comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 10 minutes ago
Spain are favourites but they will be the least defensive team qe have come up agst in the tournament.

However we have to overcome the Harry Kane no trophies aspect 😂
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Just don't let the trophy jinx onto the pitch. Start Watkins and hopefully we can win it in 90 keeping Watkins on all game.

comment by Eric_Draven (U20260)
posted 4 minutes ago
Just shows the importance of winning your group. If we'd have come second, either Spain or France would have screwed us by now.
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As well as having penalty specialists taking pens in a shootout. Tournament football is about the details as well as riding your luck at times.

You know Kane will start. But hopefully Watkins can come on again and stretch the defence with his running.

Hopefully Morata is fit to face England. Guy got taken out by a cameraman. 😂

Professor Sir King Southgate PhD OBe MBE providing the goods once again

Got a much better feeling about this final than I did three years ago. Call it luck or w/e but there's a trend with Southgate's England of overcoming historical obstacles for England on a tournament by tournament basis, and the big one left (which knocked us out of the last World Cup) is beating a team that are categorically better than us!

Southgate's all vibes, but those vibes have followed a structure of sorts & that's the vibes result in this final, the cyclical result. What's left after that, the next progression, would be deservedly winning a tournament & obviously Southgate's not capable of that, so winning this would be a complete story

Tf did you just say?

Ok, in football terms. This England team are more experienced/tournament savvy than this technically better Spain team, so I'm confident.

See that sounds boring af.

Prefer my original comment

Cole to start on Sunday....

comment by BlueJ2 (U4630)
posted about 9 hours ago
You know Kane will start. But hopefully Watkins can come on again and stretch the defence with his running.
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And or Toney

Kane far too deep yesterday again at times

Our football legacy is potentially in the hands of what a 16 year old might do....

Not really, it’s in the hands of what we do

We’re more than capable of smashing them

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 27 minutes ago

Our football legacy is potentially in the hands of what a 16 year old might do....
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If we're fully committed to sh!thousing them we can neutralize the wingers.

This is the game where Holland can show his value. He's drawn up plans to stifle Messi in the past & they've worked, Yahal won't scare him.

What happened in Copa America last night lol. Pure chaos

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 40 minutes ago
Cole to start on Sunday....
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He should but he won't.

Personally I don't see us beating Spain if we start with the same tired side that's seen us go behind against every single team we've played in the knockout stages so far. And I think it'll be too late for our subs to save us like they've been doing all tournament.

We need to start with our freshest and most in form team and that doesn't include the likes of Kane and Bellingham in my opinion. They look dead on their feet after playing as much as they have.

Bellingham even admitted in his post match interview that he didn't think he had extra time in him yesterday. We need to start with the likes of Watkins and Palmer. I'd be tempted to find a place for Trent as well.

comment by Superb - the Director's Cut (U6486)
posted 4 hours, 6 minutes ago
Personally I don't see us beating Spain if we start with the same tired side that's seen us go behind against every single team we've played in the knockout stages so far. And I think it'll be too late for our subs to save us like they've been doing all tournament.

We need to start with our freshest and most in form team and that doesn't include the likes of Kane and Bellingham in my opinion. They look dead on their feet after playing as much as they have.

Bellingham even admitted in his post match interview that he didn't think he had extra time in him yesterday. We need to start with the likes of Watkins and Palmer. I'd be tempted to find a place for Trent as well.
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One off game,who knows. Spain obviously favourites,but Rodri is probably their most Important player if he has a rare bad game,or we somehow find a way to neutralise him then I think Spain lose their way in the match.

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted about 5 hours ago
Our football legacy is potentially in the hands of what a 16 year old might do....
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Not worried about him.Rodri is their most important ayer.

Bellingham is most deally suited to disrupting Rodri

Spain favs and an extra day rest

Interesting stat though, played them 4 times in the euro’s and won all 4

3 times in 90 mins
Once on penalties

We have a lot more to worry about Spain than just Rodri. Lamine Yamal, Fabian Ruiz, Dani Olmo and Nico Williams are all in excellent form and any one of those can kill the game.

comment by Superb - the Director's Cut (U6486)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
We have a lot more to worry about Spain than just Rodri. Lamine Yamal, Fabian Ruiz, Dani Olmo and Nico Williams are all in excellent form and any one of those can kill the game.
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Been very impressed with Fabian Ruiz, class player.

I do worry that they'll dominate the midfield against us and we're already a team on tired legs.