Romania Reaction: Another Underwhelming Win
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🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell welcomes Florence Lloyd-Hughes and David Preece to the show for reaction to England's last warm-up fixture before the belated 2020 European Championships.
It was another 1-0 win and it had plenty more in common with the Austria game as Gareth Southgate selected a side featuring mostly fringe squad players, some who won't make the final 26, but at least one who will. James Ward-Prowse will hope to take the spot vacated by Trent Alexander Arnold but Ben White could be a dark horse with Harry Maguire's fitness still a doubt.
Jack Grealish has started the last two friendlies, providing dynamism and a cutting edge, and he is fancied by some to make the starting XI against Croatia. Sam Johnstone almost certainly won't feature, but he will be a reassuringly solid third choice between the sticks.
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| 0:35.0 | The Athletic The Athletic Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the Athletics England Show. |
| 0:54.7 | We'll be here throughout Euro 2020, bringing you all the latest news of inside from inside the camp every single day with the help of the athletics I'm delighted to be joined by the familiar voice of Florence Lloyd Hughes, as well as a new name on the England show roster, former professional goalkeeper and ongoing northeaster, David Priest. |
| 1:30.3 | It's Sunday night as we record and the final whistle has gone on England's last warm-up game |
| 1:34.6 | against Romania. |
| 1:35.7 | That means, of course, that the phony war is over. |
| 1:38.0 | The next time we see England will be in tournament football. |
| 1:41.3 | We don't know the England 26 man squad just yet, so today is more about |
| 1:44.8 | sentiment. Guys, how optimistic are we about the three lines right now and did the warm-up games |
| 1:50.1 | do their job? Flo, I'll come to you first. What do we reckon? I'm in two minds about it because |
| 1:55.5 | really these games are meaningless, so I'm still very optimistic about England's chances at the Euros. |
| 2:03.4 | I don't think they're going to win it, |
| 2:04.9 | but I think they could get deep into the competition |
| 2:07.9 | and hopefully get to the semi-finals. |
| 2:10.1 | But I have been disappointed with these two games. |
| 2:13.1 | So, yeah, I'm in a bit of a jack-on-hide situation about the whole thing, really. |
| 2:18.0 | David, do you feel similar? Yeah, especially from in a bit of a Jackal and Hyde situation about the whole thing, really. David, do you feel similar? |
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