Smallen Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 I don’t think we played defensively to be fair. The lineup certainly wasn’t defensive. We just didn’t look like we knew what we were doing in build up and ended up knocking it between the defenders. I really like Declan Rice and he has all the attributes, but he needs some serious coaching. Clearly not used to playing in a possession side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pukey Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Coulthard's Jaw said: I don't mind taking a defensive approach, but we weren't very good at it! Allowing your opponent to have several good chances isn't great. I've been critical of the performance yesterday but USA did not have "several good chances" at all. There was the McKennie chance and that's it. Yeah, Pulisic hit the bar but it wasn't exactly a big chance was it? Outside those two incidents I genuinely don't remember anything else they did apart from a few corners that if Maguire didn't nick away we might have had a problem. It was mainly offensively we were dismal last night. USA had too much control for most of the first half too but they weren't creating loads of chances during that time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomyorkessoul Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Rob1981 said: I don't think we "wrote off two points" at all. We set up with a more defensive mindset, and still had few decent sniffs of goal in the first half. You had one half chance in first half stoppage time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunmaN1905 Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 24 minutes ago, Pukey said: I've been critical of the performance yesterday but USA did not have "several good chances" at all. There was the McKennie chance and that's it. Yeah, Pulisic hit the bar but it wasn't exactly a big chance was it? Outside those two incidents I genuinely don't remember anything else they did apart from a few corners that if Maguire didn't nick away we might have had a problem. It was mainly offensively we were dismal last night. USA had too much control for most of the first half too but they weren't creating loads of chances during that time. They didn't have the chances just because their wingers don't have enough quality. They had like half a dozen situations with one good pass away from a great scoring chance. Give those same spaces to France and it's game over before the half. I can't see Southgate not going with back 3 against top teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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