Thimmy wrote:RIP, English, working-class wives.

shouldn't actually laugh about this but

football has come home. not to pick on any england players but had sterling and lingard had finished the chances they had we would have won. great effort from the lads and i hope croatia go on to win it now but france will kill them imo.

BarcaLearning wrote:

Kebab wrote:So basically Messi faced 2 best teams of this world cup (france and croatia) in very early stages. how unlucky

now i'm thinking maybe argentina were not so bad, but they were unlucky to face these champions

Put Messi in another of these kinda teams with an actual midfield and he would have gotten 2 WCs probably

Unlucky very unlucky

EU strikes back

Not a very surprising result. England never managed to convince. Nothing group and an easy road to the semis where they finally faced a proper team.

Still a great experience for the english lads to stay in a tournament for that long.

Lmfao at those god awful substitutes by Southgate.

Sterling easily the MOTM taken off first. Alli played 120 minutes of disgusting football. Henderson who was already shit taken off for an even shitter player in Dier

Bringing Vardy on when we couldn't create

Looool, oh well for England tbh they really were overhyped in the end, they just always missing something and its hard to pinpoint, the talent has always been there... so strange, at least this time they seem to have progressed and improved generally, especially the PK won... but they have quite a few weaknesses still and tactically a bit behind it looks like.

So France probably gonna win it, but rooting for Croatia, hope for an upset, they deserve it more than France if u know what I mean.

We know majority of the English players were playing above their levels. Players like Kane have to turn up. Look at Trippier, he was crying 5 mins before full time and he's just started playing PL football let alone debuting for England this year

They are going nowhere. The game for the 3rd place is scheduled for Saturday

messi fanboy

my god

Belgium vs England A team now actually for that third place lool, Belgium gonna rape them maybe

unreal epl showdown on saturday

btw
ligue 1 & serie a >>>>> mule epl

Sorry England fans. Gutted for you guys. This is hilarious though.

got to give southgate some credit done a great job tbh. young team that had one star player. only thing i think he did wrong was stick with sterling game after game and subbed the rash on far to late. the rash should have started more games. but he is not long in the job and will learn from this. super super proud on england and its been many years since i can say that tbh.

Can we also acknowledge John Stones sleeping?

But hey

semi finals is a great achievement for this team. It hurts of course but still proud we made it this far.

our backline can hold their heads high for sure

Rashford too, hell maybe even Hendershit

Lingard, Allli, Kane and Sterling all need deporting

it hurts because after those 45 mins we looked good and like we may fluke a final with a weak side of the tournament

seriously Kane has no excuses for his performances this World Cup, he looked like a lemon for almost every game and was ghosting

Indeed. England actually lived up to their potential for once. That's a great leap forward. Now they'll be expected to make these deep trips more frequently. The target should now be Euro 2020.

Henderson is retiring from football this year so it doesn't really matter, this is the last time he'll be playing at such high levels.

Nishankly wrote:Henderson is retiring from football this year so it doesn't really matter, this is the last time he'll be playing at such high levels.

really? why?

Ox, Fabinho, Keita, Milner, Henderson in that order for 2 or 3 midfield places.

He's not going to start or be captain next season, I'm goddamn sure.

the one and only thing that pissed me off about this game is the way lovren got raped in the liverpool v spurs game and defended like a mad man tonight.

Also England would have made the final had Ox and Lallana been fit. No Liverpool bias, you can see what players ahead of Henderson needed to do and failed to because they are all direct players.

@Hapless_Hans

Imagine how much more clutch Mandzukic would be if he was at least a talent of note

Hard to argue after that performance by England that they deserved the final. Simply not enough technical ability in the team to create chances. All the attacking players were pretty useless against Croatia.

Sad to see the "it's coming home" meme die.