England Forum - FIFA World Cup 2026: Other Teams Thread

That Stadium looks like an aircraft hanger.

 

There's another 4 or 5 goals in this for Germany if they want it.

 

Another ex England youth player scores to tonight. I wonder how many times we could say this during this World Cup.

 

Its going to be a cricket score now

 

Jamaica should be kicking themselves.

 

I know curaçao are poor but Germany are looking good

 

Would Musiala get in an England side.

 

He'd definitely be back up to Bellingham

 

Whatever the final score, I'll give Curacao far more credit than South Africa, as regardless of their limitations they've actually tried to play

 

Would we rather play Panama first or last? Germany playing the easiest team in the group could either backfire or be to their advantage

 

Germany don't look that great at the back.

 

That's never offside

 

If Germany and France both win their groups they’d be projected to meet in the round of 16. The Germans would probably be better off finishing 2nd.

 

This game reminds me of England's 6-2 win against Iran

 

Eh... This isn't luck.

 

Under Nagelsman they're always consistent at pounding poor sides.

 

There's also the 6-1 rout of Panama in 2018

 

I would slot him in at LW over Gordon

 

I applaud them for having a go at it but South Africa have a better chance of qualifying given their goal difference. At this rate Curacao will have to get four points in their next two games.

 

Yeah its very typical of the kind of comment you often hear from certain African countries. But I often think this kind of behaviour is merely a reflection of the despair many of their fans feel towards their own country/federations.

When this kind of behaviour (even from the federation president) is so normalised, then the level of corruption and collapse in confidence towards their domestic ecosystem, must be so bad, that many of them have probably 'given up' on the idea of ever producing elite home grown teams. Which explains why their fans act that way (even the president).

 

Germany - France would be a game to look forward to.

 

I never seen him wing. My guess is it would be very much like having Foden there.

 

I don't think Curacao have a hope in hell of getting a win in this group regardless.

Still, I think its a bit naive to go on a world cup stage and play like that with their sides limitations. Maybe at the start ok, but 3-1 down at half time they should have battoned down the hatches. I don't think a team losing 7-1 "just happy to be there" is a good advertisement for the expanded tournament.

Germany looked good and hungry at least, as poor as Curacao defended they never let up and were pretty relentless about it.

 

In recent world cups, we usually had just the one team (and sometimes zero) who caused an upset in the knockouts.
My eyes may be deceiving me. But in this WC there's far too many strong teams spread out, that it's likely we'll see more than one 'distruptor' this time.

We have the teams who're all capable of beating anyone on a good day:
Spain
Argentina
France
England
Brazil
Portugal
Holland
Germany

Then the teams who're are ranked slightly below - but could beat anyone:
Morocco
Norway
Croatia
Belgium

Plus there's a whole bunch of teams where I'm honestly undecided, but if the right version turns up in the knockouts, I can see them possibly causing an upset:
USA (host advantage)
Mexico (host advantage)
Uruguay
Switzerland
Senegal
Japan
Colombia
Ecuador
Austria