World Cup 2018 | 28th June | England vs Belgium Match Thread, KO 19:00 (BST)

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28TH JUNE

ENGLAND VS BELGIUM


Match kicks off at 19:00 (BST) on ITV 1.
Coverage begins at 18:15 (BST). Presented by Mark Pougatch, analysis from Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Lee Dixon and Ian Wright, commentary from Clive Tyldesley and Glenn Hoddle.

Right so we’ve all seen every team twice by now, so we get the gist of how they are going to go about things.

Unfortunately this is the first game at this tournament where we will be subjected to listening to Glenn Fucking Hoddle whilst England are playing.

This is a fight for top spot, or possibly even 2nd spot depending on how things go the day before because finishing 2nd could mean avoiding Brazil and Germany, that said both surely want to avoid Colombia in the Last 16 as well. However, neither side will want to lose momentum going into the knockout rounds. Due to big City involvement and of course England, I think a draw would be a ‘nice’ result. A game that will probably billed as Kane vs Lukaku in the goal-scoring department but the win will come from which players behind the striker perform best in my opinion.

Group G as it stands:
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Both are joint on 6 points and tied on GD, GS, GA and H2H is yet to factor, so England top the group courtesy of fair play by having less bookings than Belgium.

England Goal Scorers so far:
Kane (5).
Stones (2).
Lingard (1).

Belgium Goal Scorers so far:
Lukaku (4).
Hazard (2).
Mertens (1).
Batshuayi (1).
 
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Have I been misled from one of the world cup sites..if we Finnish top we play 2nd of group H and if we Finnish second we play winners of group H ?
 
Have I been misled from one of the world cup sites..if we Finnish top we play 2nd of group H and if we Finnish second we play winners of group H ?
You've been misled mate, the Finnish didn't qualify. Top looks like it means Germany or Brasil, Second looks like Mexico (quarters). You've got the last 16 right though. Second could also mean ducking Colombia who were brilliant tonight.
 
You've been misled mate, the Finnish didn't qualify. Top looks like it means Germany or Brasil, Second looks like Mexico (quarters). You've got the last 16 right though. Second could also mean ducking Colombia who were brilliant tonight.

I think there’s a good chance Colombia will end up topping their group.

Therefore what do we want? Finish top to probably get Japan in the 2nd round but face one of Brazil or Germany in the quarterfinals, or finish 2nd but face Colombia in the 2nd round with probably either Switzerland or Mexico in the quarterfinals.

Looking at Colombia last night I’m concerned that should we get them in the 2nd round they could do us and a 2nd round exit would be a bit of an anti climax. However being knocked out in the quarters to Brazil would still leave me feeling that we’ve had a decent tournament with something to build on.

I don’t actually fear Germany this year to be honest and we owe them for South Africa.
 
Kompany has returned to training for Belgium today. Some predicting he will start on Thursday.

Very unlikely that De Bruyne will feature though:
 
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Starting

Buckland
Jones Stones Cahill
Trent Alexander, Rose
Henderson Sterling Alli
Kane Rashford

Bench
Pope
Dier
Wellbec
Delph
Vardy
Trippier
 
Nice touch from the England team to give a couple of Bolton supporters tickets to the Belgium game.

They've been vlogging about their journey around Russia following the team but hadn't been able to get tickets for the final group game but the players saw it and responded.
 

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