Belgium vs. England - The race for 3rd spot (14th of July)

[Wymsey]

The balloon has popped.

[brucey]

I think he's avoiding picking Vardy because of his age. Developing the youth by giving them game time is probably the idea. Poor Vards though 

[Izzy]

Just now, Cardiff_Fox said:

Don’t really see why Leicester fans want a half fit Vardy running round in a glorified friendly for ten minutes 

 

 

Exactly.

If he’s got a niggle then no point aggravating it.

Imagine if he’d come on, made it worse and missed the start of next season?

 

[Tuna]

Just now, brucey said:

I think he's avoiding picking Vardy because of his age. Developing the youth by giving them game time is probably the idea. Poor Vards though 

Yet has played Ashley Young throughout the tournament.

[TheUltimateWinner]

[ithuriel]

Phil Jones, not good enough.

Rashford, should be learning.

Lingard has quality but still makes poor decisions at times.

Sterling,...……….

Most of all, we lack a decent top quality midfield maestro, when Maguire or Stones are the ones pressing the attack you know your midfield is shit.

[TheUltimateWinner]

Glad Vardy didn't come on, he had a knock recently and wouldn't want him to be ****ed for the start of our season.

[Webbo]

Well, apart from Dier's chance we never looked like scoring. If Belgium had drawn with us in the first game they'd be in the final tomorrow and we'd have been back a week ago.

[Jattdogg]

Come on Leicester!

[MC Prussian]

England have done everything in their power to finish fourth. 

[LestaAl]

'England always lose when they are on ITV'

 

Normal service resumed then!

 

[Sir Shep]

Just not good enough today, but we finished 4th which is far better than anyone since Sir Bobby. The future doesn’t look too shabby although we really need a creative midfielder and accept that the likes of Rashford, Sterling, Dier and Ali aren’t good enough at this level. 

[Kitchandro]

Well done Kane, 3 penalties, 2 tap ins, one that hit you and went in and zero impact in the knockout stages.

 

Still, Rashford and Sterling earned their places....oh wait.

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, Kitchandro said:

Well done Kane, 3 penalties, 2 tap ins, one that hit you and went in and zero impact in the knockout stages.

 

Still, Rashford and Sterling earned their places....oh wait.

Right place at the right time and he won the penalties so... your point 

[foxfanazer]

Disgusting that Harry Kane has managed to get the golden boot after that showing. He’s cleaned up against the crap sides and then done nothing else for the whole tournament. He’s not world class, yet.

[Unabomber]

2 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Better than slating a team that made it to the last four but whatever mate 

I’m talking bigger picture.who did we beat to get to semi? What happened when we played the 2 good teams we faced in Belgium and Croatia? Why did our manager persist with an unfit out of form striker? Why are some players above being dropped no matter how poor they perform? We can’t paint over the cracks these are all serious and relevant points. Vardy scored 20 goals for Leicester last season, that’s mad yet he was used solely as a tick box exercise. He came on when the game was out of reach or the change would be superficial. 

[Sir Shep]

If Kane gets the golden boot then I for one will be really chuffed for him. 

[BoyJones]

Dier missed such an easy chance, I like L-C, but he can be so slow and decision making so bad - do they actually get coached to think as well as play? 

 

Can't see any hope for immediate future and I always look on the bright side. 

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Kitchandro said:

England’s record at this World Cup is won 3, lost 3, drawn 1.

 

Bit of perspective.

Wasn’t Portugal’s record similarly average winning Euro 2016? 

 

Theyve surpassed any expectation. Always thought quarters would be the limit and I think everyone’s belief that the first time they played quality they’d struggle. 

 

I might be odd here but I find it satisfying that Belgium were happy to counter on us. Under previous regimes, we would have stuck 11 men the ball. I think that’s the biggest step with this tournament 

[Foxes1]

With the amount of Tottenham players in the team I was hopeful of coming 3rd like they always do

[Tuna]

I think our lack of midfield options killed us to be honest, you really only have Henderson the useless Dier, Delph who doesn't play midfield anymore for Man City and Loftus-Cheek who is promising but is he in our top 5 midfielders?

 

We've no one in the squad who can get the ball deep and spray a pass.

 

 

[Facecloth]

5 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

The balloon has popped.

It never really inflated.

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

Well done Kane, 3 penalties, 2 tap ins, one that hit you and went in and zero impact in the knockout stages.

 

Still, Rashford and Sterling earned their places....oh wait.

Least impressive golden boot I can recall. The tap ins are okay, mind, because that's what he's there to do.

 

It's pleasing, of course though.

Edited 14 July 2018 by Fox92

[Nalis]

I fear Kane could end up getting the Rooney treatment from Southgate.

Edited 14 July 2018 by Nalis

[Erinjack]

Every player and member of the coaching staff should be proud and satisfied with this world cup. I don't want to denigrate Harry Kane's achievement because it's not easy to win a golden boot but he clearly wasn't right in this game. We were almost playing with 10 men. This isn't necessarily a pro vardy thing, I would have had welbeck over kane today. I almost hope he's got a knock because he was so so poor but if he did have a knock, questions need to be asked of the management. I really really didn't want to criticise any aspect of this squad but just found it strange. English and proud, well done everybody involved for the whole tournament performance.