So Saka can switch from RW to LB but Foden fanbois cry when he’s asked to play LW?

This Gomez disrespect needs to be studied. So solid for Liverpool last season and had one of his best seasons I’ve seen from him. Plus you’d have someone hungry to prove themselves as opposed to guaranteed starters who don’t have the same hunger

So playing Trent at RB is a no go cause people (incorrectly) says he sucks at defending but playing Saka at LB is the answer?

PE teacher Southgate converted a Ferrari into a Morris Marina. It's unbelievable 😂

Joe Gomez has left Germany.

If you’ve watched Gomes a left back for Liverpool he is good enough to a job there and he’s actually a defender. Trippier is a full back and a better one than Saka. No manager in world football with this squad would not play Saka at LB. The problems are to do with how the team is set up, Southgate is to blame.

We are so bad, because we didn't have Kalvin Phillips

I'd go home if I was Joe Gomez. What's the point in being "backup LB" if you aren't there to play when the LB is poor/unfit. Gomez actually goes both ways, doesn't cut back on his right every time. Came through at Liverpool as a LB. Its yet another easy decision Gazza has to make but clearly is incapable of doing anything sensible. Get yourself on Holiday Joey G 😂

Saka only works as a left back in a back 5 with Walker as a right sided centre back and Trent on the other side. Otherwise just play Gomez in the back 4.

if you think tripper can’t play LB why do you think a RW who played for at most 4 months as a LWB 5 years ago would do any better 😂😂

Imagine putting Bale at LB after he succesfully converted from LB to RW and becoming Top 3 itw 4 years later just because there are other DECENT players at best

Gomez!? I am so confused. It’s like complaining that no one has a watch while standing under Big Ben.

Just play gomez, saka has been our best attacker other than jude so far

Or... Maybe Joe gomez... Been solid for lfc last season and with him being a natural cb he'd allow walker or Trent to really bomb foward

Nah that’s a stretch Play Gomez. It’s beyond me that we haven’t been doing this all along or at least from the point trippier proved it was too much for him. He has been playing Left back pretty well so far What we can be confident of is that Southgate won’t make any sensible changes

Maybe if they tried Gordon on that side they would be more of a threat down the left. Foden/Trippier is a problem together, unfair to take it all out on Tripps. Foden also drifts inside every single attack

Foden on the left makes sense if your LB is a prime Marcelo. Trippier wasn't really great but he wasn't the problem. Foden is. Play Trippier and Gordon on the left, Saka and Walker seem to be working fine. Palmer is great but he's no Saka, use him as a super sub in case England really needs a goal late on. If your makeshift LB can't overlap, play the LW that prefers dribbling, is direct and can hold the width. If you don't trust Gordon or any Left Winger, switch to a 5-4-1, move walker to CB, play Trent and Saka on either wing as a WB, Rice-Mainoo-Foden midfield and Kane and Jude up top. Saka can play higher up the pitch on the left, Rice and Mainoo are a functional midfield, Trent and Foden can create and Kane and Jude can play in the box. Walker can cover the right whenever Trent drifts in, would fit every player better than the current system. Gordon could sub in case the opposing team has a really weak right sided defence that could exploit.

RORY YOU CANT BE SERIOUS THERE IS JOE FUCKING GOMES WHO PLAYED FOR LIVERPOOL YES LIVERPOOL MOST OF THE SEASON AT LB AND WAS 1 OF OUR BEST 3 PLAYERS OF THE SEASON NOT BRIGHTON NOT CRYSTAL PALACE LIVERPOOL

Why has no one suggested Joe Gomez at LB when he’s played there multiple times for Liverpool?

Saka must DEFINITELY NOT play left back. Play Gomez there he's the only player who actually played there this season and done really well and also added alot going forward its madness he's not playing there for England

JOE GOMEZ

FFS Can we just use an actual LB to play LB please.... Gomez

Sorry but Joe Gomez is WAY WAY better in that and all the other defensive positions. WAY BETTER.

Its crazy not how everyone has forgotten abt joe gomez

Pickford Trent Stones Konsa Walker Mainoo Rice Saka Bellingham Gordon Kane Simple. Good lord. We are trying to shoe horn Palmer and Foden for no reason

Palmer and Kane in the front line. There goes your ability to get in behind

5 at the back. 3 CBs and wing backs

Its not about Trippier himself.. its about Southgate playing him at LB. He's a perfectly competent RB and RWB but very one footed and is being played at LB which is instantly making the pitch smaller as he always needs to turn back on his right foot

It doesn’t matter because it’s coming home! This the team of destiny.

When they said if you throw enough shit they was right this is the first thing Rory's said I agree with

Rory...Foden is not a LW. We need Gordon at LW

Yes, rather than use Gomez who's played all season at LB and been good there let's use Saka who is a RW LMFAO

This whole Saka lb started with Ian wright and the whole country really ran with it. With England it’s always the players not playing that becomes game changer. Now it’s palmer that’s the missing link apparently

Do people actually know why saka at left back was even able to function???

Ben white at home sipping his tea watching England struggle to make it through the euros after everyone criticised him for pulling out of the squad

Glad you also spotted Trippier delaying the pass was why Foden was offside. Everyone has been blaming Foden but it was 100% Trippier's fault cos Foden was on his bike expecting the first time pass

Why did Southgate bring an injured lb 😂😂😂 There was branthwaite, Mitchell and chilwell

Did he just say I feel sorry for Southgate? Not bringing a fit specialist in the LB position is unforgivable

All football fans except England just can't wait to see Switzerland smashing this no chemistry, boring, luck riding team, we all will be there and football will win again.

I’d love to see Mainoo and Eze play..both fearless…and both go forward. Something we lack. Saka doesn’t want to play lb.. so Walker…and put Trent right back.

The Hate for trips is crazy it's just the media and the fan boys giving foden such a let off. KT had an assist but foden couldn't time his run. He's been woeful but a media darling so will be saved from judgment

GK Pickford; RCB Walker, CB Stones, LCB Gomez (or Konsa, if Joe is unavailable); RWB Trent, RCM Mainoo, LCM Rice, LWB Saka; RS Foden, LS Bellingham, CF Kane. Not really that complicated, the issue is Southgate putting all his faith onto Shaw recovery and not taking another left footed LB like Chilwell, who also has experience with the national team.

Palmer was so ineffective when he came on but Chelsea fans are club over Country.

what should have happened is bring a fit LB in the first place. but no saka at lb, if we played a 3/5 at the back then it probably be a shout in a lwb position. gomez for me if shaws not playing

This left side is going to cost England, how the hell Anthony Gordon gets no minutes is beyond me

Southgate should've taken Chilwell and Mitchell instead of Shaw and Trippier.

JOE GOMEZ?.... The guy was great playing there last season how quick people forget H's earnt a shot and he wont disappoint

I never understood why reece james was englands best rb until now

Saka overlapping Foden could be spicy. Foden steps out for that overlap by coming in field anyway...

What is this Saka at left back agenda over Gomes all about. It just doesn't make sense to me. People complain Trent can't defend but want Saka to play left back. Crazy

WTF didn't Southgate take Mitchell who plays every week with Guehi next to him.

people like you and this train of thought is why england have achieved nothing since 1966. playing the counties best winger out of position to accommodate worse players. insane.

How about we try a 3-4-3 formation against Switzerland this Saturday? Gordon Kane Saka Gomez Rice Bellingham Trent Konsa Stones Walker

Go with a 5-2-3 Pickford Saka Konsa Stones Walker Trent Rice Bellingham Saka Kane Palmer What a team of talent. Get Guehi back in after suspension…

Thank you man he’s not the LB limits Foden

What is Rory talking about. "We have no other players that can play left back"........Did Gomes go home?

Southgate knew he did have a fit left back but didn’t call up chilwell or even lampty and now tripper is getting thrown under the bus because he playing out of position

He set up Foden for the offside goal with his left foot.

How about telling foden to not cut in. How about telling trippier to overlap.

Honestly put Gomez at left back, he was solid at lb for Liverpool, from a united fan

Honestly I totally agree dropping trippier I’m a Newcastle fan and I know how poor he has been for a while now he’s getting on so he needs to be dropped, but watch back that offside goal for foden and when you say he delayed it and delayed it to pass it there’s literally nothing more he could of done he had to get a touch on it then he passed it straight away it was foden not holding his run.

Players out of position get understanding, he has defended good, he created fodens offside goal which was England's most incisive attack. Rory thought haarland was a going to flop, he shouldn't be taken seriously with analysis of football, what a moron.

I think Saka at Leftback would free him up to attack more because nowadays a fullback is a winger that tracks back and defends a bit and both our fullbacks have not been very good going forward. I would drop Foden and play Gordon and if I was feeling brave I would drop Kane for Watkins . The other thing is our passing is so slow and laboured

England won that game because Foden was subbed off for Toney. The problem is Foden before Tripper.

agree with the lot Rory but even if shaw starts the game he wont finish it and Saka will end up left back anyway. Just let Saka play left back for the 90+ and bring gordon on the left as well, with is engine he can support saka defensively and the 2 of them attacking any right side in the world is a scary sight to see. Kane lingering between penalty spot and goal to collect the crosses and with belligham crashing the box like he did for Real. Just to add, Mainoo has to play every minute next to rice if bellingham isnt dropping deeper.

That opens up a great space for cole palmer though doesn't it....

Saka is so much better than Palmer at rw we'd be losing something huge there

offside goal is Foden's fault not Trippier's

3 - 4 - 3. Walker / Stones / Konsa - Mainoo/ Rice / Bellingham/ Gordon - Foden / Kane / Palmer

3 at the back, saka n trent as wingbacks.

Gomez or Konsa will start at left-back. Saka only played there because England was losing and needed to score.

How did they not take a healthy left back?

The main issue isnt trippier its southgate

They'll be scapegoating Saka after all this

Poor Keiran. It's not really his fault he has a right foot. But he cannot play there.

Palmer was horrendous when he came on but Chelsea fans are so desperate for him to play just for a storyline lol it’s sad

Saka can’t play left back he hasn’t played the for years. Has to take a risk on shame or play Gomez. Or, and probably better, play wings backs with 3 at the back. Play Trent as rwb and Saka or Gomez at LWB. Saka has been amazing for us in attack and it is the imbalance that is killing the threat he offers.

Chilwell and James are both fit,mand Southgate didnt even consider them. Why?

Saka started at left back for Arsenal

there's no such thing as a lb, you play where you're the best choice for that position & role

Foden still doesn’t work out on the left wing since he constantly wants to come inside to the center

Okay simple issue, if England give Vargas any space england loses.

It doesn't matter who you pick, or what foot Trippier is, the manager is utterly useless and the tactics are non existent.

It doesn´t matter so much who plays where when the team is so static and predictable. Movement is everything.

Saka played RW, LB and RB.

Luke Shaw is on a free holiday

Honestly Ror its hard to defend you when you come out with rubbish like this. Just say Trippier is ineffective at LB and thats it. "0/10" is something a schoolboy would say and even then, would probably have more sense. If you want to be credible and "rate players" then do it properly. Trippier is a premier league footballer mate he isnt you or me..

Maybe play Walker Left back, Trent right back

Is Palmer really the given choice here? Or do you move over Foden to RW and throw in Eze on LW? Eze/Saka on the left could terrorize defences

Saka has only been invisible on the left cause he has a bum behind him who can’t go forward and is providing him nothing. Plus he has Kane who is basically playing a DM and when it’s time to get into the box, he’s not sprinting to get in there so Saka has no one to get the ball to when he actually does. If TAA was playing RB instead of Walker, you would see a very different Saka. Look how well he’s done in the few moments Walker hasn’t been crap going forward. Palmer has *seemingly* (has he - he gave the ball straight to the defenders when there were excellent chances to be created) because the system changed

It’s blow my mind that Southgate only took one LB who was injured. No Tyrick Mitchell, Rico Henry or Lewis Hall. What clueless manager

All this for Switzerland??? No disrespect to the Swiss but come on man

Start Palmer on the right and Saka at left back. Job sorted.

This is classed as harassment of a single player. No talk of other players who have been just as bad. And you said it’s not personal but you do a whole video on him.

He always cuts back to get on the right foot and slows the play down. He has to go

Saka is the best attacker this year for England the most consistent and people want to drop him he should honestly quit England

I mean it's not his fault is it, he's doing a job out of position but we need shaw or someone else in there.

Trippier has been horrible so fare

HAS ANYONE HEARD OF A PLAYER CALLED GOMEZ???? HE PLAYS FOR LIVERPOOL AND HAS WON TGE LEAGUE & CHAMPIONS LEAGUE JUSSAYIN GUYS… OH YH AND HES IN THE ENGLAND SQUAD & HES ON THE BENCH HOPE THIS HELPS FELLAS

What does joe Gomez have to do to get a shout