Brummiegem
Well-Known Member
First up,congratulations England on a job well done.The team is doing the nation proud,and for the most part,Gareths’ team selections and subs have worked a treat.However more about that in a second.
My one real moan,is as some have already pointed out,Englands’ penalty does look soft,however so to was the award of the Denmark free kick that led to their goal.The incident later looked more of a pen that the one that was given,but that was quickly turned away and play continued.
My gripe is as usual,VAR was not allowed to do it’s job properly,more to the point,the ref. was not allowed to do his job.He should have been instructed to go and have a look at all 3 incidents,it may have added time to proceedings,but I think we may well have got the correct decision.
I for one am not going to say I feel sorry for the Danes,take the Christian Eriksen factor out of it,and I felt that they wanted a draw and penalty shootout.
I was not as impressed by them as some others.In fact they were fortunate to get through to the knockout stages.As the tournament has gone on for them,their never say die attitude actually changed to a more cynical side.Breaking up play in a match is accepted,but constant fouling and then whinging and whining afterwards was not something you have come to expect from a Scandinavian team in recent years.
A shame really as they probably deserved something,if only for Eriksons’s sake.
It is also about time England had some fortune with refereeing decisions.Too many times in the past we have had decisions go against us that possibly should or could have gone the other way.
Now the substitutions.
I get why Gareth took an attacking player off when England went ahead.Close it down,tighten it up and see the game out.I get that.
What I don’t get,is why Grealish was subbed,as a sub himself.
I hear people crying ‘bias’,as I am a Villa fan,but hear me out.
Any one of the attacking players could have been subbed.In fact if you look at it logically,surely taking Sterling off would have been the sensible option.
Why?
Easy,Sterling will be needed to make an impact against Italy.Playing the full 120 minutes last night means he may not be as fresh,or worst,may not last 90 minutes on Sunday.
Even Kane could have been taken off for the same reason.
Instead now,we have first choice attackers playing from the start,after a long and gruelling 120 minutes.
This will be against a well organised and frankly very dangerous looking Italian side,who will be up for the match on Sunday.
This is a minor irritation for me,because I think Gareth has proved everyone wrong in his choices thus far.I just hope that it doesn’t prove to be his undoing on Sunday.
Southgate may indeed surprise us one more time,only he will know what he has up his sleeve for Sunday.
My one real moan,is as some have already pointed out,Englands’ penalty does look soft,however so to was the award of the Denmark free kick that led to their goal.The incident later looked more of a pen that the one that was given,but that was quickly turned away and play continued.
My gripe is as usual,VAR was not allowed to do it’s job properly,more to the point,the ref. was not allowed to do his job.He should have been instructed to go and have a look at all 3 incidents,it may have added time to proceedings,but I think we may well have got the correct decision.
I for one am not going to say I feel sorry for the Danes,take the Christian Eriksen factor out of it,and I felt that they wanted a draw and penalty shootout.
I was not as impressed by them as some others.In fact they were fortunate to get through to the knockout stages.As the tournament has gone on for them,their never say die attitude actually changed to a more cynical side.Breaking up play in a match is accepted,but constant fouling and then whinging and whining afterwards was not something you have come to expect from a Scandinavian team in recent years.
A shame really as they probably deserved something,if only for Eriksons’s sake.
It is also about time England had some fortune with refereeing decisions.Too many times in the past we have had decisions go against us that possibly should or could have gone the other way.
Now the substitutions.
I get why Gareth took an attacking player off when England went ahead.Close it down,tighten it up and see the game out.I get that.
What I don’t get,is why Grealish was subbed,as a sub himself.
I hear people crying ‘bias’,as I am a Villa fan,but hear me out.
Any one of the attacking players could have been subbed.In fact if you look at it logically,surely taking Sterling off would have been the sensible option.
Why?
Easy,Sterling will be needed to make an impact against Italy.Playing the full 120 minutes last night means he may not be as fresh,or worst,may not last 90 minutes on Sunday.
Even Kane could have been taken off for the same reason.
Instead now,we have first choice attackers playing from the start,after a long and gruelling 120 minutes.
This will be against a well organised and frankly very dangerous looking Italian side,who will be up for the match on Sunday.
This is a minor irritation for me,because I think Gareth has proved everyone wrong in his choices thus far.I just hope that it doesn’t prove to be his undoing on Sunday.
Southgate may indeed surprise us one more time,only he will know what he has up his sleeve for Sunday.