Tunisia - England

[adamtherover]

Carrying passengers, Ali , Sterling not effective .

Sterling has been very good. Great first half. Should be three up.
[/quote really..  non existent for me..

[Copps is Magic]

Henderson has made some excellent runs back towards his own goal.

Young fouls the opposition player every time he loses the ball. Which is every time he has the ball.

[Cantley Rover]

Same old England I'm afraid.

[DevilMayCry]

Goal Kane in 91th minute 

[since-1969]

Carrying passengers, Ali , Sterling not effective .

Sterling has been very good. Great first half. Should be three up.

He’s Shite 1 goal in 30

[DonnyOsmond]

Sterling has either lost the ball or fallen over.

Loftus-Cheek was decent.

[Copps is Magic]

Who says the Russian's don't have a sense of humour! Football's coming home playing in the stadium 

[drfchound]

Same old England I'm afraid.

Not really, we found a way to win.

[Filo]

All you can say about that is job done, we were also blessed with the worst referee and worst VAR team of the World Cup so far

[drfchound]

McGuire had a solid second half.

[mushRTID]

Alli and Sterling were rubbish. Their places must be under threat for the next game.

[Filo]

McGuire had a solid second half.

He did, but first half was shocking

[drfchound]

All you can say about that is job done, we were also blessed with the worst referee and worst VAR team of the World Cup so far

Yes on both points.
Brazil and a Germany didn’t get the job done.

[Copps is Magic]

Alli and Sterling were rubbish. Their places must be under threat for the next game.

The attack barring Kane is not the requisite class, let's be honest. Let's see how far he can take us.

[drfchound]

Plenty of the usual negativity about England on here but that should have been four or five one.

[DonnyNoel]

Well deserved win. Save for one moment of switching off to concede a penalty we were much the better side. Should have had two penalties and the subs made an impact (could’ve happened earlier). Wasteful in front of goal. 3-0 at HT on another day and no teeth grinding.

[drfchound]

Henderson has made some excellent runs back towards his own goal.

Young fouls the opposition player every time he loses the ball. Which is every time he has the ball.

Henderson also made lots of good forward runs and passes.

[DonnyNoel]

Alli and Sterling were rubbish. Their places must be under threat for the next game.

thought Alli should have been pulled on the early injury. Really good impact from the subs though, both very direct and fearless players. Hopefully RLC finds a role at Chelsea next year.

[DonnyNoel]

McGuire had a solid second half.

He did, but first half was shocking

good interview from him on that though. As a young ball playing centre half he’ll make those errors til his decision making becomes top drawer. Massive future ahead of him and a much more cultured CB than his physique suggests.

[drfchound]

McGuire had a solid second half.

He did, but first half was shocking

good interview from him on that though. As a young ball playing centre half he’ll make those errors til his decision making becomes top drawer. Massive future ahead of him and a much more cultured CB than his physique suggests.

Yes, and as Linekar pointed out, an honest assessment of his own performance.

I don’t think Cahill could have contributed as much to England’s game plan in the second half and in reality, Tunisia didn’t threaten us in the second half.

[sedwardsdrfc]

I thought we were good the longer a team like tunisia stay in the game it just gets harder and harder, if we got what we deserved in the 1st half it would have been so easy

For me Rashford starts over Sterling and Rose over Young, i'd swap Alli with RLC if Alli is still feeling the knock which clearly affected him after the 1st 20min

[murham]

Same old rubbish for me
Can’t kick a ball in front of goal
Professionals?

[drfchound]

Bah humbug

[rtid88]

Most important game to win in the group. Not an easy game like a lot of people thought. Onto Panama, should be a winnable game and than rest a few players ready for the 2nd round.

[sedwardsdrfc]

Go to think we how barely winning the 1st group game must effect us. Imagine been in a hotel for a week festering on a poor performance while you get slated by everyone, no wonder it always seems to end up getting so desperate

Hopefully this gives us confidence to go and attack thats all we want from them really

[Filo]

I thought we were good the longer a team like tunisia stay in the game it just gets harder and harder, if we got what we deserved in the 1st half it would have been so easy

For me Rashford starts over Sterling and Rose over Young, i'd swap Alli with RLC if Alli is still feeling the knock which clearly affected him after the 1st 20min

Bang on the money with those changes

[DearneValleyRover]

Poor from Southgate he should have taken Ali and Sterling off at halftime, very poor ref fell for Tunisian histrionics every time but part of me can’t feel that everyone hates us enough to make it ok. We need a Millwall mentality. A deserved if laboured win.

[murham]

Rose tinkered spectacles spring to mind
I wish them luck but what happens when Kane gets injured
Hopefully not
He could yet be the hero.     

[DearneValleyRover]

Rose tinkered spectacles spring to mind
I wish them luck but what happens when Kane gets injured
Hopefully not
He could yet be the hero.     

What happens to Portugal if Ronaldo gets injured?

[pib]

Happy enough with that. It's all about the result especially in the first game.

Didn't expect England to be the finished article today although it was a shame they couldn't keep their lightning start going for a little bit longer.

Hopefully this will create some confidence and optimism and they can put on a more complete performance in the next couple of games.

For me, Sterling really faded and struggled to offer much after the opening 20 mins. Is it that he's tasked with being a creative spark moreso than he is at Man City where he largely feeds off the service from others? On that showing, Rashford and Loftus-Cheek have to come into consideration as they both looked more like making something happen.

Stones and Maguire were fine but Walker is the other big question mark. Not sure he's defensively good enough for that position although his pace does come in handy.