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    England players in Champions League this week

    Just looked at tonight’s results in the CL and thought what a good week it’s been for England players; Pope - 9 saves and a clean sheet away in Milan Walker, White, Tomori, Trippier - 3 clean sheets from this back 4. Rice - clean sheet Bellingham - stoppage time winner Saka - goal and assist...
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    Senegal, France, Spain/Portugal, Brazil/Argentina

    These are the teams England will most likely have to beat to win the World Cup. That’s the current African Champions, the current World Champions and if we get past those two and beat the 2016 European Champions or a highly talented Spanish side, we’ll have to beat the current South American...
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    But the ball went backwards ref!

    I was genuinely amazed that Eric Dier argued this point to the referee in defence of the Kane goal ruled out for offside. Then even more amazed to find Rio Ferdinand, Jamie O'Hara and several other pundits state the same thing. Looking at comments online, it seems that half the country thinks...
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    How come no FA Cup matches have been postponed due to Covid?

    No fewer than 35 league matches were called off due to Covid between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, but as things stand, not a single FA Cup match has gone the same way so far. With UK cases at an all time high this week, have all English football clubs suddenly got a clean bill of health? I...
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    Italy's 33 game unbeaten record

    Is obviously very impressive at any level and I'm not for one second suggesting they will not be formidable opposition on Sunday. Yet perhaps it's not all it is cracked up to be. Prior to this tournament, they were unbeaten in 27 games since losing to Portugal in the Nations League in 2018...
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    Clean sheets win tournaments

    Don't believe me, well here are some stats based on the winning teams from the last 3 Euros and last 3 World Cups: Total number of games played by winners - 40 Total number of clean sheets - 25 Number of games winners scored more than 2 goals - 9 Number of games won by a single goal - 19 Number...
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