Dave Hanratty

They're very excited about this second half.

Were you impressed?

What did you make of them?

So...

I guess the essential there is you have pace all around him and legs all around him and they do have that.

And I suppose the thing with Tuchel and the squad he's picked is he was fairly militant about what he wanted.

He wanted certain profiles of players.

So I presume you like the fact then that instead of having Cole Palmer, because you think two years ago, Cole Palmer, when England were very stodgy, Cole Palmer would come on and actually make things happen a little bit.

Tuchel has really resisted that and so Madaweke Saka Gordon Rashford it's pace replaced with pace it's profile replaced with profile and therefore the game plan kind of sticks therefore you don't have Kane dropping deep and no legs to give it to so I presume you're a fan of that the way he's gone about his business the way he's gone about his squad

Yeah.

So, like, you don't feel any of their too gung-ho here and too much of the kind of great entertainers all of a sudden?

And to be fair to them, Nico O'Reilly, Rhys James, geez, they're very good at coming into midfield.

I mean, we've watched a lot of tournaments where England are kind of back four and giving it to midfielder and pop it back to back four and just look kind of a little bit lifeless.

Whereas, I mean, these guys are floating around and super comfortable and you see them do it at club level.

But that all looked very good as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bellingham, to be fair to him, was making those runs even in the first half as well.

Ray Houghton, who was on commentary and, you know, at the bird's eye view a few times, was saying, got another great run from Bellingham.

They didn't just see him that time.

So it does suggest he's fit and in really good form.