Poland in trouble ….. 2-1 and a man down. Looks like the results aren’t favouring any of the Saints players
Or, as all of the teams with any Saints players are doing badly, all Saints players will be home before the tournament ends, giving them a nice pre-season break. Selfish? Moi?
Spain are a good side but they're not going to win the tournament with Morata as striker. Way behind the likes of England, France and Germany on the CF front.
My granny could have scored that! With a stick of celery …. In fact - even Shane would have put that one away ….. maybe …..
This result potentially has implications for us. Because the winner of our group could face the winner of this group in the QFs. And the runner-up of our group will definitely face the runner-up of this group in the last 16. It's pretty unlikely now that those top two sides will be Spain and Poland. One of them will likely finish in 3rd (or even 4th). They play each other next.
Still expect Spain to finish in the top two. Not sure they'll go much further though. I certainly wouldn't fear them compared to other sides.
It gets so complex to plot the best route because of the third places, but that's probably for the best we just need to focus on getting the best results. We will inevitably get a top quality side by the Quarter-Finals, last World Cup was a fluke in that regard.
Win the group is the first task. 45k at Wembley against (hopefully) Germany. Win that somehow and I'll start to properly dream.
So, fun story about Marko Arnautovic ranting against North Macedonians/Albanians after scoring: his surname literally means "son of the Albanian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnautovic Ain't no sectarian hatred quite like Balkans sectarian hatred.
