Ollie Watkins

[Demitri_C]

Of course he will be criticised for the miss thats the english media for you. If you want to pkay for england that comes with territory unfortunately

[Dogtanian]

Miss? If you look, the defender kicked it against Ollie’s leg…

[manic-road]

I see the national press are moaning about him, which annoys me, because he got no service.  WE can moan about him because he's ours to moan about, but they can fuck off!!!

Correct, he was isolated for the majority of the match.

[Mister E]

The 'miss' was a result of a bobbly ball and a defender's touch just as he lined it up. I'm sure Saint Harry would have probably skied it too.


Watkins played some nice touches, made some good runs and pressed as well as he normally does. He'd had benefitted from having someone like Maddison on the pitch: our midfield out-ball was to Gordon (who, despite being an unlikeable guy, is a decent player), with Foden hardly seeing anything. But it also needed someone to play the through ball occasionally; something that Watkins thrives on.

[Brazilian Villain]

The 'miss' was a result of a bobbly ball and a defender's touch just as he lined it up. I'm sure Saint Harry would have probably skied it too.

That was my thought on it too.

[amfy]

Jill Scott pointed out at half time that the ball had deflected off the defenders leg just before he hit it.

Overall, no service because everyone wanted to have a go themselves.

His best moments were on the wing when he managed to get the ball across despite some close attention several times, but given that he was supposed to be the centre forward - those came to nothing.

Exactly the opposite of how Unai has had him playing. Ollie said in his pre-match interview that the other England players would need to get used to how he plays. There is absolutely no sign of that yet and with the master tactician Southgate in charge, I wouldn’t be holding my breath for it.

[john e]

End of the day they’re not going to build a team around Ollie Watkins for the way he plays

He’s going to have to make the most of it and fit in where he can, and if his ability doesn’t allow for that he will struggle to make the impact and we want him to have

[aj2k77]

I'd do a Ben White and not bother playing for Wankgate anyway.

[amfy]

End of the day they’re not going to build a team around Ollie Watkins for the way he plays

He’s going to have to make the most of it and fit in where he can, and if his ability doesn’t allow for that he will struggle to make the impact and we want him to have

It not. ‘Building a team around him’ to ask them to pass the ball to the centre forward in the centre forward position.

[Dogtanian]

End of the day they’re not going to build a team around Ollie Watkins for the way he plays

He’s going to have to make the most of it and fit in where he can, and if his ability doesn’t allow for that he will struggle to make the impact and we want him to have

It not. ‘Building a team around him’ to ask them to pass the ball to the centre forward in the centre forward position.

Exactly. I cant remember a single pass to him in the box, whereas shit left-back Chilwell had three blasts from outside it.

[pablo_picasso]

Fuck Southgate & fuck England.

I couldn't give two shits if Watkins didn't perform well for them.

Especially as their manager hasn't got the tactical nouse to change things if Harry Kane isn't dropping deep & creating things for himself because Southgate would rather stick a RB in at the number 10 role than actually utilise the attacking talent that is going to waste under his charge.

Fact is, Watkins & Kane are different types of players & a manager has to be able to adapt to get the best out of one.

Kanes ability to drop deep & create for himself is pretty unique, & desperately needed while that fucking fraud Southgate is in charge. Kanes ability has saved Southgate's job on more than one occasion because without Kane, Southgate has fuck all clue what he is doing.

Especially when all of the other attacking players are all playing for themselves so they can guarantee their seat on the plane to Southgate's next tournament failure.

I have said it before & I will say it again, I hope the horse faced fuckwit stands on some lego.

[Clark W Griswold]

I thought he did well when involved, just wasn’t involved that much as our creativity wasn’t good enough to break down their good defending. Which isn’t always the case with Brazil.

[ChicagoLion]

I thought he did ok, our offensive play was slow and over elaborate at times. They did the low block to counter and it worked a treat.
The quality of the final ball was awful.

[pablo_picasso]

Apologies, I didn't mean that he didn't play well.

Thats poor communication on my part.

I didn't watch the game, so I was just responding to the media response.

So fuck the media, as well as England & Southgate... 😉

[ChicagoLion]

Apologies, I didn't mean that he didn't play well.

Thats poor communication on my part.

I didn't watch the game, so I was just responding to the media response.

So fuck the media, as well as England & Southgate... 😉

He did fine with no service, no chances and was crowded out any time the ball was played anywhere near him.