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The way Germany play is very similar to England. From the start knock it around between the centre backs with zero urgency or purpose then try to get the ball down the wings and cross or lose possession - rinse and repeat.

They no longer pay his wages so he needs to start doing it for us. Maybe sell him and bring in the New Zealand guy Elijah Just.

Yeah, he should have been closer to Martinelli but the main blame has to be on the guy who needlessly gave the ball away and he's the one in floods of tears.

Yeah, the Leeds lad knew it was on him - poor guy is distraught.

Nah, his mate on the other side who gave the ball away did.

Clarke probably developed his favourites for the striker role while Ross was not in the squad and wasn't brave enough to upset them by picking Stewart ahead of them. He maybe should have given him at least 30 minutes against Haiti and Morocco to see what he brought to the side. They weren't exactly potent up front though admittedly didn't create much for their strikers.

Big Dunc claimed one of the subs scored the winning goal 🙂

It's a fair cop. I hadn't followed the thread and didn't realise he was talking about previous England teams.

Not sure what this means other than you seem to be saying no Saints defenders would get into the England team. Hardly surprising seeing as we are a Championship side.

England tend to grow into tournaments. They rarely perform in the group stages as has been the case here. I am hoping we will click now it's a knock-out competition but can't see us getting any further than quarter finals at best unless there is a drastic improvement and a few more players step up to the plate. Saka and Rashford constantly failed to beat their man last night and Anderson was left to do too much in midfield. Morgan Rogers was disappointing and the less said about the defence the better. I like Eze but not sure how he fits into the side. Let's be honest we don't have the elite superstars that other nations are blessed with, too many road sweepers not enough lead violinists.

That old chestnut, 'there's no easy games in the world cup' Cop out.

Maybe he could do it again tonight.

Agree it might be time to take off Kane and give Watkins a go. Kane is struggling to make an impact - he'll probably score a hattrick now 🙂

Roy Keane telling the truth and saying this is no better than Scotland.

If this goes to 60-70 minutes Panama will start to fancy their chances. Where are our top quality players because everyone looks ordinary again.