⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Winner: ITALY!

[Harkorede]

Switzerland 2 - Turkey 0

LoL, We are again playing like shit. At least score a goal in the tournament you fuckers is this too much to ask?

*Shaqiri missed the 3rd goal of his team as I was typing this. Lmao, what a disgrace.

It's an utter disgrace from Turkey, I didn't expect such an awful tournament even though I didn't expect anything from them...

Italy is certain to qualify for the round of 16 because after two 3-0 wins over Turkey and Switzerland, and Wales can confirm the status of group runners-up with a draw against Italy.

and Gareth Bale and friends will not be satisfied and will definitely continue to attack Italy to win the ongoing match.
However, Wales' move will not be easy because Italy's position is stronger because they won from Switzerland and Turkey without conceding.

Even if Wales lose today's match against Italy, they can still end up at no.2. But then, it will depend on the Switzerland vs Turkey match. If Switzerland wins by a heavy margin, then they will end up at the no.2 position with 4 points. And there is a chance for that, because after 25 minutes, Switzerland is leading by 1-0 against Turkey. So it will be good for Wales to have a draw against Italy. A win would be even better, but considering the current form of Italy, I have to admit that the chances are near zero.  

Italy have also taken the lead against Wales, but Switzerland would be hoping for Italy to score at least 2 more goals for them to get a shot at 2nd place, but regardless with 4 points they surely would end up with one of the best third place positions.

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[Jackl87]

Switzerland 2 - Turkey 0

LoL, We are again playing like shit. At least score a goal in the tournament you fuckers is this too much to ask?

*Shaqiri missed the 3rd goal of his team as I was typing this. Lmao, what a disgrace.

Turkey have been the worst team in this tournament so far. They are no different in this game also. What a shame that they still don't care about anything! Mert Muldur is trying his best as his teammates are just the worst. This will be an easy win for Switzerland.

To be fair, this game is so far pretty balanced with no clear advantages for any team at least in terms of statistics except for the goals though of course, but overall i have to agree that turkey is maybe not the worst team of the tournament but probably the biggest disappointment of this tournament so far. Before the tournament started i saw a lot of experts and reporters that said that turkey is one of the secret favourite for the title this year and as of now it looks like that they will be eliminated from the tournament with 0 points and 0 goals scored. Group stages in Euros are tough though and way harder than in World cups because the quality density is just way higher in EUROs.

[3meek]

Wales play well, but they can't beat Italy... Hopefully we'll see some more goals from Italy in the next half! I think Wales are now playing with future cup champions!

Turkey is playing horribly! They seemed to play well in friendlies and qualifying matches, and in the end they didn't make it out of the group...

[BIT-BENDER]

First half and Italy is wining Wales and Switzerland is winning turkey, I think it was an easy group for Italy, who have already won turkey in there first match and are in the lead after half time in there current match, I think there defense is not easily penetrated so before Wales can equalise or win it would be skills, experience and tactical demanding of them.
Switzerland on the other match seems to have controlled the game, up by two goals with turkey yet to score I think that's should be a win for Switzerland.

[KTChampions]

Switzerland 2 - Turkey 0

LoL, We are again playing like shit. At least score a goal in the tournament you fuckers is this too much to ask?

*Shaqiri missed the 3rd goal of his team as I was typing this. Lmao, what a disgrace.

It looks like Turkey will set an anti-record at this championship. This is a really shocking result, since many people rated this team as promising in order to at least advance to the next stage of the championship  
And one can only guess how many gamblers suffered from such results.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Italy have also taken the lead against Wales, but Switzerland would be hoping for Italy to score at least 2 more goals for them to get a shot at 2nd place, but regardless with 4 points they surely would end up with one of the best third place positions.

Every now and then, I am checking the live points table in Google. According to their table, Wales is at 4 points and goal difference of +1, while Switzerland is also at 4 points, with a goal difference of -1. So two goals separate these two teams. The second half is going to be crucial. It is true that even with a third place, the entry to knockout phase is almost guaranteed. But with the third round not yet over for the other groups, I would not want to take that risk. Wales should not allow Italy to score another goal. BTW, what happens in case the points and goal difference are equal?

[rdbase]

The first straight red card of the tournament against Ampadu from Wales.
Looks like Italian flopping is still strong.
It was a huge stomp on the foot but someone was bracing his neck while he was on the ground to make it look like it was worse then it actually was.
The swiss are looking like they will win against Turkey and knock them out but that was known all along even before the match begun.
Italy needs more goals to look strong against the likes of France and Belgium going into the next round.

[mindrust]

Switz 2 - Turkey 1

Alright, the tournament is over for Turkey now officially.   And I can now stop watching the rest of the game and go back to my work.

The goal was great btw.

edit : 3-1 lol lol lol

[Yogee]

The first red card of the torunament against Apaudu from Wales.
Looks like Italian flopping is still strong.

Hehe anything that would ensure the Italians with a win.

The card just clearly made life harder for Wales. Interesting to see how they will play the remainder of the game. Will they aim for an equalizer or aim to limit goals allowed by defending. It looks like the latter with Italy pouncing.

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Turkey got one goal back with plenty of time remaining.

[snipie]

Switzerland 2 - Turkey 0

LoL, We are again playing like shit. At least score a goal in the tournament you fuckers is this too much to ask?

Your prayers have been accepted

Switz 2 - Turkey 1

Alright, the tournament is over for Turkey now officially.  And I can now stop watching the rest of the game and go back to my work.

The goal was great btw.

A bit serious, Turkey is the worst team in this group stage in terms of performance and stats eventually.. It is unfortunate to see them playing miserably like that..
Switzerland 3 - 1 Turkey. A goal for the honor of the team, better than nothing before quitting the competition.

[mv1986]

A superb performance by Germany yesterday, I really enjoyed that game. Portugal looked better in the 1st games so I bet on them, I thought it will be easy after the Germans gave them that easy opening goal early on.

They have so many options to choose from, players like Werner, Goretzka and Sane coming off the bench make them really dangerous in the late stages of the games.

I'm looking forward to that group's last games, France really made a mess out of the Hungary game so cannot take it easy against Portugal.

Oh yes although Sane will have a hard time now as the guys now performed so well. He won't make it back to the starting eleven I think. He'll remain a joker for the rest of the tournament. It always looks like he can't play as well as he used to that one season for Manchester City. And what's most important is that he is really weak defensively! Gosens did that so well. That guy runs the line up and down nonstop, fights for every ball. Sane may play 20 minutes here and there, but he doesn't deserve differently right now.

[bryant.coleman]

It's all over in Group A. Italy finishes on top with 9 points, with Wales at no.2 (thanks to better goal difference). Although Switzerland is at no.3, in all probability they will advance to the knockout phase since they have 4 points. Wales did really well, I have to say. Because they didn't conceded another goal despite being reduced to 10 players. They were on full defensive mode after Ethan Ampadu received the red card in 55th minute. But surprisingly despite the numeric advantage Italy could not score another goal in the second half.

[tyz]

Wales play well, but they can't beat Italy... Hopefully we'll see some more goals from Italy in the next half! I think Wales are now playing with future cup champions!

Today Italy disappointed me a bit. After the first two games I saw Italy as a clear favorite in the tournament, but after today's game they don't seem to be as strong as the impression was. They didn't play badly, but you could see that they have difficulties when a team is defensively compact, like the Welsh today.

[fullhdpixel]

Perhaps the only record that Turkey will be able to take from the competition. Unless in this last group journey, some team remembers to get a junior to break the record.  

It's actually quite funny to see that everyone in each group still has a chance to advance to the next round, since 4 numbers 3 of the 6 groups still go through. Then it is almost more difficult not to advance to the next stage, even Turkey can still qualify, but ok they need a big victory or at least a victory

It is actually quite difficult because there is a morale in play here, Turkey was seen as a good candidate, maybe not the best but they were in top 16 of the odds in futures, they were seen as the team that would go as second from this group, sure Italy was best but they were seen as better than both Switzerland and Wales.

However they have proven that they are not as good as they were last year, the qualifiers was a great period for them but after qualifying they just... started to suck? All in all they are all unhappy and the whole nation is mad at them, without exception as well, a nation of hardcore political turmoil constantly got all together in a brotherly bond to hate the nation team all together. Normally I would say that will make them play even harder, but from what I can see it looks like that just makes them play even worse without any morale.

[Lafu]

Germany showed class and put a championship performance against one of the high rated teams. After France loss they put their heart out and became in second place in the group. Let's see who will say the last word, Germany will play with Hungary so their chances are higher for first place.
Spain - Poland game Spain found a goal with Morata but referee said offside. It was a clear goal and finally VAR made the last decision.

Yes they did yesterday and i was surprised that they played well and good after they got the goal from Portugal.
And in some way i have knowen that they will make a good performance.

Also i have watched the Spain match against Poland and respect to Poland that they managed to get a point out of the game.
Little disappointed from Spain on that game , but im more disappointed from Turkey as they not played that what we all expected.

[Yogee]

... Wales did really well, I have to say. Because they didn't conceded another goal despite being reduced to 10 players. They were on full defensive mode after Ethan Ampadu received the red card in 55th minute.

This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. Wales had decided to protect their only advantage over Switzerland and it worked well for them.

Congrats to Italy and Wales.

I'm looking forward to the next games in group B. I think Russia will get a win over Denmark with their "ugly" playing style and qualify. Finland will have a tougher time beating Belgium.

[KTChampions]

Today Italy disappointed me a bit. After the first two games I saw Italy as a clear favorite in the tournament, but after today's game they don't seem to be as strong as the impression was. They didn't play badly, but you could see that they have difficulties when a team is defensively compact, like the Welsh today.

I think this game is due to the fact that the Italian team controlled the position in the group and they had no reason to strain. They achieved the desired result and saved a little energy, from the point of view of the tournament strategy this is a competent decision and in the next round they will have an advantage (if the opposing team gets there in a difficult exhausting struggle).

[Woodie]

It's a perfect start for the Italians 3 out of 3,  and so far they haven't dropped any points in the group which is a strong signal that they are here for the main prize! Btw with that win puts Italy on a 30 games unbeaten run, bravo 👏 boys.

For a second I thought Wales would put up a good fight and maybe steal this match to go top of the log, but the Italians were too good for them both defensively and offensively, I just hope they keep this up.

[barota]

italy won in the first place with 9 point , this is was predicted , the match of today against wales easy for italy Match wasn't offensive either only one goal  Italy may have wanted to save energy for the next matches for sure , congrats for italy  , pays de galles in the second place with 4 points then switzerland in the third place with 4 points too , i think italy and wales to next round of euro 2021

[iv4n]

italy won in the first place with 9 point , this is was predicted , the match of today against wales easy for italy Match wasn't offensive either only one goal  Italy may have wanted to save energy for the next matches for sure , congrats for italy  , pays de galles in the second place with 4 points then switzerland in the third place with 4 points too , i think italy and wales to next round of euro 2021

Italian boys are playing like on drugs! After my fiasco with Spain and France yesterday, Italy is kicking ass today and bringing some profit! I wasn't sure about Switzerland vs Turkey, I had both teams to score and I won that bet... but to be honest I thought we will see more from Turkey!
Today was a profitable day for me, unlike yesterday... Tomorrow we have 4 games, and I only expect Netherland to win, I am not sure about the others! I guess we can see some surprises...