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It’s a hard watch at a normal time, but the data says defend. Maybe next time round we’ll get an Ange, a Bielsa (who’s raged against this football globally recently), a dare I say it RDZ, who’ll crash the whole tournament with 6-4 wins. But it won’t be this one.

Tournament football is very different to other football. In the last two Euros the only time the winners have conceded more than one goal in ANY game is Portugal’s 3-3 draw with Hungary in 2016, a group game where they had to score goals. Else the against total is 1 or 0 in every game. People...

This is a brilliant analogy. One of my favourite SP episodes.

Switzerland had Inter Milan’s keeper, two world class centre backs in Schar and Akanji, a captain whose Bundesliga team only lost once all last season and one of the quickest forwards in the tournament. They also drew with Germany and beat Italy.

My absolute nightmare is a penalty shootout between England and our keeper. I’d have to leave the room and go for a long walk.

Chelsea have just submitted a £300 million bid for Bart.

At least par for this squad. In 2018 he had to use Dele and Lingard.

Last four tournaments: Semi, final, quarter, semi (at least). There's a point at which you have to say he knows what he’s doing in a tournament, no matter how bad we are to watch

Here we go again….

A bit better for me. Pickford’s distribution is appalling and so are our corners but much better pressing and not so deep.

BBC saying 3 at the back now

Same team with one change. Same formation. Might be about as interesting as a Price of Football podcast.

Spain have been impressive and The Netherlands have improved as they’ve gone. I’ve historically agreed with everything you’ve written there when it comes to England, but if we play like we have been today the Swiss will murder us.

Guehi is suspended. You’d have to choose between Dunk, Konsa and Gomez for LCB. I do like that idea though.

I’ve no idea what type of England are going to turn up. We’ve been deeply unimpressive and yet we haven’t lost yet and are in the quarters. The French have, if anything, been worse and got to the semis. This is far from a classic tournament and if we play like we have been then Switzerland...