Harry Maguire will be a big player for us.

[worthosoriginals]

10 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

No I didn’t say he was crap...I’ve never said he was crap

I said he was great but could be suspect in the air. Today he was utterly immense in the air, so I said so.

You really do talk some utter nonsense!

 

 

you accuse someone of talking nonsense! 

chat sh1t get banged, hippocrite.

stick with your moan about everything lcfc ,mate

Kitchandro.

[Webbo]

Lads, lads. We're in the semis, no need for all this hostility.

[Guest Col city fan]

10 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Lads, lads. We're in the semis, no need for all this hostility.

Wortho is renowned for it. He never posts anything of any interest himself, simply trawls the forum looking to have a pop. He must be a hoot to know. Generally people like this are angry inside. He ought to take up boxing and get rid of his angst.

 

Edited 7 July 2018 by Col city fan

[Guest Col city fan]

14 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

TO be fair he won more headers than anyone else in the game you accused him of being suspect on headers in.  In general you are a fair poster but you were overly critical of the big man the other day.  X

I made the point that Harry got beat in quite a few aerial battles last season. Because he did. Today however, he was immense. And I also suggested he’ll be ours and England’s skipper before too soon.

Balance... ?

Edited 7 July 2018 by Col city fan

[worthosoriginals]

11 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I made the point that Harry got beat in quite a few aerial battles last season. Because he did. Today however, he was immense. And I also suggested he’ll be ours and England’s skipper before too soon.

Balance... ?

 

I, ....me,.... I am, ....I said, ....

cos it's all about you eh?

col, col fan.

 

[Vulpecula]

21 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Lads, lads. We're in the semis, no need for all this hostility.

There's nothing impressive about public internet spats. They should take their grievances to PM and if they want to meet and sort out their differences in person, then we don't need to hear about it. Simple as.

 

On topic, Harry was absolutely immense today! Fantastic!!

 

[Guest Col city fan]

14 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

I, ....me,.... I am, ....I said, ....

cos it's all about you eh?

col, col fan.

 

Let me know if you want to take up boxing. 

Believe me, you’ll feel better.

[worthosoriginals]

15 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Let me know if you want to take up boxing. 

Believe me, you’ll feel better.

me me me me me. 

QED.

[weller54]

3 hours ago, Col city fan said:

I was talking out my arris. This man is IMMENSE in the air and could well be player of the tournament. I think He’ll soon be captain of both club and country.

I love him. What a performance today.

Better than Cattermole was? 

[worthosoriginals]

1 minute ago, weller54 said:

Better than Cattermole was? 

not a chance. he claimed cattermole was a better prospect than cambiasso.

then later changed his mind...sound familiar? clueless, then and now.

[HighPeakFox]

6 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

not a chance. he claimed cattermole was a better prospect than cambiasso.

then later changed his mind...sound familiar? clueless, then and now.

You know......who cares?

[Guest Col city fan]

21 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

not a chance. he claimed cattermole was a better prospect than cambiasso.

then later changed his mind...sound familiar? clueless, then and now.

Stop trawling and sort yourself out.

I’ve just read back through your recent posts. 

You’re angry mi old son.

 

Edited 7 July 2018 by Col city fan

[worthosoriginals]

17 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Stop trawling and sort yourself out.

I’ve just read back through your recent posts. 

You’re angry mi old son.

 

 

 say night night to kitchandro from me.

keep finding lcfc players to hate.

 

[Izzy]

All this talk about making him captain - I'm not so sure. This is what Southgate said about him recently...

 

“His first game…he talked about just being desperate not to make a mistake.“I remember saying to him before the next game ‘OK, how about now we try and be as good as we might be?’ because I think he’s a super-talented player.

“When I was watching him during the season, I was so keen that he stayed fit because this was a stage that I was certain he could show he could play at. I’m not sure he’s always believed that.

 

Maguire comes across as pretty quiet to me and happy to let others take the limelight. I'm not sure he's captain material - yet. I understand the whole 'lead by example' thing but if he was offered the captaincy, would he even want it?

[Babylon]

43 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

All this talk about making him captain - I'm not so sure. This is what Southgate said about him recently...

 

“His first game…he talked about just being desperate not to make a mistake.“I remember saying to him before the next game ‘OK, how about now we try and be as good as we might be?’ because I think he’s a super-talented player.

“When I was watching him during the season, I was so keen that he stayed fit because this was a stage that I was certain he could show he could play at. I’m not sure he’s always believed that.

 

Maguire comes across as pretty quiet to me and happy to let others take the limelight. I'm not sure he's captain material - yet. I understand the whole 'lead by example' thing but if he was offered the captaincy, would he even want it?

He was captain at Hull.

[rico]

[rico]

Think hes going to top that chart

[ScouseFox]

one thing i will say is it goes to show just how awful we are at corners/corner routines that he’s scored once all season from set pieces and we concede from them regularly. there’s not been a ball in either box that he hasn’t got his massive forehead on in these 5 england games. 

[davieG]

 

https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/z_4Gr8tcWEKX11TKnbUbwQ/Show/Maguire-makes-the-cut-in-quarter-final-best-rated-XI

[davieG]

It was a small story in a big picture, especially when England were four days away from a World Cup semi-final. But as an example of Gareth Southgate’s best qualities, and an explanation for why England are where they are, it was not a bad place to look.

Back when Harry Maguire made his England debut, in the dead rubber win in Lithuania last October, he took some convincing that he was good enough.

Southgate had called him into the squad for the two September games but it was only that final match in Vilnius, with qualification already assured, that Maguire got to start. It was a night for experimentation, with Harry Winks making his full debut too and Southgate unveiling that back three for the first time.

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Harry Maguire – 8 out of 10
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Maguire had only joined Leicester City from Hull City at the start of that season and was not yet fully established in the Premier League. But Southgate had always rated him and was desperate to test out how good he could be, even if Maguire himself was not so sure. His only international experience to date was 30 minutes off the bench in an under-21 friendly five years before.

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“I was certain this was a stage he could play at” Southgate remembered in his post-match press conference in Samara on Saturday evening. “I am not sure he’s always believed that. The first game in Lithuania, he was desperate not to make a mistake.”

So Southgate had to tell Maguire to look up, rather than down. “I remember saying to him: ‘Okay, why don’t we try and be as good as we might be now?’”

Nine months on, Maguire is one of the finds of the tournament. He has been immaculate in England’s back three all the way through, playing as many minutes as any other outfielder, only missing the first half of the Belgium game. He was just as good there today, shackling Marcus Berg, winning almost every tackle and header. He is as good a one-v-one defender as England have, which is saying something given that he was in nobody’s long-term England plans until Southgate saw something in him.

Almost as importantly, Maguire has proven himself almost unstoppable when attacking set-pieces too. It was his near-post flick on from Kieran Trippier’s corner that set up Harry Kane’s winner against Tunisia, a moment without which we do not know where we would be today. And Maguire’s presence, along with Kane and John Stones, caused havoc for Panama and Colombia’s defences too, helping to win space for team-mates, and crucial penalties for his team.

On Saturday Maguire finally got himself a goal, thumping a header into the Sweden net. Before then England had been nervous. After that they were imperious. It was a decisive moment in settling England down and sending them on the way to the semi-finals.

“Maguire has been a giant in both boxes throughout the tournament,” Southgate said. “He’s an excellent player and his use of the ball is as good as any centre-half at the tournament. We’ve scored set-piece goals because of him up this point, but today he got the one he deserved.”

Whatever happens on Wednesday and beyond, Maguire’s career will never be the same. He still only has 10 caps, but he has established himself as an England international, he has been a part of a history-making England team and he has proven that he can play at the highest standard.

And most of all Maguire has vindicated Southgate’s trust in him, that he could step up to this level and perform for England on the biggest stage of all. It would have been far easier for Southgate to play Gary Cahill or Chris Smalling in that role, but Maguire was the man that Southgate wanted.

But this goes far beyond the specifics of Maguire’s career and rise to the top. Because long before Southgate saw Maguire and picked him for England, he had a more general faith in what English players could do. Even those who grew up outside of the biggest academies. Young English players could play football as well as anyone, they just had to be given the chance. That has been thumpingly vindicated this summer in Russia, by a man who learned the game playing for Sheffield United in League One.

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“Hopefully with what our junior teams are doing as well, that will be a sign to all clubs, at home and abroad, that English players have super technique,” Southgate said. “Stones and Maguire, bringing the ball out and playing with composure, we had not have seen in previous years. That was symbolic and why I joined the FA five years ago. I believed that was possible.”

Now Stones and Maguire are proving Southgate right, more right than he could ever have imagined. And, with their defending, their distribution and their danger in the box, those two have guided Southgate’s team to the last four of a World Cup.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/world-cup-218-england-vs-sweden-harry-maguire-gareth-southgate-find-of-the-tournament-a8437096.html

[Sol thewall Bamba]

BLOKE. 

[brucey]

 

[Spudulike]

42 minutes ago, brucey said:

 

From the look on the faces of those women, I think Harry might've just dropped one.

[lcfc sheff]

6 hours ago, rico said:

Aerials duels won per game would be a better comparison!

[WestLothianFox]

I wonder what Kaptain Kane said to Maguire just before he scored from that corner. Maybe it was to draw the defenders away letting him score so he get the golden boot. So glad that Maguire got that goal.