Soccer

I dont think I could have received a better birthday present than England losing to little Iceland. Utterly fucking incredible. And it wasnt a case of Iceland scoring then sitting back. They still went for it and could have gotten another. It was a great game but England really created nothing. Kane and Ali were very disappointing.

I see they are all blaming Roy now, your grown men take some of the blame yourselves. I think they are good enough players but for whatever reason England always under perform. Its brilliant.

So disappointing that Rep Of Ireland got knocked out. I thought we were excellent against France and just went to sleep for 5 mins and were punished. The future is looking bright though. Apart from the Belgium game we were excellent all tournament. So proud. I think confidence in the national team is back after the drab years under Giovani Trapatoni. Despite our national sports like Gaelic Football and Hurling been the most popular sports and even rugby overtaking football, the love for our national soccer team is unparalleled Our qualifying group for next world cup doesnt look too bad so hopefully we can make it there.

Lol at Italy easily beating France and us beating Italy. Had we beaten Sweden and ended up on the easier side of the fixtures who knows how far we could have gotten.

I don't know why people are always surprised when England get eliminated, they really aren't very good, they don't have anything special in their team, their coach is shit, their football IQ is probably one of the lowest in the world. Just go listen to a English pundit talk football, its always very simple.

the way Iceland is doing big things now reminds me of unexpected EC winners like Denmark and Greece

Too bad Poland, I thought they should have given it a proper go they kind of turned off. Portugal just seem to be a team thats hard to beat, they ain't playing good football at all.

first half of Poland-Portugal was a good watch. indeed, Poland showed less aggression during the latter part of the game, mostly counting on the confidence they'd built up on the penalty shoot out against Switzerland. they thought they could take out Portugal in the shoot out so they seemed less motivated to go all out in the overtime

Portugal switched to a 4-4-2 in the second half when not in possession (coach kinda had to since Ronaldo wasn't doing his defensive duties in the first half, unlike Nani, to help out the midfield rhombus). this way Portugal gave away fewer chances, but also created fewer chances itself since their attacks became more predictable (bigger focus on just Ronaldo & Nani). in the first half it seemed Portugal played more on intuition when in possession of the ball, which made it more difficult for the Polish backs to anticipate the Portuguese attacks

Poland played in a very disciplined way in the first half. I saw less of that in the second half

at least Lewandowski got to score his (only) goal of the EC

Belgium-Wales tomorrow ...

^ So you guys better get ready for Ronaldo. ;)

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Originally Posted by Rame

^ So you guys better get ready for Ronaldo. ;)

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haha thanks!

Ronaldo has been a non-factor so far

I agree. Renato Sanchez has shown great potential for his young age so far during this tournament. also Pepe's been good in most games (was especially efficient today against Poland). Quaresma as well, for the minutes he got to play

on the whole I haven't been blown away by Portugal so far

Portugal haven't won a game in 90 minutes but they have reached the semi-finals. Must be a first.

They are a weird team, you would expect them with the players they got to play fast attacking football but they are more of a defensive team. They have been a very boring team to watch as well.

for Lee, the last time wales beat, Belgium :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/30028935


lol i remember watching that,

i think belgium should win tonight, i expect a fast paced technical master piece.

Wales beat Belgium in qualifying

http://images.thepeoplesperson.com/w...zlatan-min.jpg

It's just criminal that a team as talented as Belgium have played as poorly at Brazil and France as they have done. Wilmots is a dud Belgium need a better manager.

Full credit to Wales they're a brilliant team I hope they beat Portugal who have been poor this whole tournament and wouldn't deserve a final spot.

Euro 2016 has been pretty poor for football standard but with Wales and Iceland there's been some great underdog stories to cheer for.

Yeah this Belgium sides performance must be the greatest waste of talent I have seen in a long time, its on the same level as Maradona ruining the 2006 Argentina team. It was an awful performance by Belgium, but the defence was atrocious. I know there are injuries but that was shocking defending. Gotta say though the ref didn't call the foul on Lukaku outside the box which would have left Wales with 10 men and also after that there was a legit penalty shout by Belgium.

Credit to Wales though they just made good of their chances and today Bale didn't play that well. I don't know about their chances against Portugal, they won't have Ramsey and Portugal is a team that won't defend as bad as Belgium.