Group D: England, Croatia, Scotland, Czech Republic

[Seathestars]

He was pretty darn good for France the other night.

Hungary 1-1

 

[Toffeeslam]

Looking at the performances you have to say that the tournament for England ends at the next round.

one of France, Germany or Portugal well I just can’t see England getting past one of them at the moment.

 

[longers]

Spawning a win against Portgual is maybe doable. France or Germany, no chance.

 

[Seathestars]

A little improvement but hard to see us any beating of the 3 likely teams we could face.

That central midfield area is just so slow and negative, you could see in the first half when they wanted to they could play direct dynamic football but the second half the large majority of first touches were backwards, even when there was no pressure so it was obviously their first thought.

Rice can handle the defensive area and we should play Foden & Grealish drifting, creating space, but I doubt he will.

Part of me agrees with your comment about direct dynamic football.
As much as I can’t stand the RS I do wonder with the players we’ve got why we don’t go out and blitz teams like the RS did two seasons ago. I mean from the first minute just go full pelt with swashbuckling attacking football.

I think Southgate is taking a pragmatic approach and that’s fine in some instances but we have so much attacking talent that I think it’s a shame we just don’t go all out attack.
Time will tell I suppose.

 

[Papa Shango]

and that's why hes not scoring

 

[Frenk]

Hungary 1-1

He was still good.

 

[GlosBlue]

Clutching to drum some excitement and positivity out nothing.

Only chance of winning would be a huge smash and grab and parking the bus.

Or Southgate not playing the same team and changing things up a bit.... So yeah the smash and grab thing basically.

 

[miami]

Portugal are beatable for england. France and Germany are different animals.

 

[barneygumble]

Portugal are beatable for england. France and Germany are different animals.

None of them are beatable for Southgate being soft like he is doing.
With all due respect to the group, it wasn’t the strongest of groups.

Portugal dug in against Hungary, and whilst defensively void against Germany; still were dangerous going forward, whilst England are “wishy washy”.

 

[zukai12_]

Watching that you'd think Ancelotti left us for the England set up rather than Marid

proper Carlo-ball

 

[MikeH72]

Remember when Scotland let fireworks and flares off after a 0-0 draw and then finished bottom of their group?

 

[StreetEndBlue]

With the prospect of any one of those three very good sides in the next round, I just don't see how England get through unless we fluke it on pens.

As for Scotland, I'd love to know how many Euros and World Cups they've got to now and failed to get out of their group. They're yet to play a knock out match at any tournament they've qualified for.

 

[ToffeeTim]

That Modric goal was so good. A thing of beauty

Yeah he's nearing the end, but what a player

 

[carolinablue232]

That Modric goal was so good. A thing of beauty

Yeah he's nearing the end, but what a player

So controlled with that finish. Was rooting for Scotland but couldn’t even be upset. Pure class from a terrific player.

 

[Goat]

Remember when Scotland let fireworks and flares off after a 0-0 draw and then finished bottom of their group?

Not as funny as when they voted to leave cos they hate the English and then they lost.

ALLEZ ALLEZ OH