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Kane was gash the last 2 games. Has he ever performed for England in the latter stages of a tournament? I can't remember him doing anything but go missing. I thought tuchel had something about him but it may as well been Southgate. That game was there for the taking and our arses fell out as per usual. Everyone knew what was going to happen

Disagree there although i agree with your squad questions. On one hand there's no massive shame going out to Argentina in a WC semi. But bearing in mind the top 4 were separated (of which we were 4th seed) we did what we had to do to get where we were and apart from a second half against Croatia and the Mexico backs to the wall performance, we were largely relying on the world class Kane and Bellingham to get us to where we got. Southgate got us to a final and a semi. Granted it wasn't great to watch but he did it. I'm no TAA fan but I questioned Tuchel's squad selection pre tournament and I think it bit him in the arse a bit. Sure injuries played a part but come on.... Stones, James, Saka.... all been struggling for fitness. When we lost Tino pre tournament, we called up Chalobah for no reason whatsoever. Waste. And there's the over reliance on Kane when we took two other strikers. Take Watkins and then choose another AM or full back instead of a pointless 3rd striker, especially when Rashford can play there. Sure a Semi seems great, more so if we win on Saturday (we won't), but for me it is smoke and mirrors. The squad selection was unbalanced and tonight, his subs were wrong. Small margins but he was brought in to make a difference. If he stays, we have to win the Euros. Simples as that. (I'm saying this with Booze goggles on, I may re-read in the morning and disagree with myself but right now, it seems accurate.)

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I think this is somewhat valid, but I’d argue that tonight we had easily enough to win this game, in a way that we haven’t in previous generations. I question tuchels squad. I’d have taken palmer, shaw, Bowen & Trent over his picks. But that’s fine. He’s somewhat been vindicated by getting this far. But in isolation, we were way on top until we scored.. then his subs made us worse and worse, culminating in an 8-0-2 formation against a team who have a strong midfield and are scared of pacey counter attacks. For me this is the first time I can look at England and genuinely feel like the players all performed towards their top level. And yet the manager fucked it completely. Before I think the players have underperformed. Tonight the manager cost us.

Also, if you are going to bring on Konsa, why on earth would you take off Gordon, the one player whose pace was causing them issues. The substitutions were effectively self sabotage.

Tuchel was brought in to get this team over the line in big moments, in the big games against the big sides. And he spectacularly failed in ways that were actually worse than Southgate. I know he has claimed he didn't want us to stop attacking, however the message being sent when you put on Konsa to replace Gordon is enough to change the momentum. It was a negative change, switching to 5 at the back. We were already struggling to get out and we just gave them the game at that point. The additional subs thereafter, O'Riley in CM and Burn in as yet another CB were an absolute panicked mess. We couldn't get out, we needed legs, Saka, Rashford - but we got Burn and O'Riley. When you look at that Argentina team, Messi aside, they aren't a France. We didn't need to surrender as we did, and that's exactly what we did. It was the same against Spain when we equalised, it was the same against Croatia in 2018, it was the same against Italy in 2020. Big games, big moments, take your chance and then just stop playing. It's a mentality thing, but the coaching staff have to help with that - and bringing on Dan Burn and Konsa doesn't help with changing that mentality, as that screams ''protect what you have, don't go forward''. The Mexico game will be one of my all time favourite world cup memories I think, but for a tournament as a whole we have been pretty poor I have to say. The Tuchel experiment has failed in my eyes.

Yeah just bizarre, 2 cb and a lb for a attacking rb, cm and a goalscoring lw.

Yep think back 88 euros lost every game, 92 euros went out at group stages didn’t win a game, 94 World Cup didn’t qualify. 2002-2012s “golden generation” never got past the quarter finals yet people are bleating on now like we have some divine right to win every tournament we enter anything less than that is abject failure and “not being very good at football”

It’s hard to attack when the entire team is made up of defenders. Tactics absolutely killed us, as soon as they scored we were totally done for.

O'Hara and Cundy not impressed...!

Players didn’t panic. We had no out ball. No midfield. Suicidal management

Funny how we feel differently I think the team panicked after going 1 0 up and stopped attacking and being aggressive and were not dealing with crosses so he put Konsa on, It got worse so he put other defenders on hoping that we could survive I think he was as surprised as us at the surrender as the plan was to attack not defend after the mid session break We had 11 percent of the ball after we scored

I assume he's the archer replacement.(for whenever we manage to get archer out the door)

Yep. Pretty much sums it up. Been a big fan of football for over 30 years and I don’t remember worse management.

I thought I had seen the worse use of subs ever by Will Still at Blackburn last season ... until tonight!!!

Yes, i agree there. I criticise blackmore on some stuff, but i still respect what he does. The boro lot are only really worthy of contempt/jokes.

Tuechel got done like a kipper by Scaloni tonight, and then gave him a helping hand. Our best chance was keeping full width, moving the ball quickly, getting an early ball into the area, and driving at the six yard box. It was working, and that's where the goal came from. But it seems that Tuechel's plan was to get ahead and hang on - for 60 minutes, if necessary, against that lot FFS. Scaloni had a two-half plan - keep England contained and then strengthen, which he did by pushing two men onto our back four and bringing on de Paul; I couldn't believe de Paul didn't start and knew we were in trouble when he came on. Taking Gordon off was "game over" madness - especially after the part he played when, one man short, we held off the Mexicans. Tuechel took off a wide man with pace and a willingness to track back, leaving us with no effective out ball. Gutless madness.

Someone needs to arrange for tuchel to get an iron cross. That was a sublime effort of self sabotage from his tactical moves. If at first you don't succeed make a second negative double tactical move to ensure you lose.

12% possession and he just kept throwing on defenders until they scored the winner. Then he brought on Rashford and Toney deep into stoppage time.

Tuchel kind of throwing the players under the bus. Suggesting we were already too passive and conceding chances after we scored, so he was forced to make defensive substitutions. Utter BS. They were bound to create more chances as had been forced to get a goal back. But that would leave holes and space to counter in to. Truth is, he blinked first and it cost us big time.

We must have been watching a different game. Argentina have shown time and again that they are a machine. They clearly had a lot more in their locker than we did and were the better team on the night. Yes, the subs and the tactics didn’t help, but we couldn’t match them when they stepped up a gear, and that was clear before we scored.

Nah, nonsense. Tuchel caused it with his negative subs. Could have brought on Rashford and saka on the wings. Could have brought on Mainoo for legs in the middle. Loterally anything than what he did. Cowardly. Embarrassing. Killed us. Has to go.

Yet Tuchel's reaction to the passive collective mindset was to consolidate it with defensive substitutions. Tuchel was culpable and trashed his reputation tonight.

I agree and we have very few world class players who play regularly in the PL and are not carrying an injury