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Ok, I will be first respond here :D. So far most fun thing about this EURO that all games were very high scoring. But so far 2 of them were quite one sided. If Germany - Scotland was expected, then such easy Spain win against Croatia was surprising. And Hungary - Switzerland, a bit disappointed about Hungary,  after some their recent performances in recent tournaments.
So far it's successful tournament in betting for me, from all bets that I made, lost only BTTS on Spain - Croatia. Now Italy - Albania is next.

Which format are we using in the end? Superbru or UEFA?
If it's the UEFA one, is the Germany game counted or not?

Started shitty on both, but would like to know which one to skip filling out going forward.

Same here. I ironically did not fill out same results on both so I now have a favorite for which I will like us to use, but it is still too early to matter much, anyone will be great.

It is worth noting that we have 19 players on the UEFA match predictor and 20 on the Superbru, some names are different, so I cannot tell who is the exact player not on both.

- Jay -

So, we got first draw of this EURO between Denmark and Slovenia, but so far level of scoring is really high. It's very nice to see Erikssen scoring, knowing what happened to him on EURO opening game 3 years ago. But in general, it was quite equal game.
Poland without Lewandowski lost to Netherlands, what is something expected. Now England - Serbia is next. England is heavy favorites, fans already singing It's coming home'' in stadium, would be really happy to see some upset here :D.

Not sure why, but I can see just 10 names on Superbru pool, instead of 20. Maybe somehow I joined wrong pool or something? And yeah, feeling confused which site we're actually using.

hilariousandco are we counting both Superbru and UEFA website for our predictions?
I joined both of them and I see we have 20 players in Superbru and 19 in UEFA website.
I am not doing bad at all so far, but I could be ranked even better if I didnt make some last minute changes with Slovenia vs Denmark match.

There are 20 people joined in Superbru pool.

I do not think we should post the pool link publicly since it is a private pool. Anyone can copy it off from here and join giving hilarious the task of weeding out those players.

With how they played yesterday, the singing should be less loud against Denmark. The England fans too easily get ahead of themselves for major tournaments like this one.

- Jay -

Dont be foolish please.  ::)
Pools are not secret or hidden, you can find them all in list of the pools and OP can remove any players he want to remove.
And it would be very stupid for anyone to join pool when he cant win anything without payment of entry fee and approval.

That is an unnecessary response, I would have expected more for some reason, not sure what the reason is cause literally anyone could be behind a keyboard, but I am dissappointed either ways.

You are being ignorant. There is an option to toggle off a pool being visible in the public pool search, meaning they CAN be private.
And I literally said you will not want to give the pool captain the task of removing players who join without buying in, that could be why hilarious sent the link privately.

With how you have acted, I will not put anything beyond anyone.

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Well, Ukraine is getting annihilated out there. I predicted Romania to win by 1 - 0 and changed it up just before the match started, would have been a valuable 1 point. Another reminder to always follow my guts.

- Jay -

I didnt ask you anything so you didnt have to reply anything to me.
LTU_btc asked about the pool and I replied to him, so now please move on do something better in your life and mind your own business.
Thank you very much and have a great day.

Romania win 3:0 against Ukraine is probably biggest upset so far. Not the win itself, but the way how they won.1st goal was such beauty, while 2nd Lunin was caught not ready. In general, it was hard to recognize Ukraine.
Now a bit unexpected Slovakia is leading against Belgium and Belgium doesn't looks like better team on pitch.

Yeah, good for them that Serbia wasn't capable to do much and that their group is easy in general.

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Thanks for the link @notblox1, now I'm in right pool. Previously I joined wrong pool, I think I clicked invitation link that I got on email through Superbru.
Don't see big issue that link is posted in public. I think we never had issue when many random people joins pool in tgat way, it's  sometimes 1 or 2 people who join it accidentally.

The UEFA bracket and superbru one. I was hoping everyone could join the EURO predictor in time but some people couldn't.


You're in the wrong one. That's the reanimated one from last time. I will delete it.


This one shouldn't be public. You can choose to set it to public or private. There was one year when there were a few people who found it somehow and tried to join and it's a headache to keep removing them as you're kinda auto-enrolled if you join via the link so please don't share the link with anyone who isn't playing.

The EURO predictor has been fun, it is a shame we could not use that. Maybe I will stick around and play just for fun on it and the prizes available there.

Today has been a bad day for predictions, will France also give us an upset?

- Jay -

I can’t see France dropping points against Austria. They are my pick to win the tournament, they have world class players all over the pitch.

Yes today has been a crazy day of results, I dropped from 5th in the pool to 12th which sucks but obviously a long way to go.

Almost 40 minutes in and it is not looking comfortable at all for France. The underdogs are all playing with a certain confidence and shape, not sitting back and absorbing pressure but going all out man for man. There is still a lot of time for France and a lot of time on the pool.

They just got the lead while I was typing, lovely work from Mbappe.

- Jay -

Yesterday's results just proved that friendlies are not really a form indicator.
Romania surprised me too and Lukaku must be cursed  ???

Yeah, sorry guys, didn't do the UEFA predictor... I thought we were doing the pool on Superbru, so I didn't fill out picks for the UEFA one... except for Germany. The last PM I got was in case people wanted to use it, and I admit I completely forgot about it.

After Group A's blitz, it feels like we're all zombieing our way through MD1, huh.

P.S. I never got the invite code hilariousandco. The pool I thought I was enrolled in was the one you just destroyed.

There's 0.01313254 in the pot so I will just split it down the middle 50/50 so 0.006 each to the winner of the bracket and the predictor. Or possibly, make it 0.005 each and whatever's left in the pot after fees goes to the winner of the EURO predictor which will be less than 0.00313254. If any one can manage to get a sponsor or maybe even just some free bets we can give those to one or two of the runner ups.

Who could have thought that Turkey - Georgia will be one of the most exciting games of tournament so far. And final score doesn't reflect game very well as third Turkey goal was scored to empty net like in ice hockey. Draw would be more fair result, but that Guler goal was sick.
Now Portugal - Czech Republic. Went for BTTS, but so far somehow 9 PM games were least exciting and lowest scoring. Ronaldo today will become first player who played in 6 EURO tournaments.

Damn, poor Lukaku. When you think that you can't impress you more with wasted moments, he responds "Hold my beer" :D.

Türkiye vs Georgia is my game of the tournament so far. The quality of football was great, especially the attacking, defending was not so good, but it was fast paced and end to end with lots of beautiful goals.

The pool amount means it is all to play for and winner takes all(both ways), which adds some excitement to it. Will be good if we get some reward for the best performer of a round.

- Jay -

Yes this is the most exciting match where both teams can take it better, I see so far Turkey is more confident with its attack this is Arda Guler who made his spectacular goal while the last goal was easier. hahaha

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So both pools are counted (SuperBru and EUFA) Well I have done both... SuperBru is still a bit safe now haha although it's still a long way to go :P, while the EUFA pool for the first time has a lot of points counted. We did both

Finally in, and I'm at the bottom, yay! I've always rated Georgia, but they still surprised me at the quality they could bring to the table. 2 "debut" goals, what a feast, eh?

Now Albania, supposedly whipping boys, leading against Croatia. I'm wondering if we should also start taking Slovakia and Romania seriously...

Damn you Croatia you ruined everything for me  >:(

They won this match but bigger problem for them is Mbappe broken nose.
He must wear a protection mask in next matches and maybe he wont play full 90 minutes.

Sorry you didnt make it.
This new uefa website predictor is very interesting and one of the best predictors I used.
Someone should clone this for other prediction pools.

I can’t believe Croatia failed to beat Albania, not many predicted that. Sadly I wasn’t one of the brave guys who went for Albania to take something from the game.

Hopefully I have better luck tonight, really need to start getting some EXACT scores.

Yeah, Croatia looked so dominant in 2nd half that after their 2 goals Albania looked not capable to do anything. But 2:1 score is so tricky and one attack can change everything, what happened this time. Ruined my exact prediction and Croatia is in very complicated situation, especially with their goal difference.
Germany so far leaves great impression, even though Hungary had few their chances today. But after 2 losses now they're almost eliminated.

SuperBru went haywire...

Slovenia were bitterly disappointed as Serbia equalized through Jovic's header - after the goal the referee blew the whistle, frustratingly if Slovenia had won the team would have had 4 points while Denmark would have lost to England.

I wonder how England vs Denmark will play out, there should be no goal difficulties, that's what's really important.

I did not watch the game but the stats suggests it all went down in the closing moments of that match. 4 yellow cards after the 87th minute and the goal being the last action on the match, that is how you settle a derby match.

I expected Southgate to change something in the line up but he is sticking to his guns, playing Trent in the middle and Foden all the way out in the left. I will expect a similar closely fought match and a narrow victory.

- Jay -

Trent and Foden were withdrawn in the second half to bring on Bowen EZE as a midfielder but that didn't change anything - this game didn't change anything even boring in the stats England lost to Denmark, maybe Southgate thought with a draw they remained comfortable in Group C, but I was quite annoyed with his game. >:(

So far when you see how England is playing, it would be difficult to call them asvone of main favorites to win tournament. They leave very dull impression, but 4 points after 2 games isn't bad result. But damn, that Hjulman goal, what a beauty. In this EURO we have plenty of goals scored out of the penalty area.
Slovenia - Serbia, result which isn't good for both teams, but that extremely late Jovic goal saved my prediction and BTTS bet.
Now Spain - Italy, probably biggest game of whole group stage.

Italy's going to hold out for second half methinks...


TAA's midfield experiment wasn't too bad, but felt like the whole team wasn't ready to risk anything much. Manager's orders I guess. Think England frustrates everyone in general, and definitely the most frustrating of all the teams thus far.

Remember the last Euro though. Boring wins, draws, wins. Looks like we're about to see the very same England all over again. Premier League may have the most modern attacking football, but English national football is reluctant to honour that tradition.

All of his subs were tactless. Bring on Eze, Bowen and Watkins all at the same time meant none of them had time to blend in with the other attacking players. It was like the forward guys trying to find their feet while the Denmark players were already fully locked in.

Starting the game with 3 players out of their natural position at their clubs was criminal. 4 if I count Trippier, but that was a forced decision.

Spain dominating but Italy have shown they can steal the show at any time.

- Jay -

I feel it's horrible and needs to stop immediately. Imagine what a team like Spain would do to their midfield?
Palmer still without any minutes while Bowen and Eze are collecting them - what the hell is happening? He played really good in all the friendlies as well.

Something's very wrong with England, they don't look like the team from the last Euros. They don't really look like a team at all.

So the team that beat Belgium lost to the team that lost to Romania. Was somehow hoping Ukraine would lose as I need ONE team in any group to end the tournament with 0 points heh. As it stands, unlikely for Belgium to lose their next 2 matches.

At least I've climbed up 11 spots now... still far from darxiaomi but no longer rooted to the bottom.

Now Poland behind so hope they stay down! Edit: goddang equaliser!


Tell you what though, they're going far. In the most frustrating way possible. Penalties, shootouts, whatever it takes. If you want to quit watching football, watch teams like England.

The way how Ukraine started game, it looked that it will be another loss for them. But after halftime and few substitutions their face changed and they started to play how they were supposed to. Very interesting situation in this group, if Belgium will win tomorrow, all 4 teams will have 3 points before last round.
Poland looks so disappointing. Lewandowski isn't able to play and it's huge hit for Poland. If France will not lose today, Poland will be first team to get eliminated.

Don't worry, it's Poland ;D


Nope, no way. They defended compactly before, they are all over the place now. The Trent experiment backfired, the first guy to jump in is Gallagher, I expected to see more of Mainoo and Palmer.
I always thought like you do now, they'll bore us to death but win games. The way they have defended so far - no way man. Spain would tear them apart. So would Portugal and Germany, and France would just bore them enough to score a goal and defend easily later.

It appears I’m doing quite terribly, currently sitting in 19/27 place.

I need to start hitting some EXACT scores very quickly of my chances of winning will be in tatters before we even finish the group stage.

Oh, Turkey, seems that we already have most stupid own goal of tournament. How you can give such pass back to goalkeeper? Expected that they will give good fight against Portugal.
Lukaku would be proud of Chakvetadze. Wasting such moment 1 on 1 vs goalkeeper. Georgia had best possible moment to win game and they can blame themselves after they will not get out of group.
Doing quite well in the pool, but some recent games weren't successful for me.

The odd difference in the Germany vs Switzerland much is very high, I expected it will be much closer, at most 4.5 for the Swiss. Will we get lots of goals maybe ov3.5? The odds for that are looking attactive and I am not so sure the Germans win tonight.

I have been on free-fall in the pool since the end of round 1, I need to pick myself up for this round.

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I'm not sure that it will be high scoring game. Simply both teams don't have much to fight for, so, it's quite possible that it will be boring game. A bit different situation in Hungary - Scotland game. Both teams not just need to win if they want to reach next round, but also to score a lot because their goal difference is terrible. BTTS and over 2.5 looks like a safe bet, though, not very high odds.
Still can't forget yesterday's Lukaku offside, this guy is really cursed. So top scorers of tournament is Own goals and Lukaku without VAR :D

Fortunately, it seems that everything ended relatively well for Varga. Yeah, he got quite serious injury, but that's not the worst possible outcome. But damn, got so many flashbacks from last EURO and Erikssen. Great that bod stories ended well, but damn when I saw staff walking so passively without any rush to Varga, I thought, WTF guys you're doing?
Don't understand why Hungary started to play only in the end of game. If they would played in such way for most part of game, it was possible to achieve something more than minimal win.
Some recent games aren't going well for me, both in pool and betting :/

It turned out not to be high scoring. I went with Germany to score ov1.5 goals and Scotland-Hungary to score over 2.5. Lost both so it did not matter what the Copa America matches I bet on played, forgot to check even.

It was great to see him stretchered off, at least it showed it was managed as best on the pitch, wishing him a quick recovery.

I am watching less live matches now, from the highlights Hungary looked to be on top from the start and were only unlucky. Now they need to wait to see if they have a shot at qualifying.

- Jay -

Rangnick did a good job for Austria to beat the Dutch who didn't think they would lose at all. >:(

The SuperBru pool failed a lot with my predictions as many matches were unpredictable.

Hey... Now England will Southgate be praised tonight... :o I hope he brings on Palmer and Mainoo in the second half I see he's good enough to play.

Unexpectedly, Austria is one of most fun teams to watch in this EURO. Who could have thought that they will take 1st place in group with France and Netherlands.
And after such exciting game, it was so difficult to watch both Group C games. I just can't stand watching how England is playing, I hope they will get eliminated ASAP. Same thing about Serbia, watching paint dry is more exciting, but it's good that they're eliminated already. They started to play when it was too late already.
Don't really want to look at Superbru, 3rd round is going awful for me

The group stage is over, now it's on to the knockout stage.

We've seen that match table, right? We can guess who will qualify? It's kind of predictable but there will be a few surprises.

Rest assured that the quarterfinals will be much more exciting as the big teams meet the equal teams.

Superbru - not saved
EURO prediction - there is still hope. :P

Man, 3rd round was horrible for me, got just 4 points in whole round and it cost me lot of positions. It will be very difficult to fight for prize spots.
Biggest surprise of group stage is Georgia and how they beat Portugal. But already in game with Turkey they looked very solid despite loss. And as disapointment I would call Ukraine failing to qualify even with 4 points.
Wouldn't say that now big teams will meet equal teams, most of 1/8 pairs have big favorites

Next round is tomorrow so don't forget your picks.

England have been shocking. I wouldn't even be surprised if they lose to Slovakia on Sunday. I  think Slovakia will think they're in with a chance given England's last performance and will certainly have that underdog spirit. I'm much more interested in watching the underdogs now and seeing how far they can go. My friend actually picked Austria to be the dark horse before the tournament and I thought he was crazy. Looking forward to seeing Ronaldo cry if they lose or he gets subbed off haha.

Does anyone know how Superbru is counting extra time when goals are scored after regular 90 minutes?

EURO 2024 play-offs are starting today with two matches and there is no more room left for any team to play around and speculate.
It is going to be interesting to see if Denmark can make a big surprise against host Germany.

I really wish that England would get eliminated, just can't watch football that they play. Just not sure that Slovakia is capable to kick them out.
From underdogs, Austria probably played most attractive football. And I keep an eye on Georgia, can't rule out scenario where they eliminate Spain.
Now Italy - Switzerland, probably most ballanced pair. Anyway, put some money on Italy and total over 1.5.
Later Germany - Denmark, expected a bit high odds for Germany, Denmark is solid team, should be interesting.

Hey guys I am not sure whether I missed something that you might have already discussed here, but does Superbru evaluate results including overtime? I picked 1-1 in the England - Slovenia game and it says wrong because now it is 2-1. My fault then, but I was sure it would grade the results after 90 minutes. Anyone else thought the same as me?

Bellingham, why did you did that. He not only saved Southgate from being sacked in the morning, but now we will get at least 90 more minutes of pain watching England. Watching paint dry is more exciting.
Expected that Georgia will give good fight for Spain, but damn, such huge ball posession, so many shots. But obviously, for Georgia it's impossible to fight with Spain without parking a bus. Though, in the end, final score looks already big.

Nope, I'm playing in Superbru pools for many years, so, I knew that in case of overtime they grade results after 120 minutes. In knockout games draw is credited only when game goes to penalties.

Ok all good then. If I recall correctly there was no game in the Champions League that was decided in overtime, right? Only the penalty shootout Manchester City vs. Real Madrid. That is why I never noticed that Superbru counts goals from overtime to the final result. But now I know better, thanks for the clarification.

As for Bellingham, damn that was another slap in the face for a team. First Croatia got brutally eliminated and now Slovakia was the same. This damn last minute. Madrid probably felt what Slovakia felt. But this double punch was hard. Last minute the equalizer and then second minute of overtime the lead.

I don't know, but I think both the goals against Croatia by Italy and the goal against Slovakia by England could have been prevented. But concentration is dropping at some point of course when players give their everything on this level for an entire game. Slovakia deserved it for sure.

Can they maybe find a way past Switzerland playing like this? Southgate has proven he will not change his style of play, so I will expect the Swiss to dispatch of them as they did Italy, but it is difficult to bet against England even when they play bad.

Spain were dominant. Only team that has won all their matches and I think they should have scored the most goals, definite title favorites. If they beat Germany, they should have all but won it.

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I would like to say no, but I'm not sure about it. Despite that their football isn't watchable, final result is good for them, so, they can go through Switzerland in similar way. Sometimes teams win whole tournament while playing ugly football, like Greece in 2004 or Portugal in 2016.
France aren't showing fireworks too, but their game looks more confident and now they eliminated disappointing Belgium.
Now Portugal - Slovenia, game where I don't see upset happening.

Belgium has been just as bad. I do not think France has been properly tested yet in this tournament, Netherlands came the closest and France were not able to score a goal. Portugal will be a very tough test for them and if they get past them, Germany or Spain may be the end of the road.

I am dropping down the table at a very alarming rate. I had just one good round at the start and after then it has been a free-fall.

- Jay -

Humm this match was tense when Pepe made his little mistake... I didn't think it would end that way but Portugal was saved by Costa.

Yeah we're still not satisfied with this game especially Ronaldo who played a bit emotionally charged as well as the missed penalty which has been criticized on social media.

I cant believe Austria lost this match, they had so many chances to equalize and go in extra time, but Turkish goalkeeper was a hero tonight.
I expected to see a lot of goals, both teams have poor defenses and they can score goals, but you cant win when you miss so many chances.
Quarter finals are ahead of us and I am happy with my position on leaderboard so far.

Turkish goalkeeper was hero yesterday and that his last save was simply sick
Not really happy with my position. Now we have 7 games remaining, so, up to 21 points potentially - it will be difficult to get to prize spots.
Spain - Germany and Portugal - France, we already have final worthy games in 1/4 final. And with all respect to other teams, other side of bracket looks much weaker, so, easier path to the final potentially.

You should be happy, with current results in Superbru you are in very good 9th place from 27 players, with only 10 points less than leader darbit.
In Uefa website you are in similar position but you can win more points there with boosters, correct scores and goalscorers.
We are all waiting for darbit and StLoup to make mistakes in next rounds ;)

9th place isn't bad in general, but with not so many games remaining, there is not so much potential points you can get, so, it will be difficult to increase position significantly. And when I was 3rd after 2 rounds, 9th place is a bit disappointing :D
BTW, I think we're not using UEFA predictor to decide winner, but I still continue to play here. Only bracket challenge from UEFA.com is used.

That is the downside of Knockout competitions. I am at 22nd and cannot win anymore with the few amount of matches remaining, after the QF, we got just 5 more matches in total.

It is just a fun ride at this point, I am getting creative with my answers, would have been cool if picking an unlikely outcome correctly gets one more points.

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The remaining games are hard to predict for me. Gone mostly with draws.


It's annoying but I guess most games do end up going to penalties. I prefer them to stick with 90 mins like most bookies do.


I don't have any faith in them at all. If they don't change the way they play then they deserve to go out.

Anyone think Turkey can or will beat the Netherlands? Apparently Demiral has been suspended so that will be a huge blow to them.

They scored a lot of goals in their last match but Romania did not put up much opposition so that cannot be used to judge their performance. Turkey like to play end to end football which I think will be their undoing, if they sit back and try to limit the chances Netherlands get, they can pull up an upset, if they let the game be free-flowing, I will pick Holland.

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Small difference in today matches, I had a feeling Germany vs Spain could go in extra time, and I think the same for Portugal vs France.
It was much more fun watching the first match, many chances and shots on goals for both teams.
For Portugal Ronaldo is more concerned about his haircut, and Mbappe about his broken nose tonight.
Cmon France score some bloody goals!