shattered.
Deep exhale.
Correct and everything you described is down to piss poor coaching
Foden desperation to play at no. 10 and make an impact breaks the team structure. He was always out of position and that disrupts the balance and also negates Bellingham. Vinicius jnr and Rodrigo were doing the same thing so to outshine Bellingham in Madrid. England will qualify even with the 4 points they have now, let Southgate use the last group game to refresh the team and try to build a real real team around Bellingham Bellingham, let him play Palmer on the right, Gordon on the left, Watkins upfront, Wharton and Mainoo behind Bellingham Bellingham in midfield. Stones needs to be really assessed cos he looks lethargic.
@@rufaisarki9318 i like the sound of that lineup, a lot more balanced. Id also consider including Trent at RB for those balls in behind for Watkins
@@rufaisarki9318 You can't name a bad team. This England squad, and the players who didn't even make it are amazing. Just about every combination people come up with can be a Dynasty. They just have to committ to a team and play to the strength of what we have. Which are sensational forward players. Its so frustrating. Fingers crossed Southgate commits to something positive and plays high.
just watched world cup 86 highlights as a memory and look at the intensity and pace england were playing at in the heat! so slow nowadays!
Ivory Coast sacked their manager mid-AFCON, then went on to win it.
Sadly this country doesn’t possess those type of testicles
Lol imagine the FA being that agile.
Oooo!
Took their refs five minutes to ruin a game tonight give them credit
@@Vtwin_Superbikes We can still dream.
Gareth Southgate should be proud. He's the first European manager to uncoach a team for an international tournament.
Trent must be suffering playing with these inferior players who cannot press, move off the ball or make any kind of attacking runs. He should quit and head back to Liverpool to play alongside World class players
If southgate watched this video i reckon his reply would be "oh yea, i can see it now"
@@dreameroldsoul Congratulations on winning the league, oh wait.
@@dreameroldsoul...at RB
@@dreameroldsoul he must be suffering when his team isn't doing his job for him when he can't defend, position, run or even bring the ball out of defence. All he does is sit deep and wait for unexisting runners to ping long balls.
What sums up Southgate’s inability to make the correct substitutes is him taking off our best long-ball passer, and then bringing on three players who like to run in behind
@christopherreynolds9254 - When you say "England's best passes" I assume you refer to TAA. He's a total liability we don't have the ball, you cannot wait all day for the maybe 1 Hollywood pass. When Denmark had the ball he was invisible so we were playing with 10 men.
@@who9387 bruh it only took one touch for Trent to find Watkins when they played together last time, what are you on about🤷 Trent shouldn't start but there is nobody in that team who can play that line breaking pass. He would be a game changer if he is subbed on with Watkins Eze or Gordon in the second half if the game is too stagnant. People hating on Trent when he is asked to do tricks with his hand tied back is insane
@@sreejithps2566 You must be LFC. The bloke CAN'T PLAY MIDFIELD.
@@sreejithps2566 That's exactly what Adam was on about in the vid. You can't just shoehoen your best players into any position on the pitch and hope to win matches. In the words of Bill Shankly - "Great teams make great players, great players don't make great teams". We need to be playing our MOST EFFECTIVE ELEVEN, not playing one guy out of position (TAA) simply because he might be able to pass the ball better than anyone else. If you are playing at international level for England, you should be capable of passing the ball, maybe not as well as TAA, but well enough. There are a lot of problems in this England side at the moment and most of them are because players are being played either out of position (TAA, Foden) or in the wrong system (Kane, Rice). Nothing to do with the individual abilities of these players, just to do with the system itself that Southgate is trying to play
TAA is constantly looking for a Hollywood pass, that's literally all he does.
I've watched every match of the tournament so far and the England games have been the two most boring by several country miles.
Definitely, I haven’t watch all of them but turkey vs Georgia was an unreal game
@@sdbrogs *Yeah Turkey v Georgia was the best game of the Euros so far*
France vs Netherlands
I don't even need to watch this to know why we were so bad, lemme guess:
1) Foden on the left
2) No width on that left side as a result of Foden being on the left
3) Trent has no runners to find, defeating the purpose of playing him in midfield
4) Kane dropping back to scratch Pickford's arse & not playing as a striker
How'd I do?
Oh, also - play Anthony f'ing Gordon
Better than Southgate
Or to make it really short: He is playing way to safe. The highest quality squad can’t assert dominance through Leads if they play all defensive…
Meanwhile the own fans are so dissatisfied they start booing the players and mistakes can happen
Nailed it
This comment is so true
It's genuinely insane, and kind of sad, that a TH-camr is so much more tactically astute than the actual England manager (and their entire coaching team, for that matter).
Football managers are like company CEOs; the same people just circulate round the jobs no matter how poor they prove themselves to be. There are thousands of knowledgeable people out there who have never been professional footballers who could do a better job.
It is incredibly easy to critique and very difficult to create.
@@shantiescovedo4361 Well yes, BUT it is not very difficult to adapt...
And at least I didn't see a lot adaptation in comparison to the serbia game, which wasn't convincing either
Exactly. Incredible, especially when you consider how much he is paid to screw it all up
Sorry, you’re a fool if you think England aren’t aware of the issues from these 2 games.
My friend plays walking football. He's 68. He wouldn't have looked out of place in that match.
Lol
Southgate: Is he available?
@@stevepirie8130no but his plane back to england is
_My_ mate plays wheelchair football and _he_ wouldn’t have looked out of place in that match.
is it Nige ? i used to play in a team with him at Mudeford.
This time last summer England under 21s won the euros. They did so playing dynamic, inventive football. England youth teams have in fact been extremely successful over the last 8 years being proactive in press, comfortable in possession, playing through the thirds.
England have been putting a system in place with English players that are more than just comfortable at international level: they’ve been beating Germany, Spain, France convincingly at these levels.
So then, how the utter f*ck has this team now suddenly regressed back to 2010, after all the foundations were being put into place to NEVER approach a tournament like that again? That is what is so depressing and upsetting as an England fan. It is completely unacceptable to claim “this is tournament football”, “the opposition were so good” or whatever the excuses are for playing brainless, one dimensional, turgid football that we’ve seen in these two games. No other serious nation is playing like this or making excuses for it. The English youth teams are proving it’s not tournament football, at all.
Despicable and unacceptable.
who was their coach? bring him in
Well said.
I get the impression that half the people commenting here didn't actually watch the video.
It's not about negative tactics; it's about trying to accommodate too many stars into the team instead of picking lesser lights who would be able to execute a balanced system more successfully.
@@bonglesnodkins329 This is not about specifically complaining about negative tactics. It’s about the abandonment of any coherent tactics whatsoever. Whether that’s because he picked an unbalanced team full of “stars”, or a result of playing too cautiously. Personally, don’t care which it is because ultimately the outcome is the same: England have gone back in time and are playing dinosaur football, followed up by excuses about “tournament football”.
@@LGEightZero The point is that Southgate stuck to his guns at previous tournaments, choosing certainly players who were routinely pilloried by fans and the press for not being good enough, because England had a wealth of talent that wasn't being used, i.e. he wasn't putting enough big stars in his sides.
Now it feels like he has finally bowed under the pressure to put out an all-star attacking line-up, and the result is....this. An unbalanced side that can't press, can't win the ball back, can't distribute it properly.
In addition, there now seems to be no natural leader in the side. Maguire and Henderson both used to be pretty good at that stuff.
Gareth SouthGOAT has it all in his plan. It's to lower expectations - make all the other teams think we're crap.. False sense of security. Then BOOM in the knockout round he'll whip out the real England team
Unhealthy levels of copium
Least deluded England fan
Like the World Cup, finish second in the Group to get an easier run in the knockouts 🤯🤯🤯
@@ILikedGooglePlusexcept this time we'd get Germany lol
Genuinely feels like that’s what’s going on 😂 surely we can’t be that bad … Jesus
As a German I can feel you. Looks like England have the same problem we had with Flick. A mixture of different tactics combined with players not playing on their preferred position.
I highly doubt England gets this fixed in this tournament.
You’re so lucky you got rid of Flick before this tournament. I was actually feeling hopeful seeing you look so bad, before Nagelsmann came in and completely transformed you😂 Now I think you’ll win the tournament.
First mistake was calling only one natural left back who is injured that position crucial in every team unless you are Pep
peps crazy good at transitioning players to out of position roles
Totally agree.
Second mistake was then fielding three right backs in the starting 11 😅
Mitchell also has synergy with Guehi already. Was so dumb not to bring him
exactly, and that is something that southgate will never be
Glad you highlighted the danish press in contrast with the English one. Kind of shocking how much England struggled to do anything with the ball under pressure. Southgate isn't the sort of manager to throw kids in the deep end but Mainoo and Wharton need to figure in the plans for the rest of the tournament.
Dear Mr Southgate, please find out how much Adam Cleary gets paid, then double it, double it again, put him on a plane to Germany and sack whoever is your tactics coach
This is where we need personalities like Adam Clery being given actual punditry jobs. We all love ex-players, but most of them don't have the gumption or nous to break down games in the right way. They won't criticise players unless it is the prescribed thing to do, they make boring platitudes (a la Shearer), where they say nothing with gusto. It's tragic. We need more like Adam Clery doing punditry.
We have a tactics coach? good lord
Plan will fail. He doesn't have a tactics coach, so there's no one to sack and replace.
0 x 2 x2 is still 0... but pretty sure Adam would still go ;)
@@SullyJ8to be fair Shearer on BBC commentary pretty much started cheering for Denmark & laid into England in the 2nd half.
I’m so so grateful i decided to watch this you get it !!! And your analysis is fantastic !!! My biggest thing has been not criticising the team in a harsh way nor the coaching staff , like you said Southgate has done tremendous changes in culture for the English national team, and you nailed that as well as the understanding of attitude in that there’s a balance between finding the right system and choosing the stars that fit a system !!! And I cannot possibly express the genius behind your analyses and how you found your way into displaying the heat-diagrams and passes that worked so well in helping understand where and how they lacked game , particularly enjoyed your takes on Harry Kane not being mostly up top and needing to recover on lacking areas of press, and how Declan wasn’t in his most comfortable game clearly seen by passes, and the amount of missed passes because again left side wasn’t top form and the press was not being made and not concise, the lack of team chemistry showed from a few angles and i think you tackled a really good analysis as to why that might’ve been! To answer your question, and I loved your analysis on each individuals brilliance from individuals like Declan Trent Harry and Foden ,
Understanding as well that We’re not sure if any manager could match the brilliance of Pep’s tactical strategic mind, I’m a fan and have been so wonderous as to his 3-2-4-1 formation tactics and IF ENGLAND COULD INTEGRATE THAT I KNOW THEY WOULD WIN THIS TOURNAMENT!
So with that , again to answer your question, i think if the right players and or general team/staff figures could find leadership !!!
I also came to the realisation that Prem influences are always part of what make these players, and ofc when they mingle into the national team from that raised talent, they’re not quite as confident as their confidence is removed from them into a national performance structure, and so logically they might lose a lot of that but again im hoping that their individuals characters step up and lead their brilliance by helping this team gather confidence in a system and a game they can all rely on and build team chemistry around ! I believe in this team !
Great analysis, as always! Thank you!
If I can make a suggestion: when you are showing heat maps and pass maps on the field, it would be helpful to have some indication of the direction the team is playing. I get lost sometimes.
+++ I also forget which way it's pointing
As a Middlesbrough man I've seen all this before. Southgate came into the job with good credit as he was a good well loved player for us. He seemed smart, well spoken and informed. He had this idea for a young, dynamic squad focused on quick attacking play and then done nothing but sit back with players who didn't know how to sit back... That's all he knows, he's a defender and naturally reserved but tries to be something else. He's not evolved as a manager in one aspect and I don't think he can. Ultimately we got relegated and he destroyed us, we went from Premier league regulares, cup finalists including Europe to a bog standard championship team. Him being a yes man, a company man moved onwards and upwards. Notice he always makes sure his starters match the ones who are front and centre in all the posters for sponsorship etc....
He only knows one way of doing things and we've basically lucked our way into the places we got in the last few competitions. We will get to the final 8 no doubt then get knocked out in a limp, tired display with zero effort or heart. His way of playing ensures that at a minimum and offers zero risk of injury and creates media hype which sponsors love. More money in that than winning. The system loves him....
Yeah we all remember the day Middlesbrough lost at home 0 - 2 to my team Cardiff City, who went on to the cup final in 2008 😅😂🤣
Did you actually watch the video? Fuck me ragged, the problem isn't negative tactics, it's selection of the wrong personnel - too many attack-minded players who don't gel together and can't run a system properly as a team.
Spot on. I'm a boro fan also and he ruined the club. We went from Hasslebaink, viduka and Yakubu to the next season only having Tuncay (who was better as a AM/winger) Afonso Alves. He should never have let Yakubu go
Grealish and Maddison are on lots of posters and sponsorships yet got dropped
Ben Chilwell is on the Nivea poster
Could’ve just put a photo of Southgate for 15 mins and it’s still the same reason .
😂😂😂
Course they said the same about Hodgson, Capello…
This was the best piece of analysis I have seen since the game. Actually breaking it all down and highlighting the key problems. Not just point the finger and say 'look at him, he's not running enough'.
Wharton to save England? He is exactly the player to make incisive passes forward out of the midfield. He’s also young and has no international experience. I doubt Southgate has the balls to start Wharton.
YES. This. Wharton is a far better 6 than Rice. Incisive.
Wharton and Mainoo in midfield would be far superior. What has rice done at international level to warrant his inclusion?
Nah, I’d rather have a right back in the midfield, a right back in left back and three number 10s.
Trust me, I’ve been to 4 international tournaments.
They're both good players but far too inexperienced especially for a key position such as cdm/cm, it's just too risky imo
@@George-nd7otWharton is the same age as Bellingham, and 4 years older than the 16 year old child absolutely bossing it for Spain. Experience is grossly overrated by far too many people, especially given how most of the best footballers on the planet currently are in their early 20s.
If you're good enough, you're old enough. End of. Experience doesn't trump ability.
1. One of England's biggest problems over the last 5 years or so is that Kane can't run, so he can't press and he can't stretch defences. But he's undroppable because of his goals, hold up play, and lack of a serious challenger. The likes of Wilson, Calvert-Lewin, Abraham have all had injuries disrupt their progress. Watkins is good at pressing and running but can't hold it up half as good as Kane and despite all his goals this season his finishing isn't elite. Toney looked great in his one match but his form dipped.
2. One of England's strengths was the ability to switch between a back 3 and a back 4, but they haven't played a with a back 3 in so long they've lost that. I (perhaps naively) feel that a back 3 *might* have helped them both beat the opposition press and commit more players higher up the pitch for our press. Could also allow Stones to step into midfield a la Man City, and get the best out of TAA at RWB.
3. Side point. As great as Bellingham is, I really don't like the way he takes ages to get up when he hits the deck for whatever reason, it puts such a burden on his teammates. Pep rightly talks about body language being so important, and he just wouldn't have this. You just hope they're trying to conserve energy because at the moment there is none.
yeah Bellingham was even just clapping his hands and walking in one of the rare occurances where England got forward quickly through Foden beating 2 Denmark players on his own
If you see this channels analysis from the Serbia match, we actually did play with a back three in possession with Trippier going forward. Trouble is, Shaw would be able to do far more there and Trippier just can’t.
Re Bellingham, I agree that he’s not looking sharp. Sacrilege to say but he definitely shouldn’t be playing 90 imo. Either bench him and bring him on late to finish the game off with one of his classic stoppage time goals, or start him and take him off early, but he clearly isn’t capable atm of bringing the energy needed - which is a problem, because at his best he very much is the guy that picks the rest of the team up. So when he’s subdued, the whole team seems subdued.
@@user-ed7et3pb4o I agree regarding Bellingham, he did look poor against Denmark. He has to take some responsibility for the Denmark goal, as he might have had half a chance of getting on Kane's (woeful) pass if he'd tried. But I think part of the problem is he's not, and never has been, a number 10. He was pretty much a striker this season for Real Madrid, and at Dortmund and Birmingham he was your typical box-to-box midfielder.
Yeah I'd be tempted to bench him, partly because he needs a rest, partly to get a fired up response from him, and partly because I think he needs a bit more humility.
Either the coaching is criminally poor, or the players don’t care. Either way, it’s unacceptable. And it won’t be solved this tournament, so it’s another write-off.
The players do care.
it's the coach....man said they over exerted themselves in the 1st half of the first game...no wonder they played the 2nd game with no life
@@martymarl4602 You dont get it, they Are not pro athletes or something like that. There Is not a single coach who would put his players in such life threathening situation as running whole match can be...
Sorry for bad english, english Is not my mother tongue And i did some alcohol🤣
The players clearly underperformed, those players should thrive and function even without a coach. It is a shameful display from most of them
@@rufaisarki9318 thats the thing, they would be better without Southgate...
Cracking video Adam. Lots of people just criticise but you criticise and explain how to resolve it and have a balanced spin on it.
3 right backs. 2 number 10s. No left back.
It is that simple. Get those basics right then you can critique properly and go.into finer details and in-game moves. Trippier may have performed well if he had Gordon in front. Trent may have performed well if you have a nimble aggressive front three. All those wasted friendlies when Wharton and Gordon could be bedded in
Adam, when I was a lot younger, I watched a lot of you during your WhatCulture days.
Stopped caring about gaming because I kinda grew out of it and started consuming football podcasts and detailed breakdowns from the likes of The Athletic etc.
I am genuinely so pleased I clicked on this video! Its like seeing an old friend! Doing a great job pal!
After the fist game, Southgate literally complained about the amount of energy the players expended in the fist half.
Southgate's tactics are the deadweight stopping this team.
That shocked the shit of me and wasn't picked up on by the media...he has a defeatist mentality. He's telling them to conserve energy and it's making them play worse
He has tactics?
He was basically saying that England expended a lot of pointless energy in the first half with their press, which they then struggled to maintain in the second half. And that it would be important to get the team to pace themselves better in the next match. He wasn’t exactly wrong. However, anyone could have seen some key players flagging before half time and definitely looking gassed by 55 minutes - he should have made some subs earlier.
Just discovered this channel and immediately subscribed. Way more insightful than any TV punditry.
Play Trent but have Kane walk around and Foden going narrow. Just brilliant, Southgate. It's none of those players' faults, they aren't being used correctly.
Bring TAA off the bench with Watkins and other runners if that's what you want to do.
Maybe that’s the move. Start conservatively with Gallagher/Mainoo and Kane. Then after we get the 1st goal and drop deep (because somehow we always do), sub on Trent, Watkins, and Gordon
Love this analysis. It makes such a difference when you actually see, with 'in game' examples, the impact of what everyone is talking about (not pressing, backing off, players out of position etc.) . . let's hope Southgate and his coaching staff are coming to the same conclusions and we get big changes in game 3.
The main two issues sort themselves out: Wharton for TAA and Gordon for Foden (or Saka - with Foden on the right and the RB playing up the line) so the team is not predictable and lopsided. TAA can sub in RB if attack required, and Tripier can invert as LB in attack, utilizing his right leg rather than hug the line all twisted in knots.
Excellent analysis. The best I've seen so far about this game.
When they came out the second half and set up the exact same way I was pulling my hair out like WHAT DID YOU TALK ABOUT AT HALF TIME??
When they came out after Serbia with the same team -we were all pulling our hair out
@@joso7228I thought he would try tweak it a bit and play with 2 8s maybe like they attempted for the first 20 against Serbia but no….. he watched that game and said double pivot! Yes! No pressing! Yes! Sitting back! Yes! More please!
That was excellent. You're actually very good at this.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If we want most of our best players on the pitch in their most effective areas, we should play the set-up Glasner has introduced at Palace:
Pickford
Walker Stones Guehi
Trent Wharton Rice Saka (I know, but he can do it well, at least til Shaw comes back)
Foden Bellingham
Kane
Wharton is the key. He plays one and two-touch better than anyone else except perhaps Foden. He sees and plays an early forward ball and will find Foden and Bellingham in their best positions (Foden right pocket, Bellingham left pocket) early. You have Saka, Eze, Gordon and Palmer who can come into those pockets in this system. You have wing-backs who can overlap or underlap to great effect and even the opportunity for Stones to carry the ball forward.
It's the system that makes a team as limited as Palace look like world beaters and it would work wonders with the players we have.
Nailed it.
Not saka, Gordon as the leftie
@@jamesstone9091 gordon as a left wing back?
quite possibly the worst shout I've seen, I'd rather they stuck with the current XI than play this abomination
Bit strong.
In terms of personnel, it's hardly outrageous. In fact, if you look carefully, it is only Wharton (an in-form CM who can set the tempo and close passing lanes brilliantly - exactly what we're lacking) in for Trippier (an out-of-form left back who can't offer anything going forward).
But it puts most of the round pegs in round holes and isn't an unfamiliar shape to most of the team.
Saka came through on the left and played WB for England in the past to good effect. If someone has to do a job for the team and is still likely to excel it's him.
Great break down mate!! You do the best work on this online and tv by far!!!
This guy is a legend, keep up the vids!
This squad needed a proper true left back as backup to an unfit Shaw... someone like a Tyrick Mitchell
You want a midfielder to make great forward passes? Wharton. A forward that can always find space? Palmer.
Palmer and foden are same type of players with a different skin. Both need free roles in pockets of spaces rather than breaking the line. Eze or Gordon are the key
@@sreejithps2566 But they do, except TAA can't see it, England are too slow to react. Wharton knows where they are before he gets the ball then puts it there. WHARTON, he's the guy, and the clot Southgate can't see it.
Palmer drifts inside and would occupy the space in midfield where you’d have foden or Bellingham etc. I think we need to drop Bellingham to the 6, let him be our ball carrier alongside rice, he’s comfortable playing the 6, 8 or 10 so it’s not that strange of a pick and allows us to still play him. Move foden into the middle where Bellingham previously was and put Gordon on the left. Play the rest of the squad as it was tbh, maybe try Gomez at leftback instead of trippier. That way we have pace on both wings which should allow Kane to drop deep more often or at least stretch the pitch, our ball carrying issues are solved and we hopefully get the best out of foden, Kane and a lot o Bellingham’s game. Arguably our 3 best players all in positions that they’re somewhat comfortable in. If we had a lack of movement against these weaker teams we could’ve played Trent at right back, walker is needed against the Germany’s and Frances etc, but Trent isn’t that much of a defensive liability that we can’t play him against teams like Iceland, Slovenia, Serbia etc.
@@AntiAddicklet’s be real here, Southgate sees a lot more of these players than we do. From what we’ve seen, I agree with you that Wharton could be great, but we don’t know what other reasons there might be
I find it crazy that years later, in a different era of football, the problem is still that we have loads of Gerrard/Lampard/Scholes type players, and really the answer is Michael Carrick, but now we don’t have one of those.
Like genuinely, tell me who you play in our midfield that’s actually best as a 6? Because Foden, Bellingham, Maddison are all obviously 10s. Rice, Gallagher, Mainoo, Loftus Cheek, Curtis Jones, Henderson, Ward Prowse, they’re all “combative 8s” at best, they’ll try but they’re more about energy and box to box than actual defending. Trent is obviously not a midfielder.
Like I know people laughed, but when Southgate says “there’s no natural replacement for Kalvin Phillips”, he’s kinda got a point. Unless you’re going to give a chance to Wharton, or a Yates, or a Sheaf, England really don’t have a natural 6.
This is why I could always understand him playing 3 at the back, because in lieu of a natural 6, it just makes an already below par defence even more exposed.
They either have to go all in on pressing, with Gallagher and Rice, Foden and Palmer. Be really aggressive with players who suit that style and “attack is the best form of defence”.
Or go all in on defence, play 3 at the back (Walker, Stones, Guehi), Trent and Saka on the wings, put Watkins on with Kane, play 3 aggressive bastards in midfield (Rice, Gallagher, Bellingham). Be rock solid defensively and hard to break down, with a wicked counter, set piece play and physicality.
Eh? Wharton is basically Carrick-lite.
Any of the above but sack Southgate
Trent on the wing? What is this obsession with getting him into the team? This is exactly the problem. You want wingers, play Gordon and Saka, Trent just doesn't fit so leave him out.
@@TheSpoovy Trent has the passing ability to find these wingers that's his merit. It's only pointless fitting him in when no one else in the squad runs behind bar saka, which is exactly why wingers should be played as wingers and strikers not as midfielders if you include him
Bellingham is more of an 8 imo. But yes, you’re right. It kind of pissed me off when people clowned Southgate for the Kalvin comment, because it’s true, and if they actually thought about what he was saying for one second instead of being reactionary they would probably agree with him (provided they actually understood the issue).
Yeah but if we had a direct replacement for Kelvin Phillips, all would be fine 😂😂😂
I know. It was such a lame pathetic excuse.
Wharton must be sat there wondering what he has to do 😂
It probably would be a lot better though? We’ve always looked better playing with Kalvin, and this whole video just shows the issue we currently have with the lack of midfield balance and difficulty produced by not having a proper DM that can act in a pivot
He knew months ago that Phillips was doubtful to make it. So why not fast track Wharton? He could had 5 games under his belt
@@user-ed7et3pb4o it's a laugh because who cares what I think ? But what I think is if you don't have the players for a double pivot, don't play a double pivot. Play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 or something
Would have liked to see a solution in the video, but for me there’s two alternatives (gk and defence stay as is):
1. Bellingham to replace TAA, Foden at 10, Gordon on left
Pros: Keeps Foden and Bellingham, gets a smart and rapid player on the left to complement Saka.
Cons: Doesn’t solve Rice not being a 6
2. Wharton/Mainoo replace TAA, Gordon in for Foden
Pros: Lets Rice play where he’s best, gets pace and width on the left as above, leaves Bellingham closer to goal
Cons: Heavily relies on another very young player with limited experience, dropping Foden and TTA will make Neville’s head explode
Play me and you...anything but this spit
What might solve the the cons of both of those, is going to a back three and leaving out Trippier. Then having Wharton/Mainoo as the 6, Rice and Bellingham as 8s, with Saka/TAA providing width on the right and Gordon on the left and have them track back out of possession, leaving Foden as 10 and Harry in the 9?
Doubt it’ll happen though!
@@noahrussell2043 yes we are losing in midfield,midfielders can all score IMHO you are correct but maybe using gordon on the left
You’re spot on. Either of these two tweaks work for me. Heavily agree with keeping the spine the same, too much chopping and changing and experimenting mid tournament (like others are suggesting) will probably backfire, but this way we can keep a similar tactical setup to what they’ve already been drilled with but actually our players in their best positions with a more balanced team.
Bellingham is actually very good at playing the 6. He’d just have to be comfortable not being the star of the show. If we did start him there I’d sub Wharton on for him afterwards.
I’d also start Watkins over Kane. Yes, he’s not as good at finishing, but he brings the energy and press and runs that we need. Even if he doesn’t score, I’d far rather him wearing the defence down and us going into the second half 0-0 but in control for Kane to finish the job later, than what we have now where we score early and then fall apart.
So basically, I’d take out TAA and Kane for Gordon and Watkins. (For option 1).
It’s a shame to drop TAA but it does feel like we’re trying too hard with him. I wouldn’t mind having him at RB against Slovenia. We know that him and Saka can be deadly together on that side. Alternatively, you *could* start the same midfield we’ve got currently and just replace Foden for Gordon, because TAA and Gordon would be great together, but I think that leaves a few too many problems unsolved. Perhaps worth a try though.
England remind me of the real madrid team of 2004. 4 attackers who pick themselves; Ronaldo, Raul, Zidane and Figo. Trent and Rice are doing a very good impression of Beckham and Guti. Playing Gravesen is not going to solve the multiple issues.
Sadly spot on Adam, can’t believe history is repeating itself like this, and after playing favourites and teams that play like teams for so long Southgate suddenly try’s to the fit everyone in without a system. Gomez, Guehi, Stones, Walker….Bellingham, Rice, Wharton, Mainoo…. Saka, Foden
gordon on left, Foden as a 10, Belingham next to rice, Trent is out. And get Cole Palmer minutes as a sub. It isn't complicated
This is what I keep saying. Southgate seems to think it's like some unsolvable conundrum, but it really isn't.
We need a real #6. Don't think Rice and Bellingham can play that role.
Drop Foden and play Gordon. And replace TAA with Mainoo.
It's not about trying to make players like Foden and Bellingham fit in somehow. Just drop Foden and play Bellingham at 10, then play a proper number 8 like Mainoo next to Rice.
Bellingham can easily play there. He has a lot of experience playing deeper.
if we're going to play deep ball then Watkins is a much better choice than Kane
What you say about Rice is very similar to Southgate's comment about missing a replacement for Kalvin Phillips. The answer has to be to play Wharton
Shaw hasn’t even had 10 minutes wtf, not picking Chilwell or Doughty is perhaps his biggest mistake.
I think the England players have finally seen through Southgate's lack of ability, they look like they have no confidence in the tactics.
Even the cameraman knew that palmer should be playing.
The zoom in on Palmer every ten minutes was funny af
Haha. Good point.
Of course, every football fan on the planet knows he should be playing. But Southgate somehow doesn't see it.
Great dissection and comprehensive explanation.
The talent within the team is almost an embarrassment of riches, it's the deployment that clearly needs a re-work.
This is so Villa under Gerrard, Emery comes in and changes it instantly. It’s the coach that’s the problem.
Very different coaching club football and international football though. Emery pours so much time into his coaching. That time doesn’t exist in international football.
@@user-ed7et3pb4o true but other countries seem to manage a lot better.
Watching this game I couldn't work out what the hell we were doing but I could see how easily Denmark were exploiting our stand off nature of closing down, the room that their players had was absolutely incredible.
This shows you how bad Southgate is and I can remember he was linked to Manchester united
you can remember the other day then, because he has been recently
Loving the channel , as insightful and witty as the magazine. Absolutely brilliant 👏
It's simply astonishing that the tournament has started and he STILL has no set system. The players are unsure, the tactics are all over the shop. He's basically just fumbling around now hoping that something works. How is it even possible to be that crap as a coach. England need a miracle, because they're going to get spanked by a good side.
the man said it himself, he has spent the last 7-8 years trying to sort the midfield out 🤯
For the last 6-8 games before the tournament (excepting injuries), we should be playing the team he intends to take to the Euros. Familiarity of playing together. Instead, half the team that played the Iceland game was different from the starting team against Serbia. Such a horrifically basic oversight.
@@SullyJ8it’s not really his fault though. Jude was in the Champions league final while everyone else was at that last camp. You can’t play your exact starting lineup without Jude. Jude, Saka and Kane have all been injured at various points in the buildup. Maguire, Maddison, Grealish and Rashford have all been important in qualifiers but are currently injured or in poor form. Kalvin Phillips is clearly not good enough but also one of the only players we have in that position. You can’t really blame external circumstances like that on Southgate. He can plan things but that doesn’t stop other issues from getting in the way, and he only gets like 4 camps a year with a handful of days and 2ish matches in each to actually get to practice and train the team. In between the players are injured or busy and there’s zero stability, because that’s just what international football is like.
New subscriber. Love these videos. Great insight and breakdown with the detail and evidence you just don’t get elsewhere. They say the “stuff” but don’t explain why. Keep it it up!
As a german i like southgate because with him england isnt as great as possible
Stop talking about wars in a football analysis
I mean I would rather England do well , play well and get knocked out by France again so maybe Southgate
would stay on for the next WC. But with this performance he is a lot closer to the door
As a German why are watching a England video 😂 get a life
@@dondamon4669 why bother?
@@morten_vallah Ignore him. Classic English social clout chaser. Glad a German takes interest in just how dog we are as a footballing nation.
Muh hurr durr imagine watching tactical analysis of different teams in a different language. What a dumb loser!
Snoozegate the kind of guy to drive a Ferrari at 15mph
15mph… that’s optimistic
HEY!! There's nothing wrong with driving safe! You obviously had a death from fast drivers in your family have you! HAY
LOL
Congratulations on completely missing the point. The problem is that England put on too many attacking players who don't work together properly as a team.
He puts his phone on charge at 95% you know.
Denmark just straight up played better. England was so lucky to crawl away with a point this game.
Not alot in it tbh. Denmark are a decent side and England played awfully. But I think a draw was fair
Nah Denmark were shit we were just more out of form so it looked worse
@@Jacky-Boywhy England fans be acting like they are the best football team in the world when Denmark literally has more international trophies than England.
@@thorstenkk1983 exactly. England are a second rate team.
@@thorstenkk1983 World cup > both of those trophies combined
Great analysis, well done.
There is more wrong than right with England at the moment. Short of several miracles, this will be a disaster.
Expectations have been too high, putting too much pressure on the players. This video summed up exactly how I feel also being old enough to remember the golden generation.
Southgate took credit for being bold in his selection based on form, but also was limited by fitness issues and bad form of stalwarts like Maguire, Henderson, Philips- who do a lot of heavy lifting and fit his system.
He now has to throw it all at the wall and see what sticks, in one final group game, when he can't risk our place in the group. Unless Adam Wharton starts and somehow becomes Andrea Pirlo for the rest of the tournament, we are going out and it's not coming home. Maybe a new manager and 60 years of hurt will help next WC.
One good thing about this result I guess is that Gareth has to go at the end of this tournament. Will be a blessed relief for a whole nation
Cant believe Jim Ratcliffe wanted this goofball as United's next manager.
It'll still happen. Watched that Bloomberg interview with Ratcliffe yesterday and he seems like a total buffoon. Mike Ashley with a knighthood.
how many Managers did Ratcliffe interview b4 giving the job back to Ten Haag? Clueless
I was begging for this to happen before the Euros. Would have been something to look forward to next season as well.
Just what I wanted to hear. Cheers mate.
I want it to happen just so all the United fans who have been giving Southgate s**t during the tournament get their just desserts.
Hi from Canada. I just subscribed. Huge England fan. I’ve been watching England since 1982. I feel they’ve got a fantastic squad. Are they going to piss it away?! They look lost.
The England manager should be voted in after each tournament by the people of England. Not some crusty old freemasons at the FA.
English football fans wouldn’t have a clue either.
Part of Southgate’s problem this tournament is that he listened too much to popular opinion
Adam Wharton unlocks this team by fixing the main problem in the middle of the pitch. He will receive the ball from the defenders on the half turn and look to play forward. It's a lot to put on a young player's shoulders, but he's happily stepped up to meet every challenge so far and his attitude seems unflappable. Play him in the 6 and allow Rice to do what he does further up the pitch. And put Gordon wide left and tell him to hold the width since we don't have a left footed fullback who can overlap.
The issue with our press is not so easily solved and requires work on the training pitch, but playing players in their positions will help.
Agree with this, but would probably go for 3 at the back and use Rice and Wharton in front for an effective 5 in defence with Wharton's passing ability to push the attackers up the pitch. No point in having Trippier on the left so get rid of that player and then use 4 ahead of Rice/Warton with Watkins up front for pace and long ball and pressing. ie 3-2-4-1. I thought Wharton might be too young and a liability in deep midfield but I think with 3-2 and Rice alongside it actually works for defence while giving Wharton his passing ability and freeing up eg Bellingham, Palmer ahead (or Foden) and Gordon and Saka out wide and Watkins or Kane up front... Would require a high work-rate but England have the subs to keep energy levels high...
Should see the average positions for the 15 minutes following England's goal, every single player for 15 minutes is in our own half.
I can put it down to one 'key' factor - movement!
In possession, we had very little movement - especially up front - so even long balls, let alone those great passes that turn defenders were non-existent and ended up giving possession away. Out of possession, it was too casual, jogging to make a tokenistic attempt at closing 'space' with no intention of actually trying to win the ball, make a tackle, intercept a pass etc.
Without 'movement', ball players have very little impact on a game. Trent (for example) doesn't have a Robertson bombing down the left, Salah on the right stretching the play with Nunez or another runner from deep to try and pick-out - it's too 'static'.
The only channel I actually look for / wait for their analysis. If a channel from a magazine can get this insightful and technical, what are the coaching staff doing? And what are the TV channels doing with former strikers desperately trying to form a thought about 'dropping short, then going long"...
him and Goldbridge are the only ones i watch
Brilliant analysis. Thank you.
Excellent analysis.
For me, you have to get Wharton in midfield if he wants to insist with this double pivot, but really Wharton should be sitting in the middle alongside Rice and Bellingham I reckon. I’d like to see Trent play at RB over Walker. Haven’t been impressed by Walker in recent games and think Trent’s “defensive liability” is a lazy clutch that belies reality. He’s a decent defender AND has the ability to produce world class quarter back passes. Meanwhile Walker is just a decent defender who used to be insanely fast but is now just kind of fast.
Also; Foden is a good player alongside Rodri and all the rest. I have never seen him play well for England. He’s a good squad player but I would much prefer to see Antony Gordon on the left.
Can’t see anyone other than Kane playing as our number 9 though.
Agree on Trent - him at RB with Saka is dangerous in exactly the right way
Great video; measured analysis and not knee jerk as you find on many other media outlets. I am still positive, 4 points without getting out of first gear is a good return from 2 games and I imagine GS and SH with their senior group of players are working on the team's setup in every training session. Onwards and upwards.
From the US. On paper, this is formidable team, great players also has depth in the ranks... Southgate has to go. He's so disappointing.
I just don’t understand how people can still defend him based on a piss easy route to a euros final and another easy route to a WC semifinal.
Hit the nail on the head at the end when you said it’s not the best position to suit Rice. Story of this whole team. Trent sitting back as a DM when they have been doing all their warm up matches with him as an 8 - why? Not every midfielder can play in a double pivot so why put a player who is learning in a double pivot? Stifling everything he’s good at and magnifying the things he isn’t. The brief moments he was able to go forward, he was able to create.
Pure player mismanagement from Southgate as usual. And also just poor planning. Why even bother doing warm up games when you aren’t going to bother even trying to play that same way at the tournament? Might as well have given them an extra couple weeks off in that case.
Adam absolutely love the channel and by far the best football channel on TH-cam and a great video. But this is a great England team that has arrived at a tournament without any preparation or tactics. You cannot pick 11 players and send them out to play without instruction. We have 3 glaring problems, playing out from the back, our pressing (defensive shape) and attacking shape. Stones like Saliba can bring the ball out of defensive not Rice, Walker and Saka need to work better like Ben White and Saka, Foden and Rodri took teams apart in the middle when KDB was injured. Foden is our KBD. And Bellingham needs to play as an 8 on the left hand side like he has done at RM. Trent inverted for Liverpool and can play that Pirlo role if every player has clear responsibility he can be brilliant in that position. We have the players but no organisation or tactical instruction on or of the ball and that my friend is the problem. Southgate is sending these boys out to fail, he will not out think Deshamps or Nagelsmann and that my friend is where we will fail.
Crying out for game changer Grealish on the left. Bosnia perfect example. Changed the game, then told to go home. Madness.
Grealish is the only player with real flair , can take a man on . Causes a problem for defenders Southgate is either stupid or has a personal problem with him .
Both. It is both.
I thought Grealish did well in that game too. I was surprised he didn't go.
Southgate is a bit average in his tactics
Klopp is available though. Although he said he wants a year off. He does look knackered tbf
He's had an awful season. If he was picked, the same people would be moaning.
just watched world cup 86 highlights and a memory and look at the intensity and pace enlgand were playing at in the heat! so slow nowadays!
Adam, once again you prove to me why you are the best analyst for games.
Declan Rice is a huge point of contention so good job getting that across without upsetting the status quo. When I saw your Arsenal breakdown video I was vindicated, and on the note of playing the best balance of system and talent you are 100 percent right. There is a lack of fundamental understanding in English football of what makes teams work and give your talented players opportunity to shine. Unfortunately, people genuinely believe they just make it happen by themselves. Outside of some astounding players (i.e. Messi, Ronaldo, Hazard), virtually no-one strives in a team set up wrong, doesn't matter how good Foden is, he isn't THAT good to play beyond the players around him. Create an environment for him to thrive and he'll do the business, but this England team isn't it, and I'd rather build my team around Bellingham. We have so much potential and always will have, but hopefully the next England manager (I'm hoping Dychey) will understand this and create a way to score goals rather than just aimlessly trying to walk through defences with "talent".
I’m so happy whenever it’s Adam presenting
Can't help but feel like were missing someone like Hendo sitting in front of the defence. Rice seems to be uncomfortable having that much defensive work to do.
Great analysis. Another issue is that we have no leadership on the pitch. Kane is mute on the pitch and not a leader.
I want to be positive too but I am reminded of our performances in 2010, which had the same talk about it’s just the group stage, just to get hammered by Germany in the first knockout game.
it doesn't matter who plays, Southgate has to go asap, he's too inept.
Problem is, who do you replace him with? Some say Potter, but does he want the job? Assume he's out, then who you looking at? All the top PL managers are foreign. Has to be a "name" also or the players will not respect him. Unless Potter wants it, we're basically f*****.
@@andyhxi did think that, buts it’s now that bad that anything is an improvement.
@@stevenesbitt3528 All well and good Steve but name a replacement who would be acceptable to the fans, the players and the FA. Remember, he's got to be English. The only one I can think of is Potter. The time to strike would be now because he may get offered a PL job soon.
@@andyhxI reckon we should bring in one of the managers from the youth setup, they’ve been really successful in the last few years
@@user-ed7et3pb4o whilst I'm not against that I don't think the players would give them the necessary respect. There needs to be a huge culture shift around England, which to be fair to Southgate he did go someway to achieving that but it would appear that the players have somewhat lost faith now, which is perfectly natural, every coach has a shelf life.
My setup would be:
Pickford
Walker Stones Guehi Trippier
rice. Wharton
Saka Bellingham Foden
Kane
Ive watched a lot of arsenal and rice struggles in possession as a no.6 (hence zinchenko as inverted fb/jorghino/partey) but is superb defensively/turnovers.
I'm not sure how the front four work tbh. But at this level you want match winners playing. Mainly Id want a bit more positional discipline from Foden on the left, Bellingham in more of an odegaard position on the right mid (or swap them round even?!) and Kane staying high. Then rice is up higher and helping with the press/interceptions and Wharton as tempo setter/moving the ball forward.
You can have a RB as LB - Tomayasu does it at arsenal. And four at back is solid.
The biggest criticism is that nothing changed after the half time "what can we do about this shambles?" pause. This proves Southgate is clueless; a good manager would have changed things to try to adapt to Denmark's play. I take no joy in saying this, but the England football team is less than the sum of its parts. Well, at least we can bring on Grealish if things get really bad,,,
Grealish isn't there?
@@dondamon4669 I bet he's laughing his cockles of at Southgate .
Grealish ain’t changing nothing. He is less than useless
Yes, it's called sarcasm
You should give more credit to the danes. - They had great pressure and re-pressure. They also had better energy.
They were bad but I as a non-English fan who casually roots for their national team...I think England's degree of self-hate and self-criticism is ridiculous. International football is a different beast. There's a reason why so many managers stick with reliable players who might be out of form for their club and don't just insert hotclubplayername. The rhythm and tactical fit is completely different. Nothing Southgate does is right in many fan's eyes. Prior to this tournament it was all about TAA playing more, Bellingham as a 10, Foden in the team, etc...now that he's actually doing it and it doesn't work. Can you imagine the criticism if he drops Foden and Kane? Or starts Bellingham as an 8 ("He's been the best in the world at the 10!!"). The problem is the problem many many national teams have. The best 11 players don't fit together well tactically. Do you choose the best players or the best fit which requires dropping world class players? It's a very difficult balance to get right.
Thank you!! Honestly the way we treat our national team is pretty absurd
Although not a pro footballer as such I played semi pro. And I have to congratulate and thank you for teaching more than I ever learned from any coach. I also believe as others have said you speak more intelligently and perceptively than any of the ex pro pundits. Please keep it up and thanks.
Well Southgate did make a point after the Serbia game saying he wanted them to conserve energy and that is what they did, in spades. So for next games they have energy, but 0 confidence
Really appreicated, thanks!
4 3 3 with Wharton as ghe 6, rice and Bellingham as the two 8s. Gordon LW. Its a risk to play Wharton but he fills that incisive passer role perfectly and allows rice to play further up
Yes. Stop playing Foden please god
How about going to a back three and leaving out Trippier. Then having Wharton/Mainoo as the 6, Rice and Bellingham as 8s, with Saka/TAA providing width on the right and Gordon on the left and have them track back out of possession, leaving Foden as 10 and Harry in the 9? 3-1-2-3-1
That's fifa formation and never happening lol
@@noahrussell2043 way too complicated, how is the team gonna learn that in a single weekend
@@noahrussell2043zero time to learn it, the simpler the better right now.
Totally agree with your analysis..I can remember watching my sons play in under 14s etc.. And pub teams.. Playing well.. Just because they were organised.. And closing down the opposition.
Screaming at various players.."close him down!!!"
Southgate
More like garden gate.
Southgate Southagate Southgate how many f8cking times do we need to say it?????/
Also, with regarding that England squad with Rooney, Beckham, Gerrard etc. is, it was a very golden generation, but if you look at other international lineups, they were absolutely insane as well.
Football had many iconic stars back then.
Right now, there’s a generational shift, and the general average level of football players are better than back then, but back then there were more superstars. It’s like the upper class got cut, so there’s more quality in the middle class on a broader scale.
Watching England feels like watching the worse version of United under Ten Hag (i.e. not the FA cup winning version)
i was thinking the very same thing as i watched the match😀
When I watched that game, I couldn't wait for this video from you. Honestly, baffled by how bad we are, even at the world cup when we got pressed by USA we didn't have an answer.
You can't play Kane alone up front - he needs runners round him
That's why it looks so slow
For me out go TAA and Bellingham (who was completely Hollywood against Denmark) and looks knackered. Gordon on left to hold the width and Wharton comes into midfield to free up Rice a bit and hopefully is good enough with and without the ball. Then use your subs. Bellingham, Watkins and Trent use them early