World Cup Discussion Thread - Day 5 (18 June)

[nailsy]

More goals than Rooney in tournaments now?

Ronaldo only had two goals in world cup finals before this tournament. Shame we didn't get a few penalties or Harry could be just behind him now.

 

[wirE]

So happy for Kane, fantastic. Not an easy header either.

They got away with murder in the box at times.

Looking at the second penalty appeal. Kane locks the tunisian players arm and drags him down with himself.

 

[DFF]

Kane only needed one match to surpass Rooney's WC tally

Ruddy hell. Golden generation my arse.

 

[VegasII]

England will break Harry if they keep bundling him like that!

 

[Ekmek]

Wow the new footage shows that was a massive dive from Kane

 

[Gb160]

Harry 'The fairground worker' Maguire.

 

[Gbspurs]

At the end of this tournament I think England should release a DVD called "That first 20 minutes".

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

Tunisia deserves no praise... dirty slags

Game was crying for a decent ref.

 

[spursfan77]

Think Loftus Cheek and Rashford made good cases for themselves to start over Lingard and Sterling.

Still not convinced by rashford. He rarely seems to make the right decision.

 

[Dennism]

England will break Harry if they keep bundling him like that!

Agree. Do it to Henderson who would be no loss.

 

[Shadydan]

Never in doubt ?

 

[Bus-Conductor]

There’s no doubting that England still lack the quality of the likes of Germany, France, etc and Southgate can’t really do much about that, but at least this team tried to do more of the right things than previous incarnations.

I’m so sick of hearing English pundits say “they need to get the ball forward quicker” whenever a team is up against a well drilled bus park, and Tunisia were parked deeper and deeper as that game wore on.

First half Tunisia were awful, and a better quality team would have killed them.

Trippier, Henderson were the best performers over the 90. Alli was good for the first 30. LC decent little cameo and Rashford looked lively.

I’d have Rose in for Young and Loftus-Cheek for Linguard next game. I generally like Sterling, but he wasn’t great tonight and Rashford could start next one and see how he does.

 

[Danners9]

Vince McMahon’s been spotted entering the Tunisian dressing room with a stack of contracts

My commentary team was Jim Ross and Jerry 'The King' Lawler for some of that.

 

[tiger666]

Agree. Do it to Henderson who would be no loss.

I think some people need to drop the anti-Liverpool bias. Henderson was fine.

 

[Hazelton]

@Hazelton please enlightening how the above isn't true, he has only scored one and that was massively deflected. What makes him a good free kick taker? Please divulge.

I just think not scoring freekicks and being "shit" at freekicks aren't the same thing. He doesn't take many and when he does he tends to at least test the keeper, which is more than can be said for Young. I'm not saying he should take them ahead of Eriksen at Spurs, but in this England team he has the best chance of scoring IMO.

It was a free shot at goal from just outside the box and I'd rather see our best striker of the ball take it. Before Ronaldo's goal against Spain, he hadn't scored a freekick in his previous 46 attempts - I doubt Harry has even taken half that many for us. Big players step up on the biggest stage and Harry is England's big player at the moment.

Each to their own though, thankfully it doesn't matter now that we've won.

 

[spursfan77]

There’s no doubting that England still lack the quality of the likes of Germany, France, etc and Southgate can’t really do much about that, but at least this team tried to do more of the right things than previous incarnations.

I’m so sick of hearing English pundits say “they need to get the ball forward quicker” whenever a team is up against a well drilled bus park, and Tunisia were parked deeper and deeper as that game wore on.

First half Tunisia were awful, and a better quality team would have killed them.


I’d have Rose in for Young and Loftus-Cheek for Linguard next game. I generally like Sterling, but he wasn’t great tonight and Rashford could start next one and see how he does.

Keown was terrible wasn’t he. Moaning about Dele all second half yet lingard got off Scot free. Rashford and Sterling running down blind alleys and making the wrong decision time and again didn’t help.

 

[ghjk_91]

Both of Kane's goals really showed his great movement in the box - he really is very clever is peeling away from the defenders and finding space in a crowded box.

I love that man.

 

[nailsy]

Rose definitely needs to start ahead of young. He offers nothing outside on the left as he always has to cut back. Contrast that with Tripps in the right. Tripps was man of the match.

Rose need to start next game against Panama. Young is decent, but he's a right footed player and stops a lot to turn over to his right foot when we could be having a left footed player who crosses the ball

There's still concerns over whether Rose is fully fit. I can understand not risking him in the opening game.

 

[Dennism]

I think some people need to drop the anti-Liverpool bias. Henderson was fine.

A bad player is a bad player whoever he plays for.

 

[Shadydan]

So what do we take out of that then? Good/average performance, more questions then answers?