World Cup 2022 - Team and Match Discussion

Harsh, he has been on great form

Morocco at 110-1 to win WC is interesting, good side, haven't lost a game, only conceded 1. England now as short as 5-1, Holland at 14-1 good EW, so solid, Argentina so soft at back, I think Holland will send them packing .

Jesus Pickford is quite unlikeable.

That means if you put €50 on Morocco to win the WC you will definitely loose €50

Good result for England after their poor start.

They'll need to be on it from the start against France, but the French defence have their own issues and are still without a clean sheet in the tournament. I can see that quarter-final being a tight one, and maybe going to extra time, penalties. That's the Saturday evening game. It should be a cracker.

minimum requirement done for england their real wc starts v france

Starts now surely.

A Senegalese side without Mane and Gueye gave them lots of it in the first half, should have been ahead. Bellingham was good, their best player, and Henderson's energy helped turn the tide. They can't make the same errors against France though, giving away bad passes to the likes of Mbappe will be punished. Henderson struggles nowadays to play games quickly together, he has until Saturday so he may be OK. I thought both Walker and Kane looked off the pace, the game might help Walker but I can see France testing that side and he had better be at 100 percent.

A break in at his home in Surrey, flew home , I find it a bit extreme to fly home for this though, unless family was harmed, but it's not the case, just shook up I'd imagine.

I could totally understand wanting to be with his partner and kids in that event alright.

True.

I'm sure he'll get back for Saturday

I'm no fan of England at all but I found Darragh Maloney and Ronnie Whelan to be quite childish in their anti English bias. Darragh was practically watering at the mouth when he thought Senegal were going to get a pen with the Stones' handball and Ronnie came across so bitter after England’s first goal.

Ronnie did seem to ease a bit at least when he realised England were going to cruise to victory

If Neymar doesn't play are they going to have another ego wnking funeral procession for him ?

RTE coverage of anything to do with English soccer is always odd. They don’t know whether to boo/cheer. Even Sadilier felt awkward wanting England to beat Senegal so they can play France.

Even at club level I always get the impression the RTE commentary are ‘shouting’ for British teams in Europe. The tone is different really odd state of affairs. I suppose it reflects a lot of Irish society. Total confusion for a lot of people.

But then it results in a bit of an identity crisis if an opposing footballer says Ireland play ‘British football’. Or are a British side. But all the Irish national players play in Britain!

I had to laugh today how Bono’s young one was bristling having being called ‘British’ by the NY times. But I think the confusion for ‘more distant’ foreigners is understandable. Ireland’s Close ties to Britain -same language, similar jurisprudence to England. Also similar cultural values - pop culture - music - film - sport- pub culture- sport and so on.

Well she is from West Britain 🤣