England's worst performance so far? | Kaveh Solhekol reacts to England's late victory at Euro 2024 

Ivan Toney was so underrated, love from China.❤

Can’t someone at the F.A. give Gareth a call ffs?? Tell him to change tactics! He works for them right??

Only a tactical GENIUS could put Toney on with 1 minute left to alter the game decisively!

On ITV. Lee Dixon “In Southgate we trust” when Foden equalised. But it was chalked off lol 😂😂

Jude saved England from shame

In the friendlies, like against Iceland, they played this way and everyone said wait until the tournament started. Then, in the group stage, they played the exact same way and everyone said, yes but they got through and just wait to see how they perform in the knock-off games. Well, here we are and I don't think I've seen much change from that game against Iceland. Maybe this team is really built for the counter-attack, not for those teams that would normally park the bus and defend deep. Maybe we'll see a difference when England will play those bigger, more dangerous opponents. Maybe

He's been the "most successful" in terms of tournament progression, not win rates. And that progression has heavily relied on easy runs. Southgate is shite. The team look like they're lost because they're not receiving meaningful instruction, because Southgate has no clue. You can't have a plan B when you struggle to have a plan A. That's why we fall off in games

Guehi is suspended for Switzerland !!! That’s a huge loss

England are paying Mr Bean £5m to manage them...

"What was your thinking around bringing Ivan Toney on for the last minute. " To answer that question and get nobody in the room to laugh is why Gareth makes the big bucks.

The best team with the worse manager

There's ol Kaveh with the same tone, same expression, same delivery, sme cadence.

Everyone in England can see the problems apart from Southgate! Its a f&cking joke! How lucky was we last night! The goal was amazing but once again we were shocking to say the least two shots on target the whole game!! I honestly can not wait to see the back of him, hes absolutely spineless, all that talent on the bench players that like to get forward and have a go! And they are just waisted. Southgate just sits on his arse, doing nothing, spawning his way to victory. Wait till we meet spain or Germany, or the swiss, will smash us if we keep this lameness up!!!!!

Yes it was shocking. Gareth has no clue what he is doing. Lots of talent for sure and it is completely wasted by poor selection. We need a manager with balls.

Will LMFAO if England end up winning this, it wouldn't surprise me. Love to see how their fans react then😆

Why isn’t the message getting thru to Southgate? What is the FA doing?

I live in Germany and every time England play, on ZDF Programme there are 2 x footballers giving comments and I am fed up with them degrading us last night Kramer said he couldn't stand to look at Bellingham etc they are very personal and that should not be even mentioned it has nothing to do with sport, I'm english and proud to be,

Unfortunately Walker and stones are still taking orders from pep, pass pass pass then pass back to Pickford who wellies it up to the halfway line 😂

Some of the best players in the world in this team i.e. Foden, Bellingham, Kane etc.. No more excuses for Southgate. An act of individual brilliance saved their asses in this game!!

Jude always score the most important goal, when his team need a goal he always there to score, club or country he presents

THAT WAS A WAKE UP CALL. ENGLAND ARE GOING TO FACE THE SWISS, ONE OF THE BEST TEAMS SO FAR IN THE TOURNAMENT. THEY HAVE TO WORK HARD TO MAKE IT THROUGH OTHERWISE THEY ARE GOING HOME JUST LIKE ITALY.

The game was rubbish the whole team was a let down can't see us going any further in this competition.

Yes!! England didn’t play like a team that what we criticized. And Southgate didn’t make any change. Jude just saved Southgate.

England have succeeded in previous tournaments in spite of Southgate , not because of him. I hate this Southgate 'best manager' narrative ....

The problem with England is not about who starts and who doesn't,the problem is they don't play like a team, their teamwork is near zero.The English team has never been short of talents,from the last generation to the present,They just haven't found a tactician that can make them tick.And the draws have been kind to them else I don't think they would have even made it to the last 8.

Gareth has the Midas touch

Kaveh Solhekol said that the FA would jump at the chance of giving him a new contract! That was only a couple of days ago.

Declan Rice is the modern day Gareth Barry

If he don't change nothing for the swiss game expect your plane to be coming home on sunday

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." This should be the definition for Gareth Southgate's tactics and strategy!!

Isn't this a repeat

EZE AND HIS WINNING MENTALITY WORKED PERFECTLY

The best team with the worse manager.

Imagine what another coachcould realize with this squad... Imagine nagelsmann having switched to england after munich rather than germany. Think how that team would be playing right now.

As Manchester United fan this type of no clear playstyle feels completely normal

We were rubbish. Barely a shot in the entire game!! Crazy.

Olie Watkins or Ivan Toney should've come earlier

Can we Substitute Southgate? And Kane is Captain as the senior player but he is up front away from the Midfield action. Would Rice be better?

“Incredible goal” is also generous. It was the slowest bicycle kick to roll across the goal line I’ve seen in a long time. The repercussions are incredibly significant, the goal was mediocre at best, and incredibly lucky to have not been stopped by the keeper.

Tbf we weren’t as bad as we have been but last 10 mins I really didn’t think we were gonna get a goal we didn’t even look like getting a goal thank god we have Jude we need to push on now

Hopefully we've had our blip early instead of in the semi & final like we normally do..

Manager substitution necessary.

Awful manager and I don't get the being smug to the reporters business from Jude, They were lucky and wasn't it the first shot on target? They have been terrible all tournament

the only changes he has made are trent to gallagher to mainoo,the performances suggest this position isnt the big problem

Kaveh is my favourite reporter.

They were just as bad against Slovenia. This are teams they should dominate and put away 2-3-0 without them getting much of a sniff.

Rice was suppose to be the engine room in midfield, terrible. For Harry to score he needed crosses which never came.

Stones takes 3 Touches every time he gets the ball. And he's so slow that he destroys our momentum. Then he rolls his Passes so the player who receives it is under pressure. And Kyle Walker has his head in the fluffy clouds between his WaG. Get Trent on.

How to go from bad to worse over 4 games. Excited as no doubt we will continue our consistency v Mighty Switzerland 3-0 drubbing coming up

In fairness to England, the players body language never dropped. They never started having a go at each other.

Gareth knocked at my door earlier canvassing for the Greens…..

A man of your "Calayber"?!

rice hit the post too!!! Much better i thought except whennwent back on defence in second half extra time for a while

His name is Paul, brother of Barry. (aka; Kaveh 'The Chief Catatonic Man'' and Dharmesh The First Style Bender Sheth).

7:33 a man of your cal- iber . What now??!

Good interview Kane needs to play with Ivan Toney or Ollie Watkins because Kane plays as a 10.

The swiss will roll us over on Saturday if we play like that.we are only delaying the inevitable, something is not right in that Camp,the players look down and have no energy,they look defitist and are no where near enough up for it,in contrast to the Austrians

Tbf to southgate, shaw was meant to be fit for the denmark game. Still though, Mitchell and dan burn are right there

Tony was good tonight has to start against Switzerland

If nothing changes nothing changes

Two strikers up front, helps Kane score Against stubborn opposition in low blocks. Toney, maybe on earlier in the next game to help Kane up front might be an idea ?

I honestly don’t think adding Gordon and Palmer into the current system will make any difference. Southgate is the problem. His tactics and approach suck.

So who is going to be England's new manager?

What a nervy and jaw-dropping goal from Jude Bellingham. But for his brilliancy, England would have been eliminated which could ultimately lead to immediate dismissal of Southgate. He is comtemptuous and culpable for all these catastrophic performances. Pejoratives are just understatement of England's dreadful performance.

Sometimes I think Southgate is trying to lose a game but he can’t

“Ok they impressed a little bit “😂😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️

Strange what has happened to England since 2022. Pretty much the same personnel but they aren’t playing like a team. No disrespect, but teams like Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia are teams that England usually dominate and beat in qualifiers, so seeing them park the bus and struggle against these sides in the Euros is baffling.

Remember this was the guy wanting drop Bellingham 😂😂😂😂

Why can't England play more like Georgia? The manager. End of story

The Swiss coach gets the tactics right, they win...They will try to dominate the wide areas..

100% efficiency isn't bad, scoring 1 goal in 1 shots on goal during regular stopping time at 96 minutes. Even the Italians were not that good.

Am I the only person who gets unbelievably frustrated with John Stones? Not just in this tournament,but in previous tournaments also. He is so slow in transition and 98 % of the time you know he will then pass the ball sideways or backwards. I think in previous tournaments, maybe his slow and negative play has been masked because of Englands success. However, if I am the opposition manager, I know that every time John Stones gets the ball, he is very SLOWLY going decide whether to pass it backwards or sideways !!!! And often he does this on multiple occasions during some build ups. . I would love to see some Analysis on how many forward passes he's made in this tournament and previous tournaments and how successful those passes are when he does very occasionally pass the ball forward. My gut tells me , not to successful . But if I am opposition manager, I look at England. I know that every time John Stones gets the ball that we have got time to man mark, their midfield and mark our attackers. And I think this is putting England on the back foot and doesn't allow us to play free-flowing football.

Need to play Tony with Kane, Kane is very isolated and we have no pace.

If Gary Southgate ain’t changed it for four games, I don’t think he’s not going to change it for the fifth one

Southgate made his second change in 83-84 minute and then his third change in the 94 minute 😂. He just doesn’t have the personality to play attacking football.

You have been obsessed with the idea that different players are played and they have been. Alexander-Arnold is off, as you demanded, Mainoo is playing as you demanded and Palmer has had more opportunity than any other sub, yet the results have not been that much better. In fact, the players you have ignored and Southgate chose without your mention have had more impact than the ones you go on about. Palmer has yet to give an assist or score and contributed to messing up what was going to be the goal of the tournament against Slovenia when Anthony Gordon produced the pass of the tournament to Mainoo, which was followed by an act of delightful skill and pass by Mainoo to Kane. Kane too followed this by a delight pass to Palmer who was out of position, asleep and too late to the ball which he followed by a pathetic shot that might as well have been a pass to the goalie and should have won us that game. If that was Saka playing there instead of Palmer, he would have been in the right position for the pass from Kane and would have been free to run clean on goal or had a free shot and scored. So once again your ideas have proved wrong there, but that the fact is, while the players you demand play have succeeded in nothing, most especially Palmer, to the point that I play a game where when Palmer has the ball I count 10 seconds knowing the ball will be in the hands of the opposition by the end of those ten seconds, other players who have had less time on the pitch have created assists or special unforgettable attacking contributions. Mainoo was never a priority in your discussions of who should play yet he has had a considerable positive impact in his contribution and looks the most consistently high performer in the final third for England with his play not only calm and of quality way beyond his years in tight spaces, but equal in level of control of the ball, passing, temperament, intelligence and quality of delivery you would find in a Man City team or any great Spanish or Italian team and he has achieved this level of ability and maturity at just 19 years of age. For England, he is the big and shocking surprise of this tournament at just how good he is and the world is watching it. I predict his price is going to surge at the end of this tournament with top teams after his signature around the world even if England go no further. Manchester United better watch out. Great stuff. Peace and love

I have never shouted "What are you doing?" at the TV so much. Every game. Southgate seems to only manage to enable 20% of their potential. He is not the most successful England manager since Ramsey. He has had the same success as all the others, none.

We won btw !

Is VAR there for the big nations, euro in germany, how whould it look if Germany lost, England the same. Var deciding offside with mm maring is not fair.

The Southgate can't combine the player best players in this England team

I think Gareth is getting a hard time. He's actually a very good manager, but I do think it's remiss of him not to have the team practice together over the last 8 years

I think it was one of England's worst performances ever. If the score remained at 1:0 everybody would agree. They looked bewildered, and dysfunctional.

I haven’t heard all this reporting, 4mins i had to step because it sounds like another scapegoating from British media similar to Erik Ten Hag. Yes they didn’t play well, really poorly in fact but we got the win!

Everyone has been so critical this tournament. An all out assault. A bit of defence is in order. England's been poor, Southgate questionable but they literally can't just have a win. Every other day Manager and Players can do right for doing wrong. Expectation of being the favourite were up way too high. Blind faith has it's companion listening unbridled critique. The lads just need to play at this point.

Bellingham mouthing Who Else after scoring that goal brilliant 😂😅

Narrative Narrative Narrative for the next 5 days

The centre backs refuse to play the ball into midfield honestly it’s just stones walker passing it between themselves cause they both play for city

What does performance have to do with them winning?

Opinions are free. this Kaveh guy is the bright guy who advocated to rest Bellingham in round of 16

So many clues that the players are being told to play this way. This is all on Southgate.

It feels to me Southgate has brainwashed them into this "no one should criticise" rhetoric. The reactions of the players suggest they are more concerned with being criticised than actually playing. Southgate seems to be treating them like small children , you must not upset these children , don't use common sense and discuss why it's going wrong , get hope not hate in to stop the criticism.

LUCK IS NOT ENOUGH

It’s like giving an f1 car to someone who just got their learners permit. Southgate is useless.

Gareth was saved by a miracle but is pretending it was a planned miracle. That’s no way to go into the next game. Here we go again

I don’t blame the players. Time to Fire Southgate immediately !!

The players need to speak up and tell Southgate it’s not working

I cannot believe that the players are happy with Southgate’s tactics. If they are not questioning the whole approach then I would be very worried about them. I think this is why England look so poor ……the players haven’t really bought into it.

How do we beat Switzerland based on that performance

Funny how the fish never mentioned trent

In any other profession, what Southgate is doing with this England team would be considered sabotage. He's purposefully setting the team up to be ineffective.