L’England wins, but doesn’t convince. What the environment, the press and professionals feared across the Channel has even more easily turned into reality. As we wanted to demonstrate. A victory to channel the group C d’Euro 2024 on the right tracks, right from the start, fundamental. Certainly. Considering the tie between Denmark and Slovenia and how much it can weigh, in terms of eighths and perhaps even fourths pairing, to achieve a first place in the group which, given the organic material available, must represent the indispensable minimum.
BELLINGHAM ONLY
Narrow victory using one Serbia far from its potential. A Serbia, for a large part of the first half, was particularly disappointing. Well, the first half of the Three Lions was fine. Basic football to take advantage of the very few chances created. Capitalize on the man of the moment, of course Jude Bellinghamwho takes the covers and delivers the three points to theEngland. The second half was completely negative and disappointing. Of remittance. To take risks. Once again Three Lions protagonists of one of the most boring starting games of a European. And if the only one to shine is the Madrid star, there is something not right. Which can’t add up. It doesn’t really fit England.
SOUTHGATE
First questionable call-ups, then final choices for the 26 UEFA squad even more so. Yesterday, once again, technical choices were even more difficult to understand. And the idea of football remains basic. While we are seeing more and more coaches from technical commissioners, look at what gentlemen like are proposing Nagelsmann or SpallettiEngland offers very little. Gareth Southgate, now in the fourth edition of an international event, offers very little from a footballing point of view. Among the connotations that paint the contemporaneity of modern football, especially this year, we are witnessing fluid, eclectic systems: based on the principles chosen and developed, between possession and non-possession, more and more teams change sides and positions. In England we see very little of all this: a concept completely eliminated. Simple 4-2-3-1 with 6 players with particularly defensive traction (and it’s not even a tough, compact or rocky bolt, ed.) and 4 tightrope walkers, chosen far from their best positions, called to win alone.
QUESTIONABLE CHOICES
So England wins but doesn’t convince. Why? The presence of Saka can mess up plans. Phil Foden, forced to the left, strangles his qualities: what was feared, punctually reality last night. Voted best player of the year in the Premier League, between cuts, through balls and conclusions from his center-right tile, diverted to the left he was evanescent. Worst performance of his year. Predictable. For everyone, except for the technical commissioner. Who chose to summon his best right-winger to make him play on the left. In whose place, best arrow of these years to the left as Marcus Rashford, think carefully, he wasn’t even called up. With setters like that, Harry Kane is forced to only play as a point player, movements that strangle his immense quality: coming forward and catching other people’s insertions, feet and 10-point vision.
CRUCIO TRENT
To find accommodation for Trent Alexander-Arnoldrather than choosing a place on the left for him Trippier, the experiment in the midfield alongside Rice doesn’t work. It did not work. He further splits the team into two blocks: as mentioned, one of six and one of four. On the bench, among other things, midfielders and offensive arrows who deserve much more space: Callagher and Mainoo to release median, people like Palmer, Eze or Gordon in front which due to their characteristics would offer different shades, more suited to the best elements in pink. Instead, especially the last two who could have solved the Foden problem (talking about it in terms of a problem remains paradoxical, but in such choices… that’s the case) last night were simply unpaid spectators. Except Bellingham, everyone fails. That’s why the first official British release in that of Germany 2024, apart from the result, should be considered particularly disappointing. Precisely because of the premises that were feared. If you want to try to get to the bottom, up there, you need something else.
