Quote Originally Posted by MWM View Post
I called it when he put in Rashford and Sancho in right at the end thinking how dumb it would be to have the first touch of the game be a high pressure PK. That made no sense to me at all.
Quote Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27 View Post
Yeah I didn’t get the PK lineup at all. No reason to put Saka 5th. Not having Sterling take one at all is insane. It was smart to put Rashford and Sancho in there just in case, but not to be automatically in the lineup.
Co-sign. I am not a fan of putting players into the game just to take penalties. I read that Southgate held competitions of sorts in training and he went with the lineup they'd set in advance, but still.