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Grealish taken off for not diving enough.
Well Rio, after that do you really think that your boys would be way too good for either Italy or Spain? .....he does read this messageboard doesn’t he?
diving , cheating
I hope an Italian takes a swan dive to defy England
Because that's what they have done tonight
Football is a joke
Penalty was soft England deserved to win
It may be cheating to you, but not to the majority of top level professionals. Two Danish defenders put themselves in awful positions and one made an appalling attempt at some kind of half arsed challenge. He will know that his defending wasn't good enough, not by a long shot, and he'll know that if he hadn't put himself in that position then Sterling wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to ground, Tough luck.
Mark Clattenburg, who I'm no a fan of, just made an excellent point. As a referee, with the game on the line, unless you're 100% sure (which he said he wasn't) you DON'T give the penalty, you leave it up to VAR. Interesting.
Last night was a game of the highest quality played by two fabulously gifted football teams.
Tonight's game was several notches down quality wise played by two decent sides but nothing special.
Rio's entitled to his opinion of course but he's having a laugh if he truly believes England are better than Spain and Italy.
The worse thing is this.....we'll have to put up with this for the next 55 years, well our offspring will !
I’ve heard plenty of people say they hope England make the final then lose it in a cruel way.
I’m now firmly in that camp despite hoping they’d lose tonight.
A few reasons to be cheerful
1) extra time took a bit more out of them
2) the first real challenge they’ve had they’d have gone to penalties except for a moment of cheating
3) they still can’t take penalties
4) Italy look good
5) Italy have had an extra day rest
England are very good out wide, if teams allow their two holding midfielders to set up play then they're going to struggle, including Italy. Everything goes through the central pair with players like Foden and grealish dropping in to start attacks in the final third. They've got some real quality.
Until Denmark substituted their two main forwards they were as good as England and very dangerous going forward. However they visibly tired after about 75 minutes and the writing was on the wall in extra time. So, all down to the depth of squad at the end of the day.