Other Games 2025-26

[AndyB6]

Don't head-to-head results trump goal difference?

[JUAN PABLO]

is there another channel without these two t**ts commentating. Completely ruin the game....  watched it against serbia and all they did was hoping bellingham would come on.

[Brazilian Villain]

Agree with that.

Wow, just watched it on RTE2+1. Moments like that aren't supposed to happen to Ireland, glorious failure is more our thing. If it wasn't for that late Portugal winner in Lisbon, we'd have topped the group. But I'll settle for the play-offs.

I think ROI would also have needed to find another 10 goals from somewhere.

We'd have got them if we needed them.

Actually thought it might be head to head with such small groups. Good to know it didn't cost us automatic qualification.

[Brazilian Villain]

Don't head-to-head results trump goal difference?

Apparently not. According to the Irish Times - If, at the end of the group, teams are level on points then the tiebreaker metrics used to separate sides will be: goal difference from all games in the group first, followed by goals scored in all games in the group, and then head-to-head record.

[Villa Lew]

What a chance

[SamTheMouse]

Many managers seem to have a blind spot, a weird and unjustifiable fascination with a particular player.

Tuchel's love of Dan "Total and Complete Shit" Burn is one of the most egregious examples you're likely to see.

[Percy McCarthy]

Haven’t been impressed by England B so far.

[Dave]

They're already through so rotating a bit. Seems an odd thing to get angry about. Quite happy for Konsa and Rogers to get nowhere near the pitch today and come back to Bodymoor safe and sound.

My point isn't about tonight but about reputation before form in tournaments that has hamstrung England for generations. If it's Bellingham V Rogers, pick the player in form.

Bellingham has been generally excellent for Real Madrid since coming back from injury and is probably in better "form" than Rogers is.

If it were being done on form, Bellingham should probably have been in instead of Rogers against Serbia.

So he deserves his place in the side now then. But, as one pundit on 5Live put it earlier "he has got to be in the squad and team for the USA". Which disregards the next 7 months in favour of who he is.

Unless he has a particular weird seven months, then on account of "who he is" - which is one of the best midfielders in the world, playing for the biggest club in the world in some of the biggest games in the world, I'm quite happy saying he should definitely be in the squad. Whether he's in the team, that depends on a number of other factors, of which his form is one.

Form is an important factor, but international selection never has, never will and shouldn't be picked solely on that.

If Rogers scores two goals in May and Mason Mount scores five, that "better form" just before the tournament doesn't mean Mount should be picked instead, does it? Because there is a lot more to it than that.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Just worked out Bellingham's shtick: run into players,fall over,claim free kick.

[Brazilian Villain]

Rogers would have scored that.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Rogers would have scored that.

Yeah, but the pitch was at fault,not Bellingham's gawky playing style

[Villa Lew]

Saka coming on, good.

[Brazilian Villain]

Just worked out Bellingham's shtick: run into players,fall over,claim free kick.

He's a poor man's Finn Azaz.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Ha! Redditch Blues flag, attended by four thumbs

[olaftab]

Bellingham has been gash so far

Thought that too.

And so far.