Bluedylan1 wrote:I know we all hate him but there's the quality you get from him going forward. Perfect 70 yard diagonal to feet, great shot from outside the area and a perfect cutback to feet in the box all within about 60 seconds of each other.
All of them occurring when he’d basically dropped into the RB position.
Tremendous talent - but not a CM and we’re struggling because Rice is basically a one man midfield.
cassius wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:20 pm
He's also hit a few balls to nowhere and been caught on the ball a few times.
I know we have slightly differing views on him but I just think he's cancelling himself out here
Yeah straight after that he pinged a 60 yard ball straight to the keeper. If we were a shit squad with nothing great in attack then sure but otherwise he's way too much of a liability.
I don't think England have played particularly well tonight tbh. Serbia might have had more of the ball at this point. Just about getting through the group though, innit.
TheRam wrote:
Nah, it’s still a very difficult competition to win.
We shouldn’t be expecting to smash anything.
My response wasn’t clear upon review, sorry.
I meant hoping that we click, it should be by design rather than hope. Even with a great manager there would be no guarantees but we’re not set up to click with this unbalanced line up - basically nobody playing on the left
