Anyone else also think that betting on Euro 2024 looks easy in this first week?
All of the favorite teams from groups A, B, C and D have won and it looks like France and Belgium will also win easily tomorrow.
Idk why but I suspect that we might see many of unpredicted results in the next week.
Definitely this is just a start of the tournament and all the teams have prepared themselves heavily to win. If we look at the fixtures it mostly a pair of favourites and underdogs been paired together and with this been the favourites first game they will like to have a good start. The second match will definitely be a bit challenging and we could see mixed predictions and results, as some nations maybe fighting for their continue participation in the tournament or two of the top nations will be playing against each other.
Honestly I don't really like Trent being played as a defensive midfielder in this match because I think instead of doing a 4-2-3-1 formation for England they would be much more worth it with a 4-3-3 where TAA is placed in a position like he was at Liverpool and Kyle is used as a center back with Stone. It will be much more worth it for TAA who can move freely to overlap and his place can still be filled temporarily for Kyle in anticipation of counter attacks. As for the 3 midfielders they have Foden, Rice and Jude who can be used as a trio which I think is quite worth it. But Southgate doesn't seem to see this situation too much by making some formations that are a little confusing for the players.
This is an unexpected result in the end even though they won but 1 goal is like a condition that does make them require to change the scheme being run now.
I honestly do agree with your that playing Trent Alexander-Arnold in the midfield doesn’t seems fit. The formation had Jude Bellingham on a 10 role and which means all creativity has to come from him, but let’s be honest Jude Bellingham isn’t that creative enough as an attacking midfielder. You can as well suggest the likes of Foden but I still don’t fancy him at all at that position. I will rather have Cole Palmer who holds on to the ball than a player like foden than loves to run towards defenders as a typical winger. Other alternatives could be having Kobbie Mainoo in that midfield, he is by far more composed in the midfield than TAA.
Regarding Walker moving into the central defense I will say it’s a bad idea except you are playing a back 3. Stones doesn’t heads the ball a lot or isn’t that great in aerial battles, having a similar style of player like walker will be setting the team up for potential aerial balls, it’s today that I realized the importance of having Maguire in the team. But for now a regular center back will do.
As for the attack I don’t see the reason to play both saka and foden at the same time, both players prefer to play from the right. Why not use the left wingers with the likes of Eze and Gordon available. This will add more perfection to the team