Euro 2016 thread

ennspek

lloyd;1106770" said:

Thing is, in football you can be the best team, hit the post 3 times, have shots cleared off the line 4 times and dominate the game in every way, then concede a 94th minute own goal off a corner....That's the beauty and agony of it.

May I have next week's lottery numbers please?

octatonic

The great thing about being a foreigner living in the UK is I can support England right up until the point they fuck it up and then I can laugh.

Rocker

Lallana missed two sitters. Not sure that Russia deserved a draw but they got it.

Sarge

lloyd;1106770" said:

Thing is, in football you can be the best team, hit the post 3 times, have shots cleared off the line 4 times and dominate the game in every way, then concede a 94th minute own goal off a corner....That's the beauty and agony of it.

So much true

StanleyAccrington

England 1 Russia 1. Loved it when the commentator was talking about the 3 points England were looking to get with 15 mins of the game left. Mugs!!!

chrispy108

BigBearKris said:

chrispy108;1106800" said:

International football is shit. A decent Championship team would beat England.

You're funny.

Oh, wait... you're not really. You're just wrong.

Sure about that after the final whistle?

They don't play as a team at all.

Teetonetal

Nice to see England finally play well. They really deserved to win that. I think this team will always concede though as we simply aren't that great at the back. But with a bit of luck that could have had 3 or 4 tonight.

Still, nice to start brightly for once!

thomasross20

The commentator actually mentioned 1966. 50 years so ffs lol

thomasross20

Is it me or do players rarely try and take it past others? It's all about boring, safe passes. Where's the excitement? I get more excited watching replays of Pele and the like from years ago

Bygone_Tones

Should have been about 3-0 at half time. I agree they played better than in previous tournaments with their passing etc, but they still fail where it matters - getting their shots on target. Relying on penalties and free kicks instead. Not convinced they will get very far based on that performance. Russia's goal very predictable at the end.

RandallFlagg

lloyd said:

RandallFlagg said:

lloyd said:

RandallFlagg said:

I don't follow football much but commentators saying England have been sensational appears to be a massive exaggeration, what's the score at half time? against a mediocre team? nothing sensational about that. This level of performance would not hold up to one of the leading teams.

They've played well, it's an opening game, a game they're favourites in, have made some pretty clear chances, played some easy on the eye stuff and totally nullified Russia's threat. It's a good performance, just needs a goal, but football sometimes doesn't produce them no matter how well you play. It's one of the gphardest things to do in pro sport, goal scorers are bought for 10's of millions and paid double their non-scoring counterparts wages.

OK let's see how Germany and Netherlands get on

Netherlands didn't qualify.....

Ha HaI did say I didn't follow football much! :-) i am a numpty!

FX_Munkee

All things considered that was massively disappointing.
So everything going as normal then.
My main sadness is that my 9 year old is starting to understand what it's like to support England

joeyowen

What a result!!!!

(I'm Welsh)

camf

Surely Russia and England have to be thrown out of the competition after the violence over the last couple of days. Isn't it the only way supporters and the various national associations will be forced to confront the issue of supporter violence? It is disgusting and seems very specifically linked to football.

Philly_Q

I know pundits (and supporters on phone-ins) have to have something to talk about after the game, but it is tedious to hear them micro-analysing the Russian goal and questioning Hodgson's two substitutions.  The problem for England was failing to score during that dominant first half, not what happened in the last 5 or 10 minutes.

I'm still apprehensive, as a Wales supporter, about sitting with a load of England fans watching the game on TV in the big kitchen at work on Thursday afternoon.

quarky

I picked 2-1, 1-0 for the first two games in the office sweepstake, so did pretty well. Not so well in the next two though.

Glad to see the England performance. Conceding that late is always a kick in the balls, but I would have taken a draw at the beginning of the game, and England played really well. *If* they can play that well again, Wales will have no answer in the next game. But that is a big if. England created a lot of good chances, played positively, and took the game to Russia.

Good to see Wales put in a good performance too and get the win. My wife is Polish though, so suspect I will support Poland tomorrow though

Fretwired

England were poor ..

Fretwired

Teetonetal said:

Nice to see England finally play well. They really deserved to win that.

How so? Lots of possession but no bite in attack. How many shots did Harry Kane have? England never looked like scoring in open play against a slow ageing Russian defence. I've seen milk turn quicker that that Russian defence. Good old Roy had to play 4-3-3 to show he's a modern manager when he should have played 4-4-2 with Kane and Vardy in attack.

quarky

Because they created lots of good chances. Because they restricted Russia to sod all.

You can say that they result is all about the goals. The performance isn't though. On other nights, they could have won 3-0. That is football though.

Fretwired

quarky said:

Because they created lots of good chances. Because they restricted Russia to sod all.

You can say that they result is all about the goals. The performance isn't though. On other nights, they could have won 3-0. That is football though.

No you couldn't. There weren't enough quality attempts on goal to get anywhere near 3 goals. Russia are poor. And I'm sorry but at this level getting caught off side so many times is naive. On tonight's performance Wales will beat England. The aim of football is to score goals, not impress people with possession and how well you ping the ball around. Harry Kane was AWOL most of the time.

And 1-0 up you have to be able to see a game out. The Italians are masters at it.