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Anybody heard owt about whether Colclough is back in fine fettle? He had a nasty injury and also missed the celebrations.

You're dead right, just because Trent Alexander Arnold has successfully played in midfield for his club means nothing if at international level the idea is still at experimental level. Again as you noted, Trent is only an asset if he can hit runners. For Liverpool he has options galore to pass short or long, but we have our defence and midfield all trying to stand on the same blade of grass.
I'm expecting him to play an unfit Shaw tonight, but what's the point if he's going to be off pace? We definitely need an outlet on the left but is Shaw the answer? We only have Shaw, Trippier and Joe Gomez who can play left back and one won't overlap, another is coming back to fitness and Joe Gomez is more of a stay at home full back or centre back.
I'm not a big watcher of the premier league so you'll probably know better than me, but surely we have a decent left back other than an unfit Shaw.
The tactics for the last two games was to not lose. We are lucky to have four points because both of our previous opponents have had more endeavour than us.
Oh am I looking forward to seeing some Cookball, starting at Matlock accompanied by the wife, so that day will be high on spending 😂.

I?d made my mind up on Dean Saunders before he managed his first game for us. Doesn?t necessarily make people wrong for having that view. Previously I thought people had been too harsh on Southgate, now the scales have fallen from my eyes. Tactically he is a League 1 manager, he has a wealth of world-class attacking option at his disposal and is making them look turgid and uncreative. What is our actual game plan? Why are our central midfielders sat on our centre halves? toes? Why is Trent in CM when we have little pace up front to hit with his typically excellent balls over the top? In fact, why is Trent in midfield at all? We are experimenting in central midfield two games deep into a tournament. We brought an injured left back and stuck a right back at left back who has no intention of overlapping with Foden in front of him who wants to be in the middle of the pitch. These things cant solely be attributed to poor player performance, these are basic tactical failings. Southgate and his staff have an almost endless amount of time to think about how we are going to line up, how we are going to play, how the opposition are likely going to line up etc and this has resulted in the two performances we?ve seen thus far which have been dire.

Remember seeing a very young Phil Foden for City,s under 21,s.
He was pretty impressive even then