Somehow, im not sure how, but somehow England have made it to the semi-finals of the European Championship and today we take on the Dutch who themselves haven't been setting the football world alight.
Despite being second best in most of the games so far, here we are 90 mins away from a final against either France or Spain after overcoming the Swiss who it turned out were even worse at penalties than we used to be and poor old Saka started at left wing back, moved to right wing and then ended up at left back as Gareth Southgate decided that the best time to try things was in the quarter finals and by more luck than judgement, Switzerland were back on the plane home and we are lacing up our boots against Ronald Koeman's team in Orange.
I know that in cup games it isn't so much about the performance rather than progressing but it would be nice to be entertained as we watch, i'm English and i find myself playing on my phone and only looking up when the commentator gets excited.
With the players we have, the Premier League player of the year, the Spanish young player of the league and the top scorer in the Bundesliga we should shouldn't be scraping through against teams many places below us in the FIFA Rankings but there is that old footballing adage that if you make it to the Semi Final playing badly, think what you can do when you play well and anyway, still, at least we are not Scottish, they were also poor but their fans have been kicking their heels since the group stages.
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To a degree it can be but good defenders stop you losing games but it is strikers that win you games.
ReplyDeleteBlimey, don't ever become Arsenal manager will you.
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