Panama V England World Cup 2018

Panama V England

(Synopsis in red)

Pregame bets:

Fancy England to do a Belgium and hammer Panama. They will be eager to match Belgium’s goal tally as it might make a difference in the end to who tops the Group.

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England v Panama – Over 2.5 Goals 4/5

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Get in! Nice to get the bet up after about half an hour, nice one England.

Beers: Group G of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group G

London Pride on its own today, no beer sourced from Panama

One nil to the England, Love the London Pride.

PreGame:

England left it very late in their opener, always making it hard for their fans, but they got there in the end and deservedly got the three points. Would have been a complete travesty if they had not as I feel the penalty was a terrible decision and the ref never gave them much throughout the whole game. Tunisia were playing puke football all match and were lucky to even get one goal never mind a draw.

Started very brightly, Deli Alli was sprightly and on fire early on, while Sterling missed a complete sitter. England were strong in attack and caused Tunisia all sorts of problems that they couldn’t cope with. Sure enough England scored early, with a Stone header not saved well and Kane with the rebound. A real poachers goal.

Sterling wasn’t the only player with no shooting boots on, Lingard could have done better with his simple chances too. But just when you were thinking who is going to score the second goal for England, a penalty is giving to Tunisia for a rather innocuous challenge by Walker on Ben Youssef who fell to the ground like a sack of spuds. Tunisia’s Ferjani Sassi stepped up to equalize from the penalty spot. It was all the more galling that the ref kept missing how Kane was wrestled to the ground for virtually every corner (expect the last one funnily enough!)

That penalty kind of rattled England a bit and they started to fanny around the pitch as they sometimes like to do, aimless balls and passing back and forth with no decisiveness. Always so frustrating to watch at times, these millionaire footballers so inept at playing what should be a simple game. Alli faded badly in the second, and Sterling was his usual crap self for England, and just when you were losing all hope to live, England get a corner, and to be honest you kind of felt they might jam in a goal from it. And they did. Kane again, good goal, great to get the space and England survive for another day.

To be fair to England they did well up against a very cynical and dirty Tunisian team and against a ref who gave them nothing in the game. They played well in patches, Stones in particular had a good second half, and when the chips were down they did step up and grind out that victory. I think that was a decent enough performance all things considering. They should steamroll Panama now today, scoring a few goals in the process.

In the end of the first game, it was so easy for Belgium as Panama ran out of legs and energy. It was 3-0 but could have been more.

In the first half Belgium didn’t do a whole lot, for sure they had good tempo and made some incisive forward play but there was no real bite to their attack. But it took a moment of magic from Mertens just after half time, with a cracking volley, to wake the team up.

After the first goal went in Belgium started to play a bit more freely and with more confidence, as the heads dipped a bit for Panama.

But against the run of play Panama had a great chance to equalise when Michael Murillo was one v one with the goalkeeper but Courtois spreadeagled prevented a goal.

Belgium eventually got another two. Easy enough for them.

In the end Panama tried hard to get a goal and it would have been nice if they had managed it but alas it was not to be. Panama play England today and I fear it wont get any better for them, I expect another battering.

A more detailed review on Panama here and on England here

Panama started good, they had a great chance to hit the target when Bárcenas was through but he ballooned it way over. After that it was pretty much one way traffic for England.

Stones got a free header from a corner, as the Panamanian defenders were more into WWF than concentrating on how to actual defend a set piece. Then shortly after, Lingard was brought down for a penalty which Kane easily dispatched off. Lingard, again, scored a cracking curler in the tip right corner for the third goal. This was getting too easy for England.

The fourth goal was a perfectly executed training ground routine and Stones got to the end of it when Sterling refused to score with his free header, very considerate of him and all. There was time for another penalty before the half was called up. The Panamanian defenders were warned all game about their manhandling in the box, but they choose to ignore it and so gave away a simple peno well called by the ref. Kane again, same as.

In the second half, the temp came down a bit which was understandably as the job was well done already by England. Kane did get his hat trick and England sixth, when he scored from his heel, what a pox.

R Torres nearly got his country’s first world cup but badly missed at the far post. Good enough for the cunt, what a shit captain, in everyone’s face throughout most of the game and couldn’t control either himself or his team. But that goal came in the end to Baloy, on a sub, and with a well struck goal put himself into his country’s footballing history books.

As far as I know, England go top of the group, level on point and goal difference but with less bookings, which means they get to play either Japan, Poland, Senegal, or Colombia, as if they came second they would play either Japan, Poland, Senegal, or Colombia, i.e no difference. The difference might be in the last eight, either Brazil or Germany, also arguably no difference considering both teams form.

Music to get you in the mood

Insensato – Señor Loop (Panama) V Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby (England)