zealand came home before football

@thotimusprime8867

Ай бұрын

Zealand has a big head 😅 .. Fantastic

@Mr.Marusic

Ай бұрын

HAHAHAHA great 😂😂

@liammcoleman326

Ай бұрын

😂😂

Went from 30 years of hurt to 60

@alchemysticwitch

Ай бұрын

2 years of hurt atm

@user-gk9sx4ow6y

Ай бұрын

😂

@kalmenbarkin5708

Ай бұрын

30 years of celebrating 30 years of hurt

@vignotum132

Ай бұрын

@@alchemysticwitchwomen’s game is not the men’s game

@robbiebalboa

Ай бұрын

First major tournament watching as a kid was Euro 96, it goes so quick Mate.

Everytime Mr. Zealnd says „Oyarzabal“, a Basque child dies. 😢

@ShawstinAu

Ай бұрын

Bilbao is gonna run out of players

@Haaton-of-the-Basement

Ай бұрын

​@@ShawstinAuisn't he from Real Sociedad which is also Vasco?

@bender040

Ай бұрын

i hope im not next lol

@bender040

Ай бұрын

@@Haaton-of-the-Basement si

“Southgate is a good coach” goes on to list all the England players that didn’t play as good as they do at club level

@tAgJaCk3D

Ай бұрын

You are putting all the blame on Southgate though, when obviously the players themselves didn't show up as expected. I really don't think Southgate instructed Phil Foden specifically to do nothing for 7 games. And I say that as a big fan of Phil Foden.

@mori5481

Ай бұрын

yet tons of others did play as well as they do for club. If specific players are the problem, can you blame the coach? I really don't get the english fans' attitude. He's objectively speaking, your best ever coach results wise. The fact you want to sack him because "Football Southgate plays bad" is ridiculous. What do you think is gonna happen next? You're gonna bring in steve bruce or someone like that, it's not gonna work out as well as southgate and you'll go back to mediocrity

@davrywx4

Ай бұрын

@@tAgJaCk3D Foden out wide wasn’t working, everyone but Southgate could see that. He moved him inside v Netherlands and he was Englands most dangerous player. He wasn’t great last night but I just think Spain are a superior team. I’m not putting all the blame on Southgate I just disagree he’s a good coach, let’s see where he ends up after England. I’m willing to bet it won’t be at a top 20 European club

@davrywx4

Ай бұрын

@@mori5481 tons? Who? What did I miss? The players always have to take an element of blame of course but when you’re using some of the best attacking players in the world in a low block against Denmark in the 30th min you are asking for trouble. The tactics in the first half last night were working, Walker was glued to Williams but obv was told something else at half time because he started sitting narrower allowing Williams to basically do what he wanted and we paid the price

@Braddowski

Ай бұрын

The low block worked - the issue was the attacking players not responding to it. Just because England have some amazing attacking players, it doesn't mean they work well together (see Gerrard and Lampard). The biggest problem England have right now is how do you make Kane, Palmer, Foden and Bellingham play together? Because they all want to play in similar space on the field which isn't possible. For example, Ollie Watkins was the best player for the tactic and helps Bellingham play the way he wants... but how do you justify putting Kane on the bench? Whoever leads England into the World Cup is going to have to decide which 2 or 3 of England's world-class attackers you want to build the team around and which 2 or 3 you want to leave on the bench and get constantly criticized for not playing enough. England fans forget that Alf Ramsay won the '66 World Cup without England's best player (Jimmie Greaves) because he focused on choosing players that fit the tactic he thought optimized the rest of the players he had at his disposal. But modern England fans just want an all-star exhibition team to suddenly work together.

At the end Spain - Germany was the final. Germany was also the only team, Spain didn‘t beat in 90min. and needed overtime.

@hkar4385

Ай бұрын

Agree France and Portugal were not great

@Luis-kv8zc

Ай бұрын

And a robbery

@Awesomereach94

Ай бұрын

Yeah, the fact England got such an easy path to the final shows the Euros tournament format needs revising.

@Adam35779

Ай бұрын

Facts 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯👍

@elastictowels9659

Ай бұрын

And a convient non call on a hand ball

For those unaware how Dani Olmo kept Kane's trophy curse going in Germany, he scored all 3 goals in RB Leipzig's victory in the DFL-Supercup, so he has a valid claim to denying Kane's first trophy opportunity in Germany

@IqbalMunahar

Ай бұрын

But he can't deny the Audi Cup Kane won back then? Such a fraud

They’re THIS strong without PEDRI AND GAVI even 😂 This is unfair

@CarlosRojas-hr6ms

Ай бұрын

Gavi os trash. Pedri is great but he may never be fully healthy again. Removed meniscus tissue is bad news

@Sleepys._.

Ай бұрын

Balde cubarsi on the come up with la masia and other academies in la liga eventually turning up a new wonderkid it’s a new golden generation

@Jardermorder

Ай бұрын

Pedri nor Gavi should start in this team. Pedri because he needs the ball to go through the middle to be effective and this Spanish team loves width and pace in the wings, Olmo is clearly a better fit and probably a better player rn, and Gavi is just not good enough to start

@JackoVX

Ай бұрын

​@@JardermorderGavi before injury was arguably best performing CM in LaLiga. Now will see after injury but if Fabian plays like this it will be hard for him to get into the 11. As for Pedri he is good enough, especially for combination play and control of the middle areas.

@Sleepys._.

Ай бұрын

@@Jardermorder gavi was on track to be Barcelona’s best player until his injury he makes every team he plays on better he will take the reigns fabian leaves behind

As an Englishman, Spain were the deserving winners, not just of the final but the tournament as a whole. Spain were one of the few bright spots in amongst a sea of negative defensive football. It’s really hard to phrase this next part without sounding entitled, but getting to the final doesn’t feel like something worth celebrating. England played terrible for much of the tournament and if you ask any England fans what their highlight of the teams performances were, they’d either say any of the brilliant individual goals or the first 30 minutes of the Netherlands. We played Slovenia, Slovakia and Serbia this tournament and made it to the final, yet only managed less the a half of good football throughout the Euros. I’d have much rather seen Spain vs Netherlands.

@moonglum101

Ай бұрын

England got to the final in spite of GS. Imagine what they could do with a tactically astute coach.

Big Z got out of the CIA black-site, massive W!

@rumblebird9888

Ай бұрын

He's part of the CIA

You are generally right, but your reference to 2018's Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard isn't entirely spot on. Back then Dele Alli was looked at as the future of English football, he was that good. And Jesse Lingard was certainly in form during that period. It was only in later years that they fell off.

@NeilLewis77

Ай бұрын

no buddy, very much at the time, the conversations around england were "if gareth had some better creative midfielders than jesse lingard then maybe we wouldnt look as boring and stodgy" we gave him grealish, foden, maddison, bellingham, palmer and more but he has never got it right.

@LiftandCoa

Ай бұрын

Lingard wast good enough at any point in his career. Overhyped ManUdt Academy Player with absolutely no results whatsoever, anywhere.

@Lucaz99

Ай бұрын

80% of football fans knew Jesse Lindgard was fools gold. He had a good patch of form there but he was never good enough for ManU or England.

@IqbalMunahar

Ай бұрын

Even back then Lingard is meme material all right, he revived his career at West Ham, was that the time he got called up or at United? Idk, he's basically Maguire of attacker. For Dele, at his prime, he was as hyped as Bellingham today, difference is he played for ol spurs, but at his height he got the price of 100mil (which is a lot), and Madrid interested in him, just watched the highlight when he singlehandedly destroy prime Madrid with CR7 & Modric, etc at UCL, that's his prime.

@adereynolds

Ай бұрын

Yep they were good players then. Could do the same if any of the current squad drop off. England have had a very good squad for a long time. That's what the vast money on premier league academies has done. And not only have England had a great pool of players. They've had it at a time when most countries really don't. In the time England have messed around wasting talent, Spain has gone from a mess to rebuilding and winning a tournament. Italy have gone from rubbish to winning a tournament while quite rubbish to absolutely rubbish again. There is no peak generation in Brazil, Holland, Belgium, italy, even France have slipped back a bit. Germany have been poor for a long time and now they too, like Spain look to have reset a bit and could grow.

Phil Foden turned into a prime Lakaka for this one

@pbsuite

Ай бұрын

LAKAka was better

@erdnasiul87

Ай бұрын

Feel Foken

@Haaton-of-the-Basement

Ай бұрын

Silly Folden*

@garvindean6443

Ай бұрын

I know it's a joke but they don't even play the same position

@williamcross210

Ай бұрын

I don't get why he was marking Rodri

Its somhow nice that the Bundesliga is so underreported compared to EPL and La Liga, there are so many breakout players from BL.. Olmo and Xavi Simmons just from Leipzig

Imagine thinking it was ever coming home lmao

Lautaro this season has accomplished something Harry Kane couldn't in 10 lifetimes.

Southgate is putting Team Bonding across the week in training🤣 Team cohesion: maxxed Tactical familiarity: none

@liamfoggin4805

Ай бұрын

Tactics? What tactics?

It was expected tbh. Dont rely on individual brilliance and expect to beat teams on the caliber like spain. I mean for god sake, they almost lost against serbia, how is a team like that gonna beat spain. And isnt it kinda stupid how southgate devided to park the buss at 1-1 against spain. He really thought it was gonna work huh haha.

As an Englishman, 2021 definitely hurt more than this. In 2021 we were the best team all tournament and it felt like we deserved to win. This time tho, we know Spain have been the best team and they once again just played better than us

Chelsea fans came away with something at least

@Padbot1

Ай бұрын

A deflected goal?

@vurogj

Ай бұрын

Mark Cucarella being able to clap back at Gary Neville who said he (Cucarella) would be one of the reasons Spain wouldn't go all the way. Cucarella thanked Gary for the support on his instagram. I bet a lot of Chelsea fans LOVED that (and it is pretty funny tbf),

@jacksonconstantine5740

Ай бұрын

@@vurogjindeed we did

@eggfriedreus793

Ай бұрын

What a trophy for Chelsea?

An interesting topic for just how dominant Spain is atm since they are defending champions in: - Euros - Nations League - Woman's World Cup - Woman's Natations League - Real Madrid in Champions League - Barcelona in Woman's Champions League Just insanely impressive!

@andresmartinezramos7513

Ай бұрын

It's been up for a bit after almost a decade of international slump

@nikolaskoric804

Ай бұрын

The last time Spain( including national team and or clubs) lost a final was in may 2001 when Alaves lost to Liverpool in UEFA Europa League. In the meantime they(Spain) won 27 finals including Word Cup, Euros, Nations League, Europa League and Champions League. Let that sink in. The're just incredible.

@macario8836

Ай бұрын

​@@nikolaskoric804Makes me think of a meme: "I don't always reach finals, but when I do, you already lost!"

@nikolaskoric804

Ай бұрын

@@macario8836 Lol, touche... fair played good sir. 😄

Giving gareth Southgate credit is criminal the english are good despite him this english squad is world-class

@eoghangreene5728

Ай бұрын

Only English people think this. Spain, France, Germany and Portugal have better players. It is true and also the reason England never wins but their "supporters" expect to win everytime.

@karsenhippolyte8721

Ай бұрын

@@eoghangreene5728 nah this English squad to me could go pound for pound with any other team i wholly believe they had the second most talented squad (on average) after France and this is coming from a guy who was praying on England's downfall with a passion(I'm not English)

@fjnemo

Ай бұрын

@@eoghangreene5728pound for pound, England has the better talent position by position

@eoghangreene5728

Ай бұрын

@@karsenhippolyte8721 not the best squad and the second best squad are not two different things buddy. What is your point?

@Padbot1

Ай бұрын

​@@karsenhippolyte8721They absolutely couldn't. FIFA isn't real life

Southgate is NOT a good coach. You would CLEARLY be a better coach, Zealand.

@rumblebird9888

Ай бұрын

Nah Zealand looks like Harry Kane

@IntelCorei-KProcessor-go2to

Ай бұрын

He's a good man manager, but tactically inept.

@LiftandCoa

Ай бұрын

@@IntelCorei-KProcessor-go2to which makes him a bad manager

Don't worry, Oyarzabal is Basque so the pronunciation probably doesn't include the Castilian S sound and you may also disregard any Spanish pronunciation of the surname as it is as accurate as English.

@ZhakariasGarcia

Ай бұрын

Castellano is Latin spoken by basques so don’t count on that. Also there are names that are pronounced differently but Oyarzabal is not one of those

Wtf do you mean this wasn't England's best team? Southgate took world class players who had amazing seasons and made them look bang average. They made it to the final because of individual brilliance ie saka and Bellingham late goals. Southgate is a shit coach

@Sam-es2gf

Ай бұрын

think he's saying they might be the best players, but as a team it doesn't fit.

@frazer4737

Ай бұрын

@Sam-es2gf his job is to find a way to make them fit, and he's doing it horribly

It has come Euskadi before coming home.

Southgate masterclass on how not to win a Final

It is wild to say that Southgate is a good coach and then turn around and say that his coaching style doesn't suit his best players! That is his entire job! Yes, plenty of players didn't really show up but Southgate kept picking them despite them having poor performances - it reflects really poorly on Southgate as a coach that he can't figure out how to use them. I also think two things can be true; the players didn't show up because the tactics didn't suit them and they also just had bad performances - in both cases Southgate has to make better decisions and be bold enough to bench players like Kane. Anyone with eyes could see that Kane dropping deep just kept making a mess for other players; all tournament, players like Foden and Bellingham had no one stretching the defense so they had no room to operate in and no options to play it forward - that falls at the feet of Southgate. If Southgate was directing Kane to drop deep and he couldn't see what a mess it was causing his team then I don't think he is a good coach. Kane had more touches in his own penalty box (3) than he did in Spain's (1)! Southgate had plenty of their best players available and some real talent on the bench - the one player Southgate felt he was missing was Kalvin Phillips! Would you consider Phillips one of England's best players? Walker was at fault for both goals sitting way too narrow and Southgate had TAA available and didn't make the change despite the threat from set pieces he could offer. (On a side note, having watched Walker for over a decade the dude cannot cross a ball to save his life, actually makes me kind of sick to see him try and fail so miserably). Sorry for the rant.

It's called the Harry-Kane effect!

@user-gk9sx4ow6y

Ай бұрын

😂

@cftpafan

Ай бұрын

England have been losing long before Kane.

@gevgnek

Ай бұрын

Tottenham won a trophy more recently than the England NT. They're really just been choking forever.

@Finite_Marlin_501

Ай бұрын

​@@gevgnekthe Audi Cup in 2019

@gevgnek

Ай бұрын

​@@Finite_Marlin_501 I was referring to the 2008 League Cup but yeah that works too.

Stopped watching when you said Gareth Southgate was the sole reason we got to the final, bye Zealand

"drop as deep as the Titanic" got me laughing so hard i had to pause the video lmao

free the homie Zealand

The impressive world cup run beating giants such as panama, Tunisia, sweden and colombia(penalties)

high def and the mic not constantly hitting the shirt, this is clearly a fake AI video. They got our boy. R.I.P.

You live in a world where a #7 from Atletico became the star and captain of Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team and led them to nothing. As he was replaced the team won 3 titles in a row then a #7 from Real became an Atletico icon and Spain National Team captain and got to lift the Euro trophy 😀

I think the best thing to do is to make the goalkeeper the captain. Going forward. Because the goalie doesn’t change often. Having an outfield player as captain is not great, because the manager and teammates feel he must always play, whether it’s Kane, Messi or Ronaldo. Were Kane not the captain, I think the manager would not have so much pressure to build the team around him. As the main goalie tends not to be substituted/benched, there’s a player who is going to be in every match and it won’t be an issue. Southgate would feel much freer to choose Toney or Watkins or both up front, were Kane not the captain. Whoever takes the England job, his first decision has to be: make Pickford captain. Didn’t do Iker Casillas any harm!

they asked Jude Bellingham earlier in the tournament "Who writes your scripts?" and he said "I do" - well he had two pretty blank pages for the semi and the final, apart from one layoff for Palmer's goal. He may become a more dominant figure in time. The margins are so small and England are very close and while they often feed off foreign colleagues in their clubs to excel themselves, they struggle to feed off each other to the same extent. England may need a real 'winner' coach who can instil more tactical clarity and attacking nous, but there's not many of these who are English. If Southgate goes, they should be grateful for what he's done

Dis is ze history of ze Tott-- England

Last night hurt. This morning stings. Football again showing that it can be a roller coaster of emotions and we were all in for the ride last night. Spain are undoubtedly deserved winners and but there was just a period where we were riding our luck a little and you just thought... somehow...we might get there. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. So, as I have said elsewhere, I feel proud but defeated. Also as a Newcastle fan, I'm now like 0-5 in finals 😅

Spain came into the Tournament ready to Play. England did not, the left side didn't look good until the final but even then they weren't at Spain's level. Kane hasn't moved freely at all he has looked like his back was bothering him every time he turned. I think Lee Carsley is ready to step up to replace Southgate this Winter and hopefully bring more of that Euro 2023 U21 winning squad with him. The England Squad looked fatigued and every tournament apart from 2022 that has been the case.

Welcome back to our US of A, the land of insanity

FM crazed Central American dictator watching this be like 😳

Yes, we already know you no longer run.

I, like most English fans were just pleading for a victory. It's hurt beyond hurt.

👏You're one of the only people to acknowledge Walker and Stones. They have the attention spans of goldfish and it cost us vs Croatia. People forget Stones nearly knocked us out vs Slovakia when he completely fell asleep

Spain were and are the best team in the world currently. The young players they are are frightening as to how good they are and yet haven't even reached their peek. In the final England were 2nd best, our best chance of winning anything was the 2020 version, I see Southgate leaving, he got us to 2 finals which no other England manager has ever done so he gets a massive load of respect for that. I just hope whoever we get in picks players on merit rather then he's a big name, we will have him.

3:18 The instant revisionism on a team that was the Bookies favourite pre-tournament is crazy

Honestly, I think the problem with England not winning anything in the last few tournaments, despite reaching finals and semi finals, is the fact that Kane has clearly been afflicted with a gypsy curse at birth that makes it so he will never, ever win a trophy.

"Gareth Southgate is a good coach" proceeds to name all of the players that played below their club level because of his tactics. "This isn't the best English team" BECAUSE OF SOUTHGATE. He squandered a criminal smount of talent. This team made it to the final despite Southgate, not because

Once again we just chugged along and then lost to the first good team we played that tournament

when you have a team and so many players are underperforming, it stops being an individual problem and becomes a team issue, a tactical issue and by extension a blatant managerial issue...... #southgateOUT

Zealand being told what to say

What I am most surprised about is that England did not play as if their lives depended on it, they did not play like they learned from the last EUROs, it did not look like they gave it their absolute all, which is just baffling to me. Yes, they scored a goal, it was one of very few good moments they had in the game, but it never looked like they were actually going to win this match. Spain, on the other hand, looked like they were in control basically the entire match and there was never any doubt that they were gonna win this. It really was quite one-sided.

This team is comparable to and even better than the 2021 team hands down. The players didn't show up sure, but Southgate is asscracks as a coach because he fails to utilise his players properly

@LiftandCoa

Ай бұрын

The only reason why you reached the final WAS because the players showed up. Without your individual class running around there up front you would have exited at Slovakia the latest. But yes, this team is even better than the 2020 or 2022 versions of it. Lingard and Alli missing is exclusively a positive. Belligham, Rice and Foden are better than themselves before ...

Spain - Germany was the moral final this time, just like Argentina - Netherlands was the moral final in WC2022. The winner of the tournament was basically known after those games unless something crazy would happen.

@FlatDerrick

Ай бұрын

It's fairly normal for the best team to get beaten by the team that has struggled to the final playing boring football, except the team that has struggled to the final playing boring football is usually Italy.

After the Semis I said to my friends that it was Spain's to lose at that point. Spain had a wiff of the 2012 Spain that scared Europe to death. This team is just scary good. And as an Englishmen, it hurts as always but Spain turned up. England didn't. Say for a few individuals but the team as a package just choked. In the words of our second favourite soccer loving American; "Its the hope that kills you"

Can’t we all agree that England never scores unless they were a goal under and ignored match plans? Don’t think Bellingham 90+5 was a calculated build up by Southiola for example

The Birmingham lads have yet to know the final result of the match (they are still waiting for the match to begin)

Zealand said Pickford had excellent distribution 😂😂

Looked to me like Pickford didnt expect him to reach the ball

Gareth Southgate is a good coach 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 Once again Gareth Southgate is a bad coach. He is coaching one of the best countries in the world and the best at the moment and he doesn't know how to win anything from him. The players are not to blame for this, but the coach who makes the tactics for the match against Slovenia defends the situation 0:0, against Denmark 1:0 and against Serbia 1:0 and 1:1 against Switzerland where they rely on penalties !!!!! That's not the mentality of a "good coach"

The Oyarzabal goal was so class!!!

Gareth Southgate is a skill floor raiser but he is also a skill ceiling lowerer

Crazy enough is that even Nico and Lamine’s combined age prior to this weekend was only 2 years older than his yamal’s dad. Xg is also a bad stat as well. It can very misleading

Cucurella had Saka in his pocket all game and broke free to set up Oyarzabal for the winner.

"Everytime I see one of these pictures, why do La Liga and the Premier League not have this technology?" ...We all know why Z...

FYI, the Premier League will have the semi-automatic offside technology from season 24/25 👍

Two things: 1) the southgate special works both ways, he either lifts a terrible team or he brings down a great team. He is the epitome of mid. 2) the founding fathers didn’t risk it all for you to say “we” 😂😂😂😂

On the run from setting up the background…. Cmon this won’t distract us

I don't think this was a weak England team at all, wtf? Bellingham, Foden, Saka, Kane...the fact that they didn't fire on all cylinders and yet kept starting every match and almost always playing 80+ minutes is down to Southgate not getting the most out of his squad and not rotating his players well enough.

Lo de España es solo el principio y es que aun hay chicos de 14-18 años que estan a punto de dar el salto como para entrar en la absoluta. Cubarsi, mosquera, samu omorodion, hector fort, marc giu, el chico descendiente de holandeses de la roma de apellido impronunciable o el hijo de serbios y gallego del liverpool que estaba jugando hasta caer en una lesion de la que ml acababa de salir. El futuro de españa es gigante.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IT'S NEVER COMING HOMEEEEEEEE

@scottwalker4619

Ай бұрын

Serious question, what's the reason for the hate of England? I never quite understand it

@TitoO.J

Ай бұрын

@@scottwalker4619 England fans aren't very likeable to say the least. Respect to the squad, but how many times must the world hear "its coming home" when it's only homecoming was 58 years ago?

@kilianshatwell1027

Ай бұрын

​​@@scottwalker4619 English Fans and English media

Sure Spain was the better team but I just fed up of the England hate. Like true England fans like me aren’t hooligans - we’re like most national team fans - just want to be happy and we hate the fact that other people just kick us while we’re down. Southgate does need to go but let’s build on this now

The main issue England has is that they don't have a big game mentality! If you look at the last 4 international tournaments, England do ok against the "smaller" nations but as soon as they face the real big hitters they're found out!!

i agree with everything you said, but Ollie Watkins deserves more respect, if anything he had an arguably BETTER club season than Kane

Z I didnt think you would be this dumb… To even think Southgate is good is criminal, he would never manage barca or real madrid, he is a championship manager, he created good vibes and thats it

"He's a good coach" is that a troll? When any pundit/media/KZreadr that happened to be British despised Gary to the core, as American coached by their very own "Southgate" you, of all people should know better, Southgate just stumbled his way into another final, period.

England probably doesn't get to the final if they had to go through the Spanish route

Graham Potter has been missing for a while now... My moneys on him as the next manager

Pickford did that a lot, coming out of his line to catch crossess but didnt realize a player closing in to tap it near post

In 2018: Beat Colombia and Sweden then Lost to Croatia and Belgium In 2021: Beat Germany, Ukraine and Denmark then Lost to Italy In 2022: Beat Poland then Lost to France In 2024: Beat Slovakia, Switzerland and Netherlands then Lost to Spain In summary they are beaten by the first really tough opponent they face

Yes big Z is back to be bullied about his office!

Oh no Zealand, I know it was a joke, but they will literally lock you up for saying something like that😂😂

@v0n1b0

Ай бұрын

They deleted my post asking him to stop because it had the "a" word in it..

I really don't know why anyone would act surprised about that result. It would have been a complete travesty for that second-rate team of England to win the Euros. Like Argentine at the WC they didn't even deserve to be there.

The most confusing 'what if' for me is that Trent never got to play on the right of the back 5 system. Everyone was saying Trent is suspect defensively & offers nothing offensively but what did Walker do last night?

only time that I felt Spain might lose was vs Germany, and that was due to Nico and Yamal not being on the pitch. Only team I genuinely saw Spain time-waste against (granted it was only for a few minutes in ET at 1-1). Looking back at how the handball that wasn't given should've been given offside, I've now accepted that Spain were just the best team and deserved to win this euros. Crazy how on paper France, England, and Germany should've won, but Spain were just an amazing team. Credit to La Fuente but I won't be surprised if Germany get revenge at WC 26

The case against him for sending people usolicited forehead pics was dropped. Justice prevails.

On the... what?... how does this involve turtles? I hear he triple dips them in "lite" mayo.

It’s not MikEl OyArzabal, it’s MIkel OyarzAbal

Stop defending him. Southgate is at best an average coach at the top level. He has a team of better prem players to undisputed world class players to his disposal and lets them play an awful looking uninspired anti-football that even any championship side could play better. The only reason they got this far was individual quality and luck. They should have been eliminated in the round of 16 for the sake of good football.

England have world class players in every position plus backups, southgate is the problem. Im irish idc what they do but if they want to succeed they need someone who can get the best out of these players and recognise their needs

Spain were the deserved winners in the end (even if I don't like how they seem to act like they've been shot anytime a player so much as nudges them), but ultimately this tournament was defined by underperformances. Portugal, Belgium, England, Croatia, Italy. Even France and England despite them both being semi-finalists, played a style of football that was just not entertaining and in England's case if not for Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane they would've been deservedly knocked out by Slovakia. -- Ultimately my memory of the tournament as a person of Scottish descent will be getting genuinely angry at Scotland's performance 'vs Hungary' where we just kept on passing the ball backwards in a game that was must win. We had the majority of the possession in that game yet almost no shots on target. The worst part is at times England were just as bad as Scotland this tournament, yet whereas we got ripped apart 5-1 against Germany, they somehow got to the final.

This is the best England-team for at least a decade. The reason you don't feel they were the greatest is because of Southgate. You touched that point as well talking about how Southgate couldn't get the best from Foden, Kane and Walker. Apart from left back and one central defender the team is unbelievable. Player for player only France can compete, but their depth isn't the same as England's. I'm not English and am thrilled they didn't win. The arrogance before the tournament and the horrible on field display despite being drawn in an alright group and by far the easier bracket afterwards would've made it so undeserved for Spain if they didn't win.

Southgate DESERVES to continue with the NT. But you were very correct when you said that he should ride off into the sunset. No one expected a WC SF, euro final, WC QF, then Euro final when england were knocked out by Iceland in 2016.

Completely agree on your summary. Also think, if Kane was not subbed, he would have scored on that rebound header that Olmo saved on the line.

@spinyslasher6586

Ай бұрын

If Kane wasn't subbed out, they wouldn't have gotten the corner in the first place. Kane offered no pressing pressure on the backline.

@Padbot1

Ай бұрын

100% and he would have been able to take the ball on the turn too

@megaspatz1

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If kane was on the pitch he would of been at the halfway line for that chance. Honestly cannot believe that palmer wasn't on earlier or even starting when he's been involved in 5 of englands goals.

glad you got away safely! Interpol can't get ya now

Nowhere near as gutted as the last Euro Final, Spain were the best team of the tournament and the better team on the day. Southgate's done so well to change the attitude and culture around the England team but i think this is his limit.

Spain deserved that, best team in the final by far, best and most consistent team in the tournament, massive congrats to Spain. Roll on the domestic season, play up Pompey!

LETS GO VIVA ESPAÑA QUE LINDO ES SER DE ESTE PAÍS

Gareth is just being very lucky in his time as an england coach. I mean look at the opponents he beat during the football tournaments, these we‘re far weaker than what Spain, Italy, Argentina and France had to beat in order to win the EURO/WC

My England takeaways: 1: There needs to be an internal debrief focused on how so many of the English players can come into this tournament off the back of breakout seasons for their clubs, yet be completely anonymous on the international stage. 2: There is an obvious disconnect between team and manager, England have a wealth of attacking talent, yet have a defensive minded manager. 3: The England players need to wind their necks in and understand that the frustration from the fans comes from them wanting England to win, not to lose. We are all pulling in the same direction. 4: Yet despite all this, England made the final. You can say this isn't Englands best team, I think it is, but we can only imagine at this point what those players playing on full cylinders would be like, because it doesn't feel like it's going to happen out side of FIFA or Football Manager.

Acting as if spanish weren't the favourite and everyone one knew they would win lol

@donleonard4446

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Not at the start of the tournament. England had higher odds