Analysis of England's Football Performance

I spent five years of my life in England, I love English football,

I have a lot of respect for English football, obviously you know I love you all

very much, so

I'm going to say a couple things now that maybe you're not going to like too much,

but they're harsh realities.

In this tournament,

what would you guys say was your staple game?

That's England's performance, that's who we are, you didn't have one.

What was the biggest span of moments, the best span of moments,

all 30 minutes of staying pressure that you put on another team?

None, you don't have any.

I think you were very fortunate to get to the semi final,

very fortunate by the way to be in this game as late as you were,

because I thought once

you went down 1 0 it was clear that Argentina had everything more than you guys.

Went down or went up 1 0?

When you guys went up 1 0,

you guys just disappeared off the face of the pitch,

and Argentina hit the post three times,

Pickford took two or three out that should have been goals,

look, and there was a big gap, and it was an obvious gap.

There's no mystery why England has one World Cup in 1966

and zero European Championships. There's no mystery to it.

They're missing something that's fundamental in the game that Argentina have,

that Germany have, that Brazil have.

that Italy have, even though I know they're not here, fine.

I don't want to go too far. I don't want to rub salt in wounds.

But for the talents that

you have and the investments that you make in football,

to only have one World Cup in 1966 is something is missing. It's not tuccal.

It's not a play that happened in today's game.

It's not harmonious or not harmonious.

There's something fundamental missing in English football.

Bravery. Might as well just have bravery. We call it street smarts.

We call it street smarts. We call it bravery. We call it different things.

I think we kind of say it when we say Messi's getting on the

ball in that tough moment. Greta, it's bravery. We don't have enough players.

Take Jude Bale and them out of it.

I think we don't have enough players to be brave in that moment.

That's the reality of it.

It's happened for all the youth levels and stuff.

It goes on like that. And when you get to these moments, we've seen it before.

You say you haven't seen a typical England performance? That was it today.

That was a typical England performance. Did OK. Get 1 0 up.

We feel like we should be more brave.

Then all of a sudden we go super negative, very negative.

You can feel it coming, and it comes.