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Steven Caulker
He isn’t the only English player to be playing too conservatively with their passing…it is prevalent throughout the squad.When Spence joined I felt sorry for him - hung out to dry as an unwanted "club buy". At his best he is great, but his dissing of Thomas Frank put a question mark in my mind. If the score was still 0-1 when he played the ball backwards and provoked Tuchel's ire, I can understand him playing safety first and not wanting to lose possession. I think Tuchel will need him at some stage of the game in Mexico.
Too many players are playing league-football instead of tournament-football. You can see the pressure on them to not f***-up as opposed to taking higher-risk chances. If we are to progress much further we need to make vertical and diagonal passes a lot quicker before the opposition can settle into their defensive schemes.