I just dont understand how jack manages to get so many fouls against him

Invest in Maguire stocks?

Is Bellingham Jesus reincarnated?

Now imagine we had Guehi in every game instead of Harry Magliability

That lad was running around his bedroom 10 years ago with his arms up

And the crowd goes wild for Bellingham

Living the dream lad, living the dream, and worthy off it.

That crowd ball really threw me off

We've gone and done the double over Italy, amazing from the lads.

Italy missing another tournament will be delightful. Fingers crossed

Did anyone else just see a giant football lobbed up centre screen?

When was the last time England had an international match in a foreign country?

Just listened to vindaloo all the way through for the first time in years, what a tune, what nostalgia

KANE GETS TO GO HOME, TO GERMANY IN 2024

Haha, what is she talking about? That atmosphere is shit considering we’ve just qualified for a major tournament!

Only sour point was the minutes silence at the start. Why did so many dickheads start shouting. Stones looked so disappointed by it.

Just think lads that this time next year we would have won the euros

Honestly, it was hard to concentrate on this game after hearing what happened a couple hours earlier.

Bellingham is magic and Kane is just class though.

There were some interesting and risky tactics by Spalletti to play with a back 5 in the defensive phase with El Shaarway dropping to LWB, and transiting to some kind of 2-3-5 in possession with Udogie stepping in the midfield, and Frattesi stepping into the forward line, and Di Lorenzo constantly overlapping on the right. It worked decently in the first half, but was ultimately this was way too unbalanced as every goal was conceded from too few players in defensive zones during transitions. I preferred last weeks tactics where Darmian stayed back so that we always had 3 defenders while Dimarco had freedom to push up the left flank and Raspadori/Kean could drift into the middle.

Ultimately this team is built to play in a traditional back three system, so if Spalletti is going to insist on a 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 he needs to pick a first XI and keep the team and tactics as consistent as possible. Pressing is the most important feature in Spalletti's teams and it's not going to be easy for these players to pick up the right patterns when they only train together ever few months, so he needs to make things as simple as possible for them. You could see today they were confused about who needs to step where.

Considering all of our defenders play in back 3 systems at club level, we need to be more defensively stable and conservative if we're going to use a back 4 against top teams. If we play with Dimarco as LB, the RB needs to stay in defensive positions to support the CBs (Bastoni/Acerbi/Scalvini/Mancini/Gatti who are always used to having a 3rd player), like Darmian did to great effect against Malta. Di Lorenzo was a great defensive RB in previous seasons, but he's gotten a taste for goals and assists and is way too eager to join the attack, leaving use hugely unbalanced in defensive transitions.

Overall the game today wasn't as bad as the scoreline and comments make it seem. There were some good moments and some bad luck (Udogie almost scoring to make it 2-1; Phillips not getting the second yellow he deserved) against some of the most in form players in the world, but Spalletti has a huge job on his hands if he expects to turn this team into anything like what his Napoli was.

As much as I am annoyed with him about the Henderson thing - can’t really fault Gareth on what he’s built here, this team just eases through the gears so smoothly.

Embarrassing play by the referee, Philips should have been expelled in the first half or at least given a straight red card in the second half, there was a clear pen for England in the second half.