Really poor selection by Southgate for this formation. Coady should be in that back 3 ahead of Dier. Walker on the right and Saka on the left. Grealish ahead of Rashford and probably Sancho in for Mount. The current XI won't trouble this Belgian side.
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So we should just allow him to become this massive brick shithouse donkey? Clearly Inter Milan have put a rocket up his arse.
Sancho would never start cos of the Abraham party business.
Grealish is a mystery though.
Genuinely think Ole is a better manager than Southgate.
I'm so glad I stopped caring about England. We're so bad.
It'll be the same if we sell Pogba
50/50 on that one. No PL club would want either of them. Both pretty crap.
Some people are so blinded by their dislike of Lukaku. He’s a top striker.Keep Southgate in the job as long as possible, United would be stupid enough to go for him when they end up sacking Ole otherwise. 
He's played every game at CB so far for Spurs this season so looks like he'll be playing the season there.
Grealish definitely needs to come on
We are like Pogba. Pick and choose which game to show up.
Somerimes we are like old machines, needs time for engine to warm up.
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He won’t be sacked. He’s an FA boy all overKeep Southgate in the job as long as possible, United would be stupid enough to go for him when they end up sacking Ole otherwise.
I don't dislike him, I just know he wasn't good enough. He wasn't, he proved it. Imagine being nostalgic about Lukaku. Give me bloody strength.
Not a high bar...
England play like Utd. Get to edge of area and run out of steam/ideas. Boring.
I absolutely hate this formation. No attacking midfielder means we have no means to attack; it separates the attack from the midfield. It is almost like we have two teams on the pitch: defence team (7 players) and attack team (3 players).
How on earth does Southgate think this is a good idea? It hasn't worked against absolute dross sides. Why would it work against Belgium?
How on earth does Southgate think this is a good idea? It hasn't worked against absolute dross sides. Why would it work against Belgium?
He makes less terrible team selections & is less stubborn at least. Neither are good enough for a PL job, but yeah, I’d say Ole is better.
Both have the same park the bus & look to counter philosophy.
Lukaku was unfit and didn't want to be here. If he kept himself in shape and played with hunger he still would be. It's all on him IMO.
Oh I never knew that. So he’s been repurposed like Mascherano?
Is that in a back 4 or back 5?
Remember that brief window of time where watching England was comfortably more fun than watching Utd? Now both are a nightmare.
Dier is a shocker of a defender isn't he.
Who's this fella Southgate was creaming himself over the other day? Mason Mount? Who has done literally feck all for half an hour? But is a gazillion times better than Grealish?
feck off Southgate.
feck off Southgate.
Not being nostalgic. Just saying we shouldn’t have sold him. He’s a better striker than Martial and the current Cavani, albeit not the peak one.
Fixed.
He was deliberately managed out of the club.
Ole treated him like a 2nd class citizen as soon as he arrived. As Neville says ‘he didn’t fancy him’. Lukaku is a confidence player who needs to be loved: once he understood he was out of Ole’s plans he reverted to type by losing all motivation.
Why is Rashford just passing it back all the time? Run at them man.
Edit, like that!
Edit, like that!
Our sports scientists ought to have helped him with that. Inter’s did. In fact, didn’t they discover a minor nutritional disease or something. Of course, I could he wrong.
Very impressed over CL as 9. I would prefer him over Lukaku.
Because he runs at them and lose the ball all the time.
He was shite under Mourinho also let's not forget that. He was fat and over weight and Mourinho did nothing to stop that.
Ole was happy with his efforts and dropped him - he got the hump, simple.
Look at his shape today compared to 3/4 of his united career it's a joke.
Henderson doesnt have a clue either. Gormless wanker.
Yep.
This performance is grade A trash. No sauce at all.
Need creative spark in the middle and dump Hendo or Rice.
Penalty
Penalty to England. Henderson screams as he goes down.
Dr. Rashford MBE scores
Rashford scores
Great penalty
Great penalty
That's how you worry the defence though. These passes are dying nothing.
What a dive by Henderson! Love it.
Rashford scores. No problem.
Ridiculously soft pen