Football's coming home?

I see all the Sterling haters are on Twitter. He was world class tonight. They all were though thankfully Pickford didn't produce the clanger he looked like at times.

Yeah, thought those clips were from Redz.

World class tonight though? Not at all. Sterling, however, was immense.

As a neutral I thought that game looked a different league to last nights.

I think you'll struggle on Sunday. I genuinely wish you the best though.

Deserved win by England. Sterling has been brilliant this tournament, easily our best player. Kane now hit a bit of form. Will be a very tough test against a very strong Italy team. Feel that Pickford has a clanger in him. I’d switch him out for the sub keeper- very erratic. Need to get hold of the midfield against Italy. During the first half Denmark outnumbered and outfought us in the middle, but fortunately we wrestled back control of the game abd the midfield in the second half and they tired towards the end. Feel the midfield will be key against Italy. I’d maybe put an extra body in there with Henderson alongside Rice and Phillips. We can’t let Italy play their fluid high intensity game. Our team pace and trickery in attack with Sterling and the others could be key against a very good, but old Italian central defensive partnership. They could defend in their own half all day and you’d struggle to score against them, but if we can get in behind them we will get joy. Big game on Sunday- could go either way!

I loved that film 'Goal'.  Me and a couple of friends sat all day watching that in the old Embassy cinema.  You could get away with that then - I think we watched it four times, and you could get away with it usually because it was so large in there before they converted to three screens.

It is a thought... but trouble is an extra body in midfield would be at the expense of a Saka or Sancho who fill the 3rd attacker role.

The England starting midfield has followed the "Klopp blueprint", basically less emphasis on creating chances, but more on providing a foundation to enable either the three attackers to do it amongst themselves or the wingbacks to get into dangerous areas.

The use of replacements has been very good too, with a more creative or defensive type introduced as the match demands.

Southgate seems to pick his teams to do a job on the day. Be brave to change anything now, but you cannot rule it out.