FFS no need to be an arrogant twat. Facts are it is 2-1, if they had have won it would be 2-2. To say we were certain to lose the 5th test is ludicrious to say the least.
In 2019 the team got beaten at Headingly by Stokes. It would have been a complete confidence disaster. Especially with knocking them over for 67 in the first innings and having them 2 for not much in the second chasing 330 odd. Next test we completely smash them and go 2-1 up, over celebrate and let England win the dead rubber.
You are just concern trolling painting a linear conclusion from one test to another. We could easily have been 3-0 coming in to Manchester, were only beaten by a couple of wickets so they outplayed us in 1 out of four games.
In 50 years of watching test cricket I have seen teams get smashed by an inning in a test and bounce back in the next. I don't know how much you have watched but you seem to panick pretty easily.
Every test is different different pitch, different conditions different mindset. The English might be deflated as they can't win, the Australians really want to change the 2019 result in the final test. You write off the Australians when they are WTC's and have been the best test nation over two years.
Like these current bazball 'enthusiasts', I suggest you may want to learn from 146 years of test history, and realise that things are not linear and things change.
England may well win at the Oval, but what has happened in the past does not make it a fait accompli for the future. Extrapolation and straw man arguments, what ifs, what abouts, coulda, woulda, shoulda's are not the basis for sensible an deep analysis
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