KaKa Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Nasri, so overhyped. Won't be in the City first 11 next season. They'll definitely get someone else in. If anything Arsenal's system made him look better. And even then he still dissapeared in the bigger games. Not a fan at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Irish fan found dead. http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0620/search-continues-in-poland-for-missing-irish-fan.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best XI of the group stage IMO: Casillas Debuchy Hummels Agger Lahm Pirlo Cabaye Schweignsteiger Silva Ibra Gomez Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best XI of the group stage IMO: Casillas Debuchy Hummels Agger Lahm Pirlo Cabaye Schweignsteiger Silva Ibra Gomez Sorry but am not having any best XI without Iniesta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best XI of the group stage IMO: Casillas Debuchy Hummels Agger Lahm Pirlo Cabaye Schweignsteiger Silva Ibra Gomez Sorry but am not having any best XI without Iniesta He was fantastic in the first game, but i thought he was pretty poor against Ireland and Croatia..... Silva has been better than him this tournament IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Imo he has offered more in each game than Silva, well maybe not the Croatia one simply as i was too pissed to remember much of it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I can't have been the only person who saw the headline on the BBC of 'Samaras sworn in as Greece leader' and thought they'd gone to really extreme measures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best XI of the group stage IMO: Casillas Debuchy Hummels Agger Lahm Pirlo Cabaye Schweignsteiger Silva Ibra Gomez Sorry but am not having any best XI without Iniesta He was fantastic in the first game, but i thought he was pretty poor against Ireland and Croatia..... Silva has been better than him this tournament IMO. Poor? I thought he's been fantastic in all 3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Iniesta would beat that team on his own. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best XI of the group stage IMO: Casillas Debuchy Hummels Agger Lahm Pirlo Cabaye Schweignsteiger Silva Ibra Gomez Sorry but am not having any best XI without Iniesta He was fantastic in the first game, but i thought he was pretty poor against Ireland and Croatia..... Silva has been better than him this tournament IMO. Poor? I thought he's been fantastic in all 3. Maybe poor is unfair, but he did'nt impress a great deal in the two games and seemed to be on the edge of the game rather than taking control of it like he did against Italy. I felt over the 3 games that Silva was better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Silva did nowt in the Croatia game, nothing to remember at least. Also, has Cabaye really been that good? Or is it just the fact he's ours? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best of the groups IMO has been: Casillas Gebre Selassie Hummels Lescott Coentrao Pilař Moutinho Pirlo Dzakoev Mandžukić Gomez Albeit 3 of them have turned in at least 1 poor performance. Not really any truly standout players so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Casillas Debuchey Hummells Rossi Lahm Silva Cabaye Pirlo Iniesta Mandzukic Gomez (Dzakoev is a good call actually, sure i've completely forgotten names of some impressive Czech players) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Also, has Cabaye really been that good? Or is it just the fact he's ours? I have gone on other forums who have no Newcastle ties at all and majority are putting Cabaye in the middle.... tbf he was very impressive in the first 2 games he played and France sorely missed him against Sweden. Cabaye love-in aside he was being very good tbh. Forget about Mandzukic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Best of the groups IMO has been: Casillas Gebre Selassie Hummels Lescott Coentrao Pilař Moutinho Pirlo Dzakoev Mandžukić Gomez Albeit 3 of them have turned in at least 1 poor performance. Not really any truly standout players so far. Without thinking about it too much, I'd go with something very similar to this. Schweinsteiger and Iniesta both with (somewhat obvious) strong shouts for midfield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Schweinsteiger's another that seems to be getting in based on who he is rather than what he's done. Granted he's part of a good Germany team, but he's not really given a stand out performance. Based on the performance against Spain the other night Modric is probably worthy of a shout. Jiráček's probably been the Czech's stand out player, Gebre Selassie's a good call too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Schweinsteiger's another that seems to be getting in based on who he is rather than what he's done. Granted he's part of a good Germany team, but he's He was fantastic against Holland.... dat pass to Gomez I think Schweignsteiger has been great in all his games tbh i would'nt pick him for who he is tbh if he's performances were shat..... you do bring a good point up about stand out performance though.... I dont think there's been many stand out performances at this Euro, but lots of consistently good ones, with some fantastic ones sprinkled here and there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Has Moutinho been better than Gerrard? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Aye, sometimes good, consistent performances can go unnoticed vs stand-out ones. Ronaldo for example was excellent in their final group game and would probably deserve a place on the basis of that, but was gash in the first two. Although I think Khedira's been just as good in the German midfield, plus offers you something different to most the midfielders that have been mentioned. Anyway, shamelessly copying the core of Disco's team, I'd go with: Casillas Gebre Selassie Hummels Lescott Alba Jiráček Modric Pirlo Dzagoev Mandžukić Gomez Special mentions also for Debuchy, De Rossi and Blaszczykowski. Edit: Actually, aye, Gerrard probably deserves a mention too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Has Moutinho been better than Gerrard? Just like the way he's played. I have tried to pick those who were maybe less expected to make a name for themselves too. As I said there hasn't been a stand out and a case could be made for about 10 midfielders as can be seen by all the different combinations being picked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chubby Jason Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Has Moutinho been better than Gerrard? No, nor has Cabaye. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Buffon has been the best keeper in the tournament, imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Manager : Roy Hodgson Stadium: Donbass Arena for that storm and looking like a UFO Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Regarding France and their underperforming ways, is it the case that egos have again got in the way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 It's been a good, enjoyable tournament so far. For time to remember it though, we need an iconic player, iconic goal or iconic moment. We've had none of that yet, it's all sort of blended into one homogeneous group stage. Dunno if that's a sign of the internet and everyone knowing everything about players these days. Or maybe these icons are being saved for the knockout stages. I'm excited either way though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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