they didn't give loads of opportunities up in any game though. The penalties are a result of cheating to avoid giving up good chances. add in Kanes 1-vs-1 and maguires header and there are 5 great opportunities as well as some decent edge of the box ones.
Those aren't great opportunities. You can't just rely on penalties during the game.
penalties are the result of the opposition cheating, we weren't 'relying on penalties', France were conceding them because we were creating good opportunities. It's out of our control how france react when we get behind them or run into their box
simply not true. the results might not have gone our way, but those games were played in phases. Italy we started off well, they reacted and took control, then we reacted well and it became a stalemate.
The 2 penalties didn't come from good opportunities. It came from ridiculous defending.
Kane's 1 on 1 was the only realistic chance we created from open play in the entire game (and due to the angle it was still a low xG). Maguire's wasn't a good chance. It nearly went in but you wouldn't expect to score from there, he was quite far out. Penalties aren't always by definition from cheating. The 1st was good play from Saka dribbling and a mistimed tackle. The 2nd one was just stupidity. I would agree it would be cheating if you take the man down to stop a clear opportunity but neither was that scenario. Good play by saka, dumb play by Hernandez.
Saka nearly getting on the end of the cross was a good opportunity
it’s interesting you use that stat to say Italy were bad, because they had gone pretty long without losing in the run up to the euros and then remained undefeated through the competition
rediculous defending comes from defences that are stretched. Mount just needed a toe or a forehead on the ball and it's heading at goal. Saka had sucked about 3 or 4 french defenders towards him, just needed to lay it off, the Kane one that perplexingly wasn't given he was driving in from the side of the 18 with an option to shoot or pull back.
Hernandez was wrong side of Mount and barged through him, because he only needed a touch and was a shot on target from the centre of the box. This is where the ball landed, toe poke and it's in. You can call it stupid or the dark arts. He cheated and got away with it. Should have been a red.
Because mount wasn’t in control of the ball it isn’t a red
there is no rule that says a player must be in control of the ball, especially as he is running onto a through ball.
Watch it from the side. There is zero chance of him getting to it. The ball is moving way faster than he is and it overtakes him about 16 yards out and bounces at about 8 yards (and Mount wasn't even running in the same direction as the ball). It is about 6 ft above his head at the time the foul is made. He isn't running 8 yards in half a second. That's faster than Usain Bolt at his peak speed.
That's a screenshot of the incident.
