enigmatic

Imagine if a time traveller went back to the last Euros or even the last World Cup and explained that Southgate has responded to calls to use alternatives to out of form Rashford, Sterling, Phillips and Maguire with terrible consequences for ball progression and attacking options, everyone's furious with the possession-oriented 4-2-3-1 that gives Foden and Bellingham freedom to drift around creating stuff, but now Gareth is considering a back three with Saka at left wingback against Switzerland, many fans are relieved

I think the new nerd stat might be exaggerating a little in the other direction. But although it's a nice height for the goalkeeper, he has to anticipate the header going back across him very early and get his footwork spot on to get all the way across to it: it's not just an outstretched arm it's a full dive. Think quite a few elite keepers are left doing star jumps as the ball sails past them from there.

Don't think Romania are out of it if they can avoid conced- oh

Pinball!

Based on his other finishes, he'd probably have sent it into orbit Nah, it probably falls to Ronaldo who lets the defender catch him and then appeals for a penalty instead (he put the one on one he did have from an angle straight at Oblak too)

yeah, tbh I didn't think he fancied it when they zoomed in on him in the buildup, but that penalty beats a keeper going the right way a lot of the time. Second and third pens weren't very good. Portugal's were excellent.

Costa's bloody good isn't he.

Nah, feels like it needed a random dumb red card (Portugal had a couple of top candidate players for that) and some fisticuffs

In fairness, as with Oblak, that's a really great save by Costa

between the one on one and the open goal rebound that's actually worse than the penalty miss

I assume he wasn't very happy with the penalty

The banter if Slovenia score a free kick now...

Defender waggling his leg as Jota intentionally ran into him wasn't too clever, but still feels like justice and comedy both served there. Brilliant save though, that penalty wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either

That's a dreadful decision

He's probably had that T-shirt for a couple of years now