A few things I'm tempted to say but what's the point? Thank you Gareth for resorting some positivity to the English national football team. A silly game for sure but I love it. Final four at the World Cup in 2018, who'd have thought it?
Our shape has looked great in certain aspects but hasn't looked great when teams counter attack us, which is what Sweden have shown they're good at. We'll still have Sterling and Lingard playing between the lines and we'll be in a better position to create more angles for Trippier to cross for...
I'd swap Alli for Dier to play alongside Henderson. I like Alli but he looked slightly off the space to me last night. It's knockout football, play your defensive players if you need to. We'll be better equipped to deal with Sweden's wide players and it'll give Lingard and Sterling more freedom...
He's not on a wind up, he's just sad as fuck. Check out this.....
And even give up on football. Hahahahaha. The fact we have this affect on people is mental. Get in there
Better team for 90 minutes, kept our heads after they got an equalizer from a corner at the death, did the business in the shoot out. Finally we win a shoot out. What a joy
We need to stop replying to Saltire, he's a sad scottish weirdo who has already admitted he hates england more than he...
Pogba was brilliant offensively and defensively, picked the wrong pass a few times if you want to be overly harsh but 2nd only to Mbappe imo. Such a shame Rojo wiped Mbappe out after that run, that would've been one of the great World Cup goals.
This France side has it all, physicality and...
We watched the same game, you just saw things that weren't there and have made up some weird conspiracy that we were trying to avoid Brazil in the quarters, despite now having a tougher tie in the next round. Welbeck's shot from the corner was going in before Kompany cleared it ffs. Shit games...
You're talking absolute bullshit. Martinez brought Kompany on with 20 minutes to go. A model professional and one of the best defenders in the world. You think it was Kompany's aim to let the opposition score?
Belgium's second string was better than ours, both managers didn't see the need in...
Wait, you actually think the players lost the game on purpose? Rashford isn't going to miss on purpose and miss the opportunity of scoring a World Cup goal.
Southgate didn't tell them to lose, he'd want the players to play well and win to keep the positivity going. We've not won a knock out...
You're reading too much into it, Rashford scores that sitter then we top the group. Both managers took the opportunity to rest key players and give some game time to players who will be needed if we go further into the competition, who can blame them? A fresh squad is important and there's no...
Bringing on Welbeck instead of Kane showed that we were more concerned with fitness than avoiding Colombia. We'll see if it pays off on Tuesday. Colombia looked great Poland but didn't impress me against Senegal earlier.
None of the players who started tonight will have given Southgate a...
Belgium have done exactly the same. I'd say our line up looks stronger on paper.
Courtois, Dendoncker, Boyata, Vermaelen, Chadli, Dembélé, Fellaini, Tielemans, T. Hazard, Januzaj, Batshuayi