World Cup Final 2023: England V Spain
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Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
Good
Bit fucking harsh that.
Again, bit harsh. Spain are an excellent footballing side in all areas of the pitch.
Their goalie made an amazing save, and speaking of great saves:
The one she made in the first half was tremendous. What a performance.
England haven’t really been up to playing the best sides off the park, but what they have done at times is use the ball nicely, be cute with it in certain positions, work their arses off, and they absolutely dug in every single fucking time they’ve needed to.
On another day we lose that one 3-0. On another day still, we win it 2-1.
Dunno about anyone else here but that’s the first time in my life I’ve been made to feel proud by our national footballing team.
(Sorry second, after last years Euros)
Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
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Did a meme of my highlight myself too whilst waiting for a goal for our local social media group
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
And Scotland?
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I spent the game getting annoying texts off Liza's sister (who I'm seeing tomorrow, just to make it worse). She's English, but has now lived well over half her years in Barcelona. She was supporting Spain. The cow.
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Starry Wisdom
By no means, she's simply following the auld adage support your local team
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yeah, that save off James was every bit as good as everything Earps did. Both goalies played really well.
James had to come really deep to try to get the ball, which clearly wasn't ideal. But credit to Spain for that. They bossed the midfield.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Nothing much. My wife covers that. I'm not a fan of Scotland even though it's a beautiful country.
Has James ever played centre forward? She's good enough. Seems wasted out there.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
She left a massive hole at right back. It was a bad mistake.
Someone should have been covering her. As I say she's encouraged to get forward. Blame Wiegman then for the formation.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Can anyone explain the tactical formation change? Because it looked to me Lauren James could do what she wanted while we hoped to pump it down the right sometimes to use Kelly's speed.
It wasn't convincing.
It wasn't convincing.
I feel bad for you at how embarrassed you must feel at the poor gamesmanship antics of your chosen adopted side.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
It was a bad team mistake to leave that hole, but it was also an individual mistake by Bronze. If you're going to do a Beckenbauer, you have to get it right or you're in trouble.
I don't want to hang Bronze out here. She is a huge reason why England are reaching major finals in the first place, but she didn't have a good game today. Some important defensive tackles at the end but before that, she gave the ball away a few times.
Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
Toone or Wash, whichever it was, and Daly all ran into positions where Bronze couldn't find them. But you know it's a collective mistake. This team loses together and wins together, no prima donnas here
No England player other than the keeper had a good game
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Are you Alan Hansen in disguise?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Carter had a great game. But that's the problem. The top performances were at the back.
I do actually get mistaken for him now and then
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Who by?
My ex-wives. People in dark rooms. Similar scars. Similar roguish good looks.
Let's talk about the fucking football.
Well, no you're actually wrong about that. They're La Roja.
Spain national football team - Wikipedia
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
So what? I compared it earlier to United V City, with England as United, I'm a United supporter and the GK plays for us too, as well as Zelem and Russo.
Did you see the match? We were outclassed all over (except for in goal and some individual moments), they had a game plan, we seemed to hope throwing players about would help with a formation that did no work v theirs. We relied on individual brilliance, they played as a team. We had some very good individual moments but I struggled to even notice our midfield, forwards being the last line of defence deep in our own half many times.
Unless you think England were awful going in then its a fair comparison, especially in a World Cup Final. Spain were not the incumbent winners, not the favourites going in and they were light on some players, England were too of course but thats even at best.
