World Cup 2018 LIVE thread (66 Viewers)
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The English just don't have the quality. Mentality is a huge part of the game, but it can only get you so far. Otherwise you and me could probably play for our NT as well. But the English are not even top 10 in terms of quality. Even if they only beat Colombia and Sweden, that was already a miracle.
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Whole WC didn't look normal, but let's face the facts - only half of our starting team is good players. They were playing amazing in the qualifiers and the rest managed to not fuck things up. At the WC we had massive problems with the backspine of our NT tho. Błaszczykowski, Krychowiak, Glik, Piszczek, Milik - everyone had their own problems and they don't have any replacement. So the tournament was a catastrophe in relation to the qualifiers. I'm pretty worried cause i don't see much quality coming in the next years and we just had a new random Polish coach announced that doesn't bring any hope.
He does, but Southgate has always said this tournament was about building a team for 2022. It's that I don't think they'll do better. They'll do much worse.
Unless they have 18 year olds full of talent coming out of nowhere. Because you can't build a World Cup winning team with what they have now.
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Unless they have 18 year olds full of talent coming out of nowhere. Because you can't build a World Cup winning team with what they have now.
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I understand not playing a good tournament for all sorts of reasons. But not chasing the ball when you have to score is a huge issue in terms of mentality.
But yeah, I agree, only half of the squad is good enough really. In a way Poland have overperformed over the last few years which made us expect too much probably.
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But yeah, I agree, only half of the squad is good enough really. In a way Poland have overperformed over the last few years which made us expect too much probably.
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The key reasons for England doing well were an ludicrously simple path and unusually low expectations for the team. Once the expectations increased and they played a decent team, the bottled it/were out played.
The expectations will be higher than they should be for the next tournament, this has consistently been an issue for them. It's also had to believe they will get such an easy draw in the next tournament.
The expectations will be higher than they should be for the next tournament, this has consistently been an issue for them. It's also had to believe they will get such an easy draw in the next tournament.