adrian lord

Yeah, and the ITV studio pundits were crowing that they looked leggy after 10 minutes!

If we get through tonight, we have been very jammy

Pickford is having one of his nervy games

Excellent

Well, we’ve got to stay hopeful in that we could be three - nil down, but it’s only one

Norway have been clever. They spent the first period pre-hydration seeing what we’ve got - nothing - and now they’re going for us.

This is quite simply ragged.

We’ve totally lost concentration following that hydration break

That was absolutely coming.

We are now looking tired and Norway got a burst of energy after that hydration break.

Who’s the pink-haired Rutger Heuer?

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?