Originally Posted by FMKK:
“Very frustrating match. England's wastefulness was frustrating but so was Slovakia's negativity. Too many games in this tournament have followed this pattern for me. Lots of negative sides and lots of teams who haven't been good enough at breaking them down. I hope things will open up a bit in the knockout rounds.”
The way to beat teams like that is to put constant pressure on them, we didn't do that though, we just walked around the pitch. Even if you are getting your crosses wrong, you just need to keep putting them in there. We made it far too easy for them to defend.
We looked like we had given up in that second half, they were just walking around.