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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Dec 10, 2022 21:36:04 GMT
Yeh. Boxing day.
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Post by RobEG on Dec 10, 2022 21:37:04 GMT
England should be considered the favourites for the next Euros. Belgium are done. Spain need to rebuild. France and Portugal are on their way down. Italy probably won't qualify. Southgate has the young team to build on. Mbappe is 23. Camavinga is 20. Saliba is 21. We'll hopefully be among the favourites but France aren't going anywhere. Yeah France/England could be the teams to beat for the next few years. |
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Post by gray on Dec 10, 2022 21:37:32 GMT
France were also missing Kante, Pogba, Kimpembe, oh and the latest Ballon d'Or winner.
I think they'll be OK for a few years yet.
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Post by baihu1983 on Dec 10, 2022 21:37:33 GMT
Considering how poor England had been in the build up to this tournament getting knocked out by the chaos in the Quarter finals is good.
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Post by muddyfunster on Dec 10, 2022 21:39:01 GMT
Can I just say, I've ALWAYS admired Morocco.
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Post by monkman5000 on Dec 10, 2022 21:40:43 GMT
It's not quite Algeria, but presumably there'll be a fair bit of ex-colonial niggle in the Morocco game. Could be tasty.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 21:41:27 GMT
I have them in the sweepstake so I'm team Morroco now. I would like to see Messi win it though.
Especially as it would send Ronaldo into a full on Homelander sulk.
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Post by clemfandango on Dec 10, 2022 21:42:22 GMT
Can we all agree dembele is a bit shit?
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Post by retro74 on Dec 10, 2022 21:44:48 GMT
For me with England it always comes down to execution no matter how tactically astute we are. Clearly Southgate has sent them out as focused and as confident as any England team in history, they’ve totally outplayed the current World Champions and they’ve still lost
And the reason is that top, top players execute more often than not and merely good players don’t. We have good players but we don’t have any great players
Nothing to be ashamed of
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Post by kal on Dec 10, 2022 21:45:31 GMT
France were also missing Kante, Pogba, Kimpembe, oh and the latest Ballon d'Or winner. I think they'll be OK for a few years yet. Kante doesn’t even get into Chelsea’s best 11 these days let alone France. |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 10, 2022 21:46:29 GMT
League Cup fixtures midweek before Christmas, including Man City reserves vs Liverpool reserves on Thurs 22nd. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Dec 10, 2022 21:47:41 GMT
We all going with the ITV Curse?
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Post by eleven63 on Dec 10, 2022 21:48:39 GMT
I'm playing Christmas music, it's that bad...
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 10, 2022 21:51:51 GMT
We all going with the ITV Curse? I think Twitter has settled on Spurs judging by how fast the archive is being scoured |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 21:55:28 GMT
We're going to be an absolute force in the next decade with this young team but do we have any young strikers coming through, can't really think of any at all?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 21:55:28 GMT
Wasn't expecting to see Alli getting sucked off in the replies of that tweet.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 21:59:37 GMT
Ha look at his happy little Whoville face.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 22:00:21 GMT
Think that's from the nipple pinch.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 10, 2022 22:03:03 GMT
Why didn't Southgate bring on James Maddison to take that penalty and fulfil his destiny of leading England to World Cup glory?
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Post by reddevil93 on Dec 10, 2022 22:03:51 GMT
Someone pay attention to me. It's Kal baiting. There's a weird thing with some of the Utd fans and him. I'm an Irishman watching England crash out of another tournament. Safe to say I would be mocking any player bar Rashford that missed that penalty. |
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Post by RobEG on Dec 10, 2022 22:04:42 GMT
We're going to be an absolute force in the next decade with this young team but do we have any young strikers coming through, can't really think of any at all? That’s probably the area we are a bit weak in. Barring injuries, Kane’s probably got 2/3 more tournaments in him, but if he were to be injured it’s a bit of a step down. Wilson could certainly be effective, but is made of glass. |
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Post by cristar on Dec 10, 2022 22:06:40 GMT
Could have been Greenwood.... :/
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 10, 2022 22:09:41 GMT
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Post by muddyfunster on Dec 10, 2022 22:15:03 GMT
We're going to be an absolute force in the next decade with this young team but do we have any young strikers coming through, can't really think of any at all? It helps but I don't think an amazing CF is absolutely essential as proven by France winning the World Cup with Guivarch and Giroud. Spain won it with David Villa. Someone not crap is perfectly fine. Brewster perhaps? Balogun (if he doesn't switch to the US for a 'home' world cup). I'm sure there are others. We didn't know we were going to get Rooney and Owen until they just emerged fully formed. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 22:15:31 GMT
Could have been Greenwood.... :/ What could have? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 22:16:19 GMT
Villa definitely was an amazing CF.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2022 22:18:16 GMT
We're going to be an absolute force in the next decade with this young team but do we have any young strikers coming through, can't really think of any at all? That’s probably the area we are a bit weak in. Barring injuries, Kane’s probably got 2/3 more tournaments in him, but if he were to be injured it’s a bit of a step down. Wilson could certainly be effective, but is made of glass. It's more that Kane's 29 and Wilson 30 and I can't really see anything on the horizon at all. Toney's only 26 I guess but he's too busy down the bookies. If Haaland had picked England to play for we would have won the next 6 tournaments. |
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Post by RobEG on Dec 10, 2022 22:22:09 GMT
I guess what I’m saying is we’ve got 5 or so years for the next generation of talent to emerge. Hopefully we’ve got enough cover until that point.
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Post by peekconfusion on Dec 10, 2022 22:24:16 GMT
What we really want are decent enough midfielders so Harry Kane doesn't need to leave the 18 yard box.
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Post by cristar on Dec 10, 2022 22:30:48 GMT
Could have been Greenwood.... :/ What could have? England's next striker. |
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