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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Jun 14, 2016 13:45:48 GMT -5
Forgot to give credit to Italy. My favourite performance of the tournament so far. That Juve backline is brilliant.
And great stuff by Hungary today as well.
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Post by TheNinthCloud on Jun 15, 2016 0:34:32 GMT -5
Austria was pretty disappointing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2016 12:52:45 GMT -5
Watching Granit Xhaka play fotboll is a joy. He's like Mesut Özil and Vieira in one. Mental. What a signing he could turn out to be.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 15, 2016 12:59:44 GMT -5
Watching Granit Xhaka play fotboll is a joy. He's like Mesut Özil and Vieira in one. Mental. What a signing he could turn out to be. Really? I find him to be very bland and overrated. Can't believe anybody would pay that much money for him but then again English clubs these days don't know what to do with their money so they might as well waste 45m on somebody like him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2016 13:03:02 GMT -5
Watching Granit Xhaka play fotboll is a joy. He's like Mesut Özil and Vieira in one. Mental. What a signing he could turn out to be. Really? I find him to be very bland and overrated. Can't believe anybody would pay that much money for him but then again English clubs these days don't know what to do with their money so they might as well waste 45m on somebody like him. Did you watch the game that just ended? He had what? 20? 30? mental crosses and each one was on point. You could throw a coin up in the air across the pitch and he'd hit it. On the defense he made a big difference too. Quality through out. Edit: Just saw that he was MotM. Just like in the game against Albania. 2 games. 2 MotM.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Jun 15, 2016 14:12:04 GMT -5
Really? I find him to be very bland and overrated. Can't believe anybody would pay that much money for him but then again English clubs these days don't know what to do with their money so they might as well waste 45m on somebody like him. Did you watch the game that just ended? He had what? 20? 30? mental crosses and each one was on point. You could throw a coin up in the air across the pitch and he'd hit it. On the defense he made a big difference too. Quality through out. Edit: Just saw that he was MotM. Just like in the game against Albania. 2 games. 2 MotM. Tournaments can be deceiving. El Hadji Diouf and Andrey Arshavin ring a bell? Not saying Xhaka won't be good but you can't judge a player off 2 games.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Jun 15, 2016 16:02:30 GMT -5
I'll eat my hat if France win this Euros.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2016 16:14:24 GMT -5
Did you watch the game that just ended? He had what? 20? 30? mental crosses and each one was on point. You could throw a coin up in the air across the pitch and he'd hit it. On the defense he made a big difference too. Quality through out. Edit: Just saw that he was MotM. Just like in the game against Albania. 2 games. 2 MotM. Tournaments can be deceiving. El Hadji Diouf and Andrey Arshavin ring a bell? Not saying Xhaka won't be good but you can't judge a player off 2 games. Well, the Gladbach games I watched (6 or 7) he was fairly solid. Then again, new league and all that. But still, looks promising.
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Post by The Champ is Here! on Jun 15, 2016 16:47:54 GMT -5
You can't really judge by international play either, Enner Valencia looked great for Ecuador, but crap for us at West Ham
And Payet does it again
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Jun 16, 2016 10:46:22 GMT -5
....thank for that. For us to get 4 points against two teams who parked the bus, that's not too bad. Kane and Sterling have to stay on the bench. I was in favour of them getting a second chance after the Russia game but they haven't been up to scratch.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 17, 2016 11:34:06 GMT -5
Not gonna lie but the quality in this tournament has been very poor.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 17, 2016 11:42:19 GMT -5
Not gonna lie but the quality in this tournament has been very poor. Agreed. Very underwhelming. Hopefully once group stage is done the tournament will pick up.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Jun 17, 2016 11:44:00 GMT -5
Not gonna lie but the quality in this tournament has been very poor. Agreed. Very underwhelming. Hopefully once group stage is done the tournament will pick up. I think because teams who finish 3rd can qualify it's put teams much more relaxed. Hopefully by the last group games when teams have to go for it is when it'll improve or as you say in the knockout stages.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 17, 2016 12:01:59 GMT -5
Agreed. Very underwhelming. Hopefully once group stage is done the tournament will pick up. I think because teams who finish 3rd can qualify it's put teams much more relaxed. Hopefully by the last group games when teams have to go for it is when it'll improve or as you say in the knockout stages. Yes, it's definitely the new mode. While I like having so many games it's not nearly as exiting as the last World Cup or the EUROs 2012.
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Post by GBGav on Jun 17, 2016 12:32:22 GMT -5
No team so far has managed to score more than twice either. So while that means games feel more equal, I occasionally like to see a smashing. I would've expected Portugal/Iceland and France/Albania to be such games but it didn't happen.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 17, 2016 12:45:39 GMT -5
Wow, that is just piss poor from the Croatian 'fans'.
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Post by GBGav on Jun 17, 2016 12:48:36 GMT -5
Wow, that is just piss poor from the Croatian 'fans'. You see the guy go flying when he bent down to pick up a flare and it exploded? Absolutely sickening.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 17, 2016 12:54:30 GMT -5
Wow, that is just piss poor from the Croatian 'fans'. You see the guy go flying when he bent down to pick up a flare and it exploded? Absolutely sickening. Yeah, that was pretty sick. I like pyro and stuff if done right in awesome choreographies but not like this. That's just plain wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 13:07:40 GMT -5
Hope that steward can even hear again.
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Post by 0,Y on Jun 18, 2016 16:38:47 GMT -5
Portugal/Austria might have been one of the most exciting draws without any goals of the last few years.
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