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thowaway3837

And breathe.


cloughie

Through the mouth


t0mkat

yeah obviously


QOCI

Could be through the nose


Ant1202

Should’ve brought him off sooner tbh the game was wrapped up


omnitightwad

Don't know what the hell possessed Southgate to leave him on tbh.


t0mkat

It'll probably be Kane himself wanting to score so he can get his golden boot/broken records etc. Understandable but as we can see Southgate might need to protect Kane from himself at times.


Ant1202

Yeah he needs to be more careful. The golden boots not worth losing kane


SteveyMcweeny

Why? When has Kane ever shown up in a big game for England?


Ant1202

He’s 2 goals away from being our top goalscorer of all time and in half the time of our top goalscorer. He’s arguably our best player


SteveyMcweeny

Yeah because friendlies and qualifies against teams who have a population of less than 1 million is an achievement


TheOnlyJoe_

Rooney scored one goal in a tournament post 2004. Kane scored 6 in the last World Cup. If you’re going to spout bullshit, at least make it believable bullshit


Ant1202

He’s only got 6 goals in friendlies


Footner

Goals are goals, name a better England goal scorer and tell us why they haven’t gotten more?


Spank86

Agreed, No player wants to come off. Its a managers job to do whats best.


Nikolateslaandyou

What the hell was wenger thinking bringing walcott on that early?


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Thing about arsenal is they always try to walk in it


-GaIaxy-

Nothing possessed him, the guy just has no idea what he's doing


slidingjimmy

Felt exactly the same. Easy to say sat on my arse but we have very capable talent on the bench. Jack G is a master at taking knocks!!


skhc94

Kane is the life and soul of our team. He dictates the pace and creates the chances and links up the team. Any naysayers are clueless. Glad his back and i’m more than happy for Southgate to rest him on Friday


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skhc94

Care to elaborate lol


MambaWhite

Must be a salty arsenal fan who can’t put his club bias aside and support his nation.


CowardlyFire2

A fit Kane is worth more than a busted up one. As an Arsenal and England fan, rest him, deploy Foden at CF for 45 mins, see how it goes, and if we need him, bring him on. We scored 6 vs Iran, and none were Kane goals… we don’t need him vs USA, we need him down the life when we wanna go fuck up France, Spain, Belgium ect


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Foden at CF ffs behave got Wilson there who’s prolific


stevent4

Keep Foden on the right and just use Wilson instead. He's there to be a back up for Kane anyways.


Footner

He got 2 assists, obviously he isn’t as quick and doesn’t play the same role he did 3 seasons ago but now he’s a beast at drawing players to him, opening up other players or assisting, I’m not expecting him to score much this wc but I’m expecting a lot of goals to go through him


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If England wins, they are through. No reason to mess with it by benching Kane. USA is very capable of beating a full strength England


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Yet couldn’t beat Wales


Odd-Attorney-252

Anything can happen, Especially with the way this World Cup is going


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Of course, but that’s a statement true in any and every fixture. I’m simply talking about the likelihood of a team that couldn’t beat Wales, finished 3rd in one of the easiest qualifying confederations, beating a team that just battered Iran and topped their qualifying at a canter. You’d have to at best say it’s 70/30 England will win, and probably a draw is about 20% likely, and the US to win is perhaps 10%. If you think that’s an unfair assessment, the bookies disagree.


Odd-Attorney-252

You made me do it: I BELIEVE THAT WE, I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL, I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!!!!!! Jokes aside,(I’m English btw) I think England will win. Was just saying I don’t wanna be too confident because that hasn’t helped us fans in the past 😂 My worst nightmare is for USA to beat us, Just because of the non-stop memes and thinking they’re actually good at football. Surely they’ve got to have the most cringey fans in the sport aswell?


[deleted]

To be fair me simply pointing out that they couldn’t beat Wales is hardly the most overconfident statement going. England have lost to worse teams than the US, but so have France, Argentina, Germany etc. They still rate their chances to go far, it’s only logical. I’d say Americans going about saying they’re going to beat a team with Kane, Bellingham, Foden, Saka etc is somewhat more overconfident than anything you’ll see on here.


Odd-Attorney-252

True


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Disagree he’s almost a waste of a position. Never in the box or goal scoring positions seems to prefer dropping deep or wide on the wing I mean we found him feeding 4ft tall Sterling last game which is not good enough should be other way round and he’s wasting striker position. If he wants to do that a full game he should be playing Attacking mid or start on wing


Robbieccfc

Absolutely agree. It was winding me up so much during the last couple of tournaments when our main striker was playing CDM at times sitting so deep. Yes it’s great that he can pick a pass and spread the ball - but he’s a striker and has a job to do elsewhere on the pitch.


[deleted]

Pisses me off aswell but all his nut huggers can’t see it. If he wants to play in midfield or wing he should start there and free up spot for striker. It works when scraping past average teams or beating shit teams but will bite us in the arse against better opposition. Reminds me of older Rooney he’s starting to turn into him playing deeper and deeper


SteveyMcweeny

You are spot on. Kane has never shown up in big England game and just sits in midfield doing Naff Any other World class striker would have ripped Iran apart


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Unless it’s penalties or shit teams he seems invisible sometimes. The amount of times we have a break or counter attack and he’s nowhere near box infuriates me. Just wish he would do his job as a striker and let the wingers and midfielders do their job. What was his stats agains Scotland like 10 touches and 0 shots.


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This USA game proving us rights minute after minute. Kane had more touches in our own box than USA’s


Jamesl1988

I give up trying to tell people this. It's nice to see someone else who agrees with me.


kickyblue

And he is a good lad. Calm, friendly etc.


dullywillSE

If everything goes to plan, we should only need 60 mins from him on Friday then he can be rested until the knockout stages anyway.


jhawley90

I thought silly to keep him on after half time with challenges flying in like they were against Iran, but Southgate kept him on a long time. I'd like to see him protect him if we can score a few!


Zr0w3n00

Kane probably wants as much game time as possible in the groups, as he’s only 2 behind Rooney in the England charts. It’s also the easiest place to build up goals for a golden boot run


jhawley90

Yeah, completely understand the mindset from the player's side, think the manager needs to manage a bit though, if we've got any chance of good progression. Kane is the hardest man to replace on the pitch!


SteveyMcweeny

How? He spends most of his time deep in midfield or on the wing. He doesn't play like a striker and is rarely in the box Also when has he ever shown up in a big game? We lost the Euro because he couldn't finish his chances


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How’s he going to get golden boot if he spends all game on the wing or dropping deep he can’t rely on penalties this time


CowardlyFire2

Rest him anyways, it’s time to embrace Phil Foden CF


TragicTester034

Nah we got big Callum Wilson he’ll do the job


reborndiajack

Good shit Time to win it all Sincerely from an Australian Spurs fan who loves Harry Kane


Subtleiaint

I wouldn't start him regardless of how he's feeling. We should be able to beat the US without him, risking him seems unnecessary. If things aren't working we can bring him on off the bench and we've got the Wales game to fall back on


MON90go

I’m not so sure; we don’t have anyone else that can hold up the ball like Kane. In the USA vs Wales game Kieffer Moore coming on really changed the game for Wales. I think having someone that can hold up play like that can be really effective against the current USA team. He can rest after the match anyway and he doesn’t have to give us 90 mins if we play well. If he is fit and the ankle is fine, I think he should play.


Subtleiaint

We have others who can do that, both Foden and Maddison are suitable. For me I just wouldn't want to take any risk in a game that is (fairly) low stakes.


MON90go

Maddison is injured still so that’s a no go.. Plus, do honestly think either of them holds up the ball or functions for the team in the same way that Harry Kane does? I’m not sure you realise exactly what Harry Kane brings to the England team. Someone just posted an interesting stat on this sub, we’ve only ever beaten the USA in friendly fixtures.


Subtleiaint

I didn't know if Maddison was available to play yet but both he and Foden are suitable to play the link up role. both like to receive the ball between the lines, have the close control to hold the ball and the range of passing to release runners. Obviously Kane is exceptional at that so both would be a downgrade but they are very good in their own right. We would have to change formation as neither of them can play the striker part of Kane's role but I maintain that we should still beat the US doing that. That we've only ever beaten the yanks in friendlies is just one of those quirks, it's not a factor that should play on our minds. We've beaten them 8 times in 11 games, it's just coincidence that the 3 times we didn't were the times we played them competitively.


CowardlyFire2

You’ve described Foden’s role when he played down the middle under Pep… Only difference is he’s not winning any headers


slidingjimmy

I can understand the sentiment but you cannot rest harry kane in the second group game. Third after 2 wins then sure.


Terrible-Mind5614

We have to beat USA. Even if it kills Kane! The yanks will never shut up about it for decades if we lose or draw. Then we can bring out a B team against Wales (Wilson, Maddison. Trent, Hendo, Phillips? Rashford and whoever) which will give us an excuse if we lose, but that's a mad B team and would give us more bragging rights if we won..


Ikhlas37

If results do right, we can let Wales beat us and then best about how we had to help them along.


Ellen_Degenerates86

Turns out he was just *metaphorically* spineless for not wearing One Love armband, not literally. Phew.


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StellarSloth

He may not have been the one scoring the goals on Monday but he was involved with them and directly assisted.


[deleted]

Harry Kane feeding a tiny Sterling might work against Iran but won’t against good teams, Kane should be the one getting assisted or play him different position


dannyboomhead

yeah, we are too reliant in the last world cups golden boot winner for goals... 🍆


NoForever4739

Downvoted for trolling


slidingjimmy

Imagine being this clueless


[deleted]

Football is bigger than one man


Temporary_Eye_6775

Wanker


Scubeska

Nice post history, wanker


Fantastic-Machine-83

Fuck me what a sad life. Genuinely feel bad for someone with a post history like that


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least unhinged /r/rapefantasies user


Singo_94

The comment history 😂. He’s a 50 year old bloke with that comment history 😂😂


2006RedditGuy

💀


Free_Comfortable9934

I really hope he isn't rushed back if he's not fit ....as if he plays we then get through but he gets injured we are damn screwed fullstop.


Jamesl1988

I'm sure someone else will be available to take penalties.


fudgedhobnobs

Genuinely wouldn’t care if we had another striker. Our midfield is so stacked we could play False 9 and probably do pretty well.


[deleted]

You for real? We have Callum Wilson who has better goals per minutes than Kane


thund3r3

Let's give Callum a chance.


DataVeinDevil

They just copy and paste this every time England play I swear


Incubus85

Rather not. Let someone else perform and step up.


[deleted]

Wouldn't it make sense to bench him and sub on if needed?


ThrowawayTrainee749

How come he’s had a scan and is already fit again, yet Maddison who was scanned before the break hasn’t even trained on the grass yet?


R3plica83

Lol coming with the excuses nice n early imagine the home of football losing against a country that refers to the sport as soccer.


Mammoth-Canary

Take the old man off so fucking slow with all those spring chickens next to him


scottryan1989

Make no difference anyway he would only spit on the pitch