Wow. What a game. No idea how to sleep after that.

Starting to dream. Starting to believe

Also, shout out to Dan Burns. The most John Terry body on the line defending ive seen since JT!!

That was f**king mental. Haven't felt like that since Chelsea vs Barcelona. What a performance from England to dig in and win that game.

Harry Kane doing his best Joe Pasqualle voice!

Hendo booked and injured from the bench !

I've given Bellingham a lot of sh*t for a being a moments player, but he was incredible tonight. Proper big game mentality from him.

Still buzzing. Reflecting a bit, as said, Bellingham was immense. Was amazing seeing his movement in person - can see his level is something slightly different. Just a world class performance tonight.

Gordon was superb. As was Pickford. Rice very disciplined after early yellow. Dan Burns did his job very well when on also.

Well done England

Edited yesterday at 03:251 day by PhilH930

Credit to Tuchel - he will do whatever is necessary to win a game. Formation , tactics and players are all changeable but we must win at all costs.

1. Video Assistant Referee (VAR): Nicolas Gallo (Colombia)

2. Assistant Video Assistant Referee 1: Juan Lara (Chile)

3. Assistant Video Assistant Referee 2: Juan Soto (Venezuela) [1]

Tuchel wasn't impressed ... have to admit - we might have got away with it if they hadn't all been South American.

Henderson got booked and looks like he seriously injured himself without even coming off the bench

All credit to England. That was a great result.

Never a penalty for Mexico.

The Quansah red card will not sit comfortably with FIFA after they have just made an exception for another player.

Do they suspend Quansah's red?

Do they unsuspend Baloguns red?

How do they handle Belgiums complaint re unequal treatment?

How do they avoid Norways involvement in the Belgian complaint?

Infantino and FIFA have made this horrible mess for themselves. Well done Gianni.👏👏👏

Edited yesterday at 04:531 day by OTL

6 hours ago, Mod said:

Had to remove the thread! Google had flagged it for defamatory content a few weeks back, so I had to go through and move all the posts that hinted at it out of the thread. Pretty sure it was seen as racism, and the below.

A few reports in tonight, and I am not going to sit through going through every post before it gets flagged again.

All I will say is, if you feel a certain person, be it a global figure or whoever, is incorrectly labelled with zero evidence and zero charges against them.... then that isn't seen in a good light by Google, and they will punish websites for it. I have said what I can without spelling it out.

Back to the football!

Does this mean the Dutch are still in the tournament 🤔 ?

3 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Henderson got booked and looks like he seriously injured himself without even coming off the bench

Result!

24 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Result!

No idea why he was on the plane to begin with so no big loss in my opinion, in his usefulness or contribution to this team its a bit like us having Stamford the Lion getting injured.

4 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Henderson got booked and looks like he seriously injured himself without even coming off the bench

Luckily for Henderson he was filmed being stretchered away. Not sure how he would have broached the subject with his wife, of having been prescribed Viagra, along with the rest of the squad, to combat the altitude issues, and then return home without participating and yet picked up a serious wrist injury!!

Didn't watch it live but have seen it this morning. A performance with real grit, determination and character that I didn't think this England team were capable of.

However, I cannot move past the Balogun suspension decision. It is a totally outrageous and corrupt U-turn by FIFA, (I don't care how much pressure they were under from the US media and Trump administration), that has completely tainted the Soccer Ball World Cup for me.

Hoping for De Bruyne to roll back the years and a Lukaku hat-trick tomorrow morning.

Recovering form 4 hours sleep.

Mammoth performances from Kane and Bellingham.

At last Kane and Bellingham sort out their positions in the box on the break.

Gordon also very good and so was Saka.

Rice - massive part in the goal, drives past two Mexico players then facing three defenders with Saka on the right wing, the defenders panic Rice puts in Saka with just one defender on him and he goes down the outside to cross for Bellingham to score.

Rice - a lucky boy. After Burns comes on at a corner and not spotted by the officials perhaps because Burns probably blocks the view yet Rice in a serious grappling move stopping one of Mexico's attackers getting close to the box.

Glad to get through to the next round yet by very fine margins.

James on the bench but didn't come on even when our RB was sent off. So, presumably he's still not particularly fit.

51 minutes ago, just said:

Didn't watch it live but have seen it this morning. A performance with real grit, determination and character that I didn't think this England team were capable of.

However, I cannot move past the Balogun suspension decision. It is a totally outrageous and corrupt U-turn by FIFA, (I don't care how much pressure they were under from the US media and Trump administration), that has completely tainted the Soccer Ball World Cup for me.

Hoping for De Bruyne to roll back the years and a Lukaku hat-trick tomorrow morning.

Sadly, i think we all are. I feel a bit for the US team because they have really played well so far and Balugon has been good in this tournament, finally showing his potential. It probably was only a booking rather than a red, but a red was given and contrary to twitter posts from the Orange moron it hasn't been overturned. This blatant corruption and abuse of the competition rules has more than likely had the effect of unifying the non-US watching public in rooting for the Belgians to beat them at any cost.

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

Luckily for Henderson he was filmed being stretchered away. Not sure how he would have broached the subject with his wife, of having been prescribed Viagra, along with the rest of the squad, to combat the altitude issues, and then return home without participating and yet picked up a serious wrist injury!!

Took you a while but you got there.

1 minute ago, dermott said:

Took you a while but you got there.

??

11 minutes ago, Zeta said:

James on the bench but didn't come on even when our RB was sent off. So, presumably he's still not particularly fit.

Making up the numbers and moral support.