England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

Great goal, if you’re anti-City person like me then it’s hard to see how Chelsea get back in this with the options on their bench.

 

Chelsea lack a striker. Pedro is just sub standard

 

Weird substitution. Take off the best deliverer of the ball in the team. To bring on a striker

 

O'Reilly seems scared to shoot. Been in two really good positions where he easily could've taken the shot on. The first one in particular I think the shot across goal was the best option.

 

Then what is Delap?

 

Eff awful

 

I thought colwill and Guehi had good games

 

Stones unused. Big turn around for him if he is tarting in a month’s time.

 

Tuchel has absolutely no reason now to take stones ahead of colwill

 

I know it's an overdone talking point at this stage but their squad really is comical for how much they've spent.

It almost feels more difficult to build a squad this average with £1.7bn than it would be to build a good one, especially when you consider two of their best players are academy products who precede the current ownership.

I honestly think most of us on this forum would build a better squad than this if given £1.7bn to spend on players over the course of the next four years.

 

Trafford played extremely conservatively with the ball for some reason.

 

🚨 Harry Kane scored Bayern’s 121st goal in the Bundesliga this season. The English striker scored a hat-trick

Bayern Münih 4-1 Kölnhttps://t.co/B2ugciarlN

— Goals Xtra (@GoalsXtra) May 16, 2026

 

Congratulations to our #ThreeLions at @ManCity who have won the FA Cup! 🏆

Commiserations to those at @ChelseaFC. https://t.co/tN6zAGL05x

— England (@England) May 16, 2026

 

He will probably take both. Them keeping fit or not will determine if this tournament has luck or if it doesn’t.

 

Based on these last two performances, it's no longer a question of whether Colwill makes the cut, it's whether he starts. We just don't have another centre-back with his passing range or ability to play though the lines. He could be huge for us this summer.

 

It depends on Tuchel. I feel like he might stick with what has been planning and not even take Colwill or if he does barely use him.

 

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The Mental gymnastics people where coming up with to say he was not World Class when he was playing at Spurs was a sight to behold. He's at the very least as good as Rooney without having Rooney's natural talent.

 

I honestly think that Rooney era of football is looked back on with rose-tinted classes due to the style creating more 'moments' but worse actual football. Every once in a while I'll rewatch a big game from back then and a lot of what you see is dreadful and would just not be tolerated today. Rooney was trying to smash one in from 30 yards probably a handful of times every game and half the time they were not even on target. Kane is a better play than Rooney there is no doubt in my mind and Rooney himself tells people the same.

 

Bayern Munich have an interest in 25-year-old Atalanta and Belgium forward Charles De Ketelaere but only as an alternative if a move for Newcastle’s England winger Anthony Gordon, 25, fails. (Football Italia), external

Everton will make a move for Conor Gallagher if Tottenham drop into the Championship -The Sun

The number of England thugs banned from next month's World Cup has doubled after a Home Office crackdown. A total of 2,439 troublemakers have been red-carded - nearly twice as many as the 1,308 kept from Qatar 2022 - The Sun

 

Maguire, Shaw and Mainoo start for Manchester United, Heaven and Mount are on the bench.
Hutchinson, Gibbs-White and Anderson start for Nottingham Forest. Abbott, Yates and McAtee are on the bench.

 

Anderson vs Mainoo

 

Shaw scores

 

Great finish

 

It doesn't get mentioned much but Shaw has a very good first touch for leftback.