Definitely seems like good value!

In my hypothetical team, Trent would play RB and invert into midfield, making Branthwaite a LCB of a 3 in possession. Given Luke Shaw still looks injured, the options for left back are surely Gomez, Branthwaite, Trippier or Konsa (3 CB's and a RB). Not like Branthwaite would be miles ahead of the others, but I really like him for his physicality and his left footedness. Also on form he's probably had the best season out of them 4 imo. As for Foden we have seen how less effective he is out wide compared to playing as a 10 for about 7 years now. Unfortunately I think we lack a profile in the sqaud (presumably from LB) to effectively hold the LW position in possession whilst foden moves centrally to play alongside Jude. Perhaps Jude and Foden will work in this tournament (hopefully it will) but to me it makes no sense on paper and hasn't been great when tried for England in previous internationals.

To be fair I wrote that at the start and it is a very interesting video. Although I disagree always good to hear other peoples opinions. I do agree on foden so I would play him as a 10 and Bellingham as an 8 behind. But let’s definitely not revert to the famous scholes playing left wing 😀

This would be the best version of Bellingham and Foden playing together in my opinion, it does makes the team a little lighter defensively which is why I would prefer to only play one. I just can't see Gareth going down this route though unfortunately (but hopefully I'm proved wrong).

I agree with them being world class, but what is the limit on how many world class players you can fit into one team. If hypothetically Mbappe, Messi, Haaland and De Bruyne were also English, would those 4 plus Kane, Jude and Foden all have to play together?

Both the Belgium and Brazil games where played without Saka. For me Saka is undroppable (I think the same is true for Gareth), I can't see Foden starting in any other position than LW or as the 10.

I agree with your general sentiment here. The probabilities just give an approximate chance of England winning if the "most likely" route to the final occurs. There can/will be upsets of course, but in my opinion these are no less likely to happen against England than they are to happen against the other "big" nations. I think the general point is that as soon as you assume that at some point in the tournament England will have a 50/50 game, then you have to price England very short in the other knockout games to get 4.X as value odds. If England had to play two 50/50 games then it's basically impossible to get 4.X as being back value.

1 world class player. Lukaku is now international class. Courtois wont go. The big teams will beat them in 90mins

England would be significantly shorter to beat Belgium than they would be to beat France. If you think France and Belgium are roughly equal then you should find Belgium (win odds: 22) to be a mega value bet if France are currently 5.4.

@@KieMillett I agree. I don't think they are equal. I only mentioned the ranking.

It's eerily similar!

Personally I still have France having the best team, but it's obviously very close. Its tough to see England's mentality ever changing but it is possible (see Ben Stoke's revolution of the English test sides mentality).

Germany v England final would be one for the ages!

@@KieMillett yeah! especially if you guys win it in penalties finally ;)