Well against russia they played both mandzucic and kramaric..

I hope not..why should we compensate for their team..they will be more worried about our pace and mobilty

Agree but this also gives ali and lingard more freedom because croatia dont have a holding player..it might mean modric might have to drop much deeper to compensate the lack of a quality holding player in croatia's midfield..i dont think you will see the marauding free-flowing modric of previous games

Honestly think we will beat croatia but i hope southgate doesnt accomodate modric by using henderson to man mark him. Henderson has shown a different side to his game this world cup..creativity..some of his passing had been pirlo-esque. Let them worry about us. We have something they lack. Pace. They will be terrified of our quick, mobile attacking players. This is the sort of game sterling could thrive in. A lot of their players are in their 30s now and having 2 extra time games will have taken a lot out of them.

An another topic i think some of the credit has to go to big sam....for being a greedy get..if it wasnt for him i highly doubt we would be in the semi final of a world cup

I would have said oxlade chamberlain would have been a good alternative if he had been available..the exciting thing is there still some really good youngsters ready to break through..hopefully people like nathan redmond fullfill their potential

Agreed but lovren is a weaklink

I have no fear of croatia..2 top midfielders in modric and racitic and a very good wide man in peresic but their defenders are poor and they lack any quality up front

Bilic is a total nob...one of the reasons i cant stand croatia

Because some people are pillocks who love bashing england

By the way u said u were happy for them and then make smug remarks about how england will get hammered..a true fan wouldnt say that..i think you should stick to rovers

Well fair enough but we controlled the game today..we were better than colombia..should have beaten tunisia more easily..hammered panama when other big teams have struggled against minnows. I am enjoying the ride and belgium and france haven set the tournament alight

Fantastic performance controlled..calm..top goalkeeper..naysayers go away

We have this team on the ropes and like every other game we are letting them off the hook..sterling has played quite well though but his decision making is poor

We played well against tunisia and largely colombia..please stop with the negativity

I wouldnt say we were average..we have quality players who havent clicked yet..as for the belgium game, we too had our reserves out...if we play like we did first half against panama, we'll win...as for club verses country i get far more excited about england at tournaments than i do rovers..sorry.

Sweden didnt knock germany out..south korea did

This is the best chance we will ever have of going all the way. It would be heartbreaking, no disrespect to sweden, to go out to a team like them. We are the favourites because we have far better players. Alot of their players dont even play regular first team football. They arent like their neighbours denmark who have an outstanding player like erikkson. They have no talisman in their team. The days of zlatan or brolin or dahlin are long gone. If we take the game to them from kick off we should be able to open them up with pace. Im going for 2-0

Will they??

South american teams resort to wrestling when facing european sides..they just cant cope with the higher quality of european teams

Wtf came out of lloris' mouth?

Also look up hakan mild..kennett anderson.

Well his quotes to the swedish media was very different

He said england think too much of themselves and that sweden should win..other ex players saying england are rubbish

Talking of arrogance..its not coming from england..its coming from those second rate ex sweden players plus mr quarter-final himself erricson. Hope we hump the jumped up no-marks (and no thats not arrogance)