Football - Euro 2020 Championship

DefaultM

Great night!

proggy

DefaultM said:

Great night!

Certainly was exciting.

Fretwired

munckee said:

We’re in a great position if we can beat Germany. 

Based on tonight's performance I think we could win. England usually has one great game at any tournament - they haven't had one yet. It could be they raise their game against the old enemy. The crowd will help.

axisus

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

TeleMaster

Sorry. 

p90fool

axisus said:

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

I have a feeling based on nothing at all that England will beat Germany. 

I think the Germans have lost momentum, so England will turn up at a packed Wembley in red shirts, poke the ball around in their own half for 88 minutes then snatch a late winner from a free kick while the commentators are still debating who will take the penalties. 

And they'll do all this with ten men while their mouth-breather of a captain jogs slowly around in circles like someone's accidentally wedged a Playstation controller behind a sofa cushion.

Teetonetal

Clearly there will be a perfectly good England goal in the last min of extra time, incorrectly ruled out by VAR and Germany will win 5-4 in penalties with Jack Grealish missing.

munckee

Teetonetal said:

Clearly there will be a perfectly good England goal in the last min of extra time, incorrectly ruled out by VAR and Germany will win 5-4 in penalties with Jack Grealish missing.

Grealish will have been red carded leading to two years in the wilderness.  Kane's first goal in the tournament will be his penalty, step up Jordan Henderson to try and keep us in it.

HerbieTheRadDorklift

Does anyone know why the knockout stages games are predetermined? Why don't they draw out of a hat once they know who's qualified? Seems a bit dodgy when you know who can play who.

p90fool

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Does anyone know why the knockout stages games are predetermined? Why don't they draw out of a hat once they know who's qualified? Seems a bit dodgy when you know who can play who.

The principle in most tournaments like this is that group winners play runners up from other groups, so there's always an incentive to win because in theory you'll meet a weaker team in the first knockout stage. 

Obviously the best teams have bad days and average teams have good ones so it's not cut and dried, but if it was randomly selected then nobody would have an incentive to do any more than just scrape through, because topping the group would be unnecessary. 

skunkwerx

Being half German I will root for both Germany and England in the Euro’s and World Cups. 

But this next game.. I kinda don’t want to watch it. 

I reckon either could win. Depends who brings it on the night. 

Unless it goes to penalty’s cos neither make anything happen.. probably will, in which case who bloody knows. 

proggy

p90fool said:

axisus said:

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

I have a feeling based on nothing at all that England will beat Germany. 

I think the Germans have lost momentum, so England will turn up at a packed Wembley in red shirts, poke the ball around in their own half for 88 minutes then snatch a late winner from a free kick while the commentators are still debating who will take the penalties. 

And they'll do all this with ten men while their mouth-breather of a captain jogs slowly around in circles like someone's accidentally wedged a Playstation controller behind a sofa cushion.

This is all sounding very believable, so you have to predict the goal scorer.

Bridgehouse

proggy said:

p90fool said:

axisus said:

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

I have a feeling based on nothing at all that England will beat Germany. 

I think the Germans have lost momentum, so England will turn up at a packed Wembley in red shirts, poke the ball around in their own half for 88 minutes then snatch a late winner from a free kick while the commentators are still debating who will take the penalties. 

And they'll do all this with ten men while their mouth-breather of a captain jogs slowly around in circles like someone's accidentally wedged a Playstation controller behind a sofa cushion.

This is all sounding very believable, so you have to predict the goal scorer.

David Pla… oh, Er, um, Sterling from a header and it’s his second touch of the game

MagicPigDetective

Teetonetal said:

Clearly there will be a perfectly good England goal in the last min of extra time, incorrectly ruled out by VAR and Germany will win 5-4 in penalties with Jack Grealish missing.

Don't mention the VAR

HerbieTheRadDorklift

p90fool said:

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Does anyone know why the knockout stages games are predetermined? Why don't they draw out of a hat once they know who's qualified? Seems a bit dodgy when you know who can play who.

The principle in most tournaments like this is that group winners play runners up from other groups, so there's always an incentive to win because in theory you'll meet a weaker team in the first knockout stage. 

Obviously the best teams have bad days and average teams have good ones so it's not cut and dried, but if it was randomly selected then nobody would have an incentive to do any more than just scrape through, because topping the group would be unnecessary. 

So why do UEFA bother doing it in Champs League & Europa?

Also, the teams last night for example knew exactly who they'd play for any result that would happen. It means you get teams playing for a draw or even a loss.

guitars4you

Belgium v Portugal looks a nice way to spend Sunday evening

Plus we are the only nation with a home match

If we win v Germany then we play in Rome against Ukraine or Sweden

Legionreturns

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

p90fool said:

HerbieTheRadDorklift said:

Does anyone know why the knockout stages games are predetermined? Why don't they draw out of a hat once they know who's qualified? Seems a bit dodgy when you know who can play who.

The principle in most tournaments like this is that group winners play runners up from other groups, so there's always an incentive to win because in theory you'll meet a weaker team in the first knockout stage. 

Obviously the best teams have bad days and average teams have good ones so it's not cut and dried, but if it was randomly selected then nobody would have an incentive to do any more than just scrape through, because topping the group would be unnecessary. 

So why do UEFA bother doing it in Champs League & Europa?

Also, the teams last night for example knew exactly who they'd play for any result that would happen. It means you get teams playing for a draw or even a loss.

In tournaments, they have to make sure each team gets roughly the same rest between games. Hence group A,b,c qualifiers play each other in the last 16, and d,e,f do likewise but later. Groups A,b,c played their final group games sooner.  

ronnyb

axisus said:

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

And this is the problem. We go in with an inferiority complex. 

p90fool

proggy said:

p90fool said:

axisus said:

I hate going out to Germany. We are going out to bloody Germany. 

I have a feeling based on nothing at all that England will beat Germany. 

I think the Germans have lost momentum, so England will turn up at a packed Wembley in red shirts, poke the ball around in their own half for 88 minutes then snatch a late winner from a free kick while the commentators are still debating who will take the penalties. 

And they'll do all this with ten men while their mouth-breather of a captain jogs slowly around in circles like someone's accidentally wedged a Playstation controller behind a sofa cushion.

This is all sounding very believable, so you have to predict the goal scorer.

I thought that was so obvious I didn't bother typing it, the free kick will hit the bar and go in off the back of Manuel Neuer's head. 
 

boogieman

I watched France v Portugal. I predict we will be fucked if we meet them, or Belgium, in the further rounds, assuming we even make it past Germany of course. They all look on another planet skill wise.