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Looking forward to this. Pitch looks shocking. My wife was saying Dublin was just wibbling nonsense. Only then did I realize I think I just unconsciously tune him out.

Joe Cole sounded good there from the bits I caught. Great hat too

Also, I really want to be excited about tonight but ehhh. Will watch it anyway,

I thought Pickford was incredibly impressive on the ground last Friday. I don’t think I’d have Maddison in my first XI. Him, Saka and Foden on the pitch together seems like one too many, but it would be interesting. My concern would be that you could end up with Bellingham, Foden, Kane and Maddison all trying to be in the same place. If you could make it work it would be amazing though.

I’m fine with them being at the Euros, just don’t start the fuckers. Bring Henderson on to shut up shop near the end and bring Rashford on to scare the living daylights out of teams with tired legs.

TAA has spent the last 10 minutes just wandering about tbf.

Couple of really nice bits of tight control and touches. They both have a lot to offer in different ways. I’d be tempted to have them both in the squad.

That was such a lovely cross field ball from Foden to Rice at the beginning of that move. Honestly, Rice and Bellingham in the same midfield is tasty as fuck. If we could get the CBs right we could be really bloody good.

Oh yeah totally, but I was concerned that he just wouldn’t know where to be or where to go. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. He’s not as obviously dynamic as Rice but has usually made himself available at the right times. He’s very languid in general which doesn’t help his optics.

Fuck, wish we had the Italy game on now.

I’d like to say that one thing we have learned from this is that Henderson shouldn’t be starting but…we knew that already. Maybe he’ll not start Rashford either.

Actually I think he’s been very good in this second half. Rice seems to dovetail well with him.

And that.

What a fucking goal that is.

We do seem a little more urgent and zippy.

Better build-up play. Rice inspires far more confidence than Henderson and seems to give the others more freedom.

Can’t make up my mind on TAA in this position. Some nice touches, I think his positioning has been pretty good, distribution ranges from sublime to ridiculous.

Cole Palmer’s hair takes me right back to Amish Country in Ohio.

Watching Rashford every week must be incredibly frustrating

I was quite looking forward to this, but Jesus.

I hate this bullshit timewasting over the goal kicks. Sheffield United did it as well. They want to play it short, we push on to box them in and then they just stand there wasting time hoping we just…get bored and move away? Heckingbotham basically said “we weren’t wasting time, actually we wanted to play it short and they weren’t letting us.” Right. So fucking get on with it.

Think the ref’s done well in general.

It’s one of those quintessential European ref decisions where they make a very predictable guess and it’s just completely wrong.

I thought he was going to dive tbh and clearly so did the ref…but it was a penalty

I paid little or no attention to the build-up to this. Is there any particular reason why Maguire and Henderson are playing? I sort of see some logic in playing Henderson with TAA but what other CBs are available? And don’t say Lascelles.