Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA

Stadjer

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Expected England to steal a 1-0 in the end. Not a good game but result is fine for winning the group. Wales isnt good enough to beat England
 

TheNewEra

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I hope Mount doesn't get another game this tournament, Maguire ACTUALLY performed very well.

If anyone wants him for £50M call Murtough
 

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Iran v USA will be even tastier now.

England are basically all but through
 

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Southgate just reminds me of Ole, Mr Safety who would rather settle for the draw instead of winning the group and guaranteeing a place in the knock out rounds.
Don't sully Ole's name by comparing him to Southgate. We only played "Mr. Safety" style against lot better oppositions.
 

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When Maguire is your motm you know it's been an absolute shite game.

If we finish first and we get Ecuador we're in trouble.
 

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Southgate is probably happier with that than the Iran result. They were saying he was miserable because we conceded against Iran. He is probably elated that we conceded nothing this time.
 

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A draw isn’t a disaster for England, we remain top of the group. But that performance was such a let down. The passing wasn’t crisp enough and we didn’t do anything near enough to win against a decent USA team. In addition, Southgate wasn’t ambitious enough with his subs to win that game. Rashford, Grealish and even Foden should have been on earlier to try and win that game.
 

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Southgate took too long to make subs then makes defensive subs or like for like subs. Ugh
 

Fabio Rochemback

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...cos that was crying out for Jordan fecking Henderson :lol:

The American commentators made what was a pretty dour game a little bit entertaining.
 

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Boos going out. Rightfully, England were just crap, US atleast tried a bit to get the win but didn't commit to many forward as well.

I'm inclined to say Southgate is sh*t because of how he's severely limiting the attacking potential of this team, but considering they won the first match already a draw pretty much confirms they'll go through now.
 

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Englands midfield is shite.

They'll only beat a decent side by GS playing his 7 defenders and hitting them on the break.
 

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Garbage from Southgate. Reverting to sufferball at the first sign of some pressing, not a chance they do anything this world cup.
 

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Fecking Qatar vs Senegal was the best game today and it's not even close.
 

Rightnr

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Just saying it's a serious tool we don't use enough as a team. Shaw has improved a lot on his delivery from where he was 2-3 years ago
He's also been MIA for large part of last season. This season he has been good and I'd love to see him with Gakpo in the oppo's box.
 

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USA should be through by now, nice midfield and full backs but poor up front.

England were awful, outworked, midfield dominated. Maguire's type of game and Shaw looked the best footballer in the team, again.
 

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Abysmal effort levels from England, killed any momentum that may have been built after the first game, not sure why we looked so disinterested but if they don't remedy it then it's going to be short tournament for us.
 

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Maguire had a solid game must be the tempo of international football it's very pedantic. Kane looks like he's fatigued.
 

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so it looks like a draw for England v Wales and they will top the group. maybe on goal difference if USA beat Iran by less than 5