Anywhere else on the pitch that’s a foul in my mind. I can see why people don’t think it’s a penalty, but if you make contact with studs up like that you’re likely to be concede a foul.
He looked really poor the whole tournament... I can't understand why he tried to do semi tricks all the time when passed to him, just receive the ball in a regular fashion when you're not in form? Koeman should have swapped him for Malen or Zirkzee after France, keeping Weghorst as the super-sub. Gakpo was well in form on the left, and on the right he could have played Bergwijn or Frimpong, or worst case swap Malen back there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Netherlands midfield was completely useless in the first half, they weren't even trying to close down space. We didn't even change our general strategy following the Switzerland game, Netherlands just played into it like idiots.
Both teams were terrible actually, used 5 players to play the ball on the first line + goalkeeper. Tbf, same can be said about France. And even Spain in the second half of semi.
Smth worth mentioning is the loss of depay. When Netherlands were in possession, depay would drop into midfield providing an extra man in midfield and also creating space in behind for malen and gakpo. This actually lead to the first goal if u play it back. But after depays injury koeman subbed on veerman, but I thought it should've been zirkzee cuz he can play that role pretty well and it wouldn't disruption Netherlands (imo) clever attacking play. They may have scored a goal or 2 imo.
Agree...though they got the ball out to the flanks better,it lacked cutting edge..I have said that Xavi should have pushed higher up to support Gakpo Zirkzee is an interesting choice.., i disagree about Depay, he was awful, the goal came from a higher press, the Dutch forwards simply were not dropping into midfield to counter Rice and Mainoo leaving them free to overun their midfield in the first half..
Can you please analyze Uruguay vs Columbia? Kinda curious on how score stays the same and if there's any difference in strategies compared to their previous games respectively
To be fair they have to cater to a very varied audience when it comes to football interest or understanding. Alot of people will tune in who only watch England games at tournaments and don't really follow football
@@jamesduffy7549 It's also that they're just not capable. They're more like a group of blokes in a pub than able explain anything remotely technical in a succinct and articulate manner. Can you seriously imagine someone like Alan Shearer doing this? 😂
@@jamesduffy7549there's nothing non-comprehensible to casuals. It's the other way around imo: excellent explanations make it easier to understand to anyone
@@beyond_software it's not that it's comprehensible or not. They just don't care. Tbh, a lot of non casual actual football supporters don't want to get into it this much
Only in the 1st half the English were dominating because the Dutch didn't stick to their task and stood tactically not correct in the field. In the 2nd half the Dutch players stood a lot better and all the sudden the English didn't dominate anymore. Just the Dutch biggest problem during the entire tournament is Koeman who kept his best players on the bench. Too much faith in the "establishment". He should also have kept Malen in the field and have played with Brobbey instead of Weghorst because now the Dutch lacked speed on the midfield while Weghorst despite playing well was ineffective as he mostly stood in midfield. I am sure the Dutch were able to beat England last night when Watkins didn't made that splendid goal in the last minute. I am sure they would have done with the right players who were all available but never given time to play.... When England play like in the first half they will have a chance against Spain since they have difficulties playing under pressure, but no team can play like this for 90min, so i am afraid England will be facing what the Dutch have suffered from since 1974....(except for '88) ...the never winning a final syndrome.
The problem is for all our industry and dominance in the 1st half we could have very easily gone in 1-0 down at half time. Kane needs to sit the final out
@@peterkelder1451 Dunno. As we made it so swiss could not score and they were a goal scoring menace. Football can go either way. Look at FA cup final Man u won against all odds.
Great fair analysis as always.💯 Thinking 3-1 win for Spain in the Final 🇪🇦🏆 🏴 I just think they have more goals in them and might be just too much to handle for England in the first half, so maybe 2-0 Spain before the 60 minute mark...
@@bonglesnodkins329his runs (not only in this tournament) are the easiest England has had in its history...and he still managed to be booed by fans in 2 games even without losing. With this kind of approach, you are wasting talent and disrespecting the sport even winning the whole thing (which is imo more difficult than winning maxing out players and excitement), and you are seen as a failure if you don't win, even if you lost just the final game
It's interesting that Spain has not played against a back 5 yet in this tournament. Most of Nico's and Yamal's success on the flanks came from effectively stretching the defensive line of a back 4. This being said, I am not so dismissive about England's chances in the final
I am not English, but it seems to me that if they would have a coach like Pep Guardiola, they would be a serious contender to become World Champion. I think it is almost a disgrace to play so defensive if you have so much quality in your team.
I don't much time to watch football these days (timezone means most games are between 1am-7am for me) and with many of the games behind subscriptions I haven't watched football in a long time. Around 2015-2018 when I did regularly watch football, this would never have been called a penalty. Both players are going for the ball - the attacker has the right to follow through and the defender has the right to try block it. Collision is an expected part of the game and if it was the defender volleying that, it would never have been a foul. Plus, if Kane was as injured as all his rolling around suggested, he wouldn't have been able to walk/run normally and take the penalty.
england may close down the center and leave the flank to spain. I think southgate would use 3-5-2 formation, with kane and watkin up front. Their defensive will be 5-4-1 with kane drop deep.
Before this match a late challenge is a foul. After this match it's a robbery to award a foul. More reason why I'm supporting the villains of football. Cam on Engerland 🏴
By the rules it was a penalty, if we are going by what the rules should be then a sliver of Saka's shoulder should not have made him offside for the disallowed goal.
In this case it is not the defender getting a hit on the attacker though. Dumfries went for the ball and Kane followed through on his attack so they hit each other. True that dumfries somewhat had his studs forward but he hit him with the side of his foot. Could have gone either way. However , there was a clear handball by Saka seconds before the foul. No discussion is even possible about that. Just another round of shitty refereeing .
Kane's follow through meant he kicked the studs of a player attempting to block the shot. Dumfries foot wasn't even travelling in Kane's direction. Joke of a penalty. With that said, maybe it's about time England benefited for poor refereeing...
It's really just a case of written law vs intent at that moment. Dumfries made a potentially dangerous challenge at that height but you could see he aimed for the ball. It's not his mistake that Kane hit the shot a bit earlier. I feel this just discourages defenders from being proactive, and can be argued as a result of the English media bringing up the referee's previous match fixing ties
It's hard to do so if they have to act as double 8 as well as attacking the space like wingers, usually klopp's liverpool pulled those tactics but they played with the 2 wingers upfront in between the wingback and center back and the formation almost resembled a looped 2-2-4-2, with 2 center backs, 2 wingbacks, bobby as false 9 and the 3 midfielders occupying the pockets in a diamond. The thing is there's many more things teams can do when playing with a box midfield, than just neglecting the wings like england did after being manmarked by netherlands, even emery plays 2-2-4(box)-2.
So I’m a VERY casual watcher of football and tend to only watch intentionals these days so correct me if I chat shit here, but I can’t help but feel like the way Kane keeps dropping super deep is choking us out offensively as it limits our outlets. Like he’s meant to be up top but when he loses confidence in the team he drops further and further back meaning we have to rely on our wings more, completely eliminating a third of the pitch as an option of play, it’s why I’ve loved seeing Watkins come on for the team as even before NED he was creating a lot of attacking pressure with runs. Am I wrong for thinking this or?
Southgate should have reacted better and quicker to the change that Koeman made, which shut England down second half. Again he waited until the last 10 to make the subs when he should have done it earlier.
Felt like Netherlands was never attacking with enough players, while England couldn't figure out how to break through Netherlands defense but at least they kept possession. So the game was quite slow but not bad
Harry Kane is a great player but the only times England's attacking line has looked dangerous and really upset opposition defences has been when Ivan Toni or Watkins has come on and actually offered the run in behind and caused opposition defences to sit deeper and England to play the game in the opposition half instead of on the edge of our own 18yd line!
My own view is that the biggest stroke of good fortune that went England's way was Denmark not beating us when they had the chance too...This was massively important in terms of draw placement...By not losing a game when they deserved nothing from it inc the draw that they got...it was the Danes who blew a chance right there to advance in a good part of the draw...
The penalty was 100% correct. There's no logical reasoning that supports the idea of thrusting your leg forwards studs-up to stop a ball. Normally to block a shot you'd make yourself as wide as possible, not do a flying kick at the striker! Once you see it, it cannot be unseen: The defender very clearly was aiming at Kane, not the ball. At best it was a reckless moment of poor judgement; But more realistically it was a moment of anger and panic. Congratulations to the referee, it was a tricky one but he made the correct call. It was a penalty, without a doubt.
All these analysis seem to rely on players not being able to go one-on-one with the defender. Twenty minutes is spent passing the ball from left to right, right to left, left to right, back to the goal keeper rinse and repeat. If one attacking player, runs at the defender and gets passed them, it opens up the entire defence. Although Kane has no dribbling skills and is slow, Bellingham, Saka, Foden and Palmer when he is playing have ball skills and Walker's speed should see him attack down the wing. The second half England had possession but in their own half, aimless side to side passing the Netherland defence could have been reading a book it was unthreatening. Triangle passes can cut through a defence but there just seems a total reluctance to take people on. The Netherlands were just not that good, and yet second-half England made them look better than they were.
@@stnbch3025 calm down, man. OP is responding to the video where he said he doesn't think it was a penalty because Kane had already taken the shot before the studs hit him. OP is saying, "a late challenge is (_also_) a foul"
@@stnbch3025 HAHAHAH! DELUSIONAL! KEEP CRYING! 86 - nobody defended us against bad refereeing after maradonna 93 - nobody defended us about bad refereeing after the koeman foul 98/04 - nobody defended us after bad refereeing on sol campbell 06/10 - nobody defended us after bad refereeing on frank lampard 22 - nobody defended us after had refereeing on cheatalini fouling saka So anyone complaining about ONE DECISION that went our way can swivel on it.
So happy to see England using the 3-box-3 formation. Low key genius to be using wingbacks instead of wingers (albeit, very aggressively). This hybrid formation actually deserves more praise.
"By that time Kane had already kicked the ball" Not relevant. A common misunderstanding. It's no different from a contact foul anywhere on the pitch. We don't say, "Well, he'd already passed the ball by the time the contact was made, so no foul". The referee can choose to play advantage, or to call the foul. In this case, there was no advantage (no goal resulted), so the ref (or more correctly the VAR team and THEN the ref) called the foul.
I don't think there was some great master plan it was mostly players like Foden especially, ignoring Southgate and playing to his comfort. Bellingham is still utilized poorly, he's probably their best at controlling the tempo but he's given shackles..hes a better tackler than Rice and really great with long passes. Rice would be better utilized further forward
Bellingham just like Foden is an individualistic combination player. He's nowhere near a strategic passer, he in fact got carried by Kroos all season long.
@@WilliamKgasi-mm9en Madrid rarely performs two seasons in a row well enough to win the league. The fact is their squad is increasingly all ego little modesty.
@@Wilcoranking I'm saying: Stop overrating England!!! The culture is pure individualistic flattery with no playmaking competence. No one should be surprised about how shite England their possession game is, it's who they are.
Was it a pen? Let's be honest - anywhere else on the pitch that's a foul and a yellow card. I've rarely seen one of these given in the box , so yes, it was a surprise it was given, but they should be.
in short: England was exquisitely falling every milisecond and the ref couldn’t look through it 😂 dutch was shit but it was boring to watch when half of the game was put on halt because of English players on the ground every second
the english tactic made no sense at all, they had both bellingham kane and foden up front when none of them look to threaten the box, he had saka and trippier hold the width like wing back and it was soooo dumb, they were playing on their weaker foot so they couldnt make any dangerous cross from the byline, and saka is used to invert and move into the pocket where foden was the entire time. Somehow kyle walker was a beast and both overlapped saka while playing as a CB which is incredibly risky, and he managed to stop threats coming from his side, what a beast. Also I'm not sure rice and mainoo make a good double pivot, I'm not sure they have the passing range and skills to break the opposition's defense, although this might be wrong because even if they had a good passing range, they still had no options up top to be on the end of through balls.
Whatever it is you are saying about Southgate's tactics, it worked didn't it? Also, people saying that they used a 3421 are either not paying attention or not describing the full picture. While they're calling it a 3421 on paper (and out of possession) it's actually a 4231 in possession. That's why youre seeing Walker overlap "as a CB". He's actually overlapping because, in practice, he is the RB.
Negative little kids saying “this match was to decide the team Spain win against” what? You act as if Spain are a god squad with 0 flaws in the team England have way better squad depth and can utilise that not to mention the subs England have compared to Spain
has he? I feel like Mainoo was just as good as foden if not even better and the neglish commentators said nothing about his performance. foden is 8 years older than him and you just wouldn't know it. Mainoo deserves more praise than anyone on that team, even more than Saka (and I'm an arsenal fan)
It is technically a penalty but if the damage is minimal what it was in this case then they don’t need to give it. To be fair some of the England players got yellow by just touching the players. This coach was really strict
Dude what u mean man utd hype. It your job to analyse players and matches right? so watch his matches and there you can see yourself if he is class or not.
Time to renew the Dutch national team. Apart from Schouten and Gakpo, they should all be replaced. Even van Dijk is useless these days. He only knows how to pass the ball sideways or backwards.And how on earth can you win, if your star player is a total disaster and only interested in his looks and image. There are a lot of great young players in the Netherlands, you just have to find them and give them a chance.
Absolutely a penalty. It was a high boot with studs showing. The defender was not just blocking the shot - he knew Kane would be forced to kick his foot with the follow through. We've all been there. He knew exactly what he was doing. Had he moved his foot back a few inches it would be ok but he put his foot in a dangerous position causing dangerous play. It would have been a free kick anywhere else on the pitch so it must be here too.
ohh dear ...yiu just proves very off it calling the kobbie praise united hype. you must be a Liverpool fan. yiu probably then do have an unbiased research of football... Kobbie has been amn of the match against Liverpool and City in high stake finals.. to beat a midfield with Rodri is no simple job more over at 19. Liverpool has never developed a player like this in 20yrs not even arsenal can claim that too
you said with the penalty, Kane's 'chance had already gone' - i disagree. Dumfries kicking him meant Kane couldn't completely follow through with his shot, which could have affected the power and direction of the shot. Basically, you're not English so you're biased.
@@jantje.96 If you have studs up and you make contact, after the other player has touched ball it foul. Auto yellow for studs up. If you ever been studded you know it hurts, why it a foul now days.
Spain eliminated Germany, and France and also defeated defending champions Italy and someone somewhere thinks England stands a chance against them. Sorry to say but England will lose to Spain.