England v Denmark - Wembley Stadium - Wednesday 7th July 8pm KO - Match Thread

WK6824Nine said:

all of europe is angry on social media right now.

What are the Danes gonna do, attack people with their wooden shoes?

Just thought it would be different. 
Outside my house in west Wickham for the last 15 minutes and it's like nothing happened 

Contrary to what most seem to think on here, it was infuriating me in the final mins when we clearly had a great chance to score a third and finish it. I understand game management and running the clock down etc but it really can bite you, so I think if you’ve got a clear cut chance you should take it.

Thought when Grealish came on we actually did lose some shape and thought Saka was still causing them problems.

Some of Kane’s hold up play and drawing fouls was superb and un-appreciated.

Felt like Pickford and Maguire are constantly at odds, not just in this game.

Sterling continues to confuse me. World class in so many ways, but league 1 in some others with his end product. Would have liked to have seen Sancho late on.

Whoever shone the laser at Schmichael during the pen is a moron, not that it seemed to affect him.

Credit to the Danes, thought they were a really decent outfit who pushed us all the way.

And arise sir Southgate. After all our years of under-performance and under-achievement, a semi and final back to back. No one can take that away or argue with that.  A legend already in my eyes and a quality, likeable bloke to boot.

Sunday will be hard but not impossible.

It's a load of bollocks 

The_Organiser said:

Contrary to what most seem to think on here, it was infuriating me in the final mins when we clearly had a great chance to score a third and finish it. I understand game management and running the clock down etc but it really can bite you, so I think if you’ve got a clear cut chance you should take it.

Thought when Grealish came on we actually did lose some shape and thought Saka was still causing them problems.

Some of Kane’s hold up play and drawing fouls was superb and un-appreciated.

Felt like Pickford and Maguire are constantly at odds, not just in this game.

Sterling continues to confuse me. World class in so many ways, but league 1 in some others with his end product. Would have liked to have seen Sancho late on.

Whoever shone the laser at Schmichael during the pen is a moron, not that it seemed to affect him.

Credit to the Danes, thought they were a really decent outfit who pushed us all the way.

And arise sir Southgate. After all our years of under-performance and under-achievement, a semi and final back to back. No one can take that away or argue with that.  A legend already in my eyes and a quality, likeable bloke to boot.

Sunday will be hard but not impossible.

“I know that was then, but it could be again”

I can see where coming from but we saw the game out like nothing I’ve ever seen before. My mates were moaning about the grealish sub but it’s all about the team and the occasion. 

ForeverAddickted said:

One more jinx for Southgate to beat...

 - We've never beaten Italy in a Major Tournament

I was looking at the history of our games against them & was very surprised that we have only played them 8 times competitively. Our of those.......

4 of those were in WC qualifiers (2 home & 2 away - 1970's & 1990's) 

1 was in the Group stage of a major tournament - WC 2014

1 was the 3rd/4th play off game at Italia 90 - and no-one wants to play in that game.

1 was in the knockout stages of Euro 2012 where we lost on pens.

Staggering when we always seem to play the Czechs or Poland every single tournament.

Walker, Maguire, Rice, Shaw and Sterling were the pick for me but all superb. Bring on Italy. 

Italy are good, but not unbeatable 

let’s remember, Austria pushed them hard 

Heard horns on and off Orpington High Street all night. Great to hear 

I expressed my doubts before the game, but Walker was excellent tonight. Kane was excellent, but got away with a terrible penalty, Sterling was also excellent, but his finishing wasn't up to his standard this tournament.

Pickford had one of his rocky Everton nights. Shaw wasn't as good as in his previous games going forward, and got caught out a bit defensively. The CBs looked a bit shakier on the ball than usual, though a lot of that is down to the pressing from Denmark, but both were excellent in the air.

I thought we controlled the game pretty well. Pickford was the weak link all night. Italy will cause more problems but I feel their defence is better than their attack 

Now we can talk about Italy. 

33 games unbeaten and England don't beat Italy in Tournament football. There's a first time for everything but I personally make Italy favourites despite it being at Wembley.

Getting the monkey off our back and getting to a final was so important but working out a way to beat Italy should be interesting. 

Foden could get the nod instead of Saka, and we go with 4-2-3-1 but the way Sterling and Kane seem to interchange it's anyone guess who the one is up front which is great as Italy will be confused as well.
We could play 4-3-3 and it will be hard to tell the difference as we don't play a rigid system anyway.

Our players still seem to have energy. 6 games played and 1 humongous game to go.

Jeez. The rest of the world is having a massive hissy fit about the penalty.
“Rigged”
”Denmark were robbed”
”England can never complain about diving again”
(Nobody seems to be able to remember the ludicrous free kick that led to the Danish goal…)

And I thought England fans were one eyed. It turns out England haters are even worse.