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Maya Yoshida, Southampton centre back?

Should be a good game Same for Senegal - Poland later too.

Attack-minded centre mid.

More direct - yes, better player - no.

Trippier was excellent. Lingard needs to put the ball in the back of the net though. Had a few decent chances. Aye finishing is a slight concern outside of Kane like. A few out of Alli, Sterling, Lingard & Rashford - who can finish, could do with one against Panama just to get a feel for it going into the tougher games.

Aye Maguire wasn't up to scratch like. Don't be fooled by his forward marauding, he gave the ball away far too much and looked slack defensively too. Would not fancy him against a decent side. Players I was most impressed by were Trippier & Stones at the back as well as the movement from the likes of Lingard in the first half. Played some really nice football for a short spell.

Big call

Very good movement from the forwards. Be class if we had someone who could receive the ball off the defenders, turn and pass forwards

Yes, because many have been very successful at club level. If they can't perform as a team at international level then it's down to the management of them. Yes I'm aware they have good players at club level, as a national side they've never even lived up to half of that potential 'on paper' imo. I heard people say they were in with a shout of winning this tournament, on that showing not even close. Germany had a poor game yesterday but you could tell it was in them to move through the gears and play very well - can't see that with Belgium.

Has anyone actually got any reason to believe this Belgium side can perform well as a team? I've kept hearing people bang on about them for a while now and every time I've watched them play (albeit 3/4 times) they've looked so uninspiring. Final ball has been atrocious here.

Go on Panama.

Isco dislikes this.

Belgium looking fallible. Composure seems lacking too, early doors like.

Did Boyata get good? He looked pretty poor over here.

Aw Larsson off injured. What a shame.

Tbf it's yet to be seen. As usual they're being linked with anyone and everyone and appear active on the surface, but are yet to do fuck all. Worse than us in terms of rumours/speculation + ultimately inactivity and panic buys imo.

Yeap. I'm just doing background tasks like cleaning up my machine etc. Could be doing that myself tbf. Got about 100gb of 'Other' to shift from my storage. Probably mostly cached data that's a nightmare to find. Lucky me eh.

Christ, self-employment doesn't mix well with World Cup group stages and the abundance of games like. Told myself I would give this one a miss to catch up on work, gan well

Brilliant save man. Also Toivonen Larsson

Ayew joking? I'd hope we could do better than him. He's better than Gayle & Joselu so it would at least be an upgrade. We've been linked with worse.

Not a bad shout that actually. Would probably take him, certainly better than what we have. Ideally he would replace Gayle and we would bring in someone else as well like.

Nah current value of £0. Shame as well cause he was up to £25m in the first half but plummeted with a few misses. These World Cups man.

That's what happens when you bring Mitrovic off onto the bench. #havoc #loosecanon Get him selt.

Keeper having an intimate moment with the ball there. Nice.