Senegal

Ipad1977

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Given that in the eyes of many by us beating them alone, they've in a heartbeat gone from being a decent side to yet another "pub team", could anyone tell me the name of the pub they turn out for please?

As it looks like them lads definitely have the party spirit going on and I wouldn't mind a pint in the place.👍
 
Would have been a completely different outcome and team progressing tonight if Sadio Mane had been fit and playing, he would have made the most of that 1st half period.
He might but considering how easily we turned them over and made it look like an October friendly v Gibraltar at Wembley after we’d got our first goal, I think we’d have still beaten them.

England haven’t been out of third gear yet. Saturday will be a proper World Cup encounter and I think it’ll be tight either way.
 
It's such a cliche to say 'Goals change Matches' buts it is true, if they had scored then you can forget about the Gibraltar team and think more of the African Champions,. I still think we can win the world cup but you need a bit of luck ( Sadio Mane being injured) and good goal keeping, thank you Pickford.
 
That's bull. We hit the tournament running and carried on from there.
We haven’t had to be at our best yet. We have made it look easy but I’m not saying that to discredit them; I think they have another gear (or two) and we will see it v France, win lose or draw.
 
Might of been different if they had taken either of their two early chances before we even started to play. Totally different game with us scoring first.
 
It's such a cliche to say 'Goals change Matches' buts it is true, if they had scored then you can forget about the Gibraltar team and think more of the African Champions,. I still think we can win the world cup but you need a bit of luck ( Sadio Mane being injured) and good goal keeping, thank you Pickford.
And if your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle. All ifs and buts.

Mane wasn't playing, Pickford did make a great save and the rest is history.
 
We haven’t had to be at our best yet. We have made it look easy but I’m not saying that to discredit them; I think they have another gear (or two) and we will see it v France, win lose or draw.
The draw with USA didn't look easy. Without us being at our best we would have lost. This gears thing is nonsense. They play to their best every game.
 
Given that in the eyes of many by us beating them alone, they've in a heartbeat gone from being a decent side to yet another "pub team", could anyone tell me the name of the pub they turn out for please?
absolutely, a couple of days ago they were gonna cause us all kinds of problems....they had one good chance but we could have scored 5.

Senegal are a very good side, make no mistake about that, it was an even game for 30 minutes, then we broke them
 
absolutely, a couple of days ago they were gonna cause us all kinds of problems....they had one good chance but we could have scored 5.

Senegal are a very good side, make no mistake about that, it was an even game for 30 minutes, then we broke them
The first goal was always going to be key in this game. If they had scored first, they would have had something to hang on to, we score first and they can't sit as deep.
 
So, do we put it down to being an off day, it certainly wasn't pretty?
It's marginal. We were looking rubbish last night in the first 30 mins but scored a good goal on the break. We have a load of pace in the squad and once teams have to open up against us we can really punish them. We rarely look good when we are not leading. We don't tend to take a lot of chances to score which is good because we don't create many against packed defences but it means we rarely have games where we will batter a team and fail to score. It always seems to be nervy and we don't get many chances, give a few away and then a bit of good play can get us a goal and then we run away with it when we do go in front.

If we can get an early goal against France, and continue to try and play and not sit really deep like we did in the Euros final then we have a good chance. If they score and then defend and try pick us off on the break then we'll be in trouble.
 
Would have been a completely different outcome and team progressing tonight if Sadio Mane had been fit and playing, he would have made the most of that 1st half period.
you simply can't say that with any authority at all. He may have, he may not. They would have played different tactics if Mane was fit and so would we. It would be a different game with too many parameters to simply state as fact we would have lost.
 
We were looking rubbish last night in the first 30 mins but scored a good goal on the break.
we were not rubbish. We dominated the ball, probed at them, tested them, fought our individual battles, other than one chance they were at arms length. Then we solved the problems they were creating, and systematically broke them down. They're the african champions with top class players, you aren't going to dominate for 90 mins.
 
If we can get an early goal against France, and continue to try and play and not sit really deep like we did in the Euros final then we have a good chance. If they score and then defend and try pick us off on the break then we'll be in trouble.
you have to have a deep backline to negate Mbappe's pace. If we play high up then he will have grass to run into
 
The draw with USA didn't look easy. Without us being at our best we would have lost. This gears thing is nonsense. They play to their best every game.
I don't think that's true at all. Professional sportsmen have to dig deep in major competitions, hence why they 'peak' in certain conditions in certain environments. Ben Stokes doesn't play like he did at Headingley in 2019 in every test match. What I'm saying is is that this team has got another level that I think they can match/beat France with. They didn't play at that level v USA.
 
It's marginal. We were looking rubbish last night in the first 30 mins but scored a good goal on the break. We have a load of pace in the squad and once teams have to open up against us we can really punish them. We rarely look good when we are not leading.
I think you have just said what I meant.
 
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