England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

From the coefficient perspective, we could do with Barca holding on here and knocking out Napoli. Italy is currently ahead of England so need a few of their teams to start getting eliminated.

 

Rice has been excellent tonight

 

Tbf i typed this before the goal

 

I think they have a good chance of winning back home in Barcelona. Ditto Arsenal can still come from behind to knock out Porto.


The last three Euros have featured players doing the CL/Euro double that season. Not since Spain in 2008 as a team won the euros without a player/s winning the CL a month earlier.

 

PL- Week 25 (Including rearranged matches)

PL English Players of the Match - Week 25
Bukayo Saka - Burnley v Arsenal
Ollie Watkins - Fulham v Aston Villa
Dominic Solanke - Newcastle v Bournemouth
Jordan Pickford - Everton v Crystal Palace


Pl English players of their Club - Week 25
Ivan Toney - Brentford (V Liverpool)
Bukayo Saka - Arsenal
Ollie Watkins - Aston Villa
Anthony Gordon - Newcastle
Dominic Solanke - Bournemouth
Raheem Sterling - Chelsea
Wes Foderingham - Sheffield United
Carlton Morris - Luton Town (Vs Manchester United)
Jordan Pickford - Everton


BBC Sport English players of the Match - Week 25
Harvey Elliott - Brentford v Liverpool
Bukayo Saka - Burnley v Arsenal
Ollie Watkins - Fulham v Aston Villa
Adam Wharton - Everton v Crystal Palace
Phil Foden - Manchester City v Brentford

BBC Sport English players of their Club - Week 25
Ivan Toney - Brentford (V Liverpool)
Harvey Elliott - Liverpool (V Brentford)
James Trafford - Burnley
Bukayo Saka - Arsenal
Ollie Watkins - Aston Villa
Phil Foden - Man City (V Chelsea)
Wes Foderingham - Sheffield United
Adam Wharton - Crystal Palace
Phil Foden - Manchester City (V Brentford)
Ben Mee - Brentford (V Man City)

Second and third places

Pl - James Trafford, Josh Brownhill, James Ward - Prowse, Kyle Walker (V Chelsea), Ben Osborn, Lewis Dunk, Ross Barkley (Vs Manchester United) Kobbie Mainoo, Jarrad Branthwaite, Adam Wharton, Sam Johnstone, Ross Barkley (V Liverpool)

BBC - Declan Rice, Lewis Miley, Dominic Solanke, Ryan Yates, Callum Hudson - Odoi, Conor Gallagher, James McAtee, Ross Barkley (Vs Manchester United), Alfie Doughty (Vs Manchester United), Kobbie Mainoo, James Tarkowski, Ben Godfrey, Sam Johnstone, Ivan Toney (V Man Cityj, Ross Barkley (V Liverpool)

This week’s PL goal involvements.

Goals
Ivan Toney (Brentford) (V Liverpool)
Bukayo Saka x 2 (1 pen) (Arsenal)
Ollie Watkins x 2 (Aston Villa)
Anthony Gordon (Pen) (Newcastle)
Dominic Solanke (Bournemouth)
Callum Hudson - Odoi (Nottingham Forest)
Raheem Sterling (Chelsea)
Danny Welbeck (Brighton)
Carlton Morris (Luton) (Vs Manchester United)
Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) (V Luton)

Assists
Dominic Solanke (Bournemouth)
Lewis Dunk (Brighton)
Dwight McNeil (Everton)

 

CL 1st legs.
Man City
2. Foden - 8.25
4. Stones - 7.60
8. Grealish - 7.11
10. Walker - 7.08

Bayern
1. Kane - 6.46

Arsenal
1, Rice - 5.02
4. Saka - 4.48
6. White - 4.41


No score for Sancho at Dortmund

 

Dominic Solanke wanted by West Ham for the summer ⚒️⚒️⚒️⚽️⚽️⚽️🥅🥅🥅🥅 #WHUFC #AFCB https://t.co/5QYxABpyid

— Mike McGrath (@mcgrathmike) February 21, 2024

With reports that Kalvin Phillips is set to be axed from the England squad, we identified 3 of his replacements!

Harrison Reed, Kobbie Mainoo & James Garner are all under consideration for a call-up!

Who would you rather have in the Three Lions side out of the trio? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/f1JMvkWhSY

— TEAMtalk (@TEAMtalk) February 21, 2024

🆕 PSG are among the admirers of Levi Colwill.

Chelsea will not entertain offers for the 20-year-old, who is happy at Stamford Bridge.

But he remains a player with a huge market. https://t.co/tNQBAhbso0 #CFC

— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) February 21, 2024

 

🔴 Manchester United expect Luke Shaw to return just before the end of the season, as English LB also hopes to be ready for the Euros.

He's gonna be monitored on weekly basis by the staff after leg injury. pic.twitter.com/njHfKnLBrs

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 22, 2024

West Ham are eyeing a move for Bournemouth's 26-year-old England striker Dominic Solanke. (Telegraph - subscription required)

But the Blues are not entertaining offers for 20-year-old England defender Levi Colwill, who is a target for Paris St-Germain and Liverpool. (Standard)

Everton midfielder James Garner is being targeted by Tottenhamand Newcastle, with the 22-year-old Englishman appealing in many aspects for the Premier League sides. (Football Insider)

Harry Kane is reportedly at the centre of a dressing room chasm at Bayern Munich as Thomas Tuchel's reign in Bavaria crumbles. (Daily Mail)

 

Sorry, We Need To Talk About England (youtube.com)

 

🚨 BREAKING: Celtic goalkeeper Joe Hart will retire at the end of this season ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/GbKneDVaAN

— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) February 22, 2024

Joe Hart is retiring at the end of the season. James Milner is the last member of the 2010 World Cup squad still playing.

 

Maybe we can get some sort of closure on 2010 now. From Rob Green’s USA howler to Rooney mouthing off at England fans after the Algeria draw, and the final woeful, gutless performance against Germany, that was one brutally bad World Cup for us

 

Henderson on the bench for Ajax in the conference league.

 

The comments on social media were wrong then. The account only had the starters with people underneath saying he was on the bench.

Dutch football is very secretive about injuries so we won’t find out why is unfit to be involved or how long he might be absent for.

 

Pickford

Walker
Maguire
Stones
Shaw

Alexander-Arnold
Rice
Bellingham

Saka
Kane
Rashford

Phil Jagielka names his England starting XI for the Euros this summer 👀 pic.twitter.com/KsrqVOslM3

— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) February 22, 2024

 

Fireburn when social media is wrong……

 

Sorry to go back to this but I had a look on that forum and he's actually called himself 'Foden1981' on an Irish forum and is indeed telling them how crap Moran is!

Germany is more vulnerable to being caught. Stuttgart eliminated in the Conference League last night with Friberg sneaking through in the Europa.

United and Newcastle crashing out of the CL has been a big blow for English chances but I suspect they will come second in the end.

 

Those tackle stats are pretty underwhelming to say the least. Harrison Reed completes less than 1 tackle every 90 minutes and he's being put forward as a potential England defensive midfielder?

 

I'm 100% sure, that Reed is not considered for England. He is not an international player by default, but this year he is no longer a regular starter for his club team either.

 

England centre-back Harry Maguire, 30, is among 11 players who could be part of a squad clearout at Manchester United this summer. (ESPN)

Tottenham and England defender Eric Dier, 30, is unlikely to stay at Bayern Munich beyond the summer with the German side concerned about his lack of pace. (Bild via Mail)

Joe Hart has announced that he will retire from professional football at the end of the current season!

A major part in Man City's rise, he has made 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 professional appearances, 𝟕𝟓 of which where with the #ThreeLions.

All the best for the future, Joe! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧤 pic.twitter.com/jFzdjWrTGb

— Everything England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@TheEngllshGame) February 23, 2024

 

It’s a totally odd player to name when they are other midfielders that were not named but are closer to being selected in an injury crisis.

 

Curtis Jones will return for Liverpool ‘around the international break.’ Probably too late to be selected by Southgate.

TAA will not be back until after the international break so will be ruled out of the next squad it seems. Really don’t see Southgate bringing in two midfielders so I don’t see Phillips being dropped with Trent also absent

 

If Phillips' form and game time continues as it is now it'll be genuinely interesting to see if Southgate calls him up in March.

I'm always very skeptical about Southgate myself and I always expect him to do the most regressive thing when faced with a big decision, but even with Trent & Jones injured there's a big part of me that thinks he won't call Phillips up.

I don't think this is comparable to the Maguire situation in that he was a constant in England's starting XI and very much a stalwart for Southgate even throughout his poor club form. Phillips hasn't been anything close to a guaranteed starter for nearly three years now so picking him under these conditions would arguably be his most unjustifiable selection yet.*

I might be wrong, but I think even Southgate has a line with these things.

*It's also worth saying that I think if Phillips improves to a point where he can put in three or four 6/10 performances without a glaring error before the next squad announcement I think that'll be enough to get him in there, so it's a fine margin nevertheless.