kazza » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:41 am wrote:As is the norm England wilted at the time they thought they had a chance and the media hype and built up expectations finally took their toll. When I woke up to Skynews wearing vests ( even the woman) I knew we were in trouble, do that sh1t after you win the final not before the semifinal. At the end of the day they were not good enough, a team of runners without a clever player in the team. Big mistake making Kane captain as he was a little selfish and should have put the team before his personal glory as well as the fact he can't even speak properly, Hendo was much more a captain in the team than Kane.
Best thing now is for Croatia to win the WC as that would have the best impact on Liverpool next year in my opinion.
Kane was awful, he missed a great chance to make it 2-0 (Croatia wouldn't have come back from that imo) and then spent the rest of the game walking around like he was out for a stroll in the park. Alli didn't play well either but at least he rolled his sleeves up and put in a shift for the team, he must have run a half marathon attacking then helping out in defence.
Southgate should have seen that Croatia were struggling to deal with Sterlings pace and brought on Rashford to partner Raheem up top, he didn't have the bottle to take golden boy Kane off though.
For all the stick Sterling has took he was by far England's best attacker on the night and once he went off it was all Croatia.
Ironically the chance Kane missed was pretty much a carbon copy of Manducic's winner, it was at the same end as well.
Hopefully the fact that we haven't had many players at this WC will help us this coming season.
Good luck to Dejan in the final as well, during the build up to the game the press wouldn't shut up about that match at Wembley where Jurgen dragged him off after 20 minutes, he had Kane in his pocket last night though.