World Cup 2018 | 14th July | Third Place: Belgium vs England, KO 15:00 (BST)

[Owdman]

England v Croatia would have been a better 3rd place and France v Belgium a better final.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

If, if, if.

He s quite right - there should be proper seeding. End of.

There is seeding? Just the big teams messed up the seedings by playing absolutely crap

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Don't think i'll watch this, no point. Doubt either team wants to still be out there.

 

[Owdman]

Kane will be very much interested then.

 

[Eccles Blue]

The irony of ironies would be for Raheem to score the winning goal............ just saying like. :-)

 

[moomba]

The irony of ironies would be for Raheem to score the winning goal............ just saying like. :-)

And I bet if he does he'll be the most criticised player of the game cause he scored when it didn't matter.

 

[Eccles Blue]

And I bet if he does he'll be the most criticised player of the game cause he scored when it didn't matter.

Exactly, just what I thought.

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

Smaller countries definitely does. Sweden taking bronze in 1994 is still huge here and while it would be very big and impressive with finishing the WC with going out in the semis to Brazil, winning the last game and earning a medal tops that easily. Strange seeing so many englishmen saying it’s a nothing game and all that. It’s not like you’ve been spoiled with success. Earning a medal and winning your final WC game would be a big success for you guys.

I totally agree.

I'd rather we finished third than fourth.

It would also represent our best ever finish at a World Cup abroad and our second best finish ever.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

A nothing match, neither side caring about the outcome. I wish that these two teams were in the final instead.

Strange WC - with many unexpected results. Still the most talented team on paper - France - has reached the final w/o playing particularly well. Croatia came out of nowhere.

The brackets were poorly arranged too - it shouldn't be possible that most of the top seeds regardless of finishing first or second in the group stage should all end up in the same side of the bracket. IMO this needs to be changed - for example, men's college basketball in the USA avoids this sort of stupidity.

So you're saying we should fix the tournament even though it's been the best WC in decades.

 

[kippaxchris]

We should go all out to win this game & everybody should get behind the lads. It would be the first medals we have received since 1966 and that would be a great experience for our young team. 3rd place medals & a Harry Kane golden boot would be a very successful tournament.