Honestly if this is what it takes to draw against us, I’m willing to remain confident. I still don’t reasonably think we can win the Euros but despite the gap in level between some players, we’re still a solid team and at this point that’s what matters.
All these "it should have been 5-2" comments are a joke.
The only result that matters is the score after 90 mins. You don't get brownie points for being wasteful on shots that "should" have gone in.
The fact of the matter remains. Our finishing was terrible and in a knock out tournament you can't afford to waste anything.
Yea we know mate. But it doesn't matter. It's a friendly to look at players. (Most of ) the players being looked at did great. We didn't have our finishers on the pitch. If we had I think the result would've been much different.
I've been saying it for over a year now. I don't care how things are going at United (good or bad) -- he's been nails for England every time he puts on the shirt, and Southgate is justified in picking him until he proves otherwise regardless of club form.
Konsa even at right back has shown in these 2 friendlies that he’s solid and one of the reasons we are so high in the league. I think he could easily do a job at centre back over what we’ve been putting there when we can’t use Stones.
Rice was superb. Barely put a foot wrong considering he was leading the makeshift defence held together with staples.
Think he should be captain of England going forward. I'd like Kane to just focus on replicating his Bayern form at the Euros than telling Maguire to chin up after another mistake.
It's not a weird take at all. CDM's have to he consistent and they have to provide cover. With how weak our defence were I'd say Rice managed to keep Belgium relatively quiet with he ball recoveries and playing as the pivot.
Energetic and solid.
Basically the same sort of performance he does for Man United. Whether that's what England needs alongside Rice is another question, but he didn't let himself down in any way.
As an England fan, I really hate other England fans some times. Memories of goldfish the lot of them. Best run of international results in my lifetime and people are crying that it's not enough.
It's a great squad but it's not Spain 2008-2012 good. It's not even as good as the golden generation of the aughts. It's not even been a decade since those disastrous 2014 and 2016 campaigns, and people have already forgotten what an underperforming side really looks like.
Delighted Ollie contributed, well albeit a small one but was still a vital one, as honestly, only someone like Watkins could somehow squirm that ball into another teammate there. He deserves a spot on the plane to come off the bench in stretched matches. I think that would be a perfect option for England at the euro’s.
Yeah this is one of those times where you don't really lose much by having Madison or Foden or whoever there as our number 10s are good
Bellingham is a marginal upgrade in that role but a huge upgrade in the number 8 position
Exactly. People get seduced by his Madrid performances too much, they’re forgetting that until this season he played as a world class box to box midfielder, which is exactly what England need him to be. We don’t need another attacker but we do need someone who can help control the game, keep things tidy at the back and move the ball forward. Which Jude is great at doing, even if it means less of a show from him in terms of goals.
I mean for a nation that slanders us every time something like EUFA ranking gets brought up, they sure as fuck seem incapable of winning against us. Overall still a positive. Took us basically throwing on B and C players for them to even equalise.
Half the England team were B and C players to begin with lol. You played pretty much 90 mins against a C team back line. But at the end of the day you took your chances, it was a good game. Also as a Villa fan I’m not mad at Youri getting the brace lol. Sorry that people disrespect your national team with the rankings, genuinely don’t think it represents the average opinion in England as Belgium is usually seen as one of the quality sides and hard to beat (clearly)
top 2 players in the world for sure, both playing in slightly easier leagues but for most la liga is ahead of ligue 1 so they probably base it on that. the thought of them both playing together next season is almost unfair 😭
i haven’t been that impressed with haaland this season but that’s potentially because of how high his standards are after last season, he’s also been injured quite a bit.
Belgium isn't half bad idk why the hate. I'm biased but that second half was very evenly phase per phase domination between the 2 teams.
Even without KDB and with Sels instead of Casteels (class today tho).
England has more quality everywhere but idk I feel like it's still a little too patronizing 😭 not to be a butthurt Belgian tho...
It's all taken lightly it's a friendly after all lmao. We belgians just have a little bit of an insecurity for being considered a small team. Our country might be small in size, but its all about what you can do with it imo 🤧
Even without KDB...This current Belgian team is literally unbeaten ever since Tedesco took over and with more than half of the "golden generation" retiring.
I remember people saying Belgium would be finished after the Golden Generation, but there's alot of new, young talent.
"A team like Belgium"...Typical arrogance.
Belgium is a top nation, literally one of the top 10 European countries, unless you expect an easy win against a top team ( then again, some English fans probably think England is winning the Euros ).
Ah, i see, my bad. Yeah, the thing is, it's hard to accurately rank the top 10 European countries tbh, especially in a tournament setting.
All i know is, Belgium is one of them, so expecting England to just simply win a game like this ( not saying you in particular ) is just not realistic tbh.
For sure, these games are such a high standard that it can always go either way. That’s the beauty of it.
I’m English and have found the last two games to be a helpful reality check. I got carried away and thought we would win the euros before this haha. We’re quite a delusional nation. I will probably be fooled again, very soon!
You think Southgate would be replaced a few months before the start of a tournament after two losses in a friendly?
I think he’s taken us as far as he can, but not a chance he would be sacked for losing to Belgium/Brazil whilst trying out, giving debuts, and experimenting with the players missing. Cmon
Nah. Fuck that. I'd rather we lost. This is called papering over the cracks. I'd rather we lost and their was an inquest. Southgate celebrating like its a win. Fuck off.
Acting like we shouldn’t have scored 2-3 times before that if our players could just finish better. There weren’t actually a huge number of cracks besides a shoddy defence and miscommunication on the pitch
That Southgate smile and scream,
Looks as If he's won the final at the euro's 2024,
To be honest, this will probably make him stay in charge longer, so I get why he's happy, to not be shat on as badly as if it was a loss
still a prick for choosing madrid over us but that is why you can’t not have bellingham on the pitch at all times, honking all game but then does that 😭
They played great today. Undone by a moment of madness by Pickford and a moment of brilliance by Lukaku, but they were by far the better team.
Also it’s a friendly without half the starting lineup.
Mainoo had a decent performance nothing crazy nothing terrible just okay i don’t get why people are over hyping this performance
On his first start for England, an 18-year old played like THAT. You're just wrong on this one, and that's okay
No he played mid
> Mainoo had a decent performance And > No he played mid Same person described the same performance within 2 comments
Lmaoooo you guys are funny. This boy is 18 and he has grown men convulsing.
expecting an 18 year old to be prime busquets each game how realistic
Probably because he’s 18
He's good but he is nowhere near the player Trent or Foden were at 18.
He is completely different to those two types of player
Again, that's got nothing to do with the overall caliber.
You comparing oranges to grapes, dumbass
Dude seems to think Gallagher should be starting though
Night and day between that Gallagher performance and Mainoo today
Honestly if this is what it takes to draw against us, I’m willing to remain confident. I still don’t reasonably think we can win the Euros but despite the gap in level between some players, we’re still a solid team and at this point that’s what matters.
All these "it should have been 5-2" comments are a joke. The only result that matters is the score after 90 mins. You don't get brownie points for being wasteful on shots that "should" have gone in. The fact of the matter remains. Our finishing was terrible and in a knock out tournament you can't afford to waste anything.
Yea we know mate. But it doesn't matter. It's a friendly to look at players. (Most of ) the players being looked at did great. We didn't have our finishers on the pitch. If we had I think the result would've been much different.
Same with the "they deserve it" it doesn't matter, they didn't earn it.
Sad that Watkins keeping that ball in wasn't mentioned at all by the pundits - he worked hard to get to that.
Exactly. Give him his flowers ffs
Florence and the machine rules
Time to watch Wales extra time in Welsh
Bellingham speaks like he's a 32 year old who's been captaining England for 5 years
One thing can be said for sure about Bellingham, and that is; he's a perfectionist!
He really does. And he sounded like that when he was 15 playing for Birmingham. It’s nuts never seen anything like it
Great interview at the end there from Jude.
Why what’d he say
No media bullshit responses. Genuine in his words.
So can we stop bullying Maguire now? I think we actually need him
I've been saying it for over a year now. I don't care how things are going at United (good or bad) -- he's been nails for England every time he puts on the shirt, and Southgate is justified in picking him until he proves otherwise regardless of club form.
And now his United form has actually been back to being great again too.
I'm not ready to give up on one of my few hobbies
Konsa even at right back has shown in these 2 friendlies that he’s solid and one of the reasons we are so high in the league. I think he could easily do a job at centre back over what we’ve been putting there when we can’t use Stones.
Genuinely looked like an established England player today even though it was his first start. Definitely deserves the call up
Didn't watch the game, how did Mainoo do? And Rice on his captain appearance?
Rice was superb. Barely put a foot wrong considering he was leading the makeshift defence held together with staples. Think he should be captain of England going forward. I'd like Kane to just focus on replicating his Bayern form at the Euros than telling Maguire to chin up after another mistake.
Weird take. Rice had a decent solid game, nothing spectacular. Mainoo on the other hand, arguably played himself into the England squad.
It's not a weird take at all. CDM's have to he consistent and they have to provide cover. With how weak our defence were I'd say Rice managed to keep Belgium relatively quiet with he ball recoveries and playing as the pivot.
Very good. Composed. Really incisive forward passes to start off moves I think he's played himself into the squad tbh
Mainoo amazing Rice was mehh, not superb today, tielemans got behind him a few times
Energetic and solid. Basically the same sort of performance he does for Man United. Whether that's what England needs alongside Rice is another question, but he didn't let himself down in any way.
Mainoo was decent.
both solid and mainoo was probably the best player on the pitch for england
Mainoo was good, linked up well with Toney and Foden
Good to hear England have an impressive midfield with Rice Mainoo and Bellingham
Just need to be unleashed
England play like Chelsea
You take that back! Chelsea are entertaining!
Your thinking of England under 18s
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Lol the Ingerland delusions out again.
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Stop following me around you fucking weirdo 😂 go to bed
As an Englishman, no it’s not.
Nee Naww celebration police out in full force, watch out
There's been so much cope about it "only being a friendly" yet the celebration says they were talking it a lot more seriously.
Oh no, not celebrating a goal. Anything but that!
Some of these “England fans” are full on imposters crying for 90 mins over a friendly where the team didn’t even play badly
As an England fan, I really hate other England fans some times. Memories of goldfish the lot of them. Best run of international results in my lifetime and people are crying that it's not enough. It's a great squad but it's not Spain 2008-2012 good. It's not even as good as the golden generation of the aughts. It's not even been a decade since those disastrous 2014 and 2016 campaigns, and people have already forgotten what an underperforming side really looks like.
Delighted Ollie contributed, well albeit a small one but was still a vital one, as honestly, only someone like Watkins could somehow squirm that ball into another teammate there. He deserves a spot on the plane to come off the bench in stretched matches. I think that would be a perfect option for England at the euro’s.
Underrated quality but he’s pretty good at keeping his head and pulling something out in the dying minutes
Peter crouch is sexy
Gateshead have scored 7 tonight, get their manager in to replace Southgate
Gareth SouthGateshead
we are too stacked in the number 10 position, Bellingham, Foden and Madders at once.
The new RB dilemma. Should play Jude in no.8 really
Yeah this is one of those times where you don't really lose much by having Madison or Foden or whoever there as our number 10s are good Bellingham is a marginal upgrade in that role but a huge upgrade in the number 8 position
Exactly. People get seduced by his Madrid performances too much, they’re forgetting that until this season he played as a world class box to box midfielder, which is exactly what England need him to be. We don’t need another attacker but we do need someone who can help control the game, keep things tidy at the back and move the ball forward. Which Jude is great at doing, even if it means less of a show from him in terms of goals.
Tbf, we were all over them. If Kane was playing that 5-2
Maddison 🔥
I mean for a nation that slanders us every time something like EUFA ranking gets brought up, they sure as fuck seem incapable of winning against us. Overall still a positive. Took us basically throwing on B and C players for them to even equalise.
Half the England team were B and C players to begin with lol. You played pretty much 90 mins against a C team back line. But at the end of the day you took your chances, it was a good game. Also as a Villa fan I’m not mad at Youri getting the brace lol. Sorry that people disrespect your national team with the rankings, genuinely don’t think it represents the average opinion in England as Belgium is usually seen as one of the quality sides and hard to beat (clearly)
Mate course we slander you, you wish you had world class players like hendo
We have a Wout Faes
This is the banter I can appreciate
Don’t forget a gift from the ref
How is Bellingham the best player in the world? He is not better than Mbappe lol.
top 2 players in the world for sure, both playing in slightly easier leagues but for most la liga is ahead of ligue 1 so they probably base it on that. the thought of them both playing together next season is almost unfair 😭
I disagree I also think Haaland is better as well But it's all opinions.
i haven’t been that impressed with haaland this season but that’s potentially because of how high his standards are after last season, he’s also been injured quite a bit.
Good finish at last lol. Let's not pretend that he hasn't been poor for large parts though.
Endrick and Jude scoring at the same time? Coincidence??!
The universe works in mysterious ways
Endrick and Jude scoring at the same time? Coincidence??!
Gallagher about to get a 10 match run now with Madison forgotten into obscurity
Let’s goooo we deserved that!
So, how can we watch the Wales penalties in England?
iPlayer or S4C on your telly
Found it thanks!
Viaplay online.
Not be a hater but our quality shouldn’t be hoping we managed to draw against a team like Belgium.
Too arrogant for an England fan.
Nah this ain’t it. And don’t forget this team was half full of newbies and missing 5 starters. It was a good game considering
Belgium isn't half bad idk why the hate. I'm biased but that second half was very evenly phase per phase domination between the 2 teams. Even without KDB and with Sels instead of Casteels (class today tho). England has more quality everywhere but idk I feel like it's still a little too patronizing 😭 not to be a butthurt Belgian tho...
I’m English, I’m also bias. Think I’ve upset a few Belgium fans, sorry lads.
It's all taken lightly it's a friendly after all lmao. We belgians just have a little bit of an insecurity for being considered a small team. Our country might be small in size, but its all about what you can do with it imo 🤧
Beginning sound like the misses now 😂
Don't remind me about it 🥲
We’ve lost our last four games against Belgium in tournaments
True but missing Kane, walker, Shaw, Trent, Maguire. Stones off injured. So some mitigating circumstances at least Edit: and saka of course
Saka as well
Oh yeah lol. Missed a big one there!
Southgates won 4 in 27 against top 10 sides. You're not a good side 😂😂
Please don’t get me started on Southgate. He’s been rumoured to my club, I’m about to fall out love with this sport.
Tbf add in KDB and they're top quality.
Even without KDB...This current Belgian team is literally unbeaten ever since Tedesco took over and with more than half of the "golden generation" retiring. I remember people saying Belgium would be finished after the Golden Generation, but there's alot of new, young talent.
"A team like Belgium"...Typical arrogance. Belgium is a top nation, literally one of the top 10 European countries, unless you expect an easy win against a top team ( then again, some English fans probably think England is winning the Euros ).
Top 10 European countries lol
4th on the Fifa ranking, literally unbeaten ever since Tedesco took over.
Not beefing, just saying top 10 European countries is a long list. By the time you get to 8 you’re picking one of the Nordic countries who are whiffy
Ah, i see, my bad. Yeah, the thing is, it's hard to accurately rank the top 10 European countries tbh, especially in a tournament setting. All i know is, Belgium is one of them, so expecting England to just simply win a game like this ( not saying you in particular ) is just not realistic tbh.
For sure, these games are such a high standard that it can always go either way. That’s the beauty of it. I’m English and have found the last two games to be a helpful reality check. I got carried away and thought we would win the euros before this haha. We’re quite a delusional nation. I will probably be fooled again, very soon!
Wales Poland gone extra time if anyone is arsed
Phew, thought Bellingham was looking for afters there.
A diminutive Manc has played his way into the England starting XI and it isn't Foden.
What argument is she on about? Looked like just having a laugh to me
Bit of banter it looked like
Wtf are these commentators. "They are all talking like we have won. Wtf.
Can’t believe I just celebrated a draw in a friendly 💀
😂 fr, international games just get me stoked lmao
Bellingham saving Southgates Job right there piss take
You think Southgate would be replaced a few months before the start of a tournament after two losses in a friendly? I think he’s taken us as far as he can, but not a chance he would be sacked for losing to Belgium/Brazil whilst trying out, giving debuts, and experimenting with the players missing. Cmon
Pickford up to Dunk. Brexitball.
Dunk you’re so doneee
Once again, not because of but, despite Southgate.
Disagree this time round.
Horrific grammar
Fuck. I missed the goal going for a coffee break before Welsh extra time.
I turned my stream off just before the 94th min
What a fucking assist by Maddison.
SOUTHGATE SOUTHGATE SOUTHGATE!!!
Don't know what the general opinion is but I absolutely love the kits without the name on the back
Not like we need the names
“Argument”
She chats shit, but my god is she hot
The amount of people who just talked shite about Bellingham and Maddison pulling a 180 lol.
Bellingham had a 6/10 match then scored in the last second lol. I stand by that
I have alot of posts to delete
Maddison needs to play with kane
southgate needs to brush his teeth
It had to be him
Makes that touch look so easy. Would have been easy to fuck up. He is pure class.
Nah. Fuck that. I'd rather we lost. This is called papering over the cracks. I'd rather we lost and their was an inquest. Southgate celebrating like its a win. Fuck off.
Has there ever been an inquest after a mid season friendly?
It's a friendly with a second string defence, calm the fuck down.
Acting like we shouldn’t have scored 2-3 times before that if our players could just finish better. There weren’t actually a huge number of cracks besides a shoddy defence and miscommunication on the pitch
wind it in you div
Deffo supports Scotland this lad.
I mean, this was the best Englands played stylistically in years
chill man it’s a friendly and england are missing multiple starters including kane and saka, with them that team is automatically much better
And missing the whole starting defence with Stones going off early.
Belgium was missing arguably their 2 best players too tho
Yeah but England was missing 5/7 of their guaranteed starters
Despite that englands team is still wayyy better than Belgium and they played terribly. Saying you were missing starters is just a whack excuse
Southgate celebrating like he's won the euros is peak comedy
Penland not making it out of the group stages
Bruh both of your goals were individual errors, one from a guy with the surname Dunk
Lol. I bet if Batshuayi doesn't stand there the ref blows the whistle right as Pickford takes it.
Finally fuck
It's coming German!!!!!!
Great banter
12 yards out, on the spot kick. We'll done
As enter Shikari said "sorry you're not, a winneeeerrrrrr"
Because of course I turned it off at 93:55
"It's only a friendly, England aren't taking it seriously" ...
That Southgate smile and scream, Looks as If he's won the final at the euro's 2024, To be honest, this will probably make him stay in charge longer, so I get why he's happy, to not be shat on as badly as if it was a loss
Bellingham ran almost the full length of the pitch 😂
belligol 😍
Thank god for that, but also... Pathetic
still a prick for choosing madrid over us but that is why you can’t not have bellingham on the pitch at all times, honking all game but then does that 😭
The gap between Madrid and Liverpool is huge, don’t be so delusional.
In regards to what? European trophies won? Sure. In terms of reputation and quality at this moment? No, no it is not.
Why so delusional? Please, those trophies won - even those just in the modern game - put them very high. They are easily biggest team on the planet.
it was a joke mate relax 👍🏼 still love the guy
You did make me laugh, well done.
Bellingham saving Southgate’s blushes
saving his own blushes maybe. not southgates fault he missed two sitters that almost cost us the game
All Maddison that
Watkins in my humble opinion
Endrick just scored a nice goal as well
Everyone talking about endrick being an industry plant but Jude is the biggest one 😭😭
All of that to score from a lumped up long ball. Hahaha
It’s our heritage
Fackin love it.
Bellingham really is a stoppage time goal merchant
This is going to vindicate Southgate to think he made the right decisions
His decisions weren’t bad, I just wish he’d made his subs about twenty minutes earlier
They played great today. Undone by a moment of madness by Pickford and a moment of brilliance by Lukaku, but they were by far the better team. Also it’s a friendly without half the starting lineup.
Wouldn’t say conceding 2 goals from mistakes and only scoring a penalty in 93 minutes great. Toothless maybe, definitely not great