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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,759
    Well done lads. It wasn’t pretty at times but a win and a clean sheet is huge.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Laddick01 said:
    If they equalise late I’m convinced the NT has been cursed.
    National Trust?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    North Lower Neil said:
    Not that impressive but a win is a win.
    Croatia are a very good side but we made them look bang average today
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    How good was Bellingham when he came on. 3 or 4 crucial tackles.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    Concidering all the bed wetting  going on about Southgate picking a negative team.
    Well I thought we played superb. 
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    All aboard the fickle bus!
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Lovely 3 points, stealing ooh ah’s thunder, 90% chance of qualification.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,362
    I’d keep Phillips and Rice.

    I’d change the Fullbacks (maybe keep Walker?). Chilwell would take this side up a gear.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Decent start, a win in the opening game takes a lot of pressure off us.
  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    Haven't felt this positive after an opening game for a long time.
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    No complaints. Really good performance. Southgate has put together a team that looks more like a club side.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,362
    stackitsteve said:
    How good was Bellingham when he came on. 3 or 4 crucial tackles.
    Totally agree. For 17 he is so combative. 

    Sadly he’s competing with Phillips and Mount who both played well today.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,835
    We are so so so much better when we play with a bit of attacking intent and up the pace a bit. 

    No one had a bad game, but I still don’t understand the Trippier decision. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,946
    soapboxsam said:
    Philips MOM
    Definitely,very impressed.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    edited June 2021
    blackpool72 said:
    Concidering all the bed wetting  going on about Southgate picking a negative team.
    Well I thought we played superb. 
    Yep. I thought he'd picked a bang average teM, but we played well, and there were a couple of chances to put that to bed second half. Happy to be proved wrong. Even happier we won.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,841
    Scotland the perfect game to rotate the side a bit
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    thai malaysia addick said:
    No complaints. Really good performance. Southgate has put together a team that looks more like a club side.
    And that’s something that so many of the players have commented on. Like a club side. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,844
    Let's not forget that team knocked us out of the World cup a few years back... 
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    What a stupid question. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    We can improve and will need to, but important to get off to a good start and we did enough to win. I was critical of Phillips and Sterling starting but to be fair both did well particular Phillips who was my MOM.
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  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Not a game that will live in the memory after about 6pm tonight but they did what they had to do. Phillips was ace in that role. Rice nice and tidy, Mings looked good and we never really looked under real pressure at any point. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    I will tell you what unlike Stevie G MBE, Fat Frank and Scholes, Foden, Mount and Bellingham could play in the same team for years.

    Is this the best group of young players we have ever had? 
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,678
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    What a stupid question. 
    Raheem not impressed there!
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    Good win for England.

    Think people need to forget about the Croatia of 2018, three years on this team is a shadow of that side.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Good win for me and well deserved.  Phillips MOTM, loved seeing him get stuck in. Croatia not the team they were 3 years ago, but we still had to beat them.  I’ve watched countless tournaments in my life time where England have let me down.  We should be buoyed by this as we only need to get a win against Scotland (which will be a different type of challenge), and we’re in the knock outs.  

    Enjoy it and onto Friday 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Look ? (Aussie accent)

    We won and we have never done that before in the first game of the Euro's.

    Croatia were Runners up in the World cup after beating England.
    We didn't play Turkey or Russia.
  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740
    thai malaysia addick said:
    No complaints. Really good performance. Southgate has put together a team that looks more like a club side.
    That's the biggest thing, over the years we have individual talent and great players but not a great team.

    We have that team ethos with these younger players who all grew up together.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,300
    Cafc43v3r said:
    I will tell you what unlike Stevie G MBE, Fat Frank and Scholes, Foden, Mount and Bellingham could play in the same team for years.

    Is this the best group of young players we have ever had? 
    Certainly the best group of youngsters that we dont have to worry about trying to put in the same team like we have done. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    killerandflash said:
    Scotland the perfect game to rotate the side a bit
    As long as we win.
    Jockistan to finish bottom please 
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Bellingham will be a great player, my mate at work knows him well and had followed him since he was a kid, he has the X factor and is still only 17! Phillips was excellent, well taken goal by Sterling, but I'm still worried by Stones and why Trippier at LB? Walker I didn't think played well enough to start the next game!

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