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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2016 5:58:45 GMT
To be fair any England manager going into their 3rd tournament needs to win a knockout game if they haven't managed it before. If we don't beat Iceland then surely the FA need to give someone else a go.
If we do win then the whole thing becomes a lot trickier. If we end up against Ireland then you'd probably have to call that a must win again for his England career but against France in their own country? Would having a decent game and coming close be enough to save him? Would probably be a big call either way unless we get humiliated.
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Post by metalhead on Jun 23, 2016 8:49:14 GMT
I'm really not convinced we'll beat Iceland as comfortably as some of the morons in the media are insinuating. Yes, we got the weakest team in the group, but in actuality, they play a style of football which we struggle against. I decided to watch Iceland Austria, instead of the Portugal game and Austria battered Iceland, but what Iceland did, was they got men behind the ball, got their big players in the middle, and they broke with pace. Everything we don't like. The BBC are doing their little happy dance thinking we're through and high fiving Woy. Not a foregone conclusion this one.
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Post by tqstokie on Jun 23, 2016 8:58:17 GMT
To beat Iceland we will certainly have to move the ball a lot quicker than we have so far. The Republic of Ireland showed us that if you press high up the pitch and move forward with purpose it is still very effective. The danger is always the counter attack at pace but if we want to win we must take that risk.
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Post by alster on Jun 23, 2016 9:43:33 GMT
To beat Iceland we will certainly have to move the ball a lot quicker than we have so far. The Republic of Ireland showed us that if you press high up the pitch and move forward with purpose it is still very effective. The danger is always the counter attack at pace but if we want to win we must take that risk. RoI were pretty shite to be fair and made very heavy weather of beating Italy's reserve team. Not really a blue print for anything me thinks.
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Post by tqstokie on Jun 23, 2016 9:46:06 GMT
Question is, would England have beaten Italy's reserves?
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Post by alster on Jun 23, 2016 9:49:30 GMT
Question is, would England have beaten Italy's reserves? Even San Marino(its not even a country) might have beaten them they were pretty shit. FFS even Scotland would have beaten them.
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Post by tqstokie on Jun 23, 2016 9:58:06 GMT
You have not answered the question. To imply an answer is really not good enough. Smiley thing
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Post by alster on Jun 23, 2016 10:10:06 GMT
You have not answered the question. To imply an answer is really not good enough. Smiley thing I'm fairly certain we'd have beaten them even allowing for another one of the owl's fetish for semi fit players and headless chickens. We're really nowhere near as bad as you're painting us, we'll dispatch Iceland and will give France a run for their money that could end in victory for either. There is no team in the tournament that we could feasibly not beat.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jun 23, 2016 10:45:05 GMT
We are capable of beating all the sides left, but we could also lose to any of them too. It will come down to which side and formation our dickhead of a manager picks.
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Post by tqstokie on Jun 28, 2016 18:06:55 GMT
Now you know why!
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