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World Cup 2026

Rohit

He showed them his right.

Sicario2

Tuchel - that is a firing offence

Sicario2

RC8 Saka is finished btw

Sicario2

Panda play Eze - he needs mins.

I will be surprised if Madueke makes future England squads after this tournament.

Rice needs 2/2.5 months off

Dom

Mirth

City's away matches to West Ham and Bournemouth stick out in my mind. Rodri looked like what he is: a middle-aged footballer with a foster ACL.

Sicario2

invisibleman18 at least some of the fans that sing ‘second again ole ole’ to us. Have some of that you fucking cunts

(For you English fans, commiserations)

Gunner89

people getting carried away by the wc - it's nowhere near the fitness, intensity of the pl

Half the players that rodri plays himself here are dead on their feet

once the pl properly kicks in he'll be what he is after that injury, it came at the wrong time of his career, younger and might have been a better recovery, he was never v agile to begin with

Move to madrid would be good for him

Gunner89

Argentina scored two and hit the post twice - 4 high quality chances scoring chances that you typically are lucky to get in 90 minutes condensed into 20-30 because tuchel just went mad

awooga83

Gunner89 tuchel was a total coward, England are a decent attacking team they are a very poor defensive side why you lean into that I cannot understand and don't think it's excusable.

GooneriC

Saka , Rice and Saliba will have to be like new signings in January. We cant rely on Havertz so we have to keep Gyokeres and hope we find another striker. Calafiori is injury prone , we will have to overplay Gabriel and then he will also get injured. Think we should forget a title defense , try to finish top 5 and go for it in the CL.

Mirth

GooneriC well, this team has endured similar injury losses and finished second multiple times. The injuries suck and probably hamper the title challenge but saying the top 5 is frankly an insult to everything that the club has achieved. I get that this is a place to rant and whinge but frankly to be like this after a fucking title win says more about you than the team.

But I bet you'll complain when we come second too. So well done, you're always right.

Gunner89

ummm no....

at least when arteta says something like that the stats and xG bare it out

Complete fool tuchel

awooga83

Gunner89 he should be sacked, if he had been honest and said I got it wrong maybe you could see a way for him to stay but not after that.

Dom

awooga83

It's one of the clearest examples I've ever seen of a coach letting down the players and snatching defeat from victory.

Ultimately, if Southgate was still in charge, England would've gotten to the exact same stage which means Tuchel's been pointless.

GooneriC

Mirth that wasn't my point , I was speaking from a player welfare perspective. Should we run our players into the ground again?

Sicario2

If Argentina win on Sunday, Messi goes down as greatest sportsman ever

QuincyAbeyie

Sicario2 and let me guess, if they don't he's not even the greatest Argentinian footballer?

JazzG

Sicario2 Mikel Merino will avenge England on Sunday.

Qwiss

QuincyAbeyie it's the biggest game of his life.

Burnwinter

In the 37 minutes between Anthony Gordon’s goal and Lautaro Martinez’s winner, England had 12% possession.

Takes a complex of issues for this kind of implosion of confidence to appear. It's not just Tuchel.

But I reckon if there were 34 matches a season in the Premier League, England would be winning World Cups.

JazzG

Burnwinter Completely unnecessary to play that way as well, just sat back and let Argentina dictate the game. They kept creating overloads down England's left and found lots of joy there and England did nothing to stop it. They have two big outlets in Bellingham and Kane and they did not get the ball to them, should have then pushed higher up the pitch.

Have to say all tournament did not like this Anderson/Rice pairing, both of them individually are very good players but that pairing didn't really work for me. If you are going to play them then you need someone like Trent playing RB who can come in and dictate the game.

awooga83

Burnwinter I think it's 95% tuchel bringing on defenders like that is stupid against quality footballers. If you give them all the time and space of course they can hurt you.

Gunner89

Messi's performance was impressive

sad he opted to take 3 proper years where he could've made a much more tangible impact in a serious league than ronaldo in this age and opted for the mls though

I can imagine him easily being the best in serie a or still be a potent force in the pl or la liga

tazmania

Gunner89 r it could be the reason he's still fresh is because he wasted those 3 years in a very bad league where they can't even spell intensity

Dom

Gunner89 sad he opted to take 3 proper years where he could've made a much more tangible impact in a serious league

The most tragic of Messi's missing years are, IMO, the two he didn't spend in prison.

Sicario2

Gunner89 it’s the fact he’s been playing in MLS that has allowed him to be relevant/fresh in this World Cup imo.

His mentality when his country went 1-0 down was unreal, took full ownership.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Gunner89 the middle section of your post is mad confusing.

Mirth

GooneriC yes, if the alternative is to risk a champions league spot. You don’t just pick and choose where you finish, you know.

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