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Belgium couldn't have asked for a more insipid opponent to get themselves through and still couldn't do it. Lukaku extremely wasteful when it mattered most. A shame Croatia are (as far as I can tell?) not on our side of the draw, as I'd fancy us against them.

Yeah, but you expect it from Belgium. Croatia are playing like they've already qualified, which is strange as a single Belgium goal will send them home.

Do Croatia want to go home? What's up with this lethargic mess of a performance from them?

Croatia not looking great either, honestly.

Looking like one of Belgium or Croatia are going out...

It seems churlish to suggest Argentina didn't step up last night. Yes Poland were abysmal, but it was still a masterclass of a performance from Argentina, penalty and subsequent penalty miss aside. Iran were shit when they played us, but I'd still say we stepped up and made a statement of intent with our performance. Just because the opposition is dire doesn't mean a team can't put on a great performance to make a point.

As long as the French play to their usual standard they'll know that they've got a pretty safe passage to the next round. Australia will put up a fight against Argentina and the Saudis have already shown that it's possible to overwhelm them in that way, but obviously if Argentina play like they did tonight it'll be a pretty straightforward progression for them too. You never know when it comes to knockout football, but based on what we've seen so far Argentina will have a tougher test than France.

As it stands, yes.

Basically been a training match for Argentina. Genuinely think Qatar would have given them more of a game than this.

Hopefully that'll be the kick up the arse the Polish team needed.

Poland very lucky to go in at 0-0, that was as one sided a half as I can remember at this tournament (excluding Qatar who are well below the general standard). They need to have a different gameplan in the second half or will likely lose by 2 or 3.

A terrible decision but a fantastic save. Is it me or does a referee going over to the monitor literally always result in a penalty? Struggling to think of an instance where it hasn't in this world cup - and some of those decisions have been ridiculous.

Poland are absolutely terrible. Hard to see them even getting a point from this one if they can't improve on their current level of performance.

Thought Wales would be up for tonight, but they weren't at all. Pretty easy for us in the end, but we played some good stuff. The goals were all very well created and taken.

There goes that plan!

Compare what our managers and players are paid versus their counterparts in other teams who have done a lot better than us at international level (for at least the last two decades) and I don't see how expectations of England doing well at tournaments are unrealistic at all. Fans are just conditioned to accept mediocrity whilst those within the England setup are paid an absolute fortune to consistently underachieve. But apparently that's something we should just accept and be happy with.

0-0 at HT, shocking.

"Plays football the right way" - which typically means a manager who can't set up a team to defend and relies on the quality of the attack tipping the balance compared to the weaker defensive area. This doesn't necessarily mean the defenders themselves are poor, just that the manager doesn't really have a good grasp on how to set up a side to be defensively solid at the same time as being offensively potent.

I think we're seeing Belgium's so-called golden generation at the end of their road, having not really achieved anything. How much of that is down to having a bang average manager in the dugout is open to debate, but they've been very poor in this tournament and look like a tired, stale team.

Another HT 0-0 (thanks to VAR). I swear at least half if not more of all the matches in this tournament have been goalless after the first 45 minutes? Is it the conditions, the time of year it's being played, the overall attitude of the teams? You can basically skip the first half of most matches and not have to worry about missing anything important or interesting.

Can see them getting humiliated against a decent side. Messi can save them against the likes of Mexico, but a good team will absolutely smash this Argentina side unless they improve hugely.

Honestly, Iran look like they have more if a chance of winning the tournament than Argentina. How are they this bad?

Not sure how Kane gets a 6 tbh. The only time he got onto the end of a cross he directed it closer to the corner flag than the goal.

Garbage performance. Set up incorrectly from the start and never fixed. No idea what our aim was in this match, beyond boring the viewing audience to tears. Back down to Earth with a thud I'm afraid. The US certainly deserve their point, we didn't really deserve anything. Our best hope is that, as per the last two tournaments we mostly face teams fairly far below us in terms of natural ability, because it seems likely based on recent form and tonight's showing that any team on a similar level will handle us with ease.

US seem to have run out of energy in attack, if we're going to score then now's the time.