23 Jun 2026 23:01:26
Watching England football was so so boring. No creative spark of genius and it kind of emphasises too how lucky Utd have been to have Bruno playing for us. If anything happens to him we will be in trouble.
24 Jun 2026 02:13:18
Made me think of many United games in the EPL, with teams defending against us in a low block and basically contributing nothing to entertain. England were lucky not to concede a penalty at the end. Rashford and Saka at least bought a bit of a spark, unlike Gordon and Madueke.
24 Jun 2026 02:53:04
It's England. Enough said.
24 Jun 2026 07:46:31
England needed someone to pass or run through the lines into the area, and I was so surprised that Mainoo wasn't given time. I also wondered if it was worth giving Toney a few minutes as plan B. It strikes me there is no special talent in the squad, no Rooney.
Thing is, most players in the EPL are basically super fit robots.
Onwards.
24 Jun 2026 12:09:29
Madueke and Gordon were dreadful. I suspect Rashford and Saka will come in now.
The whole team seemed to play safe, a real lack of penetration, but it's a long competition, so no harm done yet. We saw against Croatia how impressive we can be when we go for it. Surely, against 'lesser' teams, we should do that even more.
24 Jun 2026 12:31:44
If I was the ref, Pickford would be off and a penalty would have been awarded, but not to give either. Pickford could be argued 50/50, but the penalty? Shameful :(.
24 Jun 2026 12:53:08
Yes. With another ref, Pickford could have been gone. Neither he nor the Ghanaian player actually touched the ball, so hard to say, and there were defenders around, so no denial of a clear goal-scoring opportunity; a red might have been harsh, but it should have been a yellow and a free kick to Ghana rather than the other way.
The ref was very poor throughout the match, with some decisions being made long after the play had moved on.
There was one where a defender clearly obstructs Kane, rather than attempting to play the ball, hurts his back in the process, goes down in the area, and then the ref awards a free kick after the ball has been cleared into the England half. The ref was obviously out of his depth.
24 Jun 2026 14:07:43
Worst England squad I've seen in my life.
Absolute shambles of a squad.
Defensively, absolutely pony.
Midfield lacks creativity.
Wingers who couldn't beat a drum.
Kane is the only truly great player.
Gordon will be back in England after 18 months at Barca.
Who thought he was good enough for them?
Now I don't rate Rashford, but you're seriously telling me he's worth another £45 million on top of what they could have got Rashford for.
24 Jun 2026 16:42:13
Probably shouldn't comment on England as an Irishman, but I'll try to be objective. England will beat lots of poor to average teams easily because there are lots of players with really good stamina, a strong work rate in the team, and the players have good technique.
On the negative side: The defence is quite poor, the two starting CMs do the same thing and lack creativity or ability to break lines through their passing. In attack, there is a dearth of quality wide players. Rashford, as others said, should start, but Saka is crocked.
Kane is a top player, but Rogers, Bellingham, and lots of their players want to occupy the space he wants to go. Build around Kane and have fast players either side like Bayern do, and they'll be much better.
France are miles ahead. Argentina, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Brazil all have some issues, but are better balanced than England. So I think they might get as far as a semifinal, but that'd be a really good achievement with the squad they have.
24 Jun 2026 18:37:48
100m Rice in midfield.
100m Bellingham in midfield. 120m Anderson in midfield.
Most would want those 3 at United.
It's only 1 game, there are good players there, none played well last night.
24 Jun 2026 22:08:52
TW
I don't think the aim last night should have been a battle to control midfield. We had control, they conceded it. So no need to rely on Anderson and Rice in MF. Said above, Mainoo would have been good to drive the ball forward. We didn't need to grab control of midfield, we needed to move it into their box.