Quarter Final 3: England vs Switzerland live from the Düsseldorf Arena. Saturday BBC1 5pm

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

And the loser is ... Football 

[Wavelberry]

Just now, SouthCoastRed said:

Nobody’s as good at being **** as we are

Un-****en-beatable

[Smallen]

penalty masters

[Rob1981]

Decent that. Well done everyone.

[Coulthard's Jaw]

[SouthCoastRed]

Rob currently ******* himself into a coma

[Astafjevs]

Missing that first pen is such a killer. Just eases a little bit of pressure from the others on the opposition 

[Constantine]

1 hour ago, Constantine said:

You jest but look at ol' Southgate turning this around...

Nonbelievers!!!

Get them, Rob!!

[adhikapp]

Credit where it's due, England slotted all 5 pens. That has to be a record for them surely? They always at least miss one in the first 5 iirc

[Heartwork]

1 minute ago, Icondacarver said:

Southgate sold his 1st born kid to the devil. Only explanation for all this 

Sacrificed the soul of Jordan Henderson and the career of Kalvin Phillips which is why he bemoans not having them here. Guilty conscience.

[SouthCoastRed]

1 minute ago, Haguey said:

God we are awful but GOD we are in the SEMI FINALS

In Gareth we trust

[Bigwig]

Feels like we’ve got our best set of penalty takers in a long time. 

[Mr Adam]

Why on earth are we giving Gareth Southgate credit for the penalties ffs 

[Baptista_8]

That Toney pen...balls of steel.

[The Amazing Dale Watkins]

Unusually good penalties, to their credit.

[GunmaN1905]

1 minute ago, Astafjevs said:

Missing that first pen is such a killer. Just eases a little bit of pressure from the others on the opposition 

Would've been better off if he brought on Kobel instead of one taker.

Sommer just can't deal with penalties at his size.

[bolton1987]

If it's England v France in the final I'm going to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon

Edited July 6 by bolton1987

[TalkSport]

That’s why Southgate plays for pens from word go. Can’t lose on pens.

[Coulthard's Jaw]

[adhikapp]

Just now, GunmaN1905 said:

Would've been better off if he brought on Kobel instead of one taker.

Sommer just can't deal with penalties at his size.

Tbf he was the pen hero back in Euro 2021

[Redshift]

 

[dudester]

I hate these pundit panels you would think we won the game 4-0 with a tactical masterclass in the changes we made for the game. 

[Pukey]

1 minute ago, Mr Adam said:

Why on earth are we giving Gareth Southgate credit for the penalties ffs 

In fairness, he did do a lot of work on the players before 2018 to change the mindset and did a lot of research into penalties. He does genuinely deserve some credit for that. He's helped change the mindset on penalties, and it does make a difference.

[Baptista_8]

Zero clear cut chances in 120 mins

[Bliss Seeker]

Ok, Southgate is an absolute genius.

I submit to his greatness.

Will never doubt him again. 

He's a multiversal rock star. He knows everything, we know nothing.

He's 5 steps ahead of all of us. It's his world, we're just his gimps.

[Lucas]

Gary Neville just moaning on ITV that we are through. What?  

[TalkSport]

Let’s Greece it 

[Mr Adam]

Just now, Pukey said:

In fairness, he did do a lot of work on the players before 2018 to change the mindset and did a lot of research into penalties. He does genuinely deserve some credit for that. He's helped change the mindset on penalties, and it does make a difference.

But all of our penalty takers were at school in 2018

[Pukey]

1 minute ago, dudester said:

I hate these pundit panels you would think we won the game 4-0 with a tactical masterclass in the changes we made for the game. 

It's funny, I think some of the criticism was incredibly overboard after Denmark, but now they've gone the other way. First half I think was fine to decent, but second half and extra time were really poor. Fortunate to get through.

[m_fenton]

16 minutes ago, Lucas said:

Does Pickford ever save pens? Wish Emi Martinez was English  

16 minutes ago, The_jagster said:

Don't think Pickford or Sommer are that good at pens tbh

I don't know for Everton, but Pickford's been great on them for England. His save against Jorginho should be one of the great iconic moments of English football as the save against all odds that won us the Euros - no his fault our takers missed.

[Haguey]

Just now, TalkSport said:

Let’s Greece it 

Looks like we are ahead or equal in all areas there apart from fouls and distance covered?

[Thengil]

It's going to be France - England in the final isnt it?  

[martynlcfc]

Most joy I got from that game was Saka not missing his pen. And I'm not an Arsenal fan.

So hard to get behind this version of England but we genuinely could bore our way to the title here.

[eenie]

1 minute ago, Haguey said:

Looks like we are ahead or equal in all areas there apart from fouls and distance covered?

Aye, equally bad

[Andrew_]

Watching the ITV coverage of the penalties now. I don't know what to say 

[eenie]

Well that game stank. Hopefully the 8pm game is better.

[Lucas]

1 minute ago, martynlcfc said:

Most joy I got from that game was Saka not missing his pen. And I'm not an Arsenal fan.

So hard to get behind this version of England but we genuinely could bore our way to the title here.

We almost did with the World Cup in 2018 tbf   Nothing changes that much with us under Southgate. 

[GunmaN1905]

3 minutes ago, Haguey said:

Looks like we are ahead or equal in all areas there apart from fouls and distance covered?

For stat nerds!

 

[DJ]

Heh, my decision to take a nap after the first 90 minutes has been fully vindicated  

[darren1983]

England just 2 draws away from winning the Euros 

[Haguey]

Just now, GunmaN1905 said:

For stat nerds!

 

xG is a fake news stat I am choosing to ignore this time

[RTHerringbone]

Well that worked out in the end. If we could start the next game with the XI we ended with, and the mentality we had at 0-1 I'll be fine with it. That was also the first penalty shoout-out *ever* where I felt reasonably comfortable beforehand.

[skybluedave]

11 minutes ago, adhikapp said:

Credit where it's due, England slotted all 5 pens. That has to be a record for them surely? They always at least miss one in the first 5 iirc

We scored all 6 in Nations League 3rd place playoff against... Switzerland. Spooky

[Astafjevs]

Switzerland probably had the better opportunities to score, even if outright chances were probably similar between both teams.

I think it's another game where England have been fortunate that the draw has become easy for them. A good team with a bit of quality and they're out if they play like this again 

[davehanson]

Yep. We are gonna win this whole tournament without playing a single decent game.

And the tears and tantrums will be epic 😂

[Darren Moores Mum]

On the one hand, that was terrible

On the other hand, that was as enjoyable a celebration as I've had in a long time.

[TalkSport]

Hopefully Shaw can get more minutes in SF because if we get to final, we need him.

Trippier got roasted a few times, and Yamal/Dembele will only do that more and with better quality afterwards. 

Need to start making changes earlier. Got lucky twice now, feels you can’t keep getting away with it.

[ceefax the cat]

4 minutes ago, Haguey said:

xG is a fake news stat I am choosing to ignore this time

It's great at outing people who don't know how to interpret it, I'll say that

[hairwad]

This is going perfectly.

[Gary_Parker]

Good penalties from the England lads, all 5 were well taken.

Got to love Rio Ferdinand, possibly the dumbest pundit this side of Paul Merson. Yesterday claimed that penalties were a lottery (even that is just wrong) and that all the practice you can do doesn't mean much. Yet tonight saying he had no doubt because the players have practiced.