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Portugal did a Greece in a way but at least Greece managed to beat teams and good ones too, Portugal are the most undeserving champions ever. France aren't much better in all honesty, but it's a bit of a joke you can progress with 0 wins I hope the format is scrapped.
Makes you wonder how a star studded Argentina can't win a tournament in 3 attempts if Portugal can
I think Argentina are at the moment fucked up mentally. They have lost 3 finals in 3 years, 1 went to extra time and the other 2 penalties. Thats why they all quit the national team. Now guys like Messi must be super pissed seeing Portugal win. Its basically a case of 'how the fuck did they win?'.
This has been a weird tournament the best 3 teams for me were Germany, Italy and Croatia. All got knocked out in odd fashion. Its been a boring tournament, very few memorable games.
Probably the most undeserving team to win a tournament at international level, having said that its not their fault most teams underperformed. I think probably Italy were the best side of the tournament and probably would of went on to win it if Pelle & Zaza didn't take two of the worst penalties in history. Croatia were the other side who showed up with potential to actually win it.
suprising tournament but lacking in real football skills. still have to watch the final cuz I was out partying yesterday. gonna get myself a beer and put the game on now
I had never heard of Eder before the tournament lol. he did well when he came in late in the game. same goes for Coman on the other side. Sissoko was especially good in the first half
it's dumb that the best third of the first round gets to become champion with 3 consecutive draws in the first phase
they should go back to a smaller tournament with fewer countries. and no you won't hear me complaining if that means my own national team wouldn't be able to qualify lol
Portugal must be doing something right though cuz I heard an analyst say on TV that all of the younger Portugal teams (minus 17, minus 19, minus 21 I think) have all reached semi finals since 2014 (haven't verified this myself)
One thing this tournament has shown is that there is a genuine lack of good number 9's. A lot of teams played without a real striker, there really aren't that many good strikers around anymore.
^^goes to show how France missed Benzema
I was surprised by Lewandowski, a great number 9 as well, not shining in this tournament
Uruguayans like Cavani & Suarez are excellent number 9s. I didn't spend time watching the Copa Americana (there's only so many hours in a day lol) so I have no idea how they performed. I think Cavani scored more goals when he was still with Napoli?
I have to say Portugal had an easy road to the finals...italy germany france spain were all on one side....Portugal just played sound footy...nothing fancy...its crazy they won this euro with a team that doesnt boast stars like it did back in 2004 with the likes of Figo Rui Costa Deco a young cr7
thing is since 2000 portugal has made it to the semi finals , i think 1 quarterfinals in 2008 of the Euro cup tourney
It was fun watching Wales and Iceland upset everyone
All the Messi smack talk now is gonna be off the charts
CR7 wins at the international level
I really thought germany was gonna take this tourney
Portugal's Euro 2000 squad was the best, unfortunate for the Abel Xavier penalty that cost them but like pretty much every tournament they lost to the first good team they played.
For all the depth Germany have they had too many injuries and nobody to replace Gomez adequately.
Germany should have picked atleast another striker in the squad. They just needed one guy to stay in the box, Gomez does that well. A backup would have been helpful. When Muller was upfront he came in deep too many times causing Germany to have no one left in the box. All they needed was a body inside the box to target, his quality wouldn't have mattered.
In the final once Portugal brought on Eder they were able to hold the ball up, cause France problems in the air. Eder is a below average striker but look at the difference he made in the final.
Well they had Max Kruse but he got himself got banned. There's not much after that either. Kevin Kuranyi is also banned, Stefan Kießling has never been in favour with Löw, Kevin Volland is another wide man who can play up front. Sandro Wagner had a breakout season with Darmstadt but it would take huge balls to pick someone like him he's not really international standard. For all their talent in midfield and out wide they don't have many options up front.
^agreed with all the points gents
on a side note
I was pretty surprised that the nederlands didnt make it to the euro
last couple years they were really doing well
Götze went back to Dortmund. He's had a rough time in Munich and it will Only get worse, he's not particularly welcome in Dortmund. He will need to hit the ground running or the fans will hate him more. They need to re-invest wisely in to the squad.
I can't believe Pogba will cost £100m for MU to buy after getting £800k for his departure compensation lol that's the worst deal in history. Fergie was poor in the transfer market in his final years
Mario Gomez left Besiktas because of the coup lol
Yeah this is fucking annoying, we are having a awful offseason. To think we become champions, we have an excellent young team, the best coach in Turkey, a brand spanking new stadium, gonna be in the champs league next season but all our players want to leave. We lost our best Turkish player, Gomez is now gone, our number 10 Jose Sosa also wants to leave because of terror, our motor in midfield wants out. We can't buy replacements because of financial FairPlay, we got only fucking Quaresma left.Quote:
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While guys like Sniejder, Podolski and Muslera who play for cash strapped and awful Galatasaray all want to stay. I just don't get it.
The fans are calling for the Chairman to get a replacement Mario who isn't scared of fireworks lol.
is roberto martinez (formerly coach of everton, wigan and swansea) any good? he's the new coach of the belgian national team. dude's only real prize seems to be the 2013 FA cup. shit doesn't bode well
please don't tell me we're gonna get fucked over again lol
im an everton fan.. martinez is shit, as in rubbish,
i feel sorry for belgium ;/
Henri is 2nd assistant coach with the Belgians now. Am excited to see what he can bring to the table
thats some crazy shit, my mind cant compute it..
Apparently Henri applied for the job himself
You mean Henry? Gotta start somewhere, right?
yeah sorry I fucked up the spelling
indeed, gotta start somewhere lmao
Belgium - Spain : 0-2
the new coach is shit
the players are still lacking
think I'm gonna support the national team of Vatican City from now on
Roberto Martinez made no sense. Belgium pissed away their golden generation. Maybe hazard will be good enough in 10 years to emulate Ronaldo
Joe Hart isn't an elite goalkeeper but it's great he's moved to Serie A. English players are too scared to leave their comfort zone and I think that's partly why they're an international failure. It's no surprise that Eric Dier is one of if not the best young English player and he was trained in Sporting Lisbon.
The FA and Allardyce mutually agree to terminate contract
Haha, what a fucking idiot.
^^I read that he was accused of financial irregularities back in 2006 already. dude's a massive cunt. he bodied himself now haha
He's a shit manager anyway lol but I guess you can say the media out tactic-ed him
Benteke scoring fastest international goal. I watched Belgium against Bosnia and they looked very good.
San Marino scoring first away goal in 15 years, fucking epic. Some of the Euro standings have been surprising, the Faroe Islands and Azerbaijan are both in good positions.
Really wanted Sam Allardyce to stay on as England manager just for the entertainment.
Fatih Terim highest paid manager in international football, still doesn't have a clue. He puts that midget Emre Mor upfront against Iceland and they literally raped him. Emre Mor will be a class player if he learns how to pass, like actually giving the ball to someone else, I hope Thomas Tuchel can sort him out.
Apparently Frank de Boer is going to get sacked, he's been in the job for 2 1/2 months and they're already looking to replace him, that's a shame because he's a good young manager but there's a few poison chalice jobs in football and Inter is one of them.
Argh that cancer RB Leipzig keeps on winning, fucks sake
Yeah de Boer could've known he wouldn't stay long.
He had a good job at Ajax but I applaud him for trying to grow unlike that failure of a Wenger.
Very difficult for a coach who has never played or coached in Serie A to do well. Inter have a great squad but he has lost something like 7-8 games and with the amount of money Inter have spent to get back into the CL its just not good enough. The new owners of Inter are the same gazillionaires who have spent 1bn on their chinese team and have big plans.
I wouldn't call the Inter squad great tbh and he needs more than 2 months to get it going, they've already had 8 managers since mourinho left. Keisuke Honda was right about the fickle nature of Italian football, well he was speaking on Milan but it's true for the rest too
Can't remember a team that is as hated as RB Leipzig are. They be throwing pig heads at them as stuff.Quote:
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I don't think Inter have an exceptional squad but they should be doing better. Certain managerial styles simply don't work in Italy and de Boer's is one of them. In all honesty I think the days of the god-tier Dutch managers has gone. They laid the groundwork for all major teams but its better to have them in charge of the youth set up instead of the A team in footballs current climate.
A similar thing can be said about Mourinho at the moment.
Wouldn't have Mourinho anywhere near a youth set up tbh. I think he should take some time out of the spotlight and get his confidence back together.Quote:
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The rest of your post is pretty much on-point though. Right now I would probably rank Koeman as the best Dutch manager around.
RB Leipzig are everything that's wrong with football. Hoffenheim were pretty well disliked but this is next level. They exist solely for Red Bull to have a play thing and the fan culture in Germany is just different to say England, there's more belief on the traditions and the fan experience and RB Leipzig just piss all over that.Quote:
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Mourinho is outdated but that United squad is pretty shit too and he's not a manager that can get the most out of very little.
According to 442 Leicester are in the top 50 teams of all time :lmao:
i miss muzzy izzit playing for leicester.
lol at San Marino's reply to Thomas Muller.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...ou-san-9257263