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I just can’t understand why so many possession managers seem comfortable to aimlessly pass the ball from left wing, right across the defence to the right wing, then back again. I get you want to control the ball but what’s the point if you’re not using that control to wear down your opponent or drag them out of position to create space? Time and time again we see possession managers happy to play the ball so slowly and ineffectually that the opposition can literally walk left and right tracking us. We wasted 40 minutes of that first half doing absolutely nothing and we almost went into half time 1-0 down. The only time we looked good was when we played the ball quickly.

It’s amazing what happens when you actually attack

Hydration break sub for England coming on

Good job we have this hydration break so we can regroup after that frantic 14 seconds of running

I was going to insult us and say “It’s just like watching Leicester” but I actually think we might better than that opening 20

I don't know if I want Belgium to inflict a record breaking destruction of USA tonight, or I want Balogun to score the winner and create a global corruption scandal that sees Infantino out of his role, and maybe, just maybe some of the idiots who support Trump over here realising just how corrupt the man is. I'm leaning toward 36-0 Belgium.

Can't complain with that. The scholarship deal helped us massively so credit to Monga for taking somewhat of a gamble signing that. Hope he gets a chance there, disappointing season for him in many aspects so would be good to see him get a loan out and a proper run at a stable club.

As England fans we need to DEMAND that King Charles calls Infantino and insists that the red card rules are followed to the letter.

Kanes interview 🤣🤣🤣🤣 voice is gone

Pickford also gets a mention. We had a lot of injury time probably a few of those minutes from his antics, but he put in some incredible saves, kept the back 4/5 under control, calmed them down multiple times, was dominating his area and taking the pressure off the defenders, and of course his trade mark dark arts of making sure he goes to ground regardless of the save. Hes a ****er when you’re against him, but he made a huge difference for us tonight.

I wasn’t completely sold by Quansah starting and in hindsight yes it was probably a mistake, but I think Tuchel had a very good managerial performance tonight. He took off the right players and set us up to get over the line. Spence coming on was a surprise to quite a few however what the cameras only showed briefly is there was a moment where O’Reilly was walking next to one of the Mexico players and the guy said something to him and O’Reilly threw an elbow towards his face, it didn’t connect but that’s the sort of thing Tuchel spotted and took him off immediately. Overall a great performance, we controlled the circumstances when we had 11 players and we kept taking advantage of easy fouls, then after the red we dug deep and made ourselves hard to beat. This is probably the most impressive performance of any of the top teams that I’ve seen.

Jude Bellingham could barely walk by the end. Absolutely heroic effort from him today he was absolutely EVERYWHERE.

WHAT A RESULT!!!

Someone book me an ambulance what is this

I do love Pickfords antics, perfect keeper when you’re trying to shithouse holding on for dear life.

If they act up they are even bigger idiots than their reputation gives them. The neighbourhoods around the ground are no joke, statistically it’s one of the biggest crime areas of any major tournament venue.

Dan Burn playing like he has Harry Souttar posters on his wall 👊

Jude is out on his arse he’s put in a hell of a shift tonight

Yep the air is 20-25% less dense at that altitude anyway, then add to that having a player sent off, if we go to ET we lose.

I can imagine there is going to be a LOT of trouble in Mexico tonight regardless of the result. Hope England fans don’t get themselves into bother, the areas around the stadium are NOT a place to be messing around.

Seeing the replay of O’Reilly there is the exact thing we don’t need. I hope we don’t regret Spence coming on, but O’Reilly lost his head there.

We need warriors now. We need players like Kane to take control of the team and calm them the hell down. Let the Mexicans lose their heads, keep baiting the fouls and tip them over the edge. If we win this it’s going to likely need to be the dark arts that get us over the line.

This feels inevitable doesn’t it

Pure corruption there. He’s been told from above that it’s a penalty and he’s refused to overrule it.

Gordon has been fantastic today, he’s had Mexico on the ropes since minute 1.