England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

If we beat Latvia and Serbia beat Albania, then a draw with Serbia also sees us qualify.

 

I suspect Bellingham will. Tuchel will want to try him with Rice and Anderson as soon as possible.

 

If we beat Latvia and Serbia drop points to Albania or Andorra we will qualify next month.

 

Yeah, posted that earlier. This is the alternative if Serbia win.

 

We have to make sure we take more progressive passers to the World Cup on top of Anderson. Anderson may well end up first choice but we can't just rely on him to hold the whole team together. It makes a monumental difference having a player next to Rice who can keep playing clever forward passes like he can. You can't just substitute a player like that for Loftus-Cheek or Gallagher (no disrespect) or whoever else.

 

Wharton is next in line I think.

 

Yeah. One injury and we're back where we started. We need multiple options in each position.

 

It was also pleasing how well Kane played today in his all round centre forward game which has been somewhat lacking for a while. Whether that was the players around him suiting his game better, notably the wingers stayed wide and Rogers stayed out his spacenand carved his own niche for the most part. But in general he did a much better job engaging the serbian centre backs today.

 

Spence was the 1295 England player. I wonder who will be the 1300th player. Probably won’t be till next autumn. (Trafford and maybe Quansah feel like the only ones who get on this autumn)

 

Or Henderson!

 

He's outstanding. He was brilliant in the Under 21s, and he's an excellent player.

Maybe Alex Scott as a Bournemouth fan here might finally get looked at?

 

Yeah Wharton is undoubtedly the one we've got in mind. We need to keeping a keen eye on Tyler Morton's development too.

 

Yeah, I remember you saying it

 

He obviously not a complete bolter, because I remember speaking about Anderson in his Bristol Rovers days on here, but it’s always nice to get a few players mature slightly later than all the wonder kids.

 

You know it’s time to turn off TalkSport when you have a caller wanting Rice to be the starting 6 and bringing Harry Maguire back into starting at centre back after the teams performance tonight What a clueless buffoon!

 

I know I listened to it. Lol he wants Harry maguire in the team

 

If Henderson has to stay then Tuchel might as well drop MGW for one of the deeper options you mentioned. It'd be an unfair call on merit but if Tuchel isn't gonna play him then there's little point in having him there. He clearly prefers Rogers (no issue there) and when Bellingham returns it's hard to see when he gets on the pitch.

 

Honestly think the most likely is Anderson, Henderson and either Wharton or Loftus-Cheek.

 

I think MGW is going to be dropped as well. Which will create a lot of moaning etc.

 

Loftus-Cheek for a deeper role in midfield?