Beren Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 16 minutes ago, Disco said: Aye I just picked the Ukranian with the most tackles rather than anything scientific. In retrospect would make more sense for Chiellini in and Zinchenko LB Considered the same change but Spinazzola was too good to leave out. Plus sympathy points for getting injured. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Think I'd have Christensen instead of Kjaer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Sommer Maehle Dragovic Chiellini Dumfries Pogba KdB Pedri Sterling Schick Ronaldo Very hard to do. Notable that there has not been that many good right back performers, but loads of good left-backs/wing backs (Spinazzola, Shaw, Gosens, Maehle, Zinchenko, Zuber). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big River Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 1 hour ago, HUGZ said: because England got to the final? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 59 minutes ago, huss9 said: because England got to the final? Nah, it's been shit. It was pretty obvious to everyone but UEFA it would be though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 if someone can tell me where to find this wig .... that would be super... ..for a friend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, The Prophet said: Nah, it's been shit. It was pretty obvious to everyone but UEFA it would be though. Been an entertaining Euros. The Round of 16 was insane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, samptime29 said: Been an entertaining Euros. The Round of 16 was insane. I feel that too what little have seen have it was been way more entertaining than I imagined albeit seems poor quality, but the format is what they're getting at The format is, was and always will be wrong though. Stupid before a pandemic. Pathetic beyond belief during one. A team that wasn't the official host has had almost exclusively home matches all tournament whilst Switzerland and others get zig-zagged all over the place to empty stadiums in some cases. Edited July 10, 2021 by Wolfcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 In retrospect it might've been a better idea to have the semi-finals elsewhere to prevent one team from having nearly all their games at home. Try and give everyone at least one home game in the group stage too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Just play it in one country. Though the vaccine rollout here possibly played a part in the decision making and as a pandemic concession can accept that as a makeshift alternative to Turkey having both semis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Was a bit of a joke England pretty much being the only country with home advantage all the way through, like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 10 hours ago, Wilson said: if someone can tell me where to find this wig .... that would be super... ..for a friend. Search "Max Wall wigs" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said: Was a bit of a joke England pretty much being the only country with home advantage all the way through, like. But we’d have been the only country with home advantage if we’d hosted it..? All the big teams have benefitted from playing games at home throughout the groups nearly, and someone had to host the semis/final. Really don’t see the issue with that. Main issue has been some teams having to dart about Europe. Should’ve had it with group games hosted in one country & had teams in one place for their L16/QF games if they wanted to persist with the daft format, or just hosted in all over here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Anderson said: But we’d have been the only country with home advantage if we’d hosted it..? All the big teams have benefitted from playing games at home throughout the groups nearly, and someone had to host the semis/final. Really don’t see the issue with that. Main issue has been some teams having to dart about Europe. Should’ve had it with group games hosted in one country & had teams in one place for their L16/QF games if they wanted to persist with the daft format, or just hosted in all over here. Agree with this. Each group in a different country. Then the two sides of the draw in 1 country each (say Italy & Spain) for R16/QF, then Semis and Final in Wembley. Would've meant any nation has to travel a maximum of 3 times between rounds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, LiquidAK said: Agree with this. Each group in a different country. Then the two sides of the draw in 1 country each (say Italy & Spain) for R16/QF, then Semis and Final in Wembley. Would've meant any nation has to travel a maximum of 3 times between rounds. something like this would have been better. The concept of having it in different countries was OK as a novelty, although a bit iffy with the Covid situation. UEFA clearly didn't consider the signficant travel disparity properly though, which is what made this setup a bit unfair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 15 hours ago, samptime29 said: Been an entertaining Euros. The Round of 16 was insane. It's been great entertainment for a casual viewer like myself, one of the best tournaments in recent memory. As a match going fan if you wanted to follow your team, you'd have to travel across the continent (hot on the heels of a pandemic) at great expense. Similarly players having to fly from Baku to Copenhagen to Seville is madness. So aye, very watchable stuff, but as usual the players and more importantly the match going fans were an afterthought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Sommer Dumfries Chiellini Maguire Spinazzola Pedri Højbjerg Jorginho Sterling Forsberg Schick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Anderson said: But we’d have been the only country with home advantage if we’d hosted it..? All the big teams have benefitted from playing games at home throughout the groups nearly, and someone had to host the semis/final. Really don’t see the issue with that. Main issue has been some teams having to dart about Europe. Should’ve had it with group games hosted in one country & had teams in one place for their L16/QF games if they wanted to persist with the daft format, or just hosted in all over here. True, but the rest of the teams would have been playing all of their matches within 3-400 miles every game rather than Baku, Rome, Seville, Copenhagen, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Doctor Zaius said: Sommer Dumfries Chiellini Maguire Spinazzola Pedri Højbjerg Jorginho Sterling Forsberg Schick Maguire and Sterling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, Beren said: Maguire and Sterling? Newcastle-Online's English-despising, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II-hating, Bobby Moore-disrespecting foreign contingent will be up in arms no doubt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 3 Italians too. I thought we were doing one for each country? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 UEFA tried to twist a pan-European tournament as a 60 year celebration one-off when actually it was because they just couldn't find somebody willing to host it at the time with the financial situation Europe was in. Turkey was the only real candidate but didn't put together much of a bid. Problem with the expanded tournament is it makes it very hard for anybody other than a few big countries to host. You're probably going to need 3/4 smaller joint host countries in some cases. Admittedly with 24 teams it also becomes less of an issue to have so many automatically qualify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, ponsaelius said: 3 Italians too. I thought we were doing one for each country? Ah I missed that. Thought it was team of the tournament! In that case: Donarumma Dumfries Pepe Christeansen Zinchenko Pedri Pogba Xhaka Sterling Forsberg Schick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 4 hours ago, Doctor Zaius said: Newcastle-Online's English-despising, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II-hating, Bobby Moore-disrespecting foreign contingent will be up in arms no doubt. Classic English Saturday-night behaviour, no time for rules but always up for a scrap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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