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Nations League - Spain v England


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8 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Stats suggests England have been lucky. Spain more shots, dangerous attacks, chances created.

How’s it been watching?

The scoreboard suggests differently. Just goes to show that sometimes it pays to actually watch a match rather than base an opinion on completely meaningless stats.

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Disappointed they got that 2nd, will enable twits to argue that if that penalty had been given they'd have drawn and it would have been deserved.

We stopped playing 2nd half, didn't want to embarass them any more I guess. Aspas and their right winger who pretended Chilwell elbowed him when he realised he couldn't get close enough to bring him down did that all by themselves.

Impressed by Joe Gomez for the first time. Had him down as a right back with bad positioning before tonight, but dealt well with the barrage in the 2nd half.

Don't like the format of Nations League and don't like that it wasn't on TV but I did like a competitive international in a hostile venue.

Love that they had a million shots and 97% possession and still lost. Mourinho spesh.

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Haven't heard what the rules are. The indication from the TV commentary early doors was that the key factor in the competition is head-tio-head results before goal difference. Unless away goals count extra, that means conceding with the last touch makes this a typical glorious failure as Spain will qualify after their demolition of Croatia.

We are the nearly men of world football. Yes it was good to win, and an enjoyable game, but in the ruthless world of professional sport Ramos with a diving header showed the qualities needed to win trophies.

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2 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Haven't heard what the rules are. The indication from the TV commentary early doors was that the key factor in the competition is head-tio-head results before goal difference. Unless away goals count extra, that means conceding with the last touch makes this a typical glorious failure as Spain will qualify after their demolition of Croatia.

We are the nearly men of world football. Yes it was good to win, and an enjoyable game, but in the ruthless world of professional sport Ramos with a diving header showed the qualities needed to win trophies.

That goal at the end makes no difference, we are still ahead on head to head, unfortunately our failure to beat Croatia means that we are on less points than Spain.

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7 minutes ago, AdamRam said:

That goal at the end makes no difference, we are still ahead on head to head, unfortunately our failure to beat Croatia means that we are on less points than Spain.

Good news then if you're saying our 2-3 trumps their 1-2. So away goals count double?

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3 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

Good news then if you're saying our 2-3 trumps their 1-2. So away goals count double?

That’s my understanding, don’t mean I’m right though ?

Those who say we were lucky though, Spain have not lost in 38 games, and have never conceded 3 before at home in a competitive game before. 

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