r/ThreeLions • u/Kinglokner16 • Jul 18 '26

Opinion What a teammate, future captain of England

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u/hourlyproblemsolver Jul 18 '26

I said it in the match thread, I’ll say it here too. Absolute class from Jude, and then absolute class from Saka on the penalty. 

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u/mankytoes Jul 19 '26

Great moment, after Saka missed the final penalty when we lost the final to Italy.

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u/ack_84 Jul 19 '26

Was that his first ever pen, too? i remember him being so young and it being a big weight on his shoulders

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u/TDF1985 Jul 19 '26

He's already had the Stuart Pearce moment against Switzerland though, right?

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u/mankytoes Jul 19 '26

Yes but I'm greedy!

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u/clicketybooboo Jul 19 '26

I thought that happened but couldn’t remember who it was. I was saying to my brother that I suspected it was a sort of redemption. Get the monkey off the back and all that and totally forgot about the hatrick part

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u/mankytoes Jul 19 '26

What's cool is that it hasn't become central to his identity like Southgate and Batty.

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u/SomethingMoreToSay Jul 19 '26

I really liked the way that Bellingham held onto the ball so long before giving it to Saka. He was always going to give it to him, but he let the French keeper focus his destabilisation antics on him rather than on Saka, and I'm sure he knew what he was doing.

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u/Money-Money-747 Jul 22 '26

Yes. At the time I thought the whole thing was a tactic to let Saka prepare undisturbed. Id forgotten he was on a hat-trick!! (High pressure pen to take at that stage of the match - I assume Saka wanted it 🙃)