The Official England Thread-The Team We All Support [Vol 2]

[aeropilot]

Cobnapint said:

Expect tonight's game to be a rather drab affair.

I'm expecting 0-0 or 1-1.

[warch]

On paper Belgium are formidable, but It all depends on whether they show up for this game or not. Hopefully they will, so England can test their mettle against real opposition, before we reach the first round of sudden death.

[Gandahar]

I love the way that England tried playing under the radar this year compared to last few attempts where the entire country got too hyped up.

Silly big win against Panama and the entire country goes bananas.

1-0 nil tonight with doubts raised would counter that. Or 0-1 loss to get everyone's feet back on the ground. Or 0-0 and all bored to death!

I guess most people have seen this,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44620166

the counting your chickens bit, which I fall for everytime.

Go on lads! 0-0 and Gareth saying "workman like performance"

Edited by Gandahar on Thursday 28th June 15:39

[Cobnapint]

8 changes to the starting lineup tonight.....!!

[Mothersruin]

Cobnapint said:

8 changes to the starting lineup tonight.....!!

WTF!

THIS ISN'T A fkING FRIENDLY!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S A COMPETITIVE WORLD CUP MATCH!

I thought this dude was different.

[TTmonkey]

Plays full strength first team tonight, wins, goes out Monday with a knackered A team, couple of injuries, maybe a suspension and loses, and his name would be mud.

How hard is that to comprehend? Lose tonight with a b team and no harm done. Lose with your A team, they take a confidence knock and play again straight after the weekend.


There is no losing scenario tonight by playing a B team.

[alfie2244]

Well I agree with Gareth

and tt ^^^^^^^^^

[mickk]

TTmonkey said:

There is no losing scenario tonight by playing a B team.

There is, we play Columbia if we lose.

[DocJock]

Professional athlete, still 'knackered' after four days recovery time from running six miles? Bullst.

[Mothersruin]

TTmonkey said:

Plays full strength first team tonight, wins, goes out Monday with a knackered A team, couple of injuries, maybe a suspension and loses, and his name would be mud.

How hard is that to comprehend? Lose tonight with a b team and no harm done. Lose with your A team, they take a confidence knock and play again straight after the weekend.


There is no losing scenario tonight by playing a B team.

Sorry - no.

It simply doesn't work that way,.

We had three questions to ask today.

How can we bin Sterling and play a combo of RLC, Dele, and Kane up front. - can't do that now.

We needed to know if Rose would be better than Young as Left Back with the (pretty much) confirmed back 3 and strike force - can't answer that either.

What can Dier offer within the set up that has worked so far - can't answer that either.

So - when it comes to the knowckoiut stages - what have we learned?

the square root of fk all.

[anonymous-user]

mickk said:

TTmonkey said:

There is no losing scenario tonight by playing a B team.

There is, we play Columbia if we lose.

Irrelevant. We have to play the big teams at some stage.

[mickk]

garyhun said:

Irrelevant. We have to play the big teams at some stage.

I do understand that viewpoint but imo we need to keep winning. Lose tonight and you don't know how it will upset the squad.

Plus I don't want to play Columbia.

[alfie2244]

mickk said:

garyhun said:

Irrelevant. We have to play the big teams at some stage.

I do understand that viewpoint but imo we need to keep winning. Lose tonight and you don't know how it will upset the squad.

Plus I don't want to play Columbia.

Doubt you will be.

eta to be serious though........how will it upset the squad if the full 1st team lost?

[mickk]

[mickk]

alfie2244 said:

Doubt you will be.

You haven't seen me play!

[alfie2244]

mickk said:

That will do for me.

[anonymous-user]

[redacted]

[Mothersruin]

mickk said:

FFS

I need to be made fking happy here.

[Ayahuasca]

Oh dear.

He said he would go for the win tonight.

But he fields a B team.

So he was not really going for the win.

But now he actually needs to win to get the easier route to the final.

He should have stuck to his guns.

[mickk]

Mothersruin said:

FFS

I need to be made fking happy here.

Fellaini starts.

Courtois, Vermaelen, Boyata, Dendoncker, Fellaini, T. Hazard, Tielemans, Dembele, Chadli, Januzaj, Batshuayi