We played well, can't be too disheartened. We have so many good young players, the future looks bright. Perhaps defensively we need some more players to come through, but we deserved better last night. Not to be.
All behind Morocco now. QPR have a representative in the semi finals, and we should now at least see Ilias get a game in the 3rd place play off.
To be honest Morocco could be the dark horses They are a organised hardworking unit and have only conceded an own goal from what I heard I was impressed how they shut out Portugal literally through hard work and tactical defending France will struggle to beat them
Last Edit: Dec 11, 2022 12:38:59 GMT by singlespeed
We played well, can't be too disheartened. We have so many good young players, the future looks bright. Perhaps defensively we need some more players to come through, but we deserved better last night. Not to be.
All behind Morocco now. QPR have a representative in the semi finals, and we should now at least see Ilias get a game in the 3rd place play off.
We were always going to struggle against 12...... Only an organisation as inept and corrupt as FIFA could entrust last night's game to a referee of that calibre!
I do agree we played as well as France and, weird referee decisions apart, deserved to go into extra time level. If that had happened then we would have won as we have better players coming off the bench than the French, but.....
Agree that the ref was poor but that’s not why we lost. The main reason was the missed penalty of course. But the French defence were all over the place when we ran at them, especially Saka. We needed to do that more.
yeah Ref was awful but wasn't why we lost, he actually played a good advantage when we got the 1st penalty
was such a close game. I thought England had the better of the second half, a 2-2 draw with extra time would have probably been fair but wasn't to be. 24 hours on I am still gutted
Will he be home in time for the Preston game I forgot he’d have to sit on the bench for that stupid 3rd place game Maybe boss should give his subs some minutes in this game
Last Edit: Dec 14, 2022 22:31:32 GMT by singlespeed
Post by northwesthoop on Dec 14, 2022 22:35:08 GMT
Ironic that after watching every Morocco game hoping to catch Ilias Chair playing - and him not even getting 1 minute - he will now probably feature for them in the 3rd place play off when I'll be in Preston watching QPR kick off at the same time as that game
Ironic that after watching every Morocco game hoping to catch Ilias Chair playing - and him not even getting 1 minute - he will now probably feature for them in the 3rd place play off when I'll be in Preston watching QPR kick off at the same time as that game
Yes that was my thought too, but at least we get another 3 days of payments from FIFA....
Nice to see him get 45 minutes. Watched it this morning and he wasn't greatly involved but what he did was neat and tidy and he showed some skill once or twice.
Interesting that his name should be pronounced SHY-EAR or something like that!
Nice to see him get 45 minutes. Watched it this morning and he wasn't greatly involved but what he did was neat and tidy and he showed some skill once or twice.
Interesting that his name should be pronounced SHY-EAR or something like that!
Thanks for the report on Illias. I was wondering how he did. I really hoped he would score the equaliser!