Croatia vs England - (SF) - 19:00 - 11/07/2018

[Treacle Toes]

Kane was pushed back into a midfield position again...i cant tell if this is by instruction from Southgate or a failing of the system. What Kane does best is basically goal hang and generally tap things in and help them on their way.

Finally you submit to my informed analysis!

 

[TruXta]

Yeah. Agree. It just seemed that in the second half Croatia had the full measure of the England midfield and as a result any penetration was lost.

Absolutely. Dropped off way too much. I can't remember a single time in the second half when England got a ball to the touchline and a diagonal ball into the box. Far too timid.

 

[twentythreedom]

Im just saying reduce expectations! This "In 4 Years They'll Be Brilliant" isnt doing it for me

It's coming home. In 2022 Definitely I'm surprised you haven't heard tbh

 

[TruXta]

Where are they in the ranking? That's the holy grail clearly. As Russia showed.

Touché

 

[Humberto]

Im just saying reduce expectations! This "In 4 Years They'll Be Brilliant" isnt doing it for me

You are right tbf. Also you don't know who will come through like Maguire or Pickford, or become shite. Big plus for me is the manager.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Oh god, crying.

 

[gosub]

It's coming home. In 2022 Definitely I'm surprised you haven't heard tbh

Women's team will be in the final (again) before that

 

[pocketscience]

Anybody mentioned WW2 yet? Bingozzzzz and all that...

Yeah, Lovren and his ustache leanings have been mentioned. Proper WW2 fash!

 

[1927]

Most honest tweet and summing up of the peformance in this WC all night.

 

[twentythreedom]

Women's team will be in the final (again) before that

Are Wales still in?

 

[1927]

Oh god, crying.

What was it?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Women's team will be in the final (again) before that

Been looking at this. Final is in Lyon, been wanting to back there since I went in 2016.









That's when it's coming home...

 

[1927]

Are Wales still in?

YES. It's a winner take all match between England and Wales at Newport in September for the place in finals.Wales are currently top of group having not conceded a single goal in qualifying is far.

 

[bendeus]

That doesn't change the fact that England had in all fairness an easy run and beat the easy teams and came unstuck against better ones. In danger of building up too much hope for the next competition and seeing England encountering and getting beaten by better teams and going home early

As a wet ABE these days I refrained from pointing this out up to today because I didn’t want to come across as a whining shit who was trying to pick holes in something really exciting and fun for a lot of people. England ended up on the side of the pool that was, let’s face it, unprecedented in terms of ease of passage to the final and came up short because ultimately they’re not good enough to beat properly decent teams.

I obviously don’t need reminding that Wales didn’t get there at all

 

[hot air baboon]

Im just saying reduce expectations! This "In 4 Years They'll Be Brilliant" isnt doing it for me

Well I think it should do. Its the system or set up that's developed those players & this "Team England" that's the key thing to celebrate here - an actual team that play's something that looks a pretty good approximation of international sophisticated stuff. Unlike the foreign mercenarys we've had to put up previously with Southgate is utterly dedicated to this job full time day-in-day-out & is just as involved in the youth teams as the senior one

 

[twentythreedom]

*reflects*

Aah fuck

 

[Badgers]

Anyone up for a ruck?

 

[bendeus]

Most honest tweet and summing up of the peformance in this WC all night.

Yeah. That’s about it.

 

[friedaweed]

Anyone up for a ruck?

Fuck off you welsh cont!

 

[twentythreedom]

YES. It's a winner take all match between England and Wales at Newport in September for the place in finals.Wales are currently top of group having not conceded a single goal in qualifying is far.

ddraig

 

[strung out]

Do England never learn? you've just been knocked out of the WC having done very little, not beating a singe team ranked above them in the world, and already the pundits in ITV studio are talking about the next world cup and this is the start of something big!!

Sweden beat the number 6th ranked team in the world, and we beat Sweden comfortably. Are we supposed to be embarrassed about the fact we couldn't play the higher ranked teams and could only beat the team that knocked them out?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Can't fucking win, eh? Beat teams and you're expected to. Lose to teams and moan, and you're entitled pricks.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

In amongst all that, England get two friendlies against Belgium. Well that's nice.

 

[Treacle Toes]

What was it?

No idea why it didn't embed... it's great though!

 

[ska invita]

Well I think it should do. Its the system or set up that's developed those players & this "Team England" that's the key thing to celebrate here - an actual team that play's something that looks a pretty good approximation of international sophisticated stuff. Unlike the foreign mercenarys we've had to put up previously with Southgate is utterly dedicated to this job full time day-in-day-out & is just as involved in the youth teams as the senior one

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Totally true the next generation look really promising

One thing about todays game is the curse of the early goal...Id like to see stats of how many teams who score in the first 10 minutes go on to lose a game. Seems to happen a lot IME

 

[BristolEcho]

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Most honest tweet and summing up of the peformance in this WC all night.

That's the over confidence you also knock the fans over.

 

[friedaweed]

In amongst all that, England get two friendlies against Belgium B team.

FIFY

 

[Badgers]

Fuck off you welsh cont!

I am 1/32nd Italian the rest is all working class English

 

[Rebelda]

Anyone up for a ruck?

*chair*

 

[friedaweed]

I am 1/32nd Italian the rest is all working class English

I'm 1/169874th Cymru but let's not split chairs