European championships 2020 thread (59 Viewers)

[Mucca Mad Boys]

It’s also worth noting that two of the most impressive teams in the group stages have not looked anywhere near as convincing on their first knockout match.

Which doesn’t bode well going into Belgium v Portugal because Belgium are my sweepstake team!

 

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[COV]

If the result here stays the same ...I agree

I can’t ever remember a tournament where the route to the final is less traumatic than this

You could argue Southgate is lucky with that, but a lucky manager is no bad thing

 

[Evo1883]

I can’t ever remember a tournament where the route to the final is less traumatic than this

You could argue Southgate is lucky with that, but a lucky manager is no bad thing

2018 haha

 

[COV]

2018 haha

No I’d say Croatia were a tougher matchup than Czech Republic

But that is what I meant about luck- 2 tournaments in a row with things mapping out nicely for us

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Sweden are no pushovers. Not a bad quarter final opponent but not to be ignored

Agreed. I’ve spent a couple of pages defending them.

But, realistically, the biggest obstacle we will face en route to a potential final would be Germany.

It’s shaping up to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for this team.

 

[ccfc92]

To be perfectly honest if we really are serious about ourselves then it now needs to be an expectation.

We should beat Germany looking at the comparative teams, f*ck all this glorious defeat stuff and playing things down- group stages gone now with all that dead rubber nonsense- our expectation needs to be to get the final, anything less is a huge letdown

Germany are blowing hot and cold. They will be up for it, but I think we are genuinely the better team currently.

Whether we set up correctly or go for the win is a different story.

 

[Evo1883]

No I’d say Croatia were a tougher matchup than Czech Republic

But that is what I meant about luck- 2 tournaments in a row with things mapping out nicely for us

Germany - Sweden- Denmark/Czech

Sweden- Colombia- Croatia

Similar runs really just back to front

Home matches the main difference

Agreed. I’ve spent a couple of pages defending them.

But, realistically, the biggest obstacle we will face en route to a potential final would be Germany.

It’s shaping up to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for this team.

Nearly all at home too

 

[Tommo1993]

Need to bring on Pavel Nedved to finish them off.

 

[Evo1883]

Need to bring on Pavel Nedved to finish them off.

What a player

 

[jordan210]

70% of all thrown in this tournament are blatant fowl throws

 

[COV]

Germany - Sweden- Denmark/Czech

Sweden- Colombia- Croatia

Similar runs really

Home matches the main difference



Nearly all at home too

I’d definitely say 2018 was harder though- Columbia was essentially an away game and they were a really dirty bunch, they knew all the tricks. From what I remember the sweden game was a piece of piss though

 

[COV]

70% of all thrown in this tournament are blatant fowl throws

Does anybody really care though?

 

[Evo1883]

Game over

 

[Paul Anthony]

That's game over, surely

 

[oscillatewildly]

And I do believe that is game over.

 

[Johnnythespider]

I can’t ever remember a tournament where the route to the final is less traumatic than this

You could argue Southgate is lucky with that, but a lucky manager is no bad thing

The Germans will be thinking just the same and they've been a bit more successful getting to finals, game over

 

[lifeskyblue]

Game over…Dutch going home. 10men not getting back


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[Evo1883]

De Boer got it all wrong since going down to 10 .

Needed to go more passive and counter with less, still playing like they have 11 on the pitch

 

[Alkhen]

Omg maybe England aren't crap it's just the Cxechs the Scots and Croatia are amazing

 

[COV]

Even before the red card I thought Czech Republic were the better team- they’re no mugs this lot. I have them in the ‘dark horses’ category with Denmark

 

[ccfc92]

Well that's the Dutch out.

One positive, Czech look very slow on the ball imo. You can tell they have an extra man, which is making them look better

 

[Tommo1993]

I missed the bloody goal. Was it Nedved?

 

[oscillatewildly]

70% of all thrown in this tournament are blatant fowl throws

No such rule now.

 

[oscillatewildly]

I missed the bloody goal. Was it Nedved?

Legacy of the Dutch in this game.

 

[Sick Boy]

It’s shaping up to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for this team.

For who?

 

[Tommo1993]

Dutch no attempts second half. That’s good going for Czech.

 

[Evo1883]

Fuckk it no money lost

Czech Republic and Portugal to go through

Should have had a tenner

 

[TomRad85]

I’d definitely say 2018 was harder though- Columbia was essentially an away game and they were a really dirty bunch, they knew all the tricks. From what I remember the sweden game was a piece of piss though

Weren't Colombia missing James Rodrigues for that game?
You can only beat what's in front of you and I'm not knocking it, but Southgate is one lucky fucker imo.

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[Nick]

No such rule now.

So you can take it however you want now?

 

[COV]

Dutch no attempts second half. That’s good going for Czech.

They scored 2 so I don’t see how that can be right

 

[COV]

Weren't Colombia missing James Rodrigues for that game?
You can only beat what's in front of you and I'm not knocking it, but Southgate is one lucky fucker imo.

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They were. It was a tough game though, the whole ground was supporting them and they were dirty, niggly and they pushed us to the limit.

 

[TomRad85]

They were. It was a tough game though, the whole ground was supporting them and they were dirty, niggly and they pushed us to the limit.

Oh yeh they were a bunch of absolute shit houses. Horrible team.

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[ccfc92]

It's weird, I never think of the Dutch as a dirty side, but they actually are

Was it them in a semi final or final recently in a tournament had the most yellow and red cards?

 

[Nick]

They scored 2 so I don’t see how that can be right

Who did/

 

[CanadianCCFC]

They scored 2 so I don’t see how that can be right

The Dutch scored 2? How slow is my TV?