Pure quality.
Day 17: England vs Germany | Sweden vs Ukraine (Ro16 7&8)
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Or they could over commit get done on the break and people call him a fraud anyway. Pragmatic football is sadly the most efficient in knockout football.
Plus Southgate seems a lucky manager somehow.
He was brilliant today, to be fair all three at the back were great but when you consider the lay off Maguire was top class.
Maybe we should start singing World In Motion instead.
Wonder how people would pretend to be outraged by that?
You love to see it.
When he's not slagging United, it's England. How salty are those tears?
Probably why he was so excited to score to be fair.Sterling again the match winner yet nobody seems to rate him.
Kane celebrating his goal the way he did was w bit funny. You've just scored a tap in after spending all tournament being anonymous FFS
I am delighted for Luke. He is providing everyone wrong.
All sounds good until you see the manager.
Congrats, England, deserved win! Only three more World Cups and three more European Cups and we are even. 
I'm just relieved that I have never again to suffer a game under Löw. Feels like a victory to me.
I'm just relieved that I have never again to suffer a game under Löw. Feels like a victory to me.
England (not in the Common Market) 4-2 West Germany.... England (not in the EU) 2-0 Germany...
Intelligent more like.
Yeah team wise this is the best England team I've seen. Germany didn't really come up with anything dangerous other than Werner and Müller in each half. Maguire was huge imo.I’m not even English, mate
But i think this team has a different mentality this time, and it’s a positive one
Totally
How can anybody be outraged by the greatest football song in history?
Oh right, yeah, I couldn’t give two shits tbh, I just hope you don’t win the whole thing
Low should coach Nepal or Bhutan next. He has no place in elite football any more.
You can't go all game without any chances conceded. Give him the credit man. He deserved. Beating germany in tournament after how long by england. Only god knows.
ha, yeah crazy results for those 3Group of death.
Martin Jørgensen put it correctly. The English bench has some of the best players in the world, but they won today so Southgate will stick to his guns and against someone like Sweden that will be a dangerous tactic.
So maybe half a shit then?
Only germany went out without fight of all teams.
Well, they're all effectively dead now, right?Group of death.
Depends...England changed their tactics completely to snuffle out the German wing backs which they did. Against Croatia and Czech Republic the tactics were completely different.
Jose: Today proves that Luke stole my brain.
Don’t think I’ve heard Maguire speck much before but he carries himself well.
Have England conceded a single goal thus far?
Nope. Incredible.
Fair, Yes ok. I did mean the result of this game thoughEngland are marginally ahead of Sweden in head-to-heads. The last few games have been more in England's favour, but there was a long period of draws against them and Sweden won't go into that game feeling like an underdog, imo.
Absolutely. Tournament football at its best for this last 16. Plenty of unexpected happened. Only Italy and Spain escaped despite set backs in normal time.
Zing.
I’m just glad we’re on the right side of the bracket, but it’s going to be tough if we come up against Denmark. I got a horrible feeling about that game if it is to happen. Something about the situation with Eriksen… it’s like rocket fuel for them.
You can't. Which is why you need to create opportunities. So when England had less shots on target than North Macedonia after 2 games, and came through a group they were expected to win comfortably with some of the worst attacking stats of any team in the tournament, despite having the best group of attackers in the tournament, questions need to be asked.
To be fair when Muller missed that chance, I knew it was our day. Couldn't believe my eyes.
The Barnes rap.
Hes a dribbler. its what they do'Sterling deserves respect', 'England's best player' on the BBC. Sterling's general play has infuriated me for most of this tournament. Stop dallying on the ball and running into traffic, get your head up and pick out a pass, like you finally did with Kane to get your goal. He's scored the goals, won the ball back and had the balls to take on players, and I genuinely don't want to be the guy caning an England player when we've just booked our place in the QF but he can improve massively. I'm not buying the love-in on him just now.
That said...
a fine win. Germany were poor but we negated them to a large extent and provided the moments of quality that mattered. Shaw and Grealish are class, please please Gareth pair the feckers up for the next game. Magurie great, Stones fine, I liked Trippier today, Saka industrious, Walker not my cup of tea on the ball but his pace is a huge asset in a back five, Phillips busy and Rice much better second half (on a booking no less).
Evidently not