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    C.Ronaldo could get two goals tonight which will put him at 700 in total

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    World Cups and Euros > Champions League knockouts > Leagues > Champions League group stages > FA Cup and League Cup > International qualifiers, for me, Jeff.

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    International Qualifiers > FA Cup / LC if the qualifiers are relevant, for sure

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    I'd love the qualifiers if I was from a more cusp-dwelling country. England seem to exist in a permafrost whereby qualification is a stroll but tournaments are a hopeless case.

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    We get to just about enough to keep it interesting and getting out of a group at the tournament is a success. It’s great.

    I’d still take club soccer over international though as I’m more invested from going to the games.

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    Liverpool's 16 year old haircut has been suspended for being naughty on social media.

    The video, which is only a few seconds long, shows the player speaking into the camera
    which has in the background a televised football match which shows Harry Kane, among
    others. A caption on the screen says ‘fucking mong’ and the player can be heard to say
    the words “I’m Harry Kane and I’m a fucking mong”. It appears clearly from this that the
    player was attempting to impersonate Harry Kane in a derogatory way and insulting way

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    Anthem Watch was a right BELTER

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    Well this is a game

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    Michael Keane should be nowhere near this squad, let alone the starting XI.

    Also, a certain free kick for Rose before the corner. Baffling decision.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Liverpool's 16 year old haircut has been suspended for being naughty on social media.



    He was an absolute cunt in the youth squads at Fulham by all accounts.

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    GS getting tactically donned yet again.

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    What a MELTDOWN!!!

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    Faf when Southgate blows it with this England squad. He’s useless.

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    Fuck me, Barkley is shit. Trippier and Rose not much better.

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    The Czechs are a good-looking nation, aren't they. Even their designated carthorse was a beautiful man.

    Also better at football than us, it would appear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Faf when Southgate blows it with this England squad. He’s useless.
    As are most of the squad. The dream is he manages to fluke another tournament run and then takes over at United next season.

    What's the deal with Trippier? Is it believed Simeone has taught him something? lol. I don't watch much of Walker but I can only assume he's not being picked (at least in the squad) out of cleverness on Gareth Southgate Badger's part. Was he saving Chilwell and Alexander-Arnold for Bulgaria or something?

    Danny Rose. What is it that people say? Oh my days. He's just awful. Keane was right about him at half time.

    Other Keane's bang average. Rice, same. Henderson, same, particularly when you play the pair of them as some sort of defensive double pivot. Mount's played about 10 minutes of proper football, Sancho probably even less (oh but he's so good in Germany!) and you've got Rolls-Royce's like Ross Barkley and Marcus Rashford to make the difference off the bench. Please, stop!

    Made up for 'The Cobra' chap who got the winner (which came from Pickford being shit/being put in the shit by playing it round the back). Well deserved.

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    Rose for the first goal was worthy of being packed off to the airport there and then.

    Henderson and Barkley between them must have an IQ of minus five.

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    Don't agree with the Barkley stick. Played Kane in within minutes of being on.

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    We've got two really good players (Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane), probably about four more decent ones (none in midfield), and a load of wankers. We will go out to the first decent team we come across next summer, just like last summer.

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    We could do with Maddison in midfield really.

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    Longstaffs for all.

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    Remember when people were adamant that Dello Alli was good?

    The midfield should be Rice behind Grealish and Henderson or Winks with Maddison behind a front two of Sterling and Kane. Or drop Maddison and add Sancho if you want to 4-3-3.

    Otherwise you go 3 at the back with Stones Holding and one other making you less reliant on full backs doing the work at both ends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Remember when people were adamant that Dello Alli was good?

    The midfield should be Rice behind Grealish and Henderson or Winks with Maddison behind a front two of Sterling and Kane. Or drop Maddison and add Sancho if you want to 4-3-3.

    Otherwise you go 3 at the back with Stones Holding and one other making you less reliant on full backs doing the work at both ends.
    Rice/Henderson/Winks should all be playing for one position. A combination of any two is dreadful.

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    No way to get the football up the pitch otherwise until Ox comes back. There’s no central midfielders that can dribble.

    England look like a team that are playing academy football rather than real matches. It’s like watching the FA youth cup.

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    I never thought he was any good.

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    Yeah but Fraudiola the Binman winning leagues with record points counteracts that one.

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    Winks is complete bilge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    Winks is complete bilge
    Fair. I genuinely couldn’t think of another central midfielder that can pass the ball 5 yards so went with him.

    You knew Southgate was just a nice waistcoat when he called up that Chelsea defender Tayako or whatever despite not keeping a clean sheet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Yeah but Fraudiola the Binman winning leagues with record points counteracts that one.
    Champions' League or bust. Doubting Jurgen 'Jurgen Klopp' Klopp and Antonio Conte were the real shitters.

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    Winks is a poundland version of Verratti. An essential cog imo.

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    In Southgates defence, I'm not sure there's a harder job than England manager. You have to develop a team that spends 90% of it's time being expected to beat the opposition by 2-3 goals with a squad that would lose on paper to the France B Team who you're also expected to beat. I can't imagine trying to draw up a style hence the 'counter attack and set pieces' thing they have going on which is how literally none of the good players in his team play normally.

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    Alli's good but has dipped, for now at least. Scoring 18 Prem goals in 16/17 was brilliant, especially considering he's not an out and out forward. Still only 23 too. How many players have done more than him before that age?

    Midfield should be Henderson behind Mount and Maddison.

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    He literally did nothing apart from head balls in from the back post. Unless you're going to score at the rate of Messi/Ronaldo than that's not going to cut it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Reg View Post
    Midfield should be Henderson behind Mount and Maddison.

    Lol any half decent midfield would shut that down immediately, this isn't FM. 2 of those players are played at 10 for a reason.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Winks is a poundland version of Verratti. An essential cog imo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    We've got two really good players (Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane), probably about four more decent ones (none in midfield), and a load of wankers. We will go out to the first decent team we come across next summer, just like last summer.
    Probably. Although Liverpool have shown that you don't actually need a midfield.

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    I can't remember the last time Alli did well in an England shirt.

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    Winks is good at what he does (snapping at heels, winning possession and passing sideways) but he is reliant on having others around him that can actually do something with the ball. As things stand he is fucked at both Club and International level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Probably. Although Liverpool have shown that you don't actually need a midfield.
    I suspect that's what he is trying to build the team like. Which then makes picking someone like Mount tonight all the more baffling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    I can't remember the last time Alli did well in an England shirt.
    Hasn’t he been shit in every shirt for ages now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Probably. Although Liverpool have shown that you don't actually need a midfield.
    Liverpool have 3 absolute runners and 2 more on the bench. England has 1.

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    Henderson is ropey as the 1 defensive midfielder against decent teams. It's why Klopp rarely plays him there. He's good for energy and whatnot, and not without other qualities, but he's not a true defensive midfielder.

    England are just doing what they always do and promoting young players into the first XI way too fast on the back of a few months of decent form. Declan Rice is nowhere near the required level to do the job he is meant to be doing, probably same for Sancho. I like Mount as a player but come on. In most nations we consider to be rivals they'd all probably still be in the youth ranks.

    Arguably the bigger problem is that our defence and goalkeeper are absolute shite, and there's no escaping Pickford it would seem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Liverpool have 3 absolute runners and 2 more on the bench. England has 1.
    England have always played like Liverpool, it used to be the sum of the parts not adding up, now it's the having a perhaps less than top notch midfield. Difference between the two now is, though, that Liverpool's attack, defence and goalkeeper are light years ahead of England (as well as manager).

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Liverpool have 3 absolute runners and 2 more on the bench. England has 1.
    Which is fine. But replace them with 3 retards and they probably still finish second. It's the front 3, the wing backs and the defence that get them where they are.

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    Definitely need a slice of luck today, the Georgians normally play us off the pitch.



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    Is that Glenn Whelan or?

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    It is. And he’s still twice the player Jeff Hendrick is.

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    Ireland look like a team in preseason.

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    How's Hourihane doing for you boys?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mellberg View Post
    How's Hourihane doing for you boys?
    Decent. Wouldn’t set the world alight but nobody is ever going to in our setup and playing with better players at Villa would suit him more for a bit of freedom. It’s nice to see every set piece not wasted like back in the Robbie Brady days too.

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    That said, as I typed that he took two abominations of corners.

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