Men's Football UEFA European Championship 2024

[copravolley 267]

2 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Legendary meltdown from Slovenia in PSO.

 

Sesko is worth 50 million Euro? Yeah, right. That miss might haunt Slovenia for the next 20 years or something.

Slovakia and Slovenia were close to the 1/4 finals but something was missing. It looks like only Austria/Turkey will make it from non-favorites to 8. Switzerland has already been in 8, so I don't count it.

[Ros 239]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

Okay second chance for us tonight

Again drama with the same result 😂

[Roamingrover86 856]

1 hour ago, copravolley said:

Slovakia and Slovenia were close to the 1/4 finals but something was missing. It looks like only Austria/Turkey will make it from non-favorites to 8. Switzerland has already been in 8, so I don't count it.

Don’t count out Romania, the dutch have been playing poorly & Romania has played well in the group stage. 
 

[LDOG 2,418]

Watched the entire match, it was so close. My condolences, @hckošice.

[hckošice 14,829]

3 hours ago, LDOG said:

Watched the entire match, it was so close. My condolences, @hckošice.

If anything, this tournament showed us that the gap between the so-called big ones and small ones is definitely shrinking and except in that opener against the little ones did not give anything to the big ones for free

 

This and own goals are nowadays an important and often used weapon in tactics

[heywoodu 15,141]

Why was Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty allowed despite him coming to a full stop in the run-up?  

 

That is such an annoying trend in football, and such a shame it was rewarded.

[NMQ 243]

48 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Why was Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty allowed despite him coming to a full stop in the run-up?  

 

That is such an annoying trend in football, and such a shame it was rewarded.

Rules allow that. You can't go back, but you can stop if you want.

[heywoodu 15,141]

8 hours ago, NMQ said:

Rules allow that. You can't go back, but you can stop if you want.

I thought there was a rule about it being a fluent movement. Wish they'd bring that back/in, so penalties have to actually be done in a fluent forward movement.

[vlad 359]

Come on, guys  I'm proud of you no matter what will happen today

[Monzanator 4,502]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I thought there was a rule about it being a fluent movement. Wish they'd bring that back/in, so penalties have to actually be done in a fluent forward movement.

 

The thing is when the penalty kick actually starts. Common sense indicates it's when the player starts running towards the ball after the whistle but the current interpretation allows to think it starts after the deliberate stop as well. Which is pure nonsense but FIFA & UEFA are letting this fly. Overall the number of goals doesn't go up as fast as it did like 10-15 years ago because the gap between teams has indeed closed down.