England v Germany


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I'm pretty sure the last time we beat one of the big nations in a major tournament was Argentina back in 2002. Beckham penalty. We really don't have a good record against the big nations. It's going to be difficult.
 
We will beat the Germans. We have no reason to fear any team in this tournament.

I honestly see us getting to the final. We will beat Ukraine or Sweden in the Quarters and likely it'll be Denmark in the semis.
 
Proper 50/50 game. They aren't great at all, we've not looked great either. No reason to be pessimistic though, got every chance

If the Germans, Italians or French had our results/ performances - people would be saying they were very efficient and doing the minimum needed and holding back for the knockouts. People would undoubtedly be talking about the fact they hadn't conceded (or really looked like conceding) and that they had been in control for the majority of all three games.

I'm not saying we're good, or that we won't get hammered in the next round. But in the context of a tournament, I don't think we've 'looked bad' at all. At this stage, we look exactly like a side that has done the bare minimum to get through and has a lot of potential to be one of the best sides here- for better or worse.
 
Can't see anything but a Germany win. Our media will hype it up to fever pitch from now till the game. There'll be loads of talk from Sterling etc and then during the game we'll freeze and do fuck all. Germany won't put a foot wrong.
Draw - penalties as usual. Southgate to cuddle the one who misses.

Actually I had a bit of sympathy for Pearce, Waddle and Southgate until they made money out of missing their penalties with their pizza advert.
 
We will beat the Germans. We have no reason to fear any team in this tournament.

I honestly see us getting to the final. We will beat Ukraine or Sweden in the Quarters and likely it'll be Denmark in the semis.
Wales will beat Denmark I think
 
Don't think Germany have been owt flash either this tournament.. Could of easily lost to Portugal the other day.

Be an interesting game.
Aye, a lot seem to be saying the Germans will suddenly click but I'm not so sure. Like I say probably a 50/50 but no reason not to be optimistic. They've looked fairly average (as we have), last world cup they couldn't get out of a fairly simple looking group, nearly fucked up against Hungary, now they're playing away in the next round with less recovery time. We need to improve, but I could see us beating them
 
If the Germans, Italians or French had our results/ performances - people would be saying they were very efficient and doing the minimum needed and holding back for the knockouts. People would undoubtedly be talking about the fact they hadn't conceded (or really looked like conceding) and that they had been in control for the majority of all three games.

I'm not saying we're good, or that we won't get hammered in the next round. But in the context of a tournament, I don't think we've 'looked bad' at all. At this stage, we look exactly like a side that has done the bare minimum to get through and has a lot of potential to be one of the best sides here- for better or worse.
Agreed. I'm just clarifying all my posts with a "I know we've not been great either" because otherwise if I say anything that suggests this German side look pretty average I know I'll get the usual suspects jumping in to say "so do England"! Nothing to fear from this Germany
 
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