Ger Gilroy

Confidence player, I think, isn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah, like, and the subs that they do have, like, on the bench, like, obviously, Scherke come on, but... Barclay.

And Bradley Barclay scores, great goal, but there's so much talent there to use.

Deschamps doesn't make a whole pile of changes, though, from game to game, though, really, generally, he doesn't.

Do you know it was like the old days when you used to watch La Liga and Cristiano Ronaldo would go and score a goal or two and then a couple of hours later Messi would go and score three and then the following weekend Ronaldo would score two or three and then Messi would score two or three again.

It was kind of that like well you've done that and even Messi's post-match comments last night he even mentioned the fact that Mbappe had scored two and he was like oh he's a great player and he's obviously close to the record and then...

Messi goes and gets three like it's just you know and Ronaldo and Messi both have been speaking in their pre-match press conferences about how each other has kind of driven them on and to the levels where they're at and it's still mad that they're still doing it at Messi's what 39 Ronaldo 41 it's incredible really yeah it's not it's never been a given that you know great goal scorers for our clubs perform at the World Cup we were talking about Wayne Rooney earlier

was there any consideration given do you think to that like obviously not but they're a bit light now at full back but that to me suggests that Kwanzaa's next up for right back and Jed Spence I think is going to play as a left back yeah it seems like Tuchel has a plan for each position and he's very meticulous about who plays in what role and who plays in what position he's like he wants specialists in each position I'm not really sure about Kwanzaa at right back though

Yeah, well he hasn't picked obviously Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luke Shaw, Lewis Hall.

A lot of people thought, kind of presumed that Lewis Hall would come in and Jed Spence would obviously play a right back but it seems like what you said there Phil is basically they want the dominant side of the

Absolutely, yeah.

Declan Rice.

Young English lion.

Yeah.

Vice captain.

Do you know what kind of really annoyed me was there was a piece about, like a long read in The Guardian about Declan Rice.

Was it last weekend or the weekend before?

Made no mention of those three senior caps of Ireland.

You know, it was all this nonsense about like, you know, getting let go by Chelsea and then going to West Ham and, you know, crying in the back of the car as a little teenager, you know, getting let go.