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Does it matter how England play if they win?

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Analyzing England's Tactical and Chemistry Issues

Exploring the debate on whether England's struggles are tactical or chemistry-related, with a focus on the upcoming match against Slovakia and the importance of resolving tactical issues.

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Yeah, it's a really good question, isn't it? Is the problem just like a sum of all the tactical issues with the team? Or is it some kind of fundamental issue of chemistry? Because my sense that the chemistry is actually pretty good. Like I think the England players are pretty happy. I think I think the spirit will massively improve by this result. I don't think they're I don't think they're hating life in Blankenheim at all. But I think that there's like a long list of tactical problems. And these tactical problems make it look as if the chemistry is really off. Like we talked about the bad body language yesterday, players shouting at each other, players shrugging at each other. They're going to have to solve those tactical problems over the course of the week because those tactical problems are going to be exploited far more effectively by Switzerland, by Slovakia. Like Slovakia was so close to beating us yesterday. And it's not even just about 1 -0, like they had that, that's a good chance in the first half, they had that long range lob over Pickford after that quick free kick, which is about a yard or two away from winning to the game for them to know, seeing could easily have lost and now they're going to be coming up against a team who is more experienced, got more technical ability in the team, probably bit more confidence in Slovakia had. So yeah, I I do, I do think that you need, obviously need togetherness to win a tournament. Maybe England do have that but I also think they've
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got a long list of fires that they need to put out. For sure. Well, let's see what happens. As England take on Switzerland in the next round of the Euros, Jack Jacob, thank you so much for your time. Don't forget to rate and review the podcast. We've also got post -match reaction from the Totally Football Show and also the Daily Football Briefing is there every morning for a bite -sized round -up of all the day's news. Thank you so much for listening. We're back tomorrow.
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