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So if Hungary and France win then we'll play Hungary in the next round. Not completely inconceivable.

absolutely class so far.

That's very harsh on the Slovakians. Spanish player appeared from nowhere.

Really hope Spain get knocked the fuck out. So boring. Must be how the rest of the continent feels about England.

Well it's a win Absolutely needlessly tedious though. First half 7/10, second half 5/10 for the concentration and professionalism I suppose. We've got a week until the next game and this wasn't the momentum builder I was hoping for. If we go out with a whimper then I think our approach to the games can be rightly called unjustified.

I'm more on about performances so far, what we've seen. Us and Spain must be the most boring of the big sides so far and there's no excuse for it with the talent available. How much of it is down to the obsession with Rice and pairing him with a runner I'm not sure, but on the evidence we've seen so far it's not leading to effective attacking play. Anyway hopefully that changes tonight

I came into this tournament fairly indifferent on him, he's undoubtedly a good figurehead and results / performances have been decent overall since he started, compared to previous managers. Patience is wearing thin now though, there is a wealth of exciting attacking talent there and he's wasting it with his cautiousness. Want to see a good attacking display tonight or I'll be further that way tbh.

I like the fact that there is raw pace either side of Kane now and it might work, I'd have played Sancho though even if it was in for Sterling. I'm still not happy with that central midfield, it leaves huge gaps in between attack and defence and it's not working. Walker in for James is a weird one as well.

Southgate just said he dropped Foden because he is on a yellow card.

Fair enough, I haven't seen enough of him I must admit. But I'm struggling to get my head around Sancho not featuring so far. And Foden being dropped would also be disappointing. Just want to see an exciting performance tonight given all of the attacking talent we have available, both games so far have been pretty boring and there's no excuse for that.

Saka instead of Sancho Christ. Not far off giving up on this bloke.

I haven't been too impressed with Rice so far, don't really see what he's offering us. Southgate loves him though so doubt he'll drop him. Think I'd go Phillips/Mount/Grealish in midfield and Sancho/Kane/Foden up front. Think Mount could play 10 yards further back and help link the play better.

FFS Bale

And here it is https://fb.watch/6f4z2O2-pD/

Southgate on Sancho, fuck knows what he's prattling on about here. Sancho made his England debut in 2018 and has 19 caps. "We've got some explosive options and a lot of them are young players and experiencing a big tournament for the first time. "So as a coaching staff we are realistic about our expectations of them as individuals. "Jadon is in that mix. He's trained well the last few days and of course we have got those options and those decisions to make."

Portugal can't deal with crosses like.

Christ, he is as thick as mince.

He's an alien, tubes is a legal alien He's an Englishman on N-O

Yeah fair enough, I wasn't sure enough to predict that really as it really depends on the first 20 minutes or so in games like this. But you had meathead little Englanders and the likes of Rio Ferdinand on telly saying it was going to be a walkover and I can imagine if the Scots were exposed to that kind of patter it would have helped them and not us.

No idea about the players but there was endless arrogance from English pundits and fans in the build up to the game. Baffles me why anyone will loudly boast they're going to stuff an underdog before a game - if it happens then you're not exactly Nostradamus, if it doesn't then you look stupid and arrogant. And it motivates the opposition, if anything.

That would have been some assist from Mbappe

It's a huge problem. As good as Phillips was vs Croatia he was barely a factor last night. We don't seem to have a player that can link up play from deep, all of our players with the ability and vision to do this play further forward. I've not seen enough of Bellingham but my understanding is he's more of a box to box all rounder so not sure he'd be the answer either. Arguably you could say it suggests Mount isn't doing his job properly but that's a lot of responsibility to place on one player.

The performance last night actually made me re-evaluate the one against Croatia tbh. That's 4 games in a month with little urgency and not a lot of goal threat, which is unacceptable when you consider our attacking options. At least we've not conceded for a while, but even that was looking shaky against the 3rd lowest ranked team in the competition last night. I still think you need to pick players based on form and Sterling should never have came into this tournament ahead of Sancho on that basis. Yes, Sterling can make things happen but when his confidence isn't quite there he's very untidy and can be anonymous against sides sitting back. God knows what Sancho has done not to play a minute so far. There are a lot of worrying signs - Kane looking a shadow of his self, Foden looking inhibited compared to his usual self, the huge gap between midfield and the forwards, the eye bleedingly slow build up. It needs to click for us in a big way against the Czechs, we need to blow them away and build some momentum or we'll go out of this tournament with a whimper. As for Scotland I don't believe they're getting enough credit in here for their performance. They didn't go to Wembley to kick us and hoof it, they matched us all over the park and played some decent stuff as well. Arguably they should have won the game, and might have done with a better finisher on the pitch. Fair play to them, a very good performance in a game where nobody gave them a chance.

Absolutely fucking dreadful, that.