Men's Football UEFA European Championship 2024

heywoodu · July 2

12 minutes ago, vlad said:

I agree, but that counterattack stopped by the ref before the second goal is a big joke.

Yeah, there was no way that was dangerous play.

vlad · July 2

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

After a group stage that just got worse and worse in terms of play, finally it was better today, with a lot more action being created and a very well deserved win

Of course now it remains to be seen what this will mean. Should quite easily have been 6-0 with some of those massive chances, one can assume the strong teams will punish these misses a lot harder...

It was better today because we play horrible Let's see against a team which don't makes gifts and play football.

Btw, Reinders and Scouten are the best for me today. They did a great job in the middle.

heywoodu · July 2

1 minute ago, vlad said:

It was better today because we play horrible

At least they showed good things in the past weeks, I'd have excellent hopes for the World Cup qualifying

vlad · July 2

Just now, heywoodu said:

At least they showed good things in the past weeks, I'd have excellent hopes for the World Cup qualifying

You'll be there in 2026, no worries about that :thumbup:

Vektor · July 2

6 out of the 7 top nations are in the QFs, only Italy is missing.

For comparison...

EURO 2020 only had 3 of them in the QFs: :ITA :ESP :ENG

EURO 2016 only had 4 of them in the QFs: :POR :GER :ITA :FRA

EURO 2012 had 6 of them in the QFs, only Netherlands missed it.

This is definitely the most predictable / least surprising EUROs in the 24 teams format.

Vektor · July 2

Just for fun because I am bored, here are how many times the European nations made it into the Top8 at the WC and Euro in the "CR7 era" (big tournaments since 2004):

8 QFs - :FRA

7 QFs - :ENG :GER :POR

6 QFs - :NED