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World Cup 2026

Discussion in 'International Football' started by PorkchopExpress, Mar 14, 2023.

  1. Muller

    Muller I like using gifs

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    Henderson & Walker getting minutes at 3-0 lol what's the point.
     
  2. Suffolk Punch

    Suffolk Punch Back 2 Back

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    Just what you need when you are 3-0 at home against Latvia. Jordan Henderson and Kyle Walker.
     
  3. Kirby

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    Definitely a few boos for Mr LGBTQ there.
     
  4. Leivapool

    Leivapool 22 time Champions of England

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    Got to say I did think the next time I'd watch Jordan Henderson & Curtis Jones in midfield together would be at a charity match.
     
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    Wouldn’t be against deporting Sam Matterface to El Salvador.
     
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    We won these games by 4-7 goals regularly under Southgate. It meant as much then as winning this by 3 does now
     
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  7. Kirby

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    'And the last England manager to win his first two competitive games in charge? Fabio Capello'

    Thanks for ending on that, Matterface.
     
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  8. Jason

    Jason Spurs optimist

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    One of those weird ones. I always felt like the England record was a bit low which meant it was more than feasible to break that record.
    For context, 48 countries have a player who have surpassed 50 goals.

    Nevertheless, I think Kane is going to reach a number that'll be hard to beat. I'd be a bit surprised to see him retire before 100 England goals.
     
  9. PorkchopExpress

    PorkchopExpress The Blackfish

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    Until the best player to never win a Ballon D'Or David Healy came along, NI's record goalscorer had 13 goals :laugh:. Healy ended up with 36, which still seems low considering anyone that ever makes it to league 2 or better will get 50+ caps for us.
     
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    I’m abit shocked you can’t see the difference between Southgate and Tuchel.

    It’s been two games and I can see the difference already. No chance we will be seeing a repeat of games like Spain.
     
  11. Super_horns

    Super_horns WATFORD Till I Die
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    It’s all pretty irrelevant as the qualifying will be very easy and comfortable so doesn’t matter how we perform.

    Just need to be on top form next summer .
     
  12. The Unbeliever

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    It seriously rattles my cage when you young whippersnappers start disrespecting the older generation. It was a different game and there was less of a gap in standards than there presently is.
    And for context only 70 teams participated in the 1966 World Cup and although I haven’t checked I doubt many of them had players that had scores more goals.
     
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  13. Jason

    Jason Spurs optimist

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    It's not about disrespecting anyone. I just think that Charlton record has always been there to be beaten and, with enough games, Rooney finally did.

    Harry Kane surpassed Stern John's international tally last night. Comparatively you'd expect England's record goalscorer to have been higher historically. There are a lot of countries that have produced goalscorers with 50+ goals and not all of them have been that recent. Past England strikers haven't been guaranteed a start in the same way that Kane has, which has helped, but it's still a little surprising that Charlton's record stood so long given the calibre of players England have had since that era.

    The same could be said of Italy too. Their record goalscorer has 35 goals which is a record that has stood since the mid 70's. It's surprising it isn't higher.
     
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  14. Dirk

    Dirk Achtung!

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    Gerd Müller's Germany Record of 68 Goals stood from 1974 until 2014 when Miro Klose finally broke it (71). But Klose needed 137 matches for it, which is only a bit more than 0.50 goals/game. Gerd Müller needed only 62 matches for it, which is a Goals/Game ratio of over 1 per game.

    I'm pretty sure that if he hadn't retired so early for Germany in 1974 (with only 29) after winning the World Cup, he would have reached the 100 Goal mark for Germany easily.

    And I'm surprised that it is "so high" ;). Yes, I know Italy also had some prolific Goalscorers over the decades, too. But when I think of Italy I always think more of their Defensive than their offensive skills
     
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    I wonder who made that decision. I first noticed it when Lee Carsley took over.
     
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    NotsoPosh Tinpot Trophy Trilogy Winners .

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    It's the same , lacking tempo & bravery , individual mistakes like Guehi / Pickford one that should have been punished by Latvia , though give Tuchel his do , this World Cup qualification group is gonna be a player learning curve for him , he's already spoken to 55 individual players & think he'll experiment a fair bit .

    I reckon North Macedonia v Wales ' Live on BBC3 tonight ' will be a better watch , I'm gonna go 2-2 .
     
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    Uzbekistan beating Iran currently and well on their way to securing qualification.

    They’ve regularly made it to the final stages of the Asian qualifiers and lost a penalty shootout against Jordan to get into the intercontinental play offs before, but looks like they’re finally going to make it

    Japan, Iran, Uzbekistan, South Korea all looking good. Australia and Jordan currently in the other 2 automatic qualification spots but Saudi and Iraq could change that very quickly
     
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    How long until they go crawling back to Oceania now that territory gets an automatic spot?
     
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    MrLeeLemon 50+1

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    filthy aussie scum.
     
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