heywoodu 13,820 Posted Thursday at 06:29 AM #1061 Share Posted Thursday at 06:29 AM 1 hour ago, stepansevs said: Yes this format with the best teams from 3rd place is everytime the worst. There is double advantage of weaker group. Moreover for me, it does not have sensei, that last matches in same group is needed to play at same time when more important is comparing teams between groups at 3rd places. Euro should be with 16 teams. World Cup with 32 teams. I would prefer this one more despite that Czech will not qualify Exactly. There's already other sports, if I'm not mistaken, where this thing with 'best numbers 3' exists and that's bad enough, it should be slowly taken away from sports, not added to other sports...it's just entirely unfair because you simply can't fairly compare the performance of teams from different groups. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Federer91 2,276 Posted Thursday at 07:13 AM #1062 Share Posted Thursday at 07:13 AM You do know, that the Governing Bodies are not very keen on "fair competition" or "player health" . More teams = More matches = More money. Is there anything in sports after the 70s, that has went back and reduced the number of competitors The tendency is to only increase. Plus all of these countries are happy with the bigger formats, because it will be easier for them to qualify and participate in the big event. If you ask them, I'm sure they would want a Euro with 32 teams, no matter what the quality would be. Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,820 Posted Thursday at 07:15 AM #1063 Share Posted Thursday at 07:15 AM 1 minute ago, Federer91 said: You do know, that the Governing Bodies are not very keen on "fair competition" or "player health" . More teams = More matches = More money. Is there anything in sports after the 70s, that has went back and reduced the number of competitors The tendency is to only increase. Plus all of these countries are happy with the bigger formats, because it will be easier for them to qualify and participate in the big event. If you ask them, I'm sure they would want a Euro with 32 teams, no matter what the quality would be. Of course I know they're not going to go back to 16 teams, despite the 3rd place nonsense, but one can still have an opinion about it And honestly I'd much rather see a 32 team Euro than a 24 team Euro. To be clear, my first choice would obviously be 16 teams, but with that being entirely unrealistic unfortunately, I'd very much prefer 32 and a normal format over 24 and an intrinsically unfair format. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlo 79 Posted Thursday at 07:56 AM #1064 Share Posted Thursday at 07:56 AM Georgia, just incredible, wonderful result. Gianlu33 and lapaj 1 1 I fell in love with sports.....since i first seen it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,843 Posted Thursday at 11:21 AM #1065 Share Posted Thursday at 11:21 AM 6 of the 9 players from Polish Ekstraklasa made it out of the group stage. Except the 3 actually playing for Poland LuizGuilherme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,694 Posted Thursday at 12:45 PM #1066 Share Posted Thursday at 12:45 PM It´s clearly coming home this time (for sure, this time for sure ! English media calls it, so that must be true ) since English press thanking Georgia for their gift and already celebrating the easy win against Slovakia next Sunday Roamingrover86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,843 Posted Thursday at 01:15 PM #1067 Share Posted Thursday at 01:15 PM Referees for first two KO matches: Szymon Marciniak - vs Michael Oliver - vs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copravolley 141 Posted Thursday at 01:17 PM #1068 Share Posted Thursday at 01:17 PM 28 minutes ago, hckošice said: It´s clearly coming home this time (for sure, this time for sure ! English media calls it, so that must be true ) since English press thanking Georgia for their gift and already celebrating the easy win against Slovakia next Sunday I'd love for Slovakia to rub their noses in the face :P By the way, I'm surprised by the overconfidence and triumphal of people from a country that last won a major event in... 1966, almost 70 years ago. Before the last Euro final in 2021 with Italy in London, they are also very confident and apparently even the next day was off from work to celebrate :P I would advise the English to be more humble and less triumphal. LuizGuilherme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copravolley 141 Posted Thursday at 01:21 PM #1069 Share Posted Thursday at 01:21 PM (edited) 6 minutes ago, Monzanator said: Referees for first two KO matches: Szymon Marciniak - vs Michael Oliver - vs This referee from Poland judged the final Champions League in the last year: Inter-Man.City. May he be more happy for us now. Edited Thursday at 01:22 PM by copravolley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungshamra71 735 Posted Thursday at 01:25 PM #1070 Share Posted Thursday at 01:25 PM 39 minutes ago, hckošice said: It´s clearly coming home this time (for sure, this time for sure ! English media calls it, so that must be true ) since English press thanking Georgia for their gift and already celebrating the easy win against Slovakia next Sunday Literally everyone in Europe next match giving their good energy to Slovakia: LuizGuilherme, copravolley and Olympian1010 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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