Are you any surer now? The right men for the job on the day, so well done Southgate. Only downside was Kane's relatively ineffectual showing. He looked slower than Xhaka, but hopefully will come good.

Phillips looks a very very good player. Great energy and looks to be able to spot a pass.

For me he’s in the 11, when he plays he always looks the player most likely to connect the dots in the final third. The fact we won doesn’t change for me he should have been involved. Also don’t get the trippier at left back thing or the fact Sancho didn’t make the bench.

Yes your right though a good performance and your also right on Kane who really didn’t do well at all.

I hope Neil Lennon is wrong.

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Excellent entertainment, thrilling game as the Dutch edge Ukraine.

If it wasn’t so sad your hypocritical obsessiveness would almost be amusing. Let’s see how long it’ll take Mr ‘I have to have the last word’ Top Gun to reply?

I didn’t watch the first half but saw much of the second. It was really exciting.

From a movie we all know and love.....

https://youtu.be/uvRYr2pEqpM

I'm joking, but Bernard and TG....please, please...etc.

Only in England could you see a comment like this.

Actor Ned Beatty of 'Deliverance' and 'Superman' dies at 83

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It's called schoolyard politics. What you'd expect from a 9 year old. Imo he's regressing and going back to his favourite I am 6.

Still think covid is a hoax and over reaction mr “get off my island” ?

Had your jab yet? Did you feel the irony as you were getting it?

It was an entertaining 2nd half, I agree with sourpuss Roy Keane that the Dutch won't be going far in the tournament with that defence though.
With England I was most happy with the clean sheet and lack of any clear cut chances or proper saves for Pickford. If England have ambitions on winning the Euro's is has to be based on defence. People talk about all the attacking talent we have (and that is true) but this is pretty much 7 games of knock out football. When Spain won the Euros or World Cup I think they won every knock out game 1-0. Even when teams are coming down the stretch in a tight title race the results turn in to 1-0 wins rather than anything too expansive.
Without getting too far ahead of ourselves England's route if they win the group looks to be
R2 Portugal/Germany
QF Spain
SF Netherlands/Turkey
F Italy/France

I don't think the dutch team will win it all - they lack firepower up front and without Van Dijk they'll get exposed defensively. But I have to give them credit; even now when they've had a downward trajectory for a number of years, they're still entertaining to watch. I've been following football since the early 90s and there have been very few international tournaments where the Netherlands haven't been one of the bright spots.

Who knocks Belgium out? You didn’t even mention them as possible opponents in any round?

I was born in Scotland to Scottish parents, although I’ve lived in England for over 50 years. That said, the excruciating bluster I’m hearing before the Czech game, over confidence and lack of respect for the opposition, is leading me to expect the usual letdown. We’ll see.

Thanks for sharing, Warrior. Quite a career, and that scene is a stone cold classic

Ned Beatty's defining scene in that movie is not quite as giddy though...

Oops. Horrible second goal to concede.

That was so typically Scotland. Great strike though.

Took it brilliantly. Shame that we don’t get to see Tierney. Injured again.

I suppose he must be. At this point, given that Scotland don't have a prayer, I'd like to see him resting up for next season.

That Schick guy for the Czechs looks handy.

Think that's pretty common for smaller nations to be honest, I see a lot of simliar talk about Sweden's game tonight where some seem to expect a win. To me this Swedish team has a couple of interesting young attacking players but a pretty terrible defense. And when the defense isn't good, it usually doesn't bode well.

We have Frank de Boer as manager, nuff said.

Although with that name Decaf might fancy us.

It was always going to end in tears for the jocks, sadly. Always has, and seemingly always will

The Scots really do take the biscuit, though.

Edit: it will be very very funny if they beat England, however.

Not a chance in hell of that happening I’m afraid. Could be a proper hiding if England are in the mood.

Potentially Italy knocking them out in the QF on that side of the draw. I'm not convinced by Belgium's defence - but if they player each other I can see that Belgium v Italy could go either way

Ive read Marcel Sabitzer could be available for as little as £15m from Leipzig because he has 1 year left on his deal. I don't think you could find a better value for money signing for the attacking midfield position for us in Europe. Buedia at £40m or Sabitzer at £15m. No comparison

I'd agree. If he is available for 15m.

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All Martinez's teams were shaky at the back.

Can your boys hang on Haz?

I called the Netherlands a bright spot in the tournament, and whatever the opposite of that is it's Sweden. At least Isak looked good, but of course he was subbed off with 20 minutes to go for being way to good with the ball.

Absolutely dominating the clearance stat. Spain don't stand a chance.

The big yellow bus nearly there. I hope you get the point.

Was cheering for Spain at the end. We had one good player on the pitch, and he was subbed off for a player with worse technique than Igor Stepanovs, I hate those kind of subs that are supposedly tactical but are really just dumb.

Well you got a 0-0 that looked unlikely earlier on so it is not as dumb as you think. I thought Sweden's defensive performance was top notch. Danielson was excellent and Seb Larssson was everywhere.

Not sure how that relates to subbing off a striker who was the only player who can hold on to the ball and who created our only two scoring chances. It was 0-0 with him on the pitch as well.