Are England underestimating Switzerland threat? | Back Pages Tonight

No one is underestimating Switzerland. This is just usual divisive journalism.

Nonsense story. The media are terrible 😂

Just the opposite, I think most people think England will get beaten by Switzerland.

The Swiss are the favourites for this surely? Southgate has decimated this team with his experiments, lack of plan and players out of position.

Southgate will start the same team again

FFS it's the 1/4 finals, no one is underestimating anybody.

Are England underestimating Switzerland? Yeah, right!!!! All we’ve heard about for the last 2 weeks is how cr@p England are and what a terrible coach Southgate is. There's a reasonable argument to say Switzerland are favourites.

UNDERESTIMATING THEM ? Everyone I know thinks were gonna get battered, maybe the media are

Just realised Ogdon looks like Cole Palmer's older brother

Most of the opinion I've heard is that we're coming into the game as underdogs and they're absolutely right. Switzerland are favourites. They're playing far better than us.

England will not beat Switzerland if they play the same way this past Sunday & the entire tournament.

The question should be are Switzerland underestimating England.

The defenders challenge affected the accuracy of the header, otherwise it would have gone right in the corner, watch the replay, it's so hard to direct a header when you get a nudge at the same time. still a great save though.

Why would Bellingham seekn to offend the Slovakian bench?! Doesn't even make sense in terms of a motive

I’m going for the underdogs to get through this tie , but then again , Switzerland could also win it…

I'm a Swiss fan, but I'm exposed to far more England-centric articles and comments. British people are most definitely NOT underestimating the Swiss threat. Though that's mostly based on how down they are with the English effort (and coaching), rather than how amazing they think the Swiss are.

In true England fashion, it's dependent on what team turns up. Look at us this tournament/last game, 1 shot and waiting til the 95th minute is hard to get excited about. We are quick to criticise but we could very easily change the tide with providing more shots on target. More % chance to score and gets the fans on side. I know it looks poor but if we had the same playstyle with more chances but were 2 or 3 up you'd be satisfied. Some stats from the tournament paint the picture. Possession % - 3rd Passing Accuracy - 4th Clean sheets - Joint 3rd Goals - Lowest still remaining in the tournament Attempts - Lowest still remaining in the tournament Attempts on target - Lowest still remaining in the tournament (England have 12 shots on target vs Germany's 28 and Spain's 29). This has to change, we can't keep playing with no chances created, we need to be more direct and create shots on target. It makes no difference if we have the best finisher in football, if you're only able to fashion 1 chance a game vs another teams 5/6 you're playing slim odds.

Let not fool ourselves. England reached the semifinal of WC 2018 because of the bracket. Colombia was the only decent team they beat and eventually lost to Croatia in the semis. Same luck in Euro 2024. Great team on paper, but not on the field of play. Inept coach!

Fans are NOT underestimating...Now Southgate and co, we will see.

Play every team like you're playing France.