EURO 2024 FINAL THREAD: SPAIN vs ENGLAND Sunday, July 14th, 8:00PM

[Nalis]

Kane should have hit it first time, would have been more difficult obviously but at least his shot would have got past the defence

[Guest Col city fan]

Anyone who thought Southgate would change anything tonight is bonkers. 
We could win this but Christ! It could be so much more on the front foot. We have the players.

Win or lose, 4 more years of defensive minded football is looming. I’m not talking results, I’m talking the excitement about watching England 

[foxes_rule1978]

Did well to get a decent shot in there

[Jattdogg]

Lads, ****in wake up and do it for the country 2nd half!

[ozleicester]

ooohh Fodennn

[DennisNedry]

They don't add enough injury time do they? Multiple stoppages that half.

[Nalis]

Spain just about have the edge but not much in it. Williams the player of the half for me followed by Shaw.

[Tielemans63]

They've done well imho 

[The Guvnor]

Walkers having a great game so far, Saka should have passed to him on his last sprint down the channel 

[foxfanazer]

I mean it wasn't pretty but....

 

Gonna be relying on decent subs 

[trugerkem]

Poor game .. as expected 

[Livid]

Not sure we need to change anything but it’s going to come down to who takes the chance when it comes. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Good first half, maybe not for a neutral but defensively sound and not allowed them to create a lot. We have the players upfront to go up and score, I like this, shaw unreal 

[coolhandfox]

Don't think Spain are all that.

 

Think if we had a little more pace we would cut them open.

Edited 14 July by coolhandfox

[Vacamion]

 

 

Shaw brilliant.  Defence good generally.

 

Kane has not produced much and is on a yellow and so needs to be hooked earlier than usual.

 

 

[trugerkem]

I was expecting at least 5 minutes injury time 

[danny.]

Ferdinand just said Foden is the stand out player for him?! Along with Mainoo and Kane he’s been poor. 

[Sir Shep]

Is it too early to say Southgate out! Seriously thought both teams look cagey although the Spanish keeper looks like he’s not to bothered about doing much tonight. 

[Royston.]

Spain haven't been convincing, neither have England.  

 

45 minutes of posturing over.

[foxes_rule1978]

Watkins for Kane for me again though, I think we struggle to move forward with pace because Kane is not up to speed hasn’t been all tournament. However I’m relaxed and feel Spain aren’t doing much, I’m happy with that 

Edited 14 July by foxes_rule1978

[Sir Shep]

Have the Spanish broadcasters got an ex England player in their studio for impartial summarising? Of cause not. 

[Bert]

The game is there for the taking. We need to look after the ball better and have a little more intensity. We are making it too easy for Spain to play. 

[st albans fox]

We aren’t brave enough on the ball to keep it

 

pickford isn’t good enough to hold possession and pick short passes so we can play triangles and beat their press 

 

we will drop our levels  because we’re chasing after the ball too much - so the subs are essential to keeping us in it.  The coach isn’t known for making those early enough 

[Shane]

watkins and palmer on. bellingham and kane off please southgate

[Staff]

Harry Kane is shit