The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Scisca]

Ka-pi96 said:

Scisca said:
I guess I'm still going to be considered this thread's weird guy for having no faith whatsoever in England and considering them an absolutely average team. But to think that England was minutes away from not winning with Wales, ending up with 3 points and being on par with Albania...

The real weird part is that you have so much faith in Poland yet at the same time put down England. I'd say they're pretty close in ability actually...

It stops being weird when you compare players' individual skills, the teams they play for and their achievements - there is a very significant gap between the teams. The fact that England's gameplan for the majority of time is to kick the ball in the penalty ball and see what happens is another reason, why I can't treat them seriously.

So, England is about to play against 2nd team from Group F - Portugal anyone? Should they somehow get pass this stage (they may face Hungary after all), there will be France waiting for them - and that's the furthest they can go. By not winning this terrible group England has made this tournament much harder for itself.