Euros

Bones

@majorrage said in Euros:

@junior Indeed. It's frustrating being a country.

Something many an All Black supporter knows.

MajorStokes

@junior said in Euros:

@canefan said in Euros:

@majorrage said in Euros:

Take the piss out of the Grealish love in as much as you want …. But England are so much better tonight because of him.

.... and now he's off. Czech defender blatantly pushes Maguire to the ground in the box and..... nothing. From the ref or VAR. They need to win to stay at Wembley, they really need a second goal to ease the nerves.

Big wraps on Jadon Sancho. But what does he have to do to get a game?

It must be frustrating being an England - you've got some fantastic young attacking talent for the first time in years, you watch them perform on the biggest stages in the world's toughest league for their clubs and being coached to back themselves by some of the world's best managers like Pep, Tuchel and Klopp and then you watch them playing an overly-conservative and unimaginative brand of football while playing for England (if they're lucky to get off the bench) while being coached by a guy who would be lucky to get a gig coaching in the Championship. It's a bit like being an All Black supporter at the moment...

All crap jokes aside, you are right though. England are a team playing far below the sum of their parts.

Billy Tell

France vs Portugal decided on penalties…

Billy Tell

Juicy ¼ between Germany and England.

KiwiPie

That was a crazy 2 hours - England had all 4 countries as their opponents at some point and all teams bar France were going out at some point. Some really good ties in the last 16 to look forward to.

Rancid Schnitzel

Squeaky bum time for Löw. They’ll probably end up winning the thing now.

mariner4life

@kiwipie said in Euros:

That was a crazy 2 hours - England had all 4 countries as their opponents at some point and all teams bar France were going out at some point. Some really good ties in the last 16 to look forward to.

the Tournament was and still is screaming out for some jeopardy, so the knock outs will finally add something.

KiwiPie

According to the bookies pre-tournament, Turkey are the most fancied team to be knocked out ($50) and Wales the biggest outsiders to qualify ($125). So no real shocks in terms of qualifiers.

Favourites to reach the quarter-finals are

France v Spain
Italy v Belgium
Netherlands v Denmark
England v Sweden

although Portugal, Germany, Ukraine are not huge outsiders for their ties.

junior

@kiwipie said in Euros:

According to the bookies pre-tournament, Turkey are the most fancied team to be knocked out ($50) and Wales the biggest outsiders to qualify ($125). So no real shocks in terms of qualifiers.

Favourites to reach the quarter-finals are

France v Spain
Italy v Belgium
Netherlands v Denmark
England v Sweden

although Portugal, Germany, Ukraine are not huge outsiders for their ties.

I am astounded that England are favoured to progress at Germany's expense. While not the greatest German team of all time, it is still incredibly powerful as they showed against Portugal.

Bovidae

Some great matchups in the next round.

Let's hope that the refs don't have a big impact on the games like a certain Spanish ref this morning. 3 penalties, of which two were dubious, and then misses an obvious penalty late in the game.

MiketheSnow

Germany will slam England

Bones

Bale 🤣 not only can he not score, he's blocking his teammates from doing so too.

MiketheSnow

Wales May rue that sustained early pressure with no return.

Great goal from Denmark but against the run of play.

Since then all Denmark

Shit yellow card decision against Moore

sparky

Denmark looking comfortably the better side. Still only 1-0 at half time.

MiketheSnow

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Bones

@mikethesnow but seriously, what was that clearing kick, very soon after a shit turnover on the far side too. How much does 3 have on Wales to bow out?

sparky

Still 2-0 to the Danes. Time running out for Wales.

sparky

Denmark 3 Wales 0. A bridge too far for Wales.

Billy Tell

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Your team was a disgrace today imo. Street fighters. Bale clapping the ref sarcastically was the icing. Good riddance. I prefer your rugby team!

MiketheSnow

@billy-tell said in Euros:

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Your team was a disgrace today imo. Street fighters. Bale clapping the ref sarcastically was the icing. Good riddance. I prefer your rugby team!

Harsh

Wales we’re outplayed and deservedly lost.

And the referee was average at best and shouldn’t proceed beyond the round of 16

MiketheSnow

Italy to progress comfortably

4-1 prediction

MiketheSnow

Christ, Italy making hard work of this

Billy Tell

Italy players diving all over the shop. Austrian just get on with the job and score!

MiketheSnow

@billy-tell said in Euros:

Italy players diving all over the shop. Austrian just get on with the job and score!

Great to see

Billy Tell

Offside…

Billy Tell

Regardless of the result Austria can be proud. Look a bit like journeymen but their effort is top class.

MiketheSnow

@billy-tell said in Euros:

Regardless of the result Austria can be proud. Look a bit like journeymen but their effort is top class.

I want Italy to lose after all their posturing and poncing about

Billy Tell

So far insigne not leaving his mark on this game…

Billy Tell

Bridge too far for the Austrians. Brave display.

Billy Tell

Mancini orchestrating his troops…

MiketheSnow

Two good goals to be fair

MiketheSnow

@sparky said in Euros:

A Welsh footballer is now blaming the competition organisers because they got spanked 4-0 yesterday.

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Welsh football team are hard to warm to. As @billy-tell says, I prefer their Rugby team.

One player's opinion. He's hurting. He'll reflect down the line and know we did really well to get to the competition in the first place; then the round of 16; and were beaten by a better side.

And the travel was a joke