| England lose when we play someone decent. 21:03 - Dec 10 with 2596 views | ITFC_Forever |
Who knew. |  |
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| Most teams lose when they play someone decent....... on 21:05 - Dec 10 with 2286 views | Bloots |
.....that's how sport tends to work. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:06 - Dec 10 with 2273 views | SitfcB |
France were poor. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:07 - Dec 10 with 2247 views | CaptainAhab |
You sound like that numpty Matterface |  | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:11 - Dec 10 with 2217 views | tractordownsouth |
We were absolutely robbed by the officials there. Clear foul on Saka. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:17 - Dec 10 with 2186 views | ITFC_Forever |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:06 - Dec 10 by SitfcB |
France were poor. |
Ok…. And we still couldn’t beat them.
We had to rely on penalties, one of which we missed. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:42 - Dec 10 with 2112 views | Superblue95 |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:06 - Dec 10 by SitfcB |
France were poor. |
France scored two cracking goals. England got 2 penalties, missed one and some are trying to pin the loss on the ref for not giving a third, rather than the fact very little was created from open play.
France deserved it imo and will win the whole thing. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 22:55 - Dec 10 with 2033 views | BlueForYou |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:42 - Dec 10 by Superblue95 |
France scored two cracking goals. England got 2 penalties, missed one and some are trying to pin the loss on the ref for not giving a third, rather than the fact very little was created from open play.
France deserved it imo and will win the whole thing. |
Thought Pickford should have saved their first, but agree with everything else. If Morocco play like the6 did today, France will have a much more difficult game! |  | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 01:36 - Dec 11 with 1933 views | Stewart27 |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:17 - Dec 10 by ITFC_Forever |
Ok…. And we still couldn’t beat them.
We had to rely on penalties, one of which we missed. |
So we didn’t rely on penalties. [Post edited 11 Dec 2022 1:36]
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 06:14 - Dec 11 with 1865 views | tractordownsouth |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:42 - Dec 10 by Superblue95 |
France scored two cracking goals. England got 2 penalties, missed one and some are trying to pin the loss on the ref for not giving a third, rather than the fact very little was created from open play.
France deserved it imo and will win the whole thing. |
Did France create much more than we did from open play? Bellingham, Kane and Saka all went close and on top of their goal France had the Rabiot and Giroud efforts. Pretty even.
The refereeing mistake wasn’t the foul on Kane, it was the one on Saka. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 06:49 - Dec 11 with 1847 views | norfsufblue |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 06:14 - Dec 11 by tractordownsouth |
Did France create much more than we did from open play? Bellingham, Kane and Saka all went close and on top of their goal France had the Rabiot and Giroud efforts. Pretty even.
The refereeing mistake wasn’t the foul on Kane, it was the one on Saka. |
It's true, give that free kick and England are on the attack with a good opportunity to whip that into the box rather than being a man short and on the retreat. I've always worried that Saka was a little lightweight playing for England but was immense last night and had to play the whole 90.... however when I looked it overall England were best when chasing the game and went a little more Conservative between the equaliser and their 2nd when we really needed to keep playing like we were 1 down. I really feel gutted we didn't round off a great day for me personally with the win we did deserve |  | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:08 - Dec 11 with 1826 views | noggin |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:11 - Dec 10 by tractordownsouth |
We were absolutely robbed by the officials there. Clear foul on Saka. |
English football fans in, blaming officials for defeat, shocker. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:27 - Dec 11 with 1802 views | onceablue |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:08 - Dec 11 by noggin |
English football fans in, blaming officials for defeat, shocker. |
You sound like you could be Scottish Welsh or Irish
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:49 - Dec 11 with 1758 views | blueislander |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 22:55 - Dec 10 by BlueForYou |
Thought Pickford should have saved their first, but agree with everything else. If Morocco play like the6 did today, France will have a much more difficult game! |
Watching the replay Pickford didn’t move till late for the first goal. He was obviously unsighted when the shot was hit. | | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:54 - Dec 11 with 1739 views | Chrisd |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:42 - Dec 10 by Superblue95 |
France scored two cracking goals. England got 2 penalties, missed one and some are trying to pin the loss on the ref for not giving a third, rather than the fact very little was created from open play.
France deserved it imo and will win the whole thing. |
We didn’t create anything from open play? Have a look at the attempts. Also, Lloris was many pundits ‘Man of the Match’ which suggests he had a rather decent game to keep us out. You can argue that France were more clinical, however they didn’t deserved to win that match, they were second best a lot of the time and can count themselves very fortunate they got through. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:56 - Dec 11 with 1730 views | Chrisd |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:49 - Dec 11 by blueislander |
Watching the replay Pickford didn’t move till late for the first goal. He was obviously unsighted when the shot was hit. |
That’s how I saw it. Did the ball not go through a player’s legs and take a slight deflection on the way too? | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:57 - Dec 11 with 1724 views | GlasgowBlue |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:08 - Dec 11 by noggin |
English football fans in, blaming officials for defeat, shocker. |
Not like you to be knocking anything English noggin. Quelle surprise, as the a French would say. |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:19 - Dec 11 with 1688 views | Churchman |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 21:42 - Dec 10 by Superblue95 |
France scored two cracking goals. England got 2 penalties, missed one and some are trying to pin the loss on the ref for not giving a third, rather than the fact very little was created from open play.
France deserved it imo and will win the whole thing. |
Agreed. France were better and deserved it. There was a spell in the second half where we got them rattled but by and large they were stronger all over the pitch. Griezemen was a cut above and England were hamstrung by rightly being terrified of Mbappe.
Bellingham grew into the game and played well. What a player he will be. Saka too was excellent and gave France’s weakest player a nightmare. Foden has immense skill, but is wasted on the wing. I though Walker handled Mbappe as well as anyone and the goalie couldn’t do much with the goals. Other than that, the England players were patchy/mediocre or in some cases poor.
I’m still puzzled as to why Southgate took off Saka. By far our biggest threat. |  | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:23 - Dec 11 with 1663 views | Chrisd |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:19 - Dec 11 by Churchman |
Agreed. France were better and deserved it. There was a spell in the second half where we got them rattled but by and large they were stronger all over the pitch. Griezemen was a cut above and England were hamstrung by rightly being terrified of Mbappe.
Bellingham grew into the game and played well. What a player he will be. Saka too was excellent and gave France’s weakest player a nightmare. Foden has immense skill, but is wasted on the wing. I though Walker handled Mbappe as well as anyone and the goalie couldn’t do much with the goals. Other than that, the England players were patchy/mediocre or in some cases poor.
I’m still puzzled as to why Southgate took off Saka. By far our biggest threat. |
Blimey, it really does show how we as fans see things completely differently. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:26 - Dec 11 with 1648 views | Churchman |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:23 - Dec 11 by Chrisd |
Blimey, it really does show how we as fans see things completely differently. |
Just how I saw it at the time. I’m probably wrong, particularly as I’m disappointed. I just felt France always had that bit extra | | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:40 - Dec 11 with 1616 views | Chrisd |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:26 - Dec 11 by Churchman |
Just how I saw it at the time. I’m probably wrong, particularly as I’m disappointed. I just felt France always had that bit extra |
Naturally, we are going to see things differently we do most Saturdays on here, but I thought there was plenty to be encouraged about if you park the scoreline. The quality of that French side (and yes, I know they were missing players), England really did make them look quite ordinary. Pickford wasn’t really troubled and even the saves he made were pretty standard. I’d be interested to see if you felt differently if you watched the game again. England did a lot of good things, which we don’t always say in big games. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:07 - Dec 11 with 1547 views | Churchman |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:40 - Dec 11 by Chrisd |
Naturally, we are going to see things differently we do most Saturdays on here, but I thought there was plenty to be encouraged about if you park the scoreline. The quality of that French side (and yes, I know they were missing players), England really did make them look quite ordinary. Pickford wasn’t really troubled and even the saves he made were pretty standard. I’d be interested to see if you felt differently if you watched the game again. England did a lot of good things, which we don’t always say in big games. |
I’d feel very differently. I generally do if I see a recording of a game I’ve seen previously either live or on tv. The classic was Bolton away in the play offs. I thought we were off it for a good chunk of it and dead lucky until I saw it back and realised I was wrong on both counts.
I think England have a lot to look forward to. In the past England were always ‘up n at em, in ya face’ but short on technique, bar the odd player. That’s no longer the case and the potential is there for a really good team. | | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:14 - Dec 11 with 1522 views | tractordownsouth |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 07:08 - Dec 11 by noggin |
English football fans in, blaming officials for defeat, shocker. |
It’s nothing to do with being English; it’s objectively a foul. France were fortunate not to penalised for the foul on Kane in the first half (probably a 50/50 as to whether it was inside) and it took VAR to give the one on Mount. | |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:16 - Dec 11 with 1517 views | Stewart27 |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:19 - Dec 11 by Churchman |
Agreed. France were better and deserved it. There was a spell in the second half where we got them rattled but by and large they were stronger all over the pitch. Griezemen was a cut above and England were hamstrung by rightly being terrified of Mbappe.
Bellingham grew into the game and played well. What a player he will be. Saka too was excellent and gave France’s weakest player a nightmare. Foden has immense skill, but is wasted on the wing. I though Walker handled Mbappe as well as anyone and the goalie couldn’t do much with the goals. Other than that, the England players were patchy/mediocre or in some cases poor.
I’m still puzzled as to why Southgate took off Saka. By far our biggest threat. |
You probably need to watch again.
England were by far the better team. We were undone by two pieces of quality. So of course we deserved to lose, but to say France were the better team seems odd. Griezemann was anonymous unless you just listened to Dixon spurt clichés about him. The game was played in France’s half predominantly. | | | |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:18 - Dec 11 with 1504 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 08:19 - Dec 11 by Churchman |
Agreed. France were better and deserved it. There was a spell in the second half where we got them rattled but by and large they were stronger all over the pitch. Griezemen was a cut above and England were hamstrung by rightly being terrified of Mbappe.
Bellingham grew into the game and played well. What a player he will be. Saka too was excellent and gave France’s weakest player a nightmare. Foden has immense skill, but is wasted on the wing. I though Walker handled Mbappe as well as anyone and the goalie couldn’t do much with the goals. Other than that, the England players were patchy/mediocre or in some cases poor.
I’m still puzzled as to why Southgate took off Saka. By far our biggest threat. |
France were not better and stronger all over the pitch, we had 57% possession, 16 shots to their 8 (8 to 5 on target) and 5 corners to their 2. I can’t see how anyone can look at that objectively and conclude anything other than England having the best of the game, unfortunately the one thing France were better at was being clinical and that was what made the difference
The clinical point is what actually stings the most for me as going into the game I expected it to be the other way around with France largely dominating and England needing to be clinical to win…now I think I’d underestimated how good this side actually is and that a golden chance to win it has gone begging
I also don’t get the fuss around the Saka sub, he was brilliant but unsurprisingly tired and worn out from being kicked from pillar to post. It made sense to freshen things up and undoubtedly worked, given that we went straight back at them and won a penalty about 3 minutes later… |  |
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| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:22 - Dec 11 with 1477 views | mrfixit426 |
| England lose when we play someone decent. on 09:18 - Dec 11 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
France were not better and stronger all over the pitch, we had 57% possession, 16 shots to their 8 (8 to 5 on target) and 5 corners to their 2. I can’t see how anyone can look at that objectively and conclude anything other than England having the best of the game, unfortunately the one thing France were better at was being clinical and that was what made the difference
The clinical point is what actually stings the most for me as going into the game I expected it to be the other way around with France largely dominating and England needing to be clinical to win…now I think I’d underestimated how good this side actually is and that a golden chance to win it has gone begging
I also don’t get the fuss around the Saka sub, he was brilliant but unsurprisingly tired and worn out from being kicked from pillar to post. It made sense to freshen things up and undoubtedly worked, given that we went straight back at them and won a penalty about 3 minutes later… |
Nailed it. |  | | |
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