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Potentially would be without Trippier, Bruno, Wilson and Pope mind if its next round.

Trippier will be left back cover you'd imagine.

He always takes a few games back from injury to get back into any sort of decent form. I guess that's always going to be the problem for Howe when he's here. Under Bruce you'd start him whenever fit because those games he was unplayable more than made up for all the poor/rusty displays. Much harder to justify when the team is performing at a top 4 form without him. I love him but his fitness problems are a huge issue. It doesn't mean you hate football or any sort of flair player if you acknowledge we will be better off not starting him against Chelsea.

You only have to go back one page for people claiming he should be starting in the league for us Always hard to judge players in these type of cup games where it's nearly a brand new 11 and a flat performance from the team all round.

France midfield really does look grim. All the top sides having noticeable weaknesses should make it interesting at least.

Absolutely no reason we can't win this. Chelsea obviously have a great side but they look disjointed and short of confidence at the minute. We've got to back ourselves against them at home giving the run we are on. Saturday evening kick off as well, crowd will be well up for it.

Will be frustrating as fuck to go out to these lot with Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea all likely to drop out tonight as well.

Lawrence reminds me of the way Stewart Lee describes Richard Hammond in relation to Jeremy Clarkson.

I might be in the minority but think there's a good player in Fred somewhere. Wouldn't be surprised if he performs well for Brazil.

I seen one of his most recent videos saying people should respect Almiron more after only a month a go slagging him off himself and saying Grealish was right what he said I tried watching that Kick Off show after seeing it praised on here a few times and it's just full of the worst takes and AFTV style people playing upto characters.

Get this rubbish out the football section man.

A lot of strong options of the bench for Brazil, too. There's at least 5 on there who'd be starting for pretty much most nations.

His strength and shielding is ridiculous. He seems impossible to knock off the ball at times unless you foul him.

Hopefully not true but seen a few reports of some of our lot causing bother in the home ene today.

Madison is a bit of a windup merchant but he seems to have a brilliant hardworking attitude and speaks extremely well about the game. I think he'd be a perfect fit in terms of his personality and quality for us.

That Spurs lineup is ridiculously grim.

He beat Liverpool and Man United in European cup finals..

Emery's record was better than Artetas at Arsenal over the same number of games.

Might be worth keeping an eye out for players one yellow away from a suspension who'll be off to the World Cup. Few might fancy a weekend off next week.

The timing of the tournament is pretty bad from an England POV I reckon. A lot of the regulars in poor form and it's too late to totally change things up at this point. Could argue that the fringe players should have been integrated better and giving a chance in the nation's league games earlier on. Southgate has generally got it pretty spot on with his selections in previous tournaments though. It's quite funny how everyone was demanding Grealish and Sancho must start every game last euros and Southgate stuck to his guns now people are complaining they'll make the squad as they are his favourites.

This made me think, at professional level you basically see tiny shinpads but if you played Sunday league you'd basically always have the strongest ones possoble with the biggest ankle protectors you could. Was like putting armour on before a game and to be fair they were needed, two footer legbreakers and you wouldn't even see a yellow card.

55 man squad seems needlessly excessive, like What was wrong with the previous 35 man squad?

Why is everyone concerned he'll get injured if he goes to the world cup? It's not like he's going to be starting all the games, he's just a really useful option of the bench for us. Really hope he does make it, like.

Could have easily been 6 or 7. Absolutely took the piss out of them in the second half.

Proper weird the hatred people have for this kid, like