World Cup 2026

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bigmanbob
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Wide players, both fb and wide midfielders were horrendous last night. Not sure what Reece James offered at all.
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Defo be starting Saka and Rashford now and O'Reily too.
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I think there's a case for Gordon against better opposition, especially if O'Reilly is playing LB.

Against weaker opposition who low block and condense space then you need that extra something that Rashford can produce.

Just need to pick the right players for the right matches and it feels Tuchel got it wrong yesterday. Think his logic was we'd get a goal one way or another so being defensively sound against a fast counter was going to give us the 3 points... It didn't and we probably should have lost with Konsa sent off.
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Press are having a big overreaction as they love jumping on the England hate wagon.

Tuchel is building his team to play against the big sides on the assumption that we’ll get through far enough to do so, which makes sense if you’re hoping to actually win the thing.

If that game was a knockout game Ghana would have had to attack a bit as you can’t defend that deep for one hundred and twenty minutes, it’s not representative of the knockout football we’ll be playing after Panama.
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Works both ways with the media, beat Croatia and they were the best team in the competition and Tuchel was an absolute genius, draw with Ghana and they're back to criticising them again. Everyone went way over the top after the first game so the come down was always going to big, in reality there was no real damage done last night.
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Hard not to love Big Dunc you know
TheRam
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Not sure why but I feel like Canada and Switzerland are pretty much identical countries.
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The world cup has the likes of @Gash and @toffee_scot watching Bosnia v Qatar desperately hoping neither of them win.
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TheRam wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:09 pm Not sure why but I feel like Canada and Switzerland are pretty much identical countries.
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Not aimed at scotland in particular but the whole thing is a bit ridiculous when you get potentially get through by beating 1 god awful team and losing the other 2 games. The 3rd place qualifiers takes much of the excitement of the groups away.
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Shogun wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:16 pm The world cup has the likes of @Gash and @toffee_scot watching Bosnia v Qatar desperately hoping neither of them win.
I've genuinely no idea who we want or what we need, see what happens tonight then take it from there I guess.
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Duncan Ferguson is an absolute breath of fresh air in this world cup , absolutely loving him on this, and that dart thing before was fucking hilarious

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Shocking goalkeeping there from Canada.
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Shame Canada won't play there next two matches in Canada with defeat here
Evertonfc15
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cmon scotland hope u guys get thru
im english fan thru and thru but ........
lets see u guys create history for your country
at least u dont play a 10 man defence
much as i repesct and love brazil would be great to see fellow brits go thru :ugeek:
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