Euro 2016 Discussion

Thats an awful pass from Kane

Joe Hart, that is awful goalkeeping

Joey hart awful

Oh my word

Hahahahaha! Oh England! Fantastic...never fail to surprise me even more.

Never known defending so sh!te. Though Iceland showed better attacking movement and touches than England have all game.

Poor from Hart. Has to be dropped for the next game.

Haven't had to defend for three games. It was inevitable

Look at all those static England players...move and look for some fecking space you imbeciles!

anyone got a live stream for people abroad?

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all the ones I've tried so far are junk

England certainly rocked here.

Iceland have crossed the halfway line twice and scored...twice!

I won't shed a tear when Hart is finally dropped. Smug git.

Is there a team worse at set pieces than us! Both offensively and defensively.

Butland post euro's

There is so little movement from the midfield I'm not surprised the ball is starting to go long! Say all you like about us having offensive players but the intelligence of them can most certainly be questioned!

So many long balls. Nothing passes.

Iceland are far more intelligent and deft in possession.

Great touch sterling

Blimey ...missed the first ten minutes and wtf ?

I knew the defence was suspect but twice ? Surely with another hour or more England will find a couple more goals : but if they keep letting those in they might need four or five

Better football from England (on the counter!).

Nearly a beautiful Kane volley.

We are 2-1 down and we have 2..JUST 2 players in the box!!! Scandoulous!!

I blame the foreign players taking our places in our teams for less money. Specially those eastern europeans!!!

Sturridge the only dangerous England attacker.

Roy Hodgson has prepared the England team really well for this match.  Only being 2-1 down after 30 minutes against Iceland is some achievement.  Although Iceland has a population smaller than the city of Leicester one shouldn't underestimate the effects of Icelandic root vegetables in putting hairs on the chest.

Apart from Sturridge the whole England team have gone missing! Walker has been atrocious...except the penalty Rooney has been innocuous, Sterling has shown exactly why media & fans were correct and Hodgson wrong. The worst thing though is how poor the movement from those without the ball is in the final 3rd.

Opposition close Wayne down & he's looking average. No surprise

Pondourous! Players just stood there when Hart got that! Iceland had 5 men committed; get the ball out quickly and put some urgency into the attack!

Shocking touch from Kane then!

Smalling should score there

Kane has next to zero confidence. His first touch taking him out of the game.

Iceland fans are amazing.

For all the talk about width...barely used it!! Might as well go diamond now with two up top and get the full backs to bomb on!

Just beyond embarrassing

Hodgson has to roll the dice like he did v Wales.

Get Kane and Sterling off.

Wonder how Lee Dixon - who thought England would win by a few and was more interested in talking about the France game - is feeling?

Well that was ****

Get Rashford on, a young guy with no inhibitions who will just go for it.

Also shoutout to Joe Hart whos had about 3 saves to make in this tournament and made 0

Hammersmith harrier wrote:Get Rashford on, a young guy with no inhibitions who will just go for it.

An 18 year old, playing for England in France, at the last-16 stage of a major tournament?

https://youtu.be/fCynt_cuXw8?t=44m40s

Works for me!

Roy has to go, regardless of the result.

Woy thinks Hart is our best keeper, "head and shoulders" above everyone else.

He rolled the dice because he had too, good managers rarely put themselves into that position let alone twice in a tournament! The man is bang average. For all he has done in terms of getting us playing with the ball more and being more dominant in possession the team have not learnt how to use that possession correct. We are slow and ponderous up top with no tempo or intelligent movement in the final 3rd (that's down to the players as well as management though).

He was fooled into the attacking prowess of the Spurs full backs, completely overlooking their limited defensive abilities.

For all the talk of us stretching the play and using width we have done neither. You have to move the ball a heck of a lot quicker in order to stretch play...and to stretch them out wide you need wingers who will a) beat a man b) not cut back inside every five minutes.

Might as well go to diamond and two up top. Get Sterling off...and Kane. Bring on Vardy...play him and Sturridge up top..Barkley in behind..Alli and Rooney the center pairing and Dier as the holding man. Have Walker and Rose bomb on (no point in them being picked it there not going to do it now)

As easy as it would be to lay into Roy, the players have, to a man, been sh1t

Well and I thought France defense was pants...
Still think England will outscore Iceland in the end.

Rashford, Vardy and Barkley. If this isn't a game for Barkley then don't take him at all.

Squad selection had led us here. Too many players at home who Roy hasn't even given a real chance.

Barkley ain't played in six weeks, doubtful to be on it

Well that was just bloody embarrassing.

After Sterling won the penalty, England didn't do a single thing of note - other than Kane's volley (the only time the Iceland keeper actually had to stretch to get the ball).

Pedestrian, amateurish, predictable...just simply awful. The worst performance since Brazil 2014.

We can't defend set pieces - or in open play, for that matter. Utterly ineffectual when going forward. Can't take set pieces. The only thing we can do is pass from side to side and keep possession.

I'm not even going to bother watching the second half, as England simply have no clue how to break down defensive sides and Iceland can afford to sit back and defend...probably a scenario that was in neither manager's game plan.

What an utter shambles.

Not blaming Roy entirely - our players are so damn slow and pedestrian. Are they tired or just lazy, or do they not actually give a damn? There is just no urgency - except in short bursts. They dither on the ball so long that any attacking opportunities disappear and in fact they usually end up having to pass backwards when they're closed down.

From now on I am officially a Wales fan.

I still think England will turn this around. France will tear us a new a$$hole in the next round, mind.

LiamB wrote:Barkley ain't played in six weeks, doubtful to be on it

Wilshere hasn't played all season and Henderson has been injured for two months. It's about the options we have now, not the decisions Roy made before.

Barkley is a game changer who moves with the ball and has creativity in his game. It might not work, but unlocking teams is kind of what you use him for.

Wilshere played once all season and went! Henderson wasn't entirely fit. I don't think Roy concerns himself with players who have played, form players or fit players to be frank LiamB.

I'd just like to say at this time; Noble and Creswell must be sat smug somewhere. Two players who are far more effective than those picked over them. I don't care that neither have played champions league or international football...they have the ability and more importantly would be delirious and pleased as punch and give everything for that England shirt!

At least Barkley might run at the Iceland defenders, rather than being timid and predictable like Sterling.

45 minutes to save your England career, Roy.

Dier off, Wilshere on - oh Roy. Will the faith in Sterling and Kane never die?

The fact Sterling and Kane are still on the bench tells you all you need to know about Roy and his management skills.

Regardless of outcome both Roy and Rooney can does us a favour and retire after these Euro's (that's not a case of me hating on Rooney because as good as he's been during qualifiers he's done nothing of note for 12 years on the big stage)!