Tunisia v England, 19:00 BST, BBC.

[GP]

Yuk to that video. Fair play to Kane though, if that late chance had dropped to either Sterling or Lingard neither would have scored. He took it calmly with a cool head.

He's a spud cunt

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Did Lineker call that exceptional last night or was I hallucinating?

[Letters]

Finally seen some highlights although edited so annoyingly it was impossible to get much of a feel for how we played. Looked like we made enough decent chances.
Lingard though
Embarrassing.

Meh. We so rarely win the first game of a major tournament, I'll take it.

[WMUG]

Finally seen some highlights although edited so annoyingly it was impossible to get much of a feel for how we played. Looked like we made enough decent chances.
Lingard though
Embarrassing.

Meh. We so rarely win the first game of a major tournament, I'll take it.

What was embarrassing about Lingard? Had one snapshot brilliantly saved, was unlucky with the one that hit the post. Sterling was the embarrassing one, I thought.

[Letters]

As discussed the highlights were edited in a way which makes it hard to evaluate performances well, but one assessment of his performance was:

"Lively on the ball but missed an abundance of chances"

Sounds about right from what I saw, some of the finishing looked...Welbeckesque.

[WMUG]

That describes a lot of players, but I think it's harsh to tar Lingard with that particular brush. Stones, Sterling and Rashford all missed easier chances than he did, like I said he was quite unlucky as opposed to incompetent like the rest

[Letters]

Fair enough. I just noticed it more with Lingard from the rubbish highlights I saw.
It seemed liked a pretty incompetent display up front, otherwise looked like a #decent performance.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Sterling missed the easiest chance of them all.

[WMUG]

Sterling missed the easiest chance of them all.

Yeah, looked like he didn't know what foot to go with then decided neither and just let it hit him.