Netherlands vs England - Wednesday, 10th July @ 20:00

[DJ Barry Hammond]

4 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Someone quoting Louise Übermensch isn’t quite what I had on my card for the night

No, me neither - but there are some quality tweets flying around tonight!

[Stadt]

I’m a 99th percentile Southgate hater but fair play he actually got it right. It’s 11 v 11 Sunday, who knows

[foxes_rule1978]

4 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I’m a 99th percentile Southgate hater but fair play he actually got it right. It’s 11 v 11 Sunday, who knows

I’m a final it is always not so straight forward, the best teams don’t always win. It is why we love football, Spain favourites sure but we have the quality to win this ourselves 

[Stadt]

4 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

I’m a final it is always not so straight forward, the best teams don’t always win. It is why we love football, Spain favourites sure but we have the quality to win this ourselves 

Agreed, that’s what I was implying 

[VLC86]

Was in the stadium for that and not seen many better things. On to Berlin:

Edited 10 July by VLC86

[Bert]

Southgate’s had some real stick and deservedly so…. But tonight he got pretty much everything spot on. Netherlands drastically had to change the way they played to stop us. Subs were right. Soaked up the moments of pressure well. Onto Sunday! 

[Daggers]

 

[urban.spaceman]

[HybridFox]

15 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

One for the Liverpool fans

[Leeds Fox]

They went forward for a change. No complaints. 

[Leeds Fox]

Also, there were moments we could’ve lost that game. 

[Dan LCFC]

4 hours ago, BillyFOX12 said:

Kane only needs to score in the final to get the golden boot.

Would be peak Kane to score a penalty in a 3-1 loss. Golden boot secured and the illusion that he had a good tournament strong as ever while winning no trophy. I've long thought he's a bit of a problem in this side and tonight only reinforces it, no amount of penalties will convince me otherwise.

 

Start Watkins or Toney. Either is fine.

Edited 11 July by Dan LCFC

[foxfanazer]

As much as it was a massive improvement and it honestly was, we was gifted a non penalty which got us out of trouble. We still rely on huge amounts of luck but you do need luck to win tournaments. 

 

I think Spain will be a challenge too far but at least we've put in one good performance this Euro's and the Ollie Watkins moment was sensational 

Edited 11 July by foxfanazer

[Ric Flair]

9 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

As much as it was a massive improvement and it honestly was, we was gifted a non penalty which got us out of trouble. We still rely on huge amounts of luck but you do need luck to win tournaments. 

 

I think Spain will be a challenge too far but at least we've put in one good performance this Euro's and the Ollie Watkins moment was sensational 

Had 2-3 very good chances either side of that penalty so I'm not so sure the luck tag really sticks last night. 

[foxfanazer]

Didn't score any though. The penalty was a gift 

 

And they had chances

Edited 11 July by foxfanazer

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Didn't score any though. The penalty was a gift 

 

And they had chances

And neither did they.

 

England had the better of it and deserved the win.

[teblin]

Amazing really. Best we have played. Going to be a tough final but got every chance of winning it.
 

the penalty was soft, however that exact foul gets given all the time when a defender is clearing the ball and an attacker goes to block it, so it’s not that much of a shocker.

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

And neither did they.

 

England had the better of it and deserved the win.

I agree. I haven't disputed that. Just said we still have incredible amounts of luck. Last night we deserved it 

[RowlattsFox]

How many times do you see defenders clear the ball and the attacker try to block it and give a foul away? It's exactly the same. 

[RumbleFox]

8 hours ago, Tinman said:

 

Imagine filming that then watching it back then thinking “yeah, that’s good, I’ll post that”. 

[foxfanazer]

Just now, RumbleFox said:

Imagine filming that then watching it back then thinking “yeah, that’s good, I’ll post that”. 

He once headbutted a horse

[Nalis]

Not just me thinking it could easily have been Vardy in 2018 v Croatia?

 

Suppose the difference is England have better creative midfielders in 2024 compared to then.

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, Nalis said:

Not just me thinking it could easily have been Vardy in 2018 v Croatia?

 

Suppose the difference is England have better creative midfielders in 2024 compared to then.

Vardy was completely wasted for England due to our obsession with Kane. Although at least Kane could actually move back then compared to the statue he's become.

 

It would be the ballsiest thing Southgate could do to start Watkins on Sunday but unfortunately I don't see any chance of that happening 

[BillyFOX12]

Say what you want about Kane, but he's our top scorer and last night he won and scored a crucial (non) penalty for us.

 

He's not getting dropped, nor should he tbh.

[foxfanazer]

Hope it doesn't come out that Southgate bribed the ref with Nectar points