Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
What is England's strongest line up?
I can say this as a neutral, that Southgate doesn’t stand a chance with the press in this country. I’ll say my team in a minute and I reckon it picks itself really. But I saw a load of reporters on the Sky sports app yesterday picking their team. They all had some “re-invent the wheel” selections like Wharton in, Konsa in central defence, Drop Foden, (2 weeks ago they were saying he should be picked in Bellingham’s position!) one even mentioned not picking Bellingham ffs!
You can guarantee that if these cunts had the pressure of being in charge, they would play it safe like Southgate sometimes does.anyway.
4-2-3-1
Pickford in goal - horrible cunt, not a great goalie, but he has never let England down.
Walker right back - enough said.
Trippier left back - again solid option with Shaw injured.
Stones and Guehi in central defence. Not a big fan of Guehi from what I’ve seen, but this is a real weak area for England. He’s better than Dunk . I don’t understand why Tomori and Dier haven’t been at least considered for the squad.
2 centre mids. Rice and Mainoo. They will offer a bit of protection to the weak defence, but they’re not defensive midfielders, they can both play a bit and get forward.
3 behind Kane. Foden left, Saka right and Bellingham in the middle. If I was being really ballsy I would consider Eze over Saka on form, but Saka again has never let England down.
Kane upfront. Kane likes to come back and pick up the ball a long way from goal , when he does that Bellingham and even Foden can run into the gap he’s left.
I used to criticise Kane for this, but I’ve watched him live against Italy twice , and he’s fucking brilliant at it to be fair. He’s still a diving fucking baby , but a top top striker.
Easy team to pick if all available.