VAR is ruining the world cup a little bit.. those rugby tackles on Kane were penalties any day of the week - they were apparently reviewed by the VAR team and the ref took the view that Kane dived.. I don't get it. How can they not give a penalty for that, but give penalties like the France one or the Argentina one which were NOT clear and obvious penalties. When you get a game like that where everyone including all pundits/press/media think that England should have had at minimum two penalties and they get none, VAR is clearly not working as it should.
Anyway.. despite that fact, still got that frustrating feeling watching England... we did play well for the first 20 minutes (probably not the best 20 minutes from any team like that twat Keown spouted out) ... but we weathered the rest of the game, especially after their equalizer which is a bit of worry. Apparently Tunisia touched the ball 5 times in our penalty area the whole game (including the penalty) - we still conceded.
Thoughts on performances:
Lingard is not good enough.. no excuse for that tame 1st effort - I'd rather see Rashers or even Wellbeck play there.. and Wellbeck is Wellshite!
Not a big fan of Young, I think he's shit.. ok, he didn't do much wrong last night (although that FK was terrible) - but he didn't really do anything to be honest.
Thought Loftus-Cheek did well when he came on, 10 minutes wasn't really enough though.
I don't get why people thought Henderson had a good game.. he over-hit so many passes and surely lost possession more than anyone.. still, better than playing the ball backwards and sideways constantly I guess.
Unsure on Mcguire, ok he burst forward a few times.. a few times he just turned around and passed backwards though.
Glad Kane got on the scoresheet, to be honest, he was just in the right place at the right time.. but that's a good thing and now hopefully that gives him the confidence for future games.
Sterling should be shot for that miss though.. he's going to cost us at some point with his misses.
