Red_Ink_Squid
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That'll do.
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Quarterfinal: Ukraine v England (in Roma, Italia)
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James
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Wondered whether you meant to add "combined" on the end
Niall
International Coach
They have been decent for a few years tbf.
No shame in narrowly losing to that Croatian side in the semi final a few years at all.
Salamuddin
International Debutant
Sweetie hope you and family are doing well in lockdown. Brace yourself - think England are gonna be euro champs.
Burgey
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Doing very well thank you. Bit of a pseudo-lock down on God's Peninsula tbh. None of that Delta variant crap brought in here yet by lesser blow-ins, thank goodness. Cafes and restaurants still open for takeaways, and of course the magnificent parks and harbourside walks provide for a most efficacious interlude in between work. Fortunately we have a reasonably-equipped, small home gym downstairs here though we are missing the gym, of course.
I also hope you are doing well. Though not as well as me.
I also hope you are doing well. Though not as well as me.
That was very like Sweden in the last World Cup wasn't it but Pickford had to make some decent saves in that one so this was even easier.
Denmark does look a pretty similar sort of semi-final to Croatia though..
wpdavid
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Thanks, but no. Ramsey and Robson with three each. Mind you, as 1966 was before I started watching these games, Southgate's four knock-out wins does equal the total of everyone else that I've seen; Venables' one plus those three under Robson.Wondered whether you meant to add "combined" on the end
I'm so pleased for Southgate. Such a decent and articulate man who, apparently, has had to torrent of abuse directed his way via social media this summer. As have several others in the squad, but apparently he's been the main target. He's probably too sensible to read any of it, but I'm impressed that he's not seen fit to talk at all about 'proving a few people wrong' or anything along those lines. If I ruled the world, he'd be PM once he's had enough of his current job. I wouldn't even care if he turned out out be a Tory; just having someone of his integrity and intelligence leading the country would be a treat.
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GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Poor Sven getting two wins struck from the record here
wpdavid
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Ah, that was outrageous of me. I can amend mine if you promise to delete yours.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
True on both counts. Even after your previous post, I had to wrack my brain to remember the second one. I'm tempted to blame mrs wp for talking to me about goodness knows what when I was trying to make the original post. But really it's just a another case of old man forgetting stuff.
flibbertyjibber
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That was enjoyable. So easy and quite frightening that we actually look like we could make the final.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Yeah, the pessimist in me actually thinks this Denmark are a better XI than Croatia were in 2018. If memory serves they'd needed pens in both the second round (ironically against the Danes) and QFs to get to the semi. Plus, obviously, yer Danes have already beaten us at Wembley this season, Nations League kick and giggle or not.
The optimistic side of me (whose voice is much quieter and timorous) would point out though that this is a better England squad than we had in Russia, and we'd been mildly spawny there against Tunisia and Colombia; only really performing against the God-awful Panamanians and the oddly somnambulant Swedes.
Still fancy us on balance, but it's not going to be the cakewalk the quarters were.
wpdavid
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Agreed about England 2021 vs England 2018. Sterling and Stones are better now than they were three years ago, Shaw is much better than Young and Rice & Phillips offer more control than we saw in 2018. Any of Sancho, Grealish and Saka are better than Ali or Lingard. And Kane's all-round game is probably better than it was in 2018. But perhaps the biggest difference is on the bench, where we have way better options to bring on if we're struggling.
Agreed that Denmark are excellent. Has your view of their players changed since we chatted during the Wales game?
Agreed that Denmark are excellent. Has your view of their players changed since we chatted during the Wales game?
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Uppercut
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Not really, they still look collectively excellent rather than having any special individual players. Maehle is one who’s stood out but I think that’s more for tactical reasons than because he’s much better than Bale or Ramsey. Wing backs have been a bit of a cheat code in this Euros.
Lillian Thomson
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Denmark have had an emotionally and physically draining tournament and also had to travel thousands of miles to the back end of nowhere. They’re all super fit, but it could potentially work in our favour.
