how can you save 2 penalties and still lose? Rashford is a joke. And why would a coach hand a 19 year old the 5th penalty?
Its been one of those weekends unfortunately (excluding Ash Barty).
I’m also shattered for Harry Kane. He’s certain to leave Spurs now.
I feel so flat today. As soon as extra time started I had this sick feeling in my gut that penalties were coming again. I'm man enough to admit that there were some tears at the end.
We've had a great tournament but bar the 1st 20 mins Southgate got everything wrong. It was clear at half time that Italy were on top of the 3-4-3 formation and our wing backs were sinking deeper and deeper, dragging our wide players in Mount and Sterling deeper. I was calling for a change back to 4-3-3 at half time as all we were doing was inviting pressure as we were defending so deep in our half. Low and behold they get the goal and we then change formation and the formation forces us to defend further up the pitch which played back into our hands. It was very even after that but Southgate waited way too long to make the change, not saying it would have stopped the goal but it could have as we would have ended up playing the game more in their half, the first 25-30 mins of the 2nd half was played almost exclusively in our defensive half.
I also much prefer Mount in a central position, I don't think he impacts the game enough wide.
The 2 subs that came on to take penalties was clearly a bad decision in the end, they were awful penalties though. I'm much more of the belief that a penalty should be about you, not about 2nd guessing the goalkeeper, both of them were focused on trying to wrong foot the keeper instead of just finding the corner nice and hard, or if in doubt drill it down the middle. I couldn't believe it though when I saw Saka walking up for the last one, the rest of the team are complete jibs for leaving that responsibility for the youngest player on the pitch.
Bloody deja vu again. Gee I hate penalties with a passion.