I can understand dropping Kane because of his obvious injury but Bellingham was on the left side and I knew we were doomed when I saw our shape.

Bellingham was the best player yesterday lol

France has done the same thing England has been trying to emulate. The difference is they didn't lack dynamism in terms of pace out wide on both sides. As England did, albeit down to Southgate's squad selection, but not because England didn't have these types of players at their disposal. They simply didn't start or bring more of them & this is why France, heck even Portugal in the same negative vein of football as France & self imposed dynamic limitations as England with their squad selection. Has been more successful at the type of football England is trying to copy and they have a World Cup & Euros respectively to show for it. Ironically Portugal outplayed France at their own game to deny them Euro 2016. Trying to nick games solely through individual moments of brilliance isn't sustainable because it often gets caught out by the better tactical systems that don't solely rely on magic alone or being solid at the back (parking the bus) & breaking on the counter.

@@mk22vids37 we was all terrible last night including jude. Hes stats are 2 goals in 7 games against minnows with 1 assist, he ran a total of 65km only 2km more than kane 63km who apparently didn't move all tournament. 🤷🏻

Richie was talking out of his arsehole at half time telling us how incredible england are playing! how the are frustrating spain making them make mistakes yadayada. Then full time and they do a 180 and slate england yada yada. Like WTF do we need these clowns and their horseshite opinions that change at the drop of a hat.

highest rated where?? in the premier league top four bubble? 😂 highest rate, my ass.

@@recruitmentchYou need to work on your comprehension. Re-read what he said.

@@troy8613 comprehension? what on earth are you on about, KZfaq comment section Chaucer?

I agree. Although being in the final, this is the bad version of most of the players.

​@@recruitmentchIn the EPL, La Liga & Bundesliga

Good lad Didi !!

Bingo sir, thats easily 60 percent of the reason England lost. Kane was an excellent player, so was I at an amateur level, I could run for 90 minutes and more, but that was 42 years ago. Now if I run its to get to the toilet on time !!!

Sick and tired of the Kane-blaming. Yes he looked a bit laboured but he's a world-class striker. How many times did he receive a pass with his back to the goal? How many times did he drop deep looking for the ball or to help out defensively? The problem, as always, was England's lack of self-belief and midfield creativity.

he's an actual idiot. He had 6 games to change the line up. Foden and Kane have not shown up. This was the easiest decision to make.

If you look at the last final we were in, it wasn't happening for Italy. What did their manager do? Took off their talisman player, made a smart substitution and influenced the game positively. Southgate was never brave enough to make the big call, and when he did, it was never early enough. Respect for sorting out the mess he inherited, but he's taken England as far as he can.

​@@Retrostar619wrong. These players are playing in quality teams with quality coaching. Southgate and his team are nowhere near that standard.

Exactly, he was a total waste of space for 60 minutes. England would have done better with Watkins, who was barely used for the entire tournament. Southgate not using Gordon's pace was diabolical. Palmer was England's best player after coming on.

For a route to the final that was far too easy lets just say they made extremley hard work of it lol😂!!

Kane 3 goals in 7 Bellingham 2 goals in 7 Saka 1 goal in 7 Foden 0 goals in 7 Mainoo 0 goals in 7 Rice 0 goals in 7 Your really blaming kane? Face facts they was all terrible and showed zero unity or passion.

@@adanis0197 Ironic that Kane is joint winner of the Golden Boot, unbelievable!

@thewomble1509 I know, he's had a terrible tournament too but most morons are simply blaming him which is a total joke, the whole team was terrible.

Palmer!

100%

Yes I don't understand this bizarre tactic, leave efficient player on the bench

He's white so he'll never allow it

@@davisonyema8257 best player in the team disgusting

Yeah. Actually even if hé wanted to play the defensive card' shoudve bring Joe Gomez and play 5 at the back. Plus add a midfielder, let Ollie and Palmer upfront and wait to go on additional periods

Thought he'd start Toney or Watkins

Kane has been like this for years. It worked okay with sterling running through on passes from Kane , but now with a stronger midfield Kane dropping into midfield doesn’t work

Agreed completely

I feel like Neville starting out telling the truth but then someone had a word with him. Weird huh? I expect Neville cares far more about his TV hours and his £££/hr on TV that he compromised easily

You should've seen the previous RTÉ panel that they had since the 90s but recently got rid of/retired - John Giles, Eamonn Dunphy and Liam Brady. Old men bring honesty. Now across all channels all pundits are 30/40 something that will only say what benefits themselves professionally in the future.

Yeah as someone else said the old panel was superb. You would have loved it. You got the best more interesting football analysis I've ever seen, with nothing else coming close, and it was funny. Check out this channels collection of some of their clips. John Giles was a gift. A humble old school, no nonsense man that called it like he saw it.

@@user-gh8is1up9m do you have any links mate ? I’ll have a watch

Southgate did a good job in the Finale. The critique is not deserved. Hamann would do better to sometimes shut up. The team is simply not better. Some players are highly overrated.

@@matahari1576 How can you say he did a good job when he picked Harry Kane who ran less than my grandma the past 5 games? That mistake along with many others says he didn't do a good job.

Unfortunately what will likely now happen is England without Southgate will play prettier football but progress not as far. I can't totally explain why but that's my prediction. Hope I'm wrong

You could let Southgate manage a team with the top 11 players in the tournament and they would still,be as inept as England are.The guy is like a web browser with 11 pages open,9 are frozen and he doesn’t know who’s playing the music.

Southgate did well to have Foden man-mark Rodri all the way through the 1st half but that sacrificed Foden's abilities to go forward. Spanish coach saw the problem and substituted Rodri for Zubimendi and asked his keeper to play the long ball. This effectively took out 7 England players from the game because England was set up as 343. It immediately resulted in the a goal right after the 2nd half kickoff. Spain produced a few more chances to score using the long ball approach, which Southgate and the England players failed to deal with. Tactically, Southgate should have reverted to a back 4 to neutralize the long balls and win the 2nd balls. With Rodri out of the game, Foden should also have more freedom to attack but he continued to man-mark Zubimendi instead and continued to play according to Southgate's plan. Southgate is a good manager to have in the dressing room, but not the best when asked to make important decisions that will dictate the game instead of reacting to opponent's tactics.

Southgate is incredibly lucky to have reached 2 finals and 1 WCup semi-final. Incredibly lucky in those 3 draws.

They were always gonna win the group though doesn't matter how bad they were

And first serious team in that World Cup when they reach semi final Croatia they lost ​@@sanmateoflights

Such a tired and thick cliche.

​@@paulearle3780Yet true and nowhere near as tired as England having the best team on paper yet....oh didn't win a sausage.

Palmer

​@@Cheeseerineshe doesn't know football..of cos we all know that's Didi..to the left is Shay Given

Ex Liverpool player and champions league winner.

Yes, surprisingly Didi Hamann speaks much more sense on English television than on German TV

Didi Haman, he's excellent. He was part of a panel that you would have adored. John Giles, Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy were the best football pundits about, and RTE even brought in quality foreign pundits like Didi here. Some of their old clips are up from this same channel, check them out.

Southgate is so lucky to have reached the final with Harry Kane. Kane was a passenger for most of the game.

He is captain. You got to play your captain.

@@sanmateoflightstournament

@@winterbird4447 Erm….no….the only “ have to “ in sport is doing whatever it takes to win. There are no trophies for loyalty to a captain simply because his name is Harry Kane. If he’s having a mare of a tournament then that’s it…he had to be dropped…..end of debate 🤬 . Unless you enjoy finishing second all the time…..?

Yes. Not just England though, although they were the worst.

@@russhouldin5774 It was a very poor tournament and England along with Scotland, in my honest opinion, were the most boring on "show". I thought it was supposed to be entertainment.

@@russhouldin5774 Sure, France started this trend, Netherlands and Belgium also followed. Italy were disappointing as well.

Foden and Bellingham

@@sanmateoflights Jude has been poor but he still scored a clutch goal and made some assists, one more tonight. Foden has been non existent, Kane too.

yeah, many thinks foden is good.... this euro showed he is overated...

@@sanmateoflights At least Bellingham was putting the tackles in and scoring.

Bellingham worked hard but almost to his detriment. Every time he got on the ball he was fucked and made a sloppy pass​@@petrosnemardos

He is a flat-track bully -scores many goals in meaningless games versus inferior opposition. Does nothing in the finals.

@@sanmateoflights Absolutely I agree overrated if you ask me. Word world class gets over used in football. Harry Kane is world class against crap teams & defences soon comes up against th best for club level or country goes missing.

If you’re City manager, in that city team. Are you taking prime Kane or prime Drogba?

@@__meilleur Prime Drogba

Nailed it. Low expectations are your friend English football.

Remember when Steven Gerrard compared Joe Cole to Messi ? This is the prime example of English hype.

@keepitsecret-dl1pr Yes, certainly overestimated. The manager (like all English managers) is hopeless, but they're only good when surrounded by 9 foreigners and a foreign coach. This "coming home" garbage we hear is nonsensical, given true football is rarely, if ever, played by England.

Lol. The pundits on MOTD with Gary Lineker and his cohorts.

England have two world class players. Kane and Bellingham. Two that soon will be world class. Foden and Saka. One consistently good Dm in Rice. And a good Dm pairing in Guehi and Stones. I would add Trent to the list of world class players but I dont know why he has not been playing more for Southgate. Thought he was as good as Mainoo as a midfielder in the euroes too and would have only gotten better as the tournament went on. For Pickford, Shaw, Trippier, Walker this should be the end. Add Maguire to that list.

Typical shift from an England supporter. Before AND during it you would have been saying how amazing Harry Kane is. Pointing to his goals in Germany as proof. Well this is the first time Bayern haven't won the league in 10 years. Now I've seen Harry Kane play enough times over the years to judge him fairly. I've never seen him play any different than he did in this tournament. He strolls around the pitch contributing nothing of value and then ends up in the right position, which is good, with no one marking him, which is bad, and scores a tap in. He can also header a ball. High praise for someone rated as world class. You don't rate a player on easy goals, I don't care how many they score. If for some unexplainable reason they score an ungodly amount of goals despite their lack of talent, then you put them on or put them on the bench. Germany's Muller comes to mind. I heard about this player scoring a crazy amount of goals and looked forward to seeing him play. Years later I'm still waiting for him to do a single thing on the pitch worth talking about. You are part of killing football by hyping these players up.

Spot on been saying this for years 👏 👌

2 euro finals in a row begs otherwise

because you don't understand tactics

@@MikeyJMJrobbed your way to two finals, that England team are likely the worst performing team to ever make it to a Euro final.

This is such lazy nonsense. Like it or not, those are great players. The tactics suck, not the players.

Correct. He’s a loose cannon with not much clue. Watch the analysis on FourFourTwo

@@charlespaynter8987surely he does this with the approval of the coach?

Spot On.

Im English and I don't see the hype about Rice. He does not make any penetrating passes.

Spot on

They do have the players. It’s all about combinations and having a tactically astute manager. England were never going to have the ball against Spain, so they needed to be direct with pace out wide. Should have dropped Kane and Bellingham. Played Watkins, Foden in the 10 or Palmer. Then Eze or Gordon wide.

Rice is a headless chicken no game iq only thing he does good is defending and he's no better that the German dm

Correct

Disgusting giving Gordon 3mins the whole tournament.

Rashford

Correct.

Lamine Yamal was better than Foden for most of the tournament. Just let that sink in - a 16 year-old better than the EPL player of the year.

@@sanmateoflights Exactly haha!

I agree with the arrogance of the English media. When the group stage was over they were crowing about the 'easy' route to the final.

@@sanmateoflights Most of the tournament? Surely all of the tournament!

He spoke so bluntly - this is what the English media need to do. Oh wait, they did - when Lineker said England were shit, then Kane retorted and criticized the media. Look who was right....not Kane.

Really embarrassing to get to a final and literary be the second best team in Europe.

@@tony1kenobi468 literary?

@@danielosullivan7940 holy shit man you got me, totally destroyed me pointing out an autocorrect….

@@tony1kenobi468 glad you’ve learned your lesson… try not to let it happen again 😉

Wrong not over rated underperforming. They still made the final.

@@terrypankhurst7601 Barely - and via a dream route.

@keepitsecret-dl1pr Phil Foden was a ghost all tournament

​@@terrypankhurst7601Wrong, when you perform this way for 60 years it's not am under performance. It's just standard English football culture.

Overrated. Bellingham doing Bellingham things with the G/A absolutely stinking out the pitch and tournament, when he’s not doing start jumps jumping for headers he’s on the floor. Ruiz, Rodri, Olmo, Zubimendi are clear of their midfield counterparts.

Agree mate, we got an aerial put in so can watch southern RTÉ but before really pissed me off

Originally from Dublin, living abroad at the moment. I thought the 6 counties could get RTE coverage wihout an aerial. . We could get BBC Ulster no problem and if I recall when in Wexford, you could get BBC Wales. Correct me if I am wrong

@@davidmartin9879you can get RTE’s Champions League coverage through an aerial in the north of Ireland. However if you try to watch it on Freesat it will be blocked. I assume it is also blocked through Virgin etc.

VPN is your friend.

VPN is your friend.

Ultimately what counts is winning the damn finals. Typical English mentality.

What. You'd bamboozle a team with your posh words.

bang on played like they have never even met before.

THey got to two finals in a row!

Hi Gary . Do agree with u 100 percent. The only time England really played today was for 3 minutes after the equalizer and for 4 mins after they went 2-1 down. Thats 7 minutes in total, what happened to the other 83 ????😅

After england got the equaliser they shld have kicked on then but instead they kept giving the balll away . They needed to keep the ball instead Spain controlled the possession they wer probing eventually its inevitable they wer going to score .Palmer was the star man for england even tho he only came on as a,sub for all the games .Foden is a brilliant player but he was poor this tournament. Watkins n Palmer shld have started for england instead of kane n foden. It's a disgrace gordan barely played came on as a sub in one of the games

​@@user-sj2hi5fn4m Didn't win anything. England were poor in every game.

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They didnt bottle it ,they were no match for spain

Why is Ferdinand even employed as a pundit. He's a disgusting individual. I remember his on-pitch remark a few years back when England got knocked out of a tournament, he flashed a smile and said: well, I'm off to the beach now. He didn't give a f**k. There was all that business with the drugs test too. And he cheated on his wife when she was dying.

Aye, indeed. This hype has been a recurring theme for such a long time. How many 'golden generations' have there been? Put these players together....and it's been underwhelming for decades. The hype, over-expectation and generally awful media pundits (with a few exceptions) makes sure that the same things happen over and over and over again. I would argue that Gareth Southgate has actually done very well to get so far in tournaments.

England never had a chance

Spot on, you’d expect a bit more of objectivity and neutrality, considering that the finalists were two non-Irish European teams. We all know how much of a waste of talent this England team is, so talk more about the winners!

They spoke at length praising Spain, this is simply a clip of the part where they discussed England.

​@@miguelangelgutierrezflorez2574truth allways hurts. Spain won but ye lot were the favourites why is anyone's guess🤭. So they talk about why favourite made a pigs ear of been favourites and been the worse team in the euros.😅😂

Mmm not so sure about that

He won't do that though.

Theres plenty time the world cup qualifiers are two months away😅. Allso we want to know the players the new manager picks for republic of Ireland. So we can hype them up as world class. Or no on second thoughts better not the English tried that but were a laughing stock in the euros. We don't want others laughing at us. If we get to the world cup finals. 😅😂🤣😅😆😁😄😃

The Spanish coach won nothing with a club

​@@marknewbold2583 didn't bobby Robinson win trophy before he was made England manager.

What do you mean??? England have won one trophy, the World Cup in 1966

@@jasonparker346 I’m being sarcastic…

@@ezeee595 Sorry, my bad, I didn’t catch onto that. Maybe I’m still a bit sozzled, yeah that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it😂

Looks like you took those comments serious when Irish people know the pundits are having a laugh. Allso Ireland played every well with out Roy Keane in 2002 world cup tournament.

It was far from one of the worst tournaments ever. In fact, whenever neither England or Scotland were playing, it was mostly great.

Surely not as bad as AudleyHarrison.😂

Southgate didn't "achieve" all that....the PLAYERS did and would have gone further in the competitions with a competent manager, maybe even win them.

Guardiola!