That Mainoo Apology 🤣🤣🤝🏿

Depay was the worst player on the pitch until he was subbed off. Heavy touches, wrong off-ball movement. He didn't look happy all game.

Netherlands midfield was completely useless in the first half, they weren't even trying to close down space. We didn't even change our general strategy following the Switzerland game, Netherlands just played into it like idiots.

Anywhere else on the pitch that’s a foul in my mind. I can see why people don’t think it’s a penalty, but if you make contact with studs up like that you’re likely to be concede a foul.

Let’s just be honest…. This match was to decide who will be beaten by Spain. 😢

Watkins and Palmer are both really quick-thinking players.

Smth worth mentioning is the loss of depay. When Netherlands were in possession, depay would drop into midfield providing an extra man in midfield and also creating space in behind for malen and gakpo. This actually lead to the first goal if u play it back. But after depays injury koeman subbed on veerman, but I thought it should've been zirkzee cuz he can play that role pretty well and it wouldn't disruption Netherlands (imo) clever attacking play. They may have scored a goal or 2 imo.

A commonality in this was depay just chilling most of the first half, even when the person marking him went to help with the attack...

Fantastic video

Only in the 1st half the English were dominating because the Dutch didn't stick to their task and stood tactically not correct in the field. In the 2nd half the Dutch players stood a lot better and all the sudden the English didn't dominate anymore. Just the Dutch biggest problem during the entire tournament is Koeman who kept his best players on the bench. Too much faith in the "establishment". He should also have kept Malen in the field and have played with Brobbey instead of Weghorst because now the Dutch lacked speed on the midfield while Weghorst despite playing well was ineffective as he mostly stood in midfield. I am sure the Dutch were able to beat England last night when Watkins didn't made that splendid goal in the last minute. I am sure they would have done with the right players who were all available but never given time to play.... When England play like in the first half they will have a chance against Spain since they have difficulties playing under pressure, but no team can play like this for 90min, so i am afraid England will be facing what the Dutch have suffered from since 1974....(except for '88) ...the never winning a final syndrome.

The problem is for all our industry and dominance in the 1st half we could have very easily gone in 1-0 down at half time. Kane needs to sit the final out

Great analysis. I so wish the BBC pundits could explain the tactics like this.

Can you please analyze Uruguay vs Columbia? Kinda curious on how score stays the same and if there's any difference in strategies compared to their previous games respectively

That 2nd goal. Mainoo block / intercept, Palmer gets it and Watkins goal one for ages.

Garet finally found his best formation. Remind me again how many matches he's needed to achieve this? He certainly arrived here without a clue.

Great fair analysis as always.💯 Thinking 3-1 win for Spain in the Final 🇪🇦🏆 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 I just think they have more goals in them and might be just too much to handle for England in the first half, so maybe 2-0 Spain before the 60 minute mark...

It's laudable that the english federation had assigned the tean manager work for a borderliner person. Very inclusive initiative.

I don't much time to watch football these days (timezone means most games are between 1am-7am for me) and with many of the games behind subscriptions I haven't watched football in a long time. Around 2015-2018 when I did regularly watch football, this would never have been called a penalty. Both players are going for the ball - the attacker has the right to follow through and the defender has the right to try block it. Collision is an expected part of the game and if it was the defender volleying that, it would never have been a foul. Plus, if Kane was as injured as all his rolling around suggested, he wouldn't have been able to walk/run normally and take the penalty.

It's interesting that Spain has not played against a back 5 yet in this tournament. Most of Nico's and Yamal's success on the flanks came from effectively stretching the defensive line of a back 4. This being said, I am not so dismissive about England's chances in the final

Netherlands shouldve swapped Depay with Zirkzee who couldve solved their issues in the first half

Didn't you see Mainoo vs Brazil? Very good with Rice

Before this match a late challenge is a foul. After this match it's a robbery to award a foul. More reason why I'm supporting the villains of football. Cam on Engerland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I am not English, but it seems to me that if they would have a coach like Pep Guardiola, they would be a serious contender to become World Champion. I think it is almost a disgrace to play so defensive if you have so much quality in your team.

Re the pen. Just because the striker gets a shot away, does the defender get a free hit on the attacker?

playing a team that refuses to move helped

Kane constantly dropping deep pulled De Vrij out of position many times as well. Foden and Belingham could've used those spaces created.

When Brobbey and Zirkzee entered the game I tought I was watching Disney's Lord of The Rings not football game.

Felt like Netherlands was never attacking with enough players, while England couldn't figure out how to break through Netherlands defense but at least they kept possession. So the game was quite slow but not bad

Southgate should have reacted better and quicker to the change that Koeman made, which shut England down second half. Again he waited until the last 10 to make the subs when he should have done it earlier.

No reason to be complacent as Spanish. This England team deserves the very best version of any opponent.

Mainoo is the Real Deal. We are witnessing the birth of a Legend.

By the rules it was a penalty, if we are going by what the rules should be then a sliver of Saka's shoulder should not have made him offside for the disallowed goal.

I wanted shaw to start the full game against netherlands because of his performance against switzaland

So happy to see England using the 3-box-3 formation. Low key genius to be using wingbacks instead of wingers (albeit, very aggressively). This hybrid formation actually deserves more praise.

4:39 the coach was really strict. Some England player get yellow cards by just touching the players not even a push but a simple touch

england may close down the center and leave the flank to spain. I think southgate would use 3-5-2 formation, with kane and watkin up front. Their defensive will be 5-4-1 with kane drop deep.

Helps when you have 12 players on the pitch too.

Harry Kane is a great player but the only times England's attacking line has looked dangerous and really upset opposition defences has been when Ivan Toni or Watkins has come on and actually offered the run in behind and caused opposition defences to sit deeper and England to play the game in the opposition half instead of on the edge of our own 18yd line!

Koeman < Southgate 😂😂😂

My own view is that the biggest stroke of good fortune that went England's way was Denmark not beating us when they had the chance too...This was massively important in terms of draw placement...By not losing a game when they deserved nothing from it inc the draw that they got...it was the Danes who blew a chance right there to advance in a good part of the draw...

Because of Zwayer

A late challenge is a foul

Referee man of the match

2 minutes left on the clock?? it was the 91st minute, and there were 5 minutes added on

if they beat spain that would be crazy...prob not tho they are doing ok but not on spain level

It would be so ironic for England to play their best game in this tournament and be knocked out by Netherlands. But something finally clicked ;)

Also it was not penalty because it was handboll on a english player (Saka?) just before leading up to the situation.

"By that time Kane had already kicked the ball" Not relevant. A common misunderstanding. It's no different from a contact foul anywhere on the pitch. We don't say, "Well, he'd already passed the ball by the time the contact was made, so no foul". The referee can choose to play advantage, or to call the foul. In this case, there was no advantage (no goal resulted), so the ref (or more correctly the VAR team and THEN the ref) called the foul.

Discussion for kanes foul in the penalty area?

So I’m a VERY casual watcher of football and tend to only watch intentionals these days so correct me if I chat shit here, but I can’t help but feel like the way Kane keeps dropping super deep is choking us out offensively as it limits our outlets. Like he’s meant to be up top but when he loses confidence in the team he drops further and further back meaning we have to rely on our wings more, completely eliminating a third of the pitch as an option of play, it’s why I’ve loved seeing Watkins come on for the team as even before NED he was creating a lot of attacking pressure with runs. Am I wrong for thinking this or?

The penalty was 100% correct. There's no logical reasoning that supports the idea of thrusting your leg forwards studs-up to stop a ball. Normally to block a shot you'd make yourself as wide as possible, not do a flying kick at the striker! Once you see it, it cannot be unseen: The defender very clearly was aiming at Kane, not the ball. At best it was a reckless moment of poor judgement; But more realistically it was a moment of anger and panic. Congratulations to the referee, it was a tricky one but he made the correct call. It was a penalty, without a doubt.

Easy to go gangster on a Dutch team at its lowest ebb, in its first semi-final appearance since 2014. Spain is another matter eh.

Nothing to do with tactics the players had good fitness for this game simple

Not a penalty, that slo-mo video replay provided by the VAR to the Ref was highly deceptive, as with any other VAR replay reviews.

They gave a similar pen in the first game for Germany against Scotland.

Spot on about the Man Utd hype

Final's score : England -2 , 1 - France

3:32 You doubted Mainoo?🤨. Wild, the kid is incredibly talented. Very clear to see. He'll be one of the best midfielders of his generation

I don't think there was some great master plan it was mostly players like Foden especially, ignoring Southgate and playing to his comfort. Bellingham is still utilized poorly, he's probably their best at controlling the tempo but he's given shackles..hes a better tackler than Rice and really great with long passes. Rice would be better utilized further forward

It was a penalty all day. Late tackle with studs up, nowhere near the ball

Don't think it was a penalty too. Sane reasons

Put gordon on LM instead of tripper

All these analysis seem to rely on players not being able to go one-on-one with the defender. Twenty minutes is spent passing the ball from left to right, right to left, left to right, back to the goal keeper rinse and repeat. If one attacking player, runs at the defender and gets passed them, it opens up the entire defence. Although Kane has no dribbling skills and is slow, Bellingham, Saka, Foden and Palmer when he is playing have ball skills and Walker's speed should see him attack down the wing. The second half England had possession but in their own half, aimless side to side passing the Netherland defence could have been reading a book it was unthreatening. Triangle passes can cut through a defence but there just seems a total reluctance to take people on. The Netherlands were just not that good, and yet second-half England made them look better than they were.

bazinga!

4 3 England chaos win game of tournament because Spain won't sit in low block

the english tactic made no sense at all, they had both bellingham kane and foden up front when none of them look to threaten the box, he had saka and trippier hold the width like wing back and it was soooo dumb, they were playing on their weaker foot so they couldnt make any dangerous cross from the byline, and saka is used to invert and move into the pocket where foden was the entire time. Somehow kyle walker was a beast and both overlapped saka while playing as a CB which is incredibly risky, and he managed to stop threats coming from his side, what a beast. Also I'm not sure rice and mainoo make a good double pivot, I'm not sure they have the passing range and skills to break the opposition's defense, although this might be wrong because even if they had a good passing range, they still had no options up top to be on the end of through balls.

Was it a pen? Let's be honest - anywhere else on the pitch that's a foul and a yellow card. I've rarely seen one of these given in the box , so yes, it was a surprise it was given, but they should be.

Foden in the first half was on fire. He’s been getting so much disrespect

Negative little kids saying “this match was to decide the team Spain win against” what? You act as if Spain are a god squad with 0 flaws in the team England have way better squad depth and can utilise that not to mention the subs England have compared to Spain

in short: England was exquisitely falling every milisecond and the ref couldn’t look through it 😂 dutch was shit but it was boring to watch when half of the game was put on halt because of English players on the ground every second

that was not a penalty at all its so bad

Why was that a penalty!!??

English or Spanish

Biased ref not England.

It really doesn’t matter because we know Spain are destined to take the crown

'Man United hype' - there's no such thing. Manchester United fans know what they're talking about.

Absolutely a penalty. It was a high boot with studs showing. The defender was not just blocking the shot - he knew Kane would be forced to kick his foot with the follow through. We've all been there. He knew exactly what he was doing. Had he moved his foot back a few inches it would be ok but he put his foot in a dangerous position causing dangerous play. It would have been a free kick anywhere else on the pitch so it must be here too.

Dude what u mean man utd hype. It your job to analyse players and matches right? so watch his matches and there you can see yourself if he is class or not.

Holland?

The luck of the Irish? ☘️How about the luck of the English this Euros 😂⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Spain -ENG 12-0. :D

England 1 Spain 1. England 7-6 on pens. Football finally goes “home”, to ENGLAND 🎉

Because the ref match fixed quite a simple answer really.

Spain are human too...they're not invincible...

Saka hand ball

england was not better the referee fucked it up!

Time to renew the Dutch national team. Apart from Schouten and Gakpo, they should all be replaced. Even van Dijk is useless these days. He only knows how to pass the ball sideways or backwards.And how on earth can you win, if your star player is a total disaster and only interested in his looks and image. There are a lot of great young players in the Netherlands, you just have to find them and give them a chance.

you said with the penalty, Kane's 'chance had already gone' - i disagree. Dumfries kicking him meant Kane couldn't completely follow through with his shot, which could have affected the power and direction of the shot. Basically, you're not English so you're biased.

ohh dear ...yiu just proves very off it calling the kobbie praise united hype. you must be a Liverpool fan. yiu probably then do have an unbiased research of football... Kobbie has been amn of the match against Liverpool and City in high stake finals.. to beat a midfield with Rodri is no simple job more over at 19. Liverpool has never developed a player like this in 20yrs not even arsenal can claim that too

Spain 7-1 England

"Much better?" What

Spain to win

Bye bye lol

You dont know anything

Spain 4-0 i want justice to be served

VAN DYKE "that's not a Penalty" ; REFEREE '' It's not me, it'S the VAR'' ;-- VAR ''Very Arrogant Referee''

Take Kane off for England to win

Analysing a fixed match like it was real 😂😂😂😂😂

Spain eliminated Germany, and France and also defeated defending champions Italy and someone somewhere thinks England stands a chance against them. Sorry to say but England will lose to Spain.

No reason to be complacent as Spanish. This England team deserves the very best version of any opponent.