The Rolling Football Thread (season 2022/23) - part 2

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New thread to continue with all things football ⚽

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Good win, game got a bit sloppy towards the end.

Didn't watch the last 5 minutes as turned over to see Germany lose.

We are through, probably top unless we lose to Germany and CR do extremely well.

What do you expect? They took SR off!

I'm struggling to care about English football atm which is unlike me. I can only assume it is because the greatest tennis tournament in the world is about to begin, or just because it is all a bit meh.

I haven't bothered with the recent qualifiers and nation league games, just looked up the results afterwards and I don't even like tennis

As my old professor used to say, "tennis is a barbaric sport"!

Good to see the Smith scoring again. We need to keep him, and give him some opportunities.

Really? I watch everything! Love watching Saka play in the internationals.

Really? Not as barbaric as lacrosse which we had to play at school.

Yes, we need to keep him.

He needs to play to give Ødegaard a break. I think he has a similar kind of vision, and quality. Not identical, obviously, but still a few years younger.

And just because he's not as good as Ødegaard, certainly doesn't make him bad!

Yes, agree. Let's hope Arteta does too.

Another great win.

Trafford is an amazing GK.

I don't understand why they keep saying that we were guaranteed to top the group regardless of what happened. Surely if we had lost badly and CR had won really well then they could have topped the group?

My husband has been annoying me by singing Gordon is a Moron every time Anthony Gordon gets the ball.

I couldn't watch the game, I see Branthwaite played the whole match and Gaarner was subbed on.

We played really well and they played quite badly, but they were better in the second half.

Quite a few players had yellow cards from previous matches and so they were kept out of the game.

Another brilliant team goal.

I can't watch but am following the live text. Will check out the highlights later.

Managed to find it on youtube. The UefaTv app doesn't seem to, well, anything...

Your boy is on now

UEFA tv is working now for me

and it's gone again

Yes, but he has hardly the ball. Not sure what has happened to our team in the second half.

Had no issues with the coverage at all.

Phew!

We need to play better than this in the semis.

I don't understand how we are playing Israel when we have already played them.

But it is great that we do.

The referee was quite kind to England and Portugal were not very good at finishing chances but England were defending well at the end and needed to.

UEFAtv kept logging me out with an error message

Yes, I liked the referee.

Oh no. Which browser were you using? Had no issues on Edge (except right at the beginning when I only got stills). But as soon as the game started there were no issues.