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Southgate Mar 27, 2017 14:05:07 GMT

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Post by Reggie_Stration on Mar 27, 2017 14:05:07 GMT

Mar 27, 2017 13:52:56 GMT @manlystanley said:

Mar 27, 2017 13:28:47 GMT runie said:

PS: I dont really understand what you mean by 'pounded them'

When I whatch those games it just looks like Hull v Middlesbrough or something even worse. There is no pounding going on at all.( that was the main point of my thread and what the rest of the (very same in quality) teams in our group look like compared to the way England play.

I didn't watch the German game - but we lost - even though it matters little - I am not going to call that a win for Southgate..

However England played v Lithuania a brand of football(in patches) that is exactly what we need to be playing.(but a lot more of ) and that brand puts us in a completely different class to the other teams in the group.

and like I stated Southgate said the right things. Unlike Roy - He is mentally switched on!!

We needed to press them even more and get round the back even more. as we had the possession, speed and quality of players to do so.

C'mon Runie, it was Lithuania, we should be beating them by a minimum of 2 goals, absolute minimum! I remember when I was a kid and I used to go through my football annuals and look at England's past results, and we used to beat teams like Turkey and Greece 5 or 8-0. Granted those days are gone, but there are new whipping boys in town now, and we should be beating teams like Lithuania by 5 goals at home.

And Scotland, I didn't watch the game, was watching some of the NI match, but I was following the BBC live reports and they seemed to be reporting that Scotland were making a lot of chances, which is more than what we managed against Slovenia.

The weak teams aren't as easy to thrash as they used to be. It really doesn't mean as much not being able to put 3 or 4 past Lithuania. On another day we might, but then you look at other top teams during their qualifying campaigns and they have suspect results every now and again.

We shouldn't read too much into the qualifying campaign. As always with England, it's about what we do when we get to a tournament.