First half was excellent. It was looking great.
Then second half they just disappeared. The passing was horrendous. The gap between the forwards to defence and us pinging long balls was mind boggling.
Croatia got stronger. They started to control the midfield. Instead of playing around with the ball, England lost the balance of their side. As much as we say this player didnt do this, and that, you have to look at Southgate too. Unfortuately, it tactically needed changing in terms of the system we used and instead all we did was replace one player for another.
Croatia deserved to win in the end. Yet it feels like a massive chance missed because how many times will we ever get a draw like this?
It feels like a mentality thing. Maybe we just have to accept we dont have that strong, mental approach that other nations seems to display in games like these. To play well, dominate and then just totally lose the physical control of a match against a side who played two extra time games in the last two rounds seems abit strange.
Lets hope we can build on from this and not look back in 10 years on YouTube as one of those great "glorious failures".