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I'm proud of the England team. [I Love Real Football]

It hurts but then sh++ happens in life and there are a lot more important things than football.

You can blame the players who missed penalties though you shouldn't. You can blame Southgate for making some wrong calls but that is not the point because the big picture says we did pretty well.

What would you rather have?

Maybe you want an England team that loses 4-1 to an unheralded Germany team? Maybe a team that finishes below Uruguay and Costa Rica in a WC group? In the last Euros, we got knocked out in the quarter finals by Iceland.

The players and the management of this team made tremendous progress. We did better than Germany, France, Belgium and other great powers.

We've got the final and lost by the narrowest possible margin against a strong Italy team at the peak of its powers. The result could very easily have gone the other way too. To be serious contenders means to risk getting hurt. Its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

The performance of the England team was strong and its a young team. Well done for raising the level and for competing so well.

Until next time.

Burnley123
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Human1000 · M
I watched the penalty kicks at the end, and this seems too arbitrary to determine the winner of the entire tournament. Not sure what the solution is. Perhaps it would be cruel to let them play until someone scored.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Human1000 You can't expect people who ran like mad horses for 120 minutes in a row to keep the game up. Making the game last until the first team loses a man due to physical exhaustion/cramps/injuries doesn't seem any better than the pens lottery to me tbh
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Elessar @Human1000

Neither option is good.

I think they should just do it in stats after 120 mins.

Whether it's corners, possession or XG. Whatever.

Without looking, I think Italy would have shaded the stats in this game.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Burnley123

But well, if that was the way to determine the winner you would have faced Spain yesterday and not us, I guess.
Human1000 · M
@Burnley123 Right, but then wouldn't the nature of the play change based on getting those stats? I don't really know the nature of the game to analyze that. I'm analogizing this to American football, but it doesn't have the same issue with tied scores.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Human1000 Its because its a low scoring game. Rugby almost never goes into extra time. There is no ideal way.

It might change the nature of the game a bit though only to create more incentive to attack, which is no bad thing. Goals scored would remain primary.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Elessar Its as I thought. Yes Spain were the better team in general play against you so they would win on this method.

Its not ideal but I think it's more fair than penalties because it at least reflects a teams performance in the match.

I'm English though and we've lost on penalties every time we've been close to winning. 🤣