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In fairness to Murphy, he was distracted. Frantically searching the Grindr app, for “Mbappe”.

Going behind in modern football, whether it be PL or internationals, is a bit of a nightmare. The French took 90 seconds to take a bog standard free kick on about the 90 minute mark. Mbappe separately making off with the ball. And all the BBC duo would say was well you can’t blame them...

Agent Thierry Henry did a great job.

Another GOLDEN GENERATION fail to go all the way. It’s not just an English trait.

This game could have gone either way, Lloris made great saves. Yet Murphy, yet again, fits his creepy narrative around the score.

Martinez belatedly giving Belgium a dose of the Everton’s.

Time wasting and momentum killing at its best. Straight out of the Portuguese school of win at all costs.

Hacked down by Giroud. Whistle happy refs, suddenly whistle shy.

Lingard? He has some engine. Leaving Henderson as a typical DM, as insurance, for all their midfield threats such as Rakitic.

As I predicted at the beginning of the thread, they wait to see who scores first, then lavish praise on all aspects of that team’s play. Murphy is the typical arse licker.

He has two world class defensive midfielders suffocating him, every time he has the ball. The same strategy was used to nullify Messi and Ronaldo in most games. It’s the obvious thing to do to the main creator in a team and it works. England should do something similar to Modric.

Classic case of the better quality overall team, attacking, but being suffocated by a deep defence of mass numbers. With the opposition posing a greater threat, simply by biding their time to using the counter and set pieces. Chelsea have won stuff doing just that, and Mourinho built a career...

Immediately, both teams have a mass of bodies behind the ball. Belgium for the first time are playing a proper football team, who won't be absolute mugs like Japan and Brazil who both pathetically left acres of space for Belgian counter attacks.

The good news - no screaming Jonathan Pearce. The not so good - Hindsight Murphy, who'll wait to see who scores first, then lavish praise on everything they do.

The Poles are out.

The de facto final tonight, the two best teams in this tournament to date. A lazy prediction, following an obvious pattern when two similar quality teams meet in football - whoever scores first, will end up winning.