The 2026 World Cup — Day 7

Two of the games are on the 18th

They all are US time John

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Ronaldo doing his best impression of Brian Glover in Kes

As always Liam. If he doesn't score I fear Danny Murphy might actually cry.

Maduake starts for England. What is Tuchel on?

The grass?

Um Bongo

DR Congo not settling for a draw.

A throw back to the days when both teams wanted to win. Enjoying this

Personally I think Ronaldo has more say than the manager of Portugal, Martinez should have hooked him at half-time. Portugal were fancied with the squad they have, unless they drop Ronaldo, they're going nowhere.

Liam.
Old Bridge Inn round 5ish tomorrow pal if you want a meet before the gig.
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Two great headers.

Well in DR Congo. Ronaldo, instead of looking around wondering what happened - Retire. The shot of the DR Congo fans, in the square in Portugal, surrounded by a multitude of Portugese fans - marvellous.

Sound Keith - will drop you a message mate.

Well, struggling to play footie so far...

Lots of backwards shite.

Very fortunate penalty call.

Very lucky call on the goalie moving.

I can't get my head around these hydration breaks to be honest, it's pathetic unless the temperature is completely stifling, interfering in the game and having some bird talk us through a blackboard.

The penalty stutter should be banned, goalkeeper is bound to react to it, also encroachment is always going to occur if the taker stutters his shot.

These hydration breaks are an abomination

Hydration break completely ridiculous, roof closed air conditioning on, it’s an advertisement break

They look so disjointed to me England

Is Bellingham really that good? Surely that has to be a goal.

Refs a bit of a Dick

How many hoofs is that now from Pickford?

That was coming. Too much space between the lines of the team

1-1 can't really argue with that, Croatia look more than capable.

England to me have too many individuals.

Still struggling to catch the Bellingham hype I'm in agreement, I seena good player but nowhere near the greats of the past or even present.

Too many mistakes by Madueke.

He has been poor.

Michael he wasn’t even a regular starter for Arsenal.

Kane is England's best player by some distance in terms of being a match winner, and there we see it again.

Fucking lethal centre forward

Some header that

That was a lot better.

Brilliant header.

Harry Kane special

Kane is a phenomenon - 13 in 13, leading English WC scorer now, butCroatia gave him so much space, criminal

Brilliant header by Kane, but totally free

England are all over the place defensively, no pressure on the ball

Everton deep defending

Let's see what Thomas the German has in his tank.

'midfields too open, trying to force it out the back and too many players wide..if Croatia just went driect through the middle they can carve us open'

My 18 year old pissed up in Benidorm sent me that 5 mins before the equaliser.

Tuchel is a clown

Someone has cloned Tarky and Keane in that England defence. Horrific defending.

Which one is Bellingham?

Centre halfs are abit ropey and i'm another one who seems to be missing something with Bellingham

Get Henderson on.

A poor partnership selected at centre halves.

Bellingham has shut us knobs us anyway haha

Nice to be proven wrong Jude

Reckon Pickford has said at HT "get on ToffeeWeb Jude lad"

That was a bit better from Bellingham.

Jammy shot though.

Ah that one is Bellingham. Great run by Madueke

Croatia now seem to be doing the standing off and watch them shoot, this half.

Really poor forward pass by Gordon.

I'd say Croatia's defence is more like Everton's than England's. The weel-taken but gifted goals aside I'm not impressed with Modric's boys.

What a coach Tuchel is. England on fire since ht

And that assistant scouse coach who looks like every lad in the North End in the 90s had a proper cob on

Tuchel must have given them a rocket at HT

Commentator. Modric has been out with a broken draw ! ha ha, what his kitchen draw

5 saves in 2 minutes.

Really surprised to see so many long hoofs from Pickford. How many times have England retained possession? Such a lottery.

xG for Gordon: 0.41
xG for Croatia: 0.41

That is just bizarre!

Ad break. Where do Engerlaund find all these bald middle-aged beer guts doing their knobhead jigs?

Its like the darts with these songs during the breaks

Liam @53. That assistant coach was on Everton’s books as a kid.

Good subs

Horrible Liam, just horrible.

Looks like every lad who played for Kirkdale in 1991, Les.

Vlasic

This has been more entertaining than the last 50 England matches I've watched put together. It will not do. Bring back waistcoat and drab one nils, Tuchel out!!!

Hannibal Spence has not been very good.

Croatia were really a tough test.

This was a good win and showed all the other teams England have the offence to beat anyone,

Having said that, Croatia have a few aging veterans who started the game which surprised me.

They should now win the group as I cannot see Ghana or Panama beating the Three Lions.

Many fancied teams have stumbled a little against minnows but you just know Germany, France, Spain, Argentina with the Dutch, the Belgians and Brazil are going to be stiffer tests in the knockout stages.

"We made some decisions where the energy was not free in our mind"

Who let Marco Silva out to play?

To be fair MK, the full quote was:

Wir haben einige Entscheidungen getroffen, bei denen wir nicht mit der nötigen Besonnenheit gehandelt haben. Damit meine ich, dass wir schlechte Entscheidungen gefällt haben – Entscheidungen, die viel zu überstürzt und ohne jegliche vorherige Überlegung getroffen wurden. Absolut keine.

A good performance by England but can anybody enlighten me as to why Elliot Anderson is being put in the same price bracket as the best midfielders in the world? He just seemed to run around like a yappy dog.

Michael (68) Michael, Croatia were a tougher test because England played a very cautious defensive first half, don’t know what was said at half time but once England went on the front foot they looked a completely different team and could have scored a couple more in that first twenty minutes of the second half but then in the last fifteen minutes they went back to the defensive mode and they could have paid the penalty for that only for Kane to block the equaliser close to his own goal, that’s how defensive they were with Kane that far back.

England deservedly won the game but lessons can be learned if they trust more of their attacking ability instead of being ultra defensive.

England looked very impressive going forward in the second half, and we need to maintain that level of intent and intensity.

Liked Tuchel's line that if we lose we do so playing our preferred game.

But there should be some changes for the next game.

1) Stones did not look sharp or fit - Guehi needs to play.
2) Saka is different gravy compared to Madueke.
3) James looked 6 months pregnant and made Spence look good in comparison.
4) Gordon did not affect the game compared to Rashford.

Steve, I think what you'll see with some of those players, particularly Rashford is that their role in the squad is as finishers to come on later in the game against tired defences.

It's a tactic that has been very successful for the Lionesses in tournaments.

Andrew 75.

I hope you're not comparing women's football to the so called biggest tournament in the world.

Kane spends time in Germany and is now, even better than he was at Spurs or England, in the past.

Andy @ 76, you can't deny winning tactics and mentality.

There's more to winning major tournaments than just footballing ability.