I've not had a chance to properly rewatch in full but I share the same view as the one above. What baffles me the most is that we visibly tired against the US, and yet Sampson not only repeated the tactics for Germany, with the same personnel bar two changed of which one was forced on him, but also failed to act when we inevitably began tiring for the second time.
I can understand going about US the way we did because we couldn't have known how physically prepared we were to carry out a game plan like that until we had a go at doing it. But surely seeing it unravel towards the end was something we should have learnt from and carried forward when deciding how to go about Germany. If he was set on repeating the pressing and the personnel then that left only the substitutions to counter tiredness.
His first was Carney for Greenwood in the 70th minute
Germany scored in the 75th minute or there abouts - it wasn't offside
Then the OG happened almost immediately afterwards in the 76th minute
Stoney for Flaherty 79'
German penalty 82'
Kirby for Duggan 82'
Davison for Nobbs 83'
Germany made four subs, and all of them happened before our first.
I can understand going about US the way we did because we couldn't have known how physically prepared we were to carry out a game plan like that until we had a go at doing it. But surely seeing it unravel towards the end was something we should have learnt from and carried forward when deciding how to go about Germany. If he was set on repeating the pressing and the personnel then that left only the substitutions to counter tiredness.
His first was Carney for Greenwood in the 70th minute
Germany scored in the 75th minute or there abouts - it wasn't offside
Then the OG happened almost immediately afterwards in the 76th minute
Stoney for Flaherty 79'
German penalty 82'
Kirby for Duggan 82'
Davison for Nobbs 83'
Germany made four subs, and all of them happened before our first.