England end up coasting through to the knockout stages of the World Cup, while Wales fans might be wondering why their team was so passive. It's twoht with 16 Conclusions:
9) The third goal was an encapsulation of the risks that Wales had to take once they’d fallen a couple of goals behind. Their initial reaction to this was fairly positive – Daniel James shot a foot wide and Kieffer Moore’s effort took a huge deflection off Harry Maguires’s slab of a head, forcing Jordan Pickford into some acrobatic contortions to pull off an excellent save.
It turned out that bucket hats and vibes alone were not enough to get Wales through the group stages of a World Cup, and it’s not so much that they’re going home after three matches that is the surprise, it’s the way in which they did so. There was a meekness to their performances across all three games which contrasted sharply with the depth of support flowing from the stands.
England can’t win every game 5-0. No-one wins every game 5-0, and if you want an idea of how far Southgate has pushed England, there’s an obvious compare and contrast with the two tournaments prior to him taking charge: failing to progress from a World Cup group for the first time in more than half a century; then being beaten by Iceland for what will now probably forever be their most embarrassing ever result.
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