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Having had a more elevated view than normal today, I now have an even greater appreciation of just how good this guy is. His movement, vision, and control of a game of football is so so good. He's some footballer. Give him whatever contract he wants.

Anyone got the stats for goals conceded with and without him in the side? We seem to concede fewer, and certainly fewer from down our left side, with Zinchenko at LB compared with others (Delph and Mendy).

Heart breaking end to a crazy game. We lost the tie last week with such a negative approach. But nights like this remind me why I support our club. Fans were brilliant. Players faught to the end. Manager was a class act in defeat. We'll go again on Saturday and can still end the season with...

Liverpool by a mile these days.

Hate to knock him, but he probably should have brought Rashford on at some point tonight.

I think it's a great signing for West Ham. The boy is class when fit. Genuine guile and creativity, can drive at defenders and spells last season showed he had learned to do the dirty work without the ball as well. He'd have been in my World Cup squad at the expense of Welbeck, and in my...

This sums up perfectly why I: a) no longer watch England games in a pub b) find it very difficult to join such morons in getting behind the England team

I’m still not a huge fan of the system, with a good few players playing in slightly unfamiliar roles. I think Alli and Lingard as #8s will catch us out without the ball at some point and would love to have see Wiltshire in the squad instead of Welbeck. But, you can’t really argue with getting to...

Exactly. Failure to appreciate Sterling is failure to understand football. I’ve been trying, largely in vain, to explain this to a couple of “Sterling is Shit” merchants lately. His final ball still needs to be a little better and I’d love to see him commit defenders a little more. But he’s...

I posed the question as I wondered if many city fans felt this way. The treatment dished out to Sterling has certainly taken the shine of any England success for me. I’d still love the City lads to win the World Cup, but personally wouldn’t feel much different if it was Kompany and de Bruyne or...

It’s maybe just me, but I can’t switch off city allegiances over the summer for international football and just can’t get onto this England bandwagon.

Glad it’s not just me.

England vs Belgium.... 0-0, 93rd minute... Belgium get a corner. Kompany strolls forward. The ball comes in and Vinny rises above Maguire to plant a header past Pickford to win the World Cup... Do you instinctively celebrate?

Making the semi final is a great achievement for that side, but is anyone else left feeling really underwhelmed and a bit flat after these England performances?

Sterling actually does both: he drops deep and plays between the lines, linking play, and plays on the shoulder to stretch the game. This would be very difficult to defend against if we had players who could pass the ball to him (i.e., how Hazard is such a threat for Belgium because he has...

These international bosses love playing our lads out of position, don’t they!?

The real Raheem Sterling isn’t an out and out striker, playing alongside a statue and in front of the least creative midfield at the World Cup, though. That’s the problem. If Kane had been picked to play on the left wing and was looking a bit ineffective and hadn’t scored in two games, I wonder...

I agree with shearer. I’m gutted for sterling. He played well today but just needs that goal, partly to shut up the doubters.

Watching this England game in Italy. It’s refreshing to not be able to understand a single word of commentary. This station have Bernardo Corradi as their chief pundit!

And he didn’t.