Panama - about as good as MK Dons ...

[Donnywolf]

... and just as cynical
I should know better but again I am shouting and swearing at my Telly Screen watching a right set of cheats (let them sue me) nd hating them
I have 3-0 to England but I hope (and will love it , love it) if we get 33. Cynical b******s - its what most Football has become

[Sprotyrover]

I think it's keepy ball for second half to try and stop Panama losing 4 players sent off

[Alan Southstand]

Lingers - goal of the tournament so far. And Selby wouldn’t have picked him!

[drfchound]

A complete performance by England.
All the players are contributing, it would be very churlish if anyone to have a go at any of them.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Apparently bookings carry on until the quarter finals so if Loftus cheek gets one v belgium he will miss a game have any other english players got a booking

wonder who will take the next penalty stones or harry ?

[drfchound]

I am more concerned about one or more of our players getting a bad injury from an assault by a Panama player.

[grayx]

Panama are that bad theres a slight chance even Sterling might score....
Doubt it like.

[Donnywolf]

When I was a lad we used to beat Teams by 8-0 or 8-1 or I remember a 9-3 against Scotland (sorry Scots (no Im not))

But here I REALLY hope we stuff these 9-0  11-0 22-0 0r 33-0. They are gobby cynical g**s

[drfchound]

That first goal by Stones was very reminiscent of Hayter at Wembley.

[Sprotyrover]

O'Dismal would have subbed three front players for three defenders by now 🤡🤡🤡

[Sprotyrover]

Ha ha my Scots neighbour s out mowing his lawn,just gave him 6 fingers!🤡

[DevilMayCry]

I think England will score at least 2 more goals 

[Cantley Rover]

I know we are 6-0 up but that was awful defending.

[DonnyOsmond]

Ha ha my Scots neighbour s out mowing his lawn,just gave him 6 fingers!🤡

On one hand?

[Cantley Rover]

Well done England terrific result but sorry Sterling was garbage again.

[Campsall rover]

Daft as it may seem after a 6-1 win I don’t think we played that well, but we didn’t need to.
Second half we didn’t even look as though we were bothered about scoring.
If we had broken sweat 2nd half we would have had 8/9/10 goals.
Anyway job done.
Let’s now see how good we actually are as Belgium will be a completely different kettle of fish.

[drfchound]

Daft as it may seem after a 6-1 win I don’t think we played that well, but we didn’t need to.
Second half we didn’t even look as though we were bothered about scoring.
If we had broken sweat 2nd half we would have had 8/9/10 goals.
Anyway job done.
Let’s now see how good we actually are as Belgium will be a completely different kettle of fish.

Didn’t play well?
That first half performance was outstanding.
Understandable that we took the foot off the gas after the break.

[Chris Black come back]

Daft as it may seem after a 6-1 win I don’t think we played that well, but we didn’t need to.
Second half we didn’t even look as though we were bothered about scoring.
If we had broken sweat 2nd half we would have had 8/9/10 goals.
Anyway job done.
Let’s now see how good we actually are as Belgium will be a completely different kettle of fish.

I would definitely agree with this.

We played fairly averagely overall and there was precious little interaction between the midfield and attack, save for long balls lumped over.

BUT you win tournaments through results rather than fancy football. They are delivering results and that is what they should be applauded for.

[BillyStubbsTears]

You can’t grumble with that result and we are looking very dangerous going forward. I still think the defence will be badly exposed by a good opponent, but you can say about most of the sides at this WC.

[Chris Black come back]

Compare today with the fluidity of Sweden and Germany. We just don’t have the ability to move the ball around so quickly and with such a high completion rate. Not saying we could not turn either of them over but those two teams for example are playing a quality of football much better than we have shown thus far.

I will go back again though - results win tournaments not performances. We look like we can get something even if through set pieces.

[Alan Southstand]

Not bad, to say we played with 10 men! I wonder when Sterling will turn up?

[Colemans Left Hook]

ENGLAND expose a PANAMA "PAPER thin" defence 
would make a good headline

next thing I'll be telling you is Panama hats aren't made in Panama
 
they aren't by the way

[karldew]

Lingers - goal of the tournament so far. And Selby wouldn’t have picked him!

Think Nacho for Spain must be the best goal so far?..

[GazLaz]

Lingers - goal of the tournament so far. And Selby wouldn’t have picked him!

Think Nacho for Spain must be the best goal so far?..

Great technique.

[RedRover45]

I'd have said Modric for Croatia myself

[the vicar]

Ha ha my Scots neighbour s out mowing his lawn,just gave him 6 fingers!🤡

On one hand?

Are you from Barnsley

[selby]

  Alan, I am just as pleased he scored as you are, as I said previously I am not bothered who plays for England as long as we win.
   Just one question , would he have scored that goal, one of the goals of the tournament up to press in my opinion, if the player you would not have picked had not set it up?

[Drover]

Thoroughly enjoyed that,great relief to go through with a game still left to play.Im like BST,think our defence will struggle against better opposition.On a side note,I wonder how todays game would have panned out,if we had the same Ref from the Tunisia game?

[drfchound]

You can’t grumble with that result and we are looking very dangerous going forward. I still think the defence will be badly exposed by a good opponent, but you can say about most of the sides at this WC.

Without doubt BST, even the Germans could have conceded on a few occasions before they got that late winner.
It is unlikely though isn’t it that teams will go through matches without the opposition having scoring opportunities.

I find it amazing that despite a really convincing victory people still choose to highlight a defensive slip and pick on a player rather than focus on the good stuff that we saw.

Southgate knows much more than any of us what Sterling brings to the team.

[drfchound]

Daft as it may seem after a 6-1 win I don’t think we played that well, but we didn’t need to.
Second half we didn’t even look as though we were bothered about scoring.
If we had broken sweat 2nd half we would have had 8/9/10 goals.
Anyway job done.
Let’s now see how good we actually are as Belgium will be a completely different kettle of fish.

I would definitely agree with this.

We played fairly averagely overall and there was precious little interaction between the midfield and attack, save for long balls lumped over.

BUT you win tournaments through results rather than fancy football. They are delivering results and that is what they should be applauded for.

Interestingly, apparently there were 25 uninterrupted passes leading to our sixth goal.
The longest sequence for a World Cup goal since 1966.
Also the Lingard goal came about by us patiently keeping and passing the ball before we raised the pace of the passing and Sterling set up Lingard for that fantastic finish.

Hardly lumping it forward.