adrian lord

Walking pace.

We’ve only just Bergen.

Only marginally.. edit the goal has livened it up significantly. Belgium need to buck their ideas up.

25 minutes or even longer, it’s going to be difficult for players to keep limbered up and adrenalised. It can’t be easy to keep warmed up and flexing in the confines of a changing room however generously appointed they are. If this is true, you’re going to have what is in effect two separate mini-matches, not halves, punctuated still further by the wretched hydration breaks

Morocco have been absolutely insipid and quite frankly deserve to lose.

Game over.

Morocco really need to show some ambition.

Crikey that was bad.

Saved!

Morocco playing dangerously deep and it means they don’t seem to have many options up top when they do get the rare break.

POR-SPA is a muted affair so far. Chris Sutton is incredibly disagreeable.

Fantastic. A lot of ghosts and demons put to bed with that epic win. Impeccable performance and effort. The penalty against Kane was soft as a FIFA brown envelope.

The African teams are getting there, challenging the old powers, but almost every game they run out of steam towards the late stages and succumb. Fitness and mental fatigue is clearly an issue when you are playing a defensive, drilled pressing strategy that requires total concentration and discipline for 96 or even 120+minutes.

Where would we be without Kane?

Tuchel is a genius

Euro 96 remains peak England in my lifetime.

No wonder Barcelona didn’t want Rashford

Well they might well be…

Jesus wept Congo are simply better than us.

For England, the hydration break, or both?!!!

This has the hallmarks of a meltdown at the moment

Trying to watch on phone in a train. Mercifully, I can’t get any streaming-useable signal.

Apart from the goal, another dire game.

We need to sign up that Paraguay keeper as understudy to Peretz!

Excellent!!