The World Cup 2018

[Shaggy]

Great pic this (Pickford's save). So relieved for Henderson.

Dier thinking "****, it's down to me"

[Shaggy]

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[Mark79]

Great pic this (Pickford's save). So relieved for Henderson.

Dier thinking "****, it's down to me"

Trippier and Vardy almost echoing that classic Hodgson and Sammy Lee shot

[Buzzo]

Unhinged.

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[The_weatherman]

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This is a fair point really, if England are going to all the way, those attacking players have to step up. Kane's goals have come from set pieces and penalties really.

[Kenneth]

Unhinged.

https://twitter.com/RossKemp/status/1014254265190305792

Bloody hell. Ross Kemp On Steroids, coming soon to sky one.

[Fosterbloke]

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This is a fair point really, if England are going to all the way, those attacking players have to step up. Kane's goals have come from set pieces and penalties really.

Bodes well actually in that they haven't peaked. Lingard's goal shows they have the ability and the quality.

[Lecter]

https://twitter.com/OliverKayTimes/s...27757450960896

This is a fair point really, if England are going to all the way, those attacking players have to step up. Kane's goals have come from set pieces and penalties really.

The set piece goals have masked a lot for me

[The_weatherman]

The set piece goals have masked a lot for me

I think they could run into problems against a good side, but hopefully England goes far, I have always had a soft spot for them. A Brazil - England final with Brazil winning would be excellent for me, I'd win a shed load of alcohol in my office WC game

[Tee]

Brazil v Sweden final again after 60 years

[Yozza]

Sour grapes much?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44716774

World Cup 2018: Diego Maradona says England committed 'robbery' against Colombia

England committed a "monumental robbery" in beating Colombia in the last 16 at the World Cup, according to Argentina legend Diego Maradona.

Colombia captain Radamel Falcao also accused referee Mark Geiger of bias towards England, calling the American's performance "shameful".

Geiger often struggled to control a feisty encounter in Moscow, which England won on penalties.

"This situation was undermining us," said Falcao.

Maradona felt Geiger should have penalised Harry Kane for a foul on Colombia's Carlos Sanchez instead of awarding the penalty that allowed the England captain to open the scoring just before the hour mark in Moscow.

"Here's a gentleman who decides, a referee who, if you Google him, shouldn't be given a match of this magnitude... Geiger, an American, what a coincidence," Maradona added on his nightly World Cup show for Venezuela-based Telesur broadcaster.

Maradona was pictured wearing a Colombia shirt prior to the game and TV images showed him celebrating Yerry Mina's late equaliser.

Fifa said Maradona's comments were "entirely inappropriate" and that insinuations about the referee were "completely unfounded".

Football's world governing body added it was "extremely sorry" to read the comments from "a player who has written the history of our game".

"Fifa strongly rebukes the criticism of the performance of the match officials which it considers to have been positive in a tough and highly emotional match," it said.

'He only spoke English, some bias was certain'

Former Chelsea and Manchester United striker Falcao was one of six Colombia players booked by Geiger, while two England players had their names taken.

"The referee disturbed us a lot, in the 50-50 plays, he always made the calls in favour of England," said Falcao. "He didn't act with the same criteria for both teams. When in doubt, he always went to the England side.

"I found it peculiar that they put an American referee in this instance. To tell you the truth, the process leaves a lot of doubts."

[Alex]

He knows what hes doing and its a bit sad.

[dom9]

If something pisses off Maradona, then I'm all for it.

[PTP]

i'm a few days behind due to lack of sleep - funnily this isn't down to going an three day bender after England winning like my old self, but because the baby has struggled with the heat and been up every night! funny how things change

Anyway, well done England, huge result to do it on penalties as it may well be the catalyst for them to go all the way now and there isn't anyone who I really fear.

My only concerns are, England just lack a little bit of quality going forward and I think it's down to two things/people - Sterling seems to be struggling and Dele Alli clearly isn't fit and should not be starting - he's been a passenger when playing. We seem to have a bit of lack of pace when breaking and I think the Ox could have really excelled playing a role similar to what has done for us.


Swap Sterling and Alli for Loftus-Cheek and Rashford from the start would be what i'd like to see.


in every game there has been two players I've really liked and warmed too


trippier and maguire


trippier doesn't stop, he's had quality on the ball and he's really risen to the occasion and I loved his "**** you" attitude against Colombia


and i'd take Maguire in a heartbeat at Liverpool - granted it's not a priority position but he's looks liked he'd be an upgrade on Matip, Klavan and probably Gomez.


He's strong, confident, goes forward well with the ball and I reckon if needed he'd also provide some additional/more defensive cover at left back if we wanted to rest Robertson and didn't fancy playing Moreno because it's a big game/against someone good.


I'd be pretty happy with CB options of


VVD
Lovren
Maguire
Matip


and maybe have Gomez out on loan getting some games in

[Shaggy]

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