Strange the way Southgate uses him. He carries the ball , he gets up field, he wins fouls. The moment I saw us getting behind the ball at the start the 2nd half. We needed Grealish to keep the ball and not let Italy dominate possession. I hated those tactics, but the team did well and will be back

The players who allowed Saka to take the 5th penalty are also a disgrace a Young Boy who never taken a penalty was used as a scape goat incase we lost, the more experienced players should have stepped up ahead of him

Sterling should have talent it.

Imo if you have scored even a single goal in the tournament and you are fit, you should be a default choice for penalty kick comps.

This is what I'll remember from the match

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Denmark, Germany, and Croatia aren't "weak" teams.

A good experience for Saka, if his attitude is right, then he'll be fine.

If he's ever in that situation again, he'll know how bad it feels to miss and be determined to put it right.

Nothing new, I knew it would go without serious punishment as the Italians love to cheat and foul and get away with stuff

Yep

All that talent on the bench..

Southgate is not good enough to make the most of the squad’s ability

I hope he resigns in the coming days ..
He’s gonna get slaughtered in the media , I think


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The Italian mentality is that rules are there to be broken. It’s they same with everything in Italian life

Denmark and Croatia are levels below the England squad and Germy are a team in major transition who have been on a down fall for a while


England had the easiest run to the final Italy were the strongest team and we failed, the fact the world so called best striker can't get past 2 men put on day release from a care home is a joke

If it weren't for Southgate we would still be losing to teams like Iceland.

Guess footballs going to Rome

Still, it was a bit of excitement to pass the time. Back to the real World now

Will somebody hurry up and find this persons coat.

Gareth Southgate has managed England to their first final in 55 years (54) in a major competition, so i think he should be fine?

There are so many better more qualified managers our there who would use the talents of the players well yet they only want yes men I charge

I don't watch tbf so know nothing but I was shocked how dirty their players were. They were fouling, getting yellow carded and then subbed so a new one could come on and start fouling.

He literally choked Saka here where was the red card?

How dare he care about starving children when he could be practising kicking a ball around to make bald middle aged thugs happy

Croatia are still the World Cup Runner-up (beating us if I remember correctly) so they're not exactly "levels" below us.

And Denmark are in the top 10 in the FIFA rankings aren't they?

Germany you have a point tbf.

And Kane scored in the penalty shootout, plus if Southgate had've done such a bad tactical job against Italy then it wouldn't have gone to penalties imo.

The only mistake I think that Southgate made was his choices on who he had take the penalties (even Maguire was a gamble) but to me anyone expecting England to play like Real Madrid against Italy were getting too carried away imo.

The game was full of mistakes, we didn't have a shot inside the box so we should have brought another forward on, we lacked creativity so why wait till very very late to bring on Grealish when he should have been on arounf the 60 mins Mark

The very, very, very large majority of humans care about not starving children, Rashford isn't unique just because he's presented with a platform to inform us all how much he cares.

Plumber messes up his job.

Well, I care about starving children, so that exempts me from criticism of my job.

Argh what ashame,but I could see this coming once it went to painful penalities .

Well I feel that same combination of pride and emptiness that I felt in 2018

Tonight's not the time for navel gazing or asking where we went wrong, in the end it came down to a coin flip. Feel so much love for this team and their humbleness, their effort and their collective ambition

Hell of a ride this summer has been, every match has been a great time and I've loved talking about it all with you guys on here - the football section has been carrying this forum the last 4 weeks :flutter:

Can't begrudge Italy at all as they've been brilliant all tournament, congrats Ness

Maybe he was scared that England would lose in normal time if Grealish was brought on earlier?

Also Italy weren't gonna just let us start attacking in their half, maybe they were better as a team than us? Italy's not the kinda team where Southgate/England can just click their fingers and start dominating Italy, whether Grealish was on or not.

Btw Grealish didn't do anything when he came on anyway, it feels like the Media's spreading this Myth that Grealish was gonna be our lord and saviour, but what did he honestly do this tournament?

Congratulations Ness :love:

The tension :omgno:

Been reminding everyone tonight that this is just the Euros - it's not the World Cup which is truly the greatest tournament on earth

Already can't wait for next winter

How proud of Rice were you tonight? He was immense, ran himself into the ground.

Yep I really don’t get the whole Grealish can save this narrative...where was he for the pens :idc:

The Irishman did us proud :love:

We learnt all those tricks from you.

John Aldridge the most Scouse man ever.

He's put such a shift in all tournament! Rice is the first West Ham player I've seen play for England and for him to play every game and be so pivotal in a side that reached the final is massive

You just know you're gonna lose him to a big club, don't ya?

Actually I think Rob Green also played for England while he was West Ham but mainly remembered for his howler in the World Cup now sadly

We don't talk about those days around here.

No chance, he's West Ham through and through

A few pieces of paper with the image of Her Majesty on it, always wins in the end.