The_jagster

But Henderson today is worse than Henderson of previous tournaments. Rashford has been playing worse for a considerable period now. You also have to adapt for now and not what somebody could do 2 or 4 years ago

I think the problem is we don't have a functional engine type player to just put the effort in as a midfielder. Southgate just said directly we don't have a Phillips who was that player before. It was interesting reading World Soccer's preview, both Bernardo Silva and Ruben Diaz had comments that were essentially "not the same player for the national team as at City" and I don't think it's easy to get players to do what they do for their clubs, Foden has never really looked it for England. We made the changes and Watkins had his chance but even so the team still looked bad, there was something fundamentally wrong this evening.

Both teams poor, but Denmark looked like a side with coaching and no attacking threat, England looked clueless

I don't know why you think Gordon would be a good attacking outlet in a Southgate side, by the time it reaches him he'll have no space to attack.

It came from a throw, so we had to be that far back and we weren't in position to close. Think both teams have been pretty **** tbh, very little pattern to it and no great chances created either way.

As lucky as that Portugal winner but awful defending

Meulensteen has the same Manc 'u' sound as Ole. Oh something happened

Falling asleep here

He doesn't even have an entry for a world feed on his commentator database entry. Although on a recent podcast he said he goes to watch Worcestershire playing cricket so maybe I can ask him in person soon, there can't be many white haired men in the crowd surely

Has John Champion been ditched by ITV, this seems like a game he'd be covering? Serbia unimpressive so far

Why is Kroos going through his "Oh, actually Pirlo is really good" phase ATM now he's way past 30? At various points during Germany or Madrid being soundly beaten he's come in for criticism before. Rodri is better than Rice because he can do it all but Rice offers something that pretty much nobody else does. He isn't an elite passer but his defending and ball-carrying makes him as good as virtually anyone else.

Or, not have ditched Ireland for England which I think is the real reason

Comfortable win imo, Denmark look worse than 2021 but we might just accept the draw after the hour

No way will they withdraw

Is that the same dude who said however million watched "Diego Jota's" winner the night before? Wonder how big the audience is if you include the non-believers like me

Scotland were all right imo, could have really done with an equivalent of Vargas who could take a man on because it's all set pieces or balls into the box.

Shaqiri taking that first time is utterly ludicrous, the margin for error in tiny but what a hit

All the kids have these now

Mic picking up one German bloke above everyone else in the crowd

First time I've seen the opening titles, a Todd Terje style track to visuals with no obvious link to the hosts. Weak

Mitchell isn't the answer if the problem is not offering an attacking threat on the left wing

That was great stuff, shame Albania had listened to the people saying long shots are much better than creating good chances because they should have done so much better with their counters

I don't think they have been too defensive, they just can't keep the ball under pressure and have wasted their counters after half time

Oh

Should be wearing his headgear imo