pendodave
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That's not a good thing...
Although his distribution is excellent, I prefer a bit more gravitas from my keeper. He seems to get more excitable and error prone as the game gets more interesting. Not good.
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Although his distribution is excellent, I prefer a bit more gravitas from my keeper. He seems to get more excitable and error prone as the game gets more interesting. Not good.
Liverbirdie
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I dont know he looked more like Brazil's no.1 before.......
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...vows-not-risks-like-Liverpool-goalkeeper.html
HomerJSimpson
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Tried hard to give Spain a way back in and Pickford needs to learn some common sense. Enough high profile keeping errors like that for him to study and at this level you will get caught if you take liberties. That said 3-2 away to Spain is a great result with a young side again. Pleased for Sterling and Rashford and very impressed by Gomez, Be nice to finish the group off with a good win at home to Croatia next month
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Piece
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. Boom!Seven minutes of injury time!?!
. Score line flattered Spain there. Well played, nice to see pace and youth. If we drop Eric Dier for someone more mobile, even better. 
Tashyboy
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It was 3-2 Homer ðŸ˜
England had 42 clearances. Didn't quite seem the thumping it looks.
Swingalot
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I sit in the same stand as the away fans when I go, the whole stand is a dump....but its our dump!
We tried to condemn it ourselves last season when Brighton visited.
Bunkermagnet
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But you made the mistake of trying to do it when they were still there
clubchamp98
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So Sterling can finish ! What a goal.
Thought kane played very well.
But we dropped back second half and let them back in the game.
Don’t know why all the pundits thought it was a pen , the Spanish player clearly puts his hands on Pickford first.
The ref got it right.
We played fantastic first half but it’s hard to do it for 97mins ,
Thought kane played very well.
But we dropped back second half and let them back in the game.
Don’t know why all the pundits thought it was a pen , the Spanish player clearly puts his hands on Pickford first.
The ref got it right.
We played fantastic first half but it’s hard to do it for 97mins ,
Wolf
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Seven minutes of injury time!?!
100% Agree, I literally don't see what Spurs fans or anyone that picks him think is so special about. As DM he has got to become more mobile and increase his passing ability.
Slime
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But he did put a huge tackle on Ramos, (for which he was incorrectly yellow carded), and that's always a good thing!!
Scoobiesnax
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Shocking yellow card from the ref - fantastic challenge imho. I'd go as far to say that it shook Ramos and may have helped with the discord in Spains back four in the first half. Ramos likes to be a bully and if he gets bullied he wilts!!
I thought Eric Dier played well last night, but some of his last few appearances haven't been great; you could argue that Rashford and Sterling have been the same, but last night their finishing in the first half was excellent.
Orikoru
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I'm no Dier fan, but this is a bit of a daft time to criticise him, he's just played very well against Croatia and Spain. Absolutely loved that challenge on Ramos, given that all he did was put the ball out for a goal kick it was obvious he wanted to stick one on him. Was a fantastic tackle, god knows how the ref thinks it's a yellow (same for Maguire later on).
Didn't know what I was witnessing last night. We finally saw the City Sterling in an England shirt, Rashford played well and Kane was phenomenal as a kind of false 9 / targetman with the other two running off him! It was great to see Gomez and Winks get a game and do excellently as well. Two great young players there, I hope they both continue to start regularly.
Didn't know what I was witnessing last night. We finally saw the City Sterling in an England shirt, Rashford played well and Kane was phenomenal as a kind of false 9 / targetman with the other two running off him! It was great to see Gomez and Winks get a game and do excellently as well. Two great young players there, I hope they both continue to start regularly.
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Look what happens when you play clearly talented players in a formation and system that suits them and they play with their club week in week out - you get the best out of them.
The two tackles by Dier and Maguire were superb and Pickfords “incident†not sure if it’s a penalty because the forward appeared to grab him first ?!
The two tackles by Dier and Maguire were superb and Pickfords “incident†not sure if it’s a penalty because the forward appeared to grab him first ?!
Orikoru
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I'd have to look at it again but I felt it would have been a harsh penalty. When he slides in he definitely gets the ball, and prior to that both players are holding each other so it's a coin toss which way you give it.
pendodave
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I didn't see dier's tackle, but I did see McGuire's. I can see where the ref's coming from - absolutely cleaned him out after taking the ball. You just can't do that any more, upsetting as it is for the middle aged amongst us (I include myself in that).
Orikoru
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I don't think it was overly dangerous though. If you're coming in with momentum like that, you can't hide your trailing leg (which is what tripped him). The studs were not high - which is the main criteria that should be outlawed - and taking the ball followed by the man used to be considered a good tackle. If that's going to start being punished by a yellow then we are on the road to slide tackles being out of the game completely.
Piece
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Not to this observer!
. I don't think he's played well for a while for both white shirts. He just looks heavy and immobile, imho. As a DM, I don't think I saw him break up too much. Perhaps I'm being picky...?
Beezerk
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Not to this observer!
He's still light years better than Henderson though.
Orikoru
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I felt he was our best player against Croatia. So did WhoScored.com. Last night was a bit tougher but he still did very well. I don't have any faith in him for Spurs and I'd rather see Wanyama take his place, but it can't be denied he played well in these two England games.Not to this observer!
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Certainly could have gone either way on the penalty decision but what it did highlight was the danger of players believing their own publicity.
Reporters state Pickford is good with his feet and all of a sudden he tries being Johann Cruyff.
His overall performance was rather shaky and on another night that sort of error could be very costly.
Trouble is we aren't blessed with options.
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