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England clearly had no structured plan on how to manage the game after going one nil up. As a collective the team automatically retreated and all took up defensive duties to try to preserve the one goal lead. It's such a senseless thing to do because we just handed the whole initiative to Argentina and they didn't have to worry about defending themselves. It is baffling how so-called elite footballers can believe this is a tactic that will work. Spain didn't do it against France, they just carried on doing what had given them the lead and ended up scoring another.

Joe Hart praising the Argentina manager for his use of subs 🙂 Come on, England went full on defensive so why wouldn't he just bring on extra forwards and midfielders? It wasn't rocket science Joe!

Someone shut Micah Richards up.

Think Spain will beat Argentina.

Yeah, too much fear. All eleven decided they were going to defend and we weren't brave enough to keep players in their normal positions and give us options to relieve the pressure or even score another goal because the Argies obviously had to throw caution to the wind and would have left gaps - with nobody forward you have no chance of exploiting these gaps.

We'll likely finish 4th which is about right for this team.

Let's face it, this team wouldn't have beaten Spain in the final.

You're mental mate.

Unfortunately when the Argies went behind they decided to start playing football and were deserved winners.

Bring on Burns.

It's down to how much we want it now.

This all day and leads to a goal. Surprise surprise.

You definitely are 🙂

Brilliant is the one thing it is not. We don't need to keep recycling the ball. On the few occasions we've got it down the flanks we've caused them problems and that's the way to go. Keep up the recycling and engage in a midfield battle and that will suit Argentina and they'll eventually nick it.

What a pile of steaming shit. England letting them play the game they want to play. Fucking drive forward and attack them instead of continually recycling the ball. They are there for the taking but only if we play our game and not theirs.