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Frank is always correct: "Football Won!" The forces of boring, negative, snooze-ball have been defeated by the joyous, beautiful art of Spain. Thank goodness.
It’s not a curse. He is too slow to play in England’s system with Englands]’s present tactics and especially with their failure to play out from the back. Watch Bayern play. They play so the best finisher in Europe can slowly progress up the field to get into the penalty area. But Bayern can pass out from the back, which England can’t, and they are capable of slowly progressing up the field.
Sometimes you english say la liga is a farmers league with only two teams. The majority from that Spanish team doesnt come from Madrid or Barcelona, but Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao
Yup yet their fans kept telling us otherwise……apart from Netherlands first half and some moments in the group stage, they were outplayed for the most part. They think they have world class players but their players get carried by foreign PL imports. How come they can never control midfield and look comfortable on the ball?
You obviously have no idea about tournament football, Italy 2006, Greece 2004, Italy 2021, Portugal 2016 all won by playing defensive football, its a tactic. You obviously don't understand how football works.
@@Ruscococo1 clearly you just copy and paste what the media tell you. All these teams could actually play and control games and not like England long ball it. Italy 2006 actually played good football and played one of the best semi finals I’ve ever seen in 2006 against Germany. Both teams played attacking football and if you don’t believe it go and watch it again. In 2021 Italy again won deservedly so and played the best football of the tournament. Portugal and Greece I agree but we can expect it from Greece because they just don’t have the players.
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England team is overrated though, look at their defense, they play a guy who was injured since February because they don't have a alternative. Spain has better midfielders, Rodri, Almo, Fabian ruiz are better than the English midfield.
England never won the European championship. Spain it for 4th time and they play beautify Football all around Spain is now the home of Football in Europe.
All of the EPL teams mentioned that can hold the ball in the mid field, the players are not English. 60 percent of key players in the top 4 teams at EPL are not English. When saying EPL is aligned to the English team, that's an illusion.
Foden, Walker, Stones all play for City. That's 1/3 of the starting outfield. Saka and Rice Plat for Arsenal that play possession. England's problems have been the same for 8 years. We've been saying the quality they have is built to attack not playing not to lose. And every tournament its the same. They squeek past the mediocre teams and lose to every good team and the Southgate boot lockers keep going on about how he needs more time because he's close.
You didn’t understand the comment by the other person and England didn’t even attack they simply got lucky while playing boring football against bad or mediocre teams .. they could have drew with or lost to Serbia if the Serbs were clinical in front of the goal and could have lost to Denmark .. Portugal too were lucky not to lose to Czechia in the group stage their second goal came in the dying moments after a yellow card worthy foul by a Portuguese player was overlooked before the ball was moved leading up to the goal
Congrats to Spain, the best team in this tournament won, the better team won. Nico williams and L. Yamal performed outstanding this tournament, at their age, to carry their country to an european title, it's fantastic. well deserved to them. Those 2 are an unstopabble duo, bright future.
Xavi would not have been able to use him or anyone else anyway. He also wanted Alonso, Azpi, Bellerin. He wanted Roberto, Busquets and Alba to continue. If Xavi had stayed as coach we would still have played Busquets in 2026 and Roberto would probably have stayed untill 2030 or so on a friendshipcontract.
England isn't as good as they perceive, if they were on the other side of the draw England would have been knocked out in the quarter finals They are over hyped with easy draws in two European cups and world cup, yet if England comes up against the big sides they fail miserably time and time again!!!
@@IntoMotivate except you did get smashed. Spain was far far superior in the 2nd half and on a better day in front of goal Yamal and Nico both end up with 2 goals each and 1 for Olmo, Morata and Oyarzabal who all had golden chances with only Nico scoring 1 of his and Oyarzabal. You were lucky it wasn't 7.
Nothing to do with Southgate or the players, to do with English football, from the moment English kids start playing football, coached to play 100 miles an hour, crunching tackles, afraid to hold the ball, little possession, down the line, keep ball in air because when in air opposition can't get to it, embarrassing.
Spain plays some really mesmerizing football. They're very fluid and in tune with each other. England, much like France has plays in stutters. Half of the team seems to want to play forward with greater risk while the other half want to be too conservative and safe with the ball. There's zero chemistry between them and the attacks break down so very easily with very little commitment to win the ball back after losing it.
England is having a similar issue with Kane than Spain had with Raul. Once Aragonés had the guts to leave Raul out Spain could become a better team and started to win.
Wrong, it wasn't Kane who decided to actually play to win in the semis, but then to cower and hope for penalties in the final. Kane may very well need to be replaced, but he isn't the big problem, not even close.
It's a tactical problem, they literally can't build momentum. Can't play out from the back, can't feed the runners with long shots. Got lucky up to the final because of some good defenders and goal keeper.
There’s something drastically wrong with uk football When in nearly 60 year England can’t get one bit of silver or win a final EVER !!!!!! QUITE INCREDIBLE And UNBELIEVABL
@@darrenredden3289 learn some football kid 🤣 It was a bad entry from Saka that was behind him so he redirected it against his own momentum back to Palmer. Split second vision and athletic ability.
As a portsmouth fan, we had a manager called Kenny jacket. Southgate plays exactly the same style of football, as a league 1 manager who failed to gain promotion to the championship. Congratulations Spain. always difficult to score against a team who aren't trying to score.
Spain hasn’t been this clinical up front since Torres and Villa. Possession and skill without finishing up front is boring and futile. Williams and Yamal have solved that.
Convenient not to mention Morata, who is about anti-clinical as you can get at this level. Yes, Spain has some great talent on the wings, but they absolutely need a higher quality finisher up front (as well as a better 10) to come close to realizing their true potential.
England, the best non-football team in the world. This is what they play. Vamoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos !
And southgate got to the final with the same line up and information so what are you guyz even saying those useless players are bunch of overrated idiots nothing much
England played well from 1-0 until drawing level and then went back In their shell defended deep and deservedly lost. But for Pickford and wayward finishing Spain would have scored 3 or 4. Hola Espana
Just Kew it, Spain 🇪🇸 was fast and lethal, fast and direct, The English just couldn't handle such intensity, thats how FOOTBALL ought to be played and should be played😭😭😭... ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 time now, D maria sending off🎉❤✨️
Gareth continued to play Kane even though he was an obvious problem in the Team, and left Ollie Watkins and others on the bench. I was backing England, but ultimately Spain was better organised.
What did he cry so much that England this and that? England should be celebrating just getting to the finals. Celebrate that they didn’t have to face Italy, France and Germany…lucky…just enjoy this moment….
Watching England and France's performances was disappointing. Especially because they have had the same coach for a long time and played nothing, they have had plenty of time to work on tactics and bring out the best of their fantastic players. They deserve a better coach and staff team. Good luck in the future, because we want to see them shine and show better football
Lol, hahahaha. Any English supporter that doesn't want see that their manager is the biggest problem they have, then, they are nuts. Spain was better team, zero doubt. But England with those type of players, playing like this ? No way.
As a Real Madrid supporter, watching Kane playing this EuroCup made me extremely happy him not signing in for RM, we dodge a really nasty bullet unlike we did with Hazard. So happy for the club not having Kane on our side.
England players, while some of them are really good/top, are not even close to the quality of england clubs - I think that's the mistake in perception that's been present throughout the years. They are good, some are great, but not as great as people expect them to be. Premiership clubs have top players from a lot of countries, and those top England players are that good also because they are playing with those talented players that aren't from England. Btw Steve, England losing to Croatia in 2018 was not remotely close to losing to an underdog, just look at the player roster at that time. That's the other problem, England constantly thinking they are underacheiving and losing to "worse" teams - maybe they are achieving just about as much as they can with the players they have.
True England team is overrated though, look at their defense, they play a guy who was injured since February because they don't have a alternative. Spain has better midfielders, Rodri, Almo, Fabian ruiz are better than the English midfield.
no that's not fair. I'm an Italy fan and saw them go a quarter century with no titles ( 1994 WC final loss, 1990 WC semi final loss on PKs, 2000 loss in Euro final) with the most talented team most of the time. If you are good and go far you will lose your share of finals and maybe win a title just once in a while.
It's not an individual player issue. When England actually decided to step on the gas in this tournament, Foden played well. But neither he nor anybody else can perform a miracle if the whole team is busy parking the bus.
Agreed. No England player shined. Bellingham scored two goals but played terrible in every game. Rice world class I don’t think so. Mainoo was lost in yesterday’s game.
England team is overrated though, look at their defense, they play a guy who was injured since February because they don't have a alternative. Spain has better midfielders, Rodri, Almo, Fabian ruiz are better than the English midfield.
Uefa ref robbed the world of a Spain vs Netherlands banger. The Dutch had a bigger chance to upset the spanish side, especially if there was a neutral ref.
No, sorry, I was rooting for them against England, but the Netherlands are simply not a top tier team any more. Not in passing ability, not in organization, not in individual talent.
This 2024/2025 season, there will be 5 Spanish coaches in the Premier. Maybe between what they learned in the Berlin final and a year of teaching, English football will improve a little. Excellent players physically and technically, but they do not have a style of play, they are not a team. The key to England playing football and being able to win a competition, with the young and excellent players it has, is called Jürgen Klopp.
I agree with Craig that Southgate has not got enough out of the talent at hand. He refuses to pick the form players or rest players who are clearly tired. Kane was awful and yet he keeps starting him. Foden was knackered. We know Bellingham is carrying a bad shoulder injury. Why only 3 subs? And one of them was Toney coming on with 2 minutes to go. Crazy. It was a shame that Gordon didn't get more playing time.
The England U17s, U19s, U2s, all play similar football to Spain. Don’t say, because Southgate came through the youth management set up, that the England team play like the youth set up. They play nothing like. The youth teams play glorious, attractive, attacking football
The contrast was appauling. England sat back as soon as they scored the equalizer. 4-5 minutes earlier, 5 spanish players were pressing really high trying to get the ball back. Football won, well said Mr Leboeuf
I can't understand why Southgate insisted on starting Kane. If he's not fit to make the runs or track back to start the counter, then he's only good as a sniper in and around the box. And given how obvious it was that England was not going to spend much time in and around the box without the benefit of an effective high press, starting Kanc was incredibly shortsighted. And to be fair, Kane had one shot outside the box that looked like it was going to find the corner of the net if it wasn't blocked by a lunging foot; and people would've overlooked Southgate staying loyal to Kane once more. But to me it's just a low percentage play all the same.
I don't know why everyone's hating on the English football players. They showed a lot of grit and character. If you hate their style or pace, blame Southgate. He's the one who insists on playing conservatively. We've all seen how England can play when they press. But Southgate doesn't relay a clear plan. If a player knows he's likely coming off at halftime or the seventieth minute, he can make sure he leaves nothing in the tank. I don't think Southgate does that though.
What is funny is Spain didn't even have their best midfielders playing... Pedri, Rodri and Gavi would have destroyed this team. Add in the Young CB and LB they left home. This team is the weakest we are going to see them for the next 8 years... It is freaking scary how good this team is going to be for the WC
I got to start by giving England proper respect. The media will bash them, hate on Southgate while others will laugh at them, but you got to give them credit for their efforts in the second half. Pickford made some fine saves, and England showed strength to level the game. In fact they were outdone by a brilliant team and that winning goal for Spain was epic. The build up to that was stunning. Absolutely stunning. England also had those two chances to equalise but could not, much like Spain could have run away with it. In the end, the better team won. Spain deserved it.
Why are they blaming the coach for the loss?? Not getting the best out of "world class" players?? Rubbish... When will they accept they overpay, overrate over expect of their players?? Yr after year?? C'mon lads.. you've never been good enough. You'll get good when you stop over praising your players
