Damien Delaney
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But he has just resisted all of that.
And he said that Nani Maruake and Rashford and Anthony Gordon, they're my guys because they give me what I want.
We just pace on it.
So he's obviously stood up to that.
He's a strong personality, I would imagine.
He would not be told what to do and when to do it.
And he's had his clear way of doing it.
And I think England could benefit from that.
No, I don't think so.
I don't think they are the great entertainers.
I think that they're more confident in their abilities and they have serious legs in the team.
You look at previous squads under Southgate, it was Maguire and Shaw.
You had to play a certain way to protect certain players.
They didn't want to get exposed.
But you look now, you've got John Stones, Konza, Mark Gahey, you're comfortable pushing your full-backs in.
You know, you want to put your full-backs in, you want to spin one down the side, Ezra Konza's getting there, Mark Gahey's getting there, John Stones is getting there, so we can have a higher position.
Before, when England lost the ball, they just resorted to that flat-back five and the two sixes, Rice and, jeez, the boy at Man City, he's so off the radar now, with Dipswitch.
calvin phillips calvin phillips geez that's how far he's off that's going back about four championships so like it was it was it was calvin phillips and rice and it was just that real solid back seven and it was like right this seven are tasked with not conceding yeah and then we're going to attack with four and we've got harry kane we've got phil foden we've got jack greelish we back ourselves that we're going to create a chance and we'll take it and we'll win one nil and we won't concede goals yeah whereas you know you're
There's no right or wrong way.
You can choose to go that way and that's fine.