by Durhamfootman » Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:22 pm
I only got to see the first half, but that sounds like the great train robbery.
I'm trying hard to think of anything more English than going out of a WC at the first KO game on pens, with a player sent off, after a nerve wracking 0-0 to a team ranked 30 or 40 places behind them. Fortunately these are not the men...... the men would have lost that shoot out
I also note that Stanway missed the first pen. Now this seems to happen a lot. the person taking the first one has to stand there for an age whilst the ref talks to the keepers for 10 mins reminding them of what they already know. I can't help but think that the first player up should just stay back with everyone else until the ref has finished with all that malarky. That standing around over the ball for ages just affords the head demons more time to do their worst.
If either Columbia or Jamaica needed a tactical demonstration of how to neutralise England, then they just had one, so Englad will need to sort it out. I have no idea hat happened after half time, but in the first half it looked to me as though England were so worried about Nigeria's counter attack that they didn't dare commit players forward, so England's 3 attackers just got blocked out by NIgeria's 7 defenders. Nigeria always seemed to have 7 players in defence and 7 in attack. They must have had superb fitness to keep that up for the whole game
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