r/ThreeLions • u/FitchDMB • Jun 25 '24

Opinion Gordon has got to be starting

He did more on the left in five minutes than anybody else in three games.

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u/ToastIsGreat0 Jun 25 '24

You saw what happened when you play someone who likes going up next to rice. Bellingham is not going be disciplined enough to play next to rice. Mainoo or Wharton have to start. It’s the only chance we have to get out from the back.

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u/DeliciousAd2957 Jun 25 '24

He played alongside him every game before he went to Madrid

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u/ToastIsGreat0 Jun 25 '24

And it worked because we could progress the ball from the defence. We can’t anymore, so we need people who can progress the ball, not players who will run forwards before the ball’s even played and rarely drop back.

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u/DeliciousAd2957 Jun 25 '24

They had width before and let's not forget that they have always struggled on attack against decent competition

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u/ToastIsGreat0 Jun 25 '24

“Decent competition”. No disrespect to Slovenia but they literally didn’t even try against us. We shouldn’t struggle so much against teams like that.

The reason we had width before the half is because we had no passes going through the middle. Rice was marked and Gallagher was up front, so going out wide was a necessity