Day 3 | Poland vs Netherlands | Slovenia vs Denmark | Serbia vs England

Unless he starts kicking the ball into our net, he can't be worse than what we've seen so far. At least he knows the position.
He’s a natural midfielder at least though.
He’s 19 with a handful of professional appearances, and if we’re being honest those have been a mixed bag.

I think Alexander Arnold is horrible facing his own goal a lot of the time. I wouldn’t have played him next to Rice. But I wouldn’t have started Mainoo either.
 
Don’t think I’ve ever seen Foden do anything in an England shirt, not in a meaningful game. Luxury player who flatters in his 5-star doping squad.
 
Yeah stick Gallagher in for TAA. Call me selfish but I don't want to see Mainoo get clattered by these asshats.
 
What’re you all going to do if 19 year old Mainoo with 25 senior appearances at club level does come on and has a stinker?

Mainoo’s average rating according to this forum is 6.1. Is he really that good yet?
The forum rating has a scale of 5.0 to 6.1. So its probably a pretty good rating, yeah. I'm hoping he doesn't play much if at all personally.
 
Don’t think I’ve ever seen Foden do anything in an England shirt, not in a meaningful game. Luxury player who flatters in his 5-star doping squad.

He is obviously very talented. Just watch him play football and his talent is obvious.

Paul Scholes didnt do much in an England shirt either but Scholes was still an excellent player.
 
It's quite funny actually. I'd like to see if Southgate has the balls to play this midfield against a Spain/Germany/France. Would be a funny wake up call to all of these 'expert' pundits.

2-3 times his first touch in tight midfield areas have been bad, one ended up in the Mitrovic chance. Not even a mention of it, the nice pass to Saka though was mentioned for 5 minutes.
Agree 100%.
When TAA gave it away there I was thinking would mainoo miscontrol that so badly. No. Was the answer.
 
Touching the ball twice isn’t good enough, you can’t justify that with “oh well he only needs one chance”.
 
The forum rating has a scale of 5.0 to 6.1. So its probably a pretty good rating, yeah. I'm hoping he doesn't play much if at all personally.
You’re a harsh bunch (I’m assuming that’s out of 10?).

I wouldn’t either if I were you. He’s a kid and still very raw. Plus you know what the press are like if it goes wrong.
 
This BBC commentary is almost intollerable. I'm beginning to hope Serbia equalise just so I don't have to hear Shearer praise anything half decent from England like he's watching 1970 Brasil.
 
True, the “Rice weakens Arsenal” take is one of the most hilarious posts I’ve ever seen on the caf. What’s next…Sir Alex Ferguson was a poor manager?
That poster is not that wrong? Or have Arsenal suddenly won something you know about? Xahka was and is better player.
 
He is obviously very talented. Just watch him play football and his talent is obvious.

Paul Scholes didnt do much in an England shirt either but Scholes was still an excellent player.

He’s talented with the ball yeah, doesn’t necessarily make for a great player though.
 
Serbia should be happy being only a goal down so far. Outside of Lukic noone has tried to get on the ball enough, though Ilic is a decent sub