⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Winner: ITALY!

[Naida_BR]

If I knew that Spain is going to play with reserves or the players who getting benched all this time, I would surely bet for Sweden.
Right now the score is 1-0 and the @4.35 odds was totally a value bet.

I don't know what's inside robert moreno's head as spain manager considering it was an important match to qualify he switch kepa with de gea who always in the starting line up and benched the striker rodrigo.

they need a win actually but Romania gets draw which makes spain need at least a draw to qualify and luckily they got it thanks to rodrigo's late goal.

FYI spain didn't really play with the reserve , a key players like Ramos is suspended due card accumulation, jordi alba, Marco Asensio and  Isco is injured, that why there's some changes. What I don't understand is that he switch kepa with de gea.
Next time You should really making a deep research about how the match will run , not just an ordinary research based on statistics.

Well, I didn't know they were suspended and many of them injured.
When I saw the lineup I considered that they key players were benched.
Finally the game ended up with a draw 1-1.

[FlamingFingers]

Spain made me lose my bet tonight in overtime, Sweden should have added more goals.  suisse and Gréce They were happy tonight, lol😉 It made me win the bet on them

It is not a surprise that the Spanish team drew,  they are topping the group with five points,  I knew they won't take the match that serious,  main looking at the formation you can tell what the outcome will be like, no Ramos,  Morata, Busquet and lots of other fisrt team playera

[yoseph]

Spain made me lose my bet tonight in overtime, Sweden should have added more goals.  suisse and Gréce They were happy tonight, lol😉 It made me win the bet on them

It is not a surprise that the Spanish team drew,  they are topping the group with five points,  I knew they won't take the match that serious,  main looking at the formation you can tell what the outcome will be like, no Ramos,  Morata, Busquet and lots of other fisrt team playera

They should have at least given us the heads up if they were going to use their second rate squad for the game against Sweden, I might have not betted for them if I knew about the team selection and because of that I lost some money together with the Israel Latvia game.

[steveabrahams]

Spain made me lose my bet tonight in overtime, Sweden should have added more goals.  suisse and Gréce They were happy tonight, lol😉 It made me win the bet on them

It is not a surprise that the Spanish team drew,  they are topping the group with five points,  I knew they won't take the match that serious,  main looking at the formation you can tell what the outcome will be like, no Ramos,  Morata, Busquet and lots of other fisrt team playera

That is true, actually the Spanish team don't really need the win because they already topped the group with 20 points and no team can surpass Spanish team at the moment. With this draw result, Sweden placed 2nd position only 1 point different with Romania. It's so unlucky though, Sweden almost got 3 points on that game but that very last minute goal from Rodrigo save Spain from losing.

[ChrisPop]

Oh well.. it looks my yesterday's bet on Bosnia failed. I've watched Romania vs Norvegia match yesterday, a very low quality game, I regret watching it now because it was a waste of time. Two teams with low value in their gameplay. No solid tactics, no spectacle, nothing.. The stadium was full of kids though and that was impressive to me. The norwegians managed to pull the nil in the last minutes of the game wrecking Romania's match length work.. I've actually had a small 1X bet on it so I cashed in some bucks, but lost a bit more on the Bosnia pick. I'll take a break today from betting to clear my mind. lol

[buwaytress]

Guess we didn't do well on our parlays, eh tomahawk;)

What's worse is if your Bosnia and our boys from Eire actually DID win, Spain needed a 90th minute goal to equalise!

Such is the sport, such fine margins. Can't wait for the qualifiers to be over though, I can't believe we've had so many interruptions already to normal league football. As long as everyone returns without injuries, I won't be too upset.

But effing yay for Pukki!

[big_daddy]

In the Group J, Bosnia and Herzegovina has no chance to reach the second place, Italy has confirmed the leading position, and Finland will for sure be the second placed national team in this group
That's it

[coinlocket$]

I'm surprised that you expected Italy to drop points against one of the worst national teams in Europe 

I was not thinking about losing the game but maybe to draw it.

You know, we already have seen games with 80% of ball possession in the past where the defender team scored a goal on the counterattack
Anyway, the scored 4 in the second half where the opponent team hasn't any more strength to keep the competition.

[Harkorede]

I'm surprised that you expected Italy to drop points against one of the worst national teams in Europe 

I was not thinking about losing the game but maybe to draw it.

You know, we already have seen games with 80% of ball possession in the past where the defender team scored a goal on the counterattack
Anyway, the scored 4 in the second half where the opponent team hasn't any more strength to keep the competition.

Liechtenstein did a couple of chances in the first half and they could have scored 1 or 2 goals, but the second half was an entirely different show as Italy were to take total control of the game.

Group I is the group that have their top two teams already qualified as Belgium and Russia have secured a place in the finals.

[rand1919]

Thoughts on group E? Can Croatia keep 1st place in the last match?

[cryptofrka]

Thoughts on group E? Can Croatia keep 1st place in the last match?

Yes, I believe so. We are a much better team than Slovakia, we are playing at home and they need to attack which will suit our gameplan.

[slackovic]

Thoughts on group E? Can Croatia keep 1st place in the last match?

Yes, I believe so. We are a much better team than Slovakia, we are playing at home and they need to attack which will suit our gameplan.

I too believe that Croatia will keep the 1st place in the group. We are definitely a better team, but there is always that little chance that we will defend that one point that we need and end up losing. Plus, our standard defending pair (Vida and Lovren) are suspended due to yellow cards. But I still don't think that we will lose. We either lost or draw three games because of Dalić's (Croatia's coach) poor tactics because of his poor tactics (games against Hungary, Azerbaijan and the last one against Wales). I'm sure he will learn something from those mistakes.

[tomahawk9]

Guess we didn't do well on our parlays, eh tomahawk;)

It wasn't just that parlay for me but the entire international break  not a single win, probably my worst record this season, a week without wins :/

Hopefully, we'll get better luck in about a month when the qualifiers return.

But effing yay for Pukki!

Off topic but, did you know that Man utd want to sign Mandzukic? But not Pukki who's on fire lately  odd, isn't it?

Alright, time to leave this discussion thread for a while, see you all in November.

[Daniel91]

Thoughts on group E? Can Croatia keep 1st place in the last match?

Yes, I believe so. We are a much better team than Slovakia, we are playing at home and they need to attack which will suit our gameplan.

I too believe that Croatia will keep the 1st place in the group. We are definitely a better team, but there is always that little chance that we will defend that one point that we need and end up losing. Plus, our standard defending pair (Vida and Lovren) are suspended due to yellow cards. But I still don't think that we will lose. We either lost or draw three games because of Dalić's (Croatia's coach) poor tactics because of his poor tactics (games against Hungary, Azerbaijan and the last one against Wales). I'm sure he will learn something from those mistakes.

I think the problem of the Croatian football team is not in bad tactics but in the fact that Dalic doesn't have the courage to carry out a generation shift and get rid of some deserving players like Rakitic and Perisic.
Vlasic and Brekalo have already shown that they are the right players for the national team and that they should play constantly, as well as Petkovic, but due to its former merit, old  players play, who don't deserve it.
Such players play because of the hierarchy of the team and not the quality and it's obvious that they don't have the strength or the inspiration needed to carry the team play.
It will be very difficult in the match against Slovakia because there will be 2 defenders who have never played together and some other players like Rakitic don't play in their clubs.

[rand1919]

Thoughts on group E? Can Croatia keep 1st place in the last match?

Yes, I believe so. We are a much better team than Slovakia, we are playing at home and they need to attack which will suit our gameplan.

X is enough for Croatia, but i do believe they will take it easily.

[Daniel91]

Well as planned easy win for Italy with 4 goals scored in the second half, match dominated with almost 90% of ball possession.

The difference between teams was abyssal, nothing to add. 7games 7wins, this means nothing, I don't think we have players who can compete with top team, let's see next month.

We will play vs Bosnia, they need to win or they will surprisingly out of EURO 2020.

Bosnia lost to Greece today and highly deserved - Greek team completely outplayed Bosnia with 29:4 attempts for Greece. 

As I mentioned in an earlier comment, Bosnia has a very limited quality team, with only 2 extra players, Djeko and Pjanic.
When one of them is absent, like Djeko, their chances of winning are minimal.
They still have some chances to win on their ground, which we saw in the match against Finland, but away they are very weak and have lost all group matches.
Now, Bosnia will have a new opportunity in the playoffs, it seems to me against Northern Ireland, Wales and some other team but realistically their chances for the Euro are almost nonexistent.
They just don't have the quality they need to do it.

[Lafu]

Just catching up a bit and saw that Italy has done there job well , and again spain was struggling in Sweden damn !
Switzerland won against Ireland after they got and Red Card in the Match.
The next Qualifying Round is starting on the 11 November and there are some intressting Matches coming .

[efialtis]

Well as planned easy win for Italy with 4 goals scored in the second half, match dominated with almost 90% of ball possession.

The difference between teams was abyssal, nothing to add. 7games 7wins, this means nothing, I don't think we have players who can compete with top team, let's see next month.

We will play vs Bosnia, they need to win or they will surprisingly out of EURO 2020.

Bosnia lost to Greece today and highly deserved - Greek team completely outplayed Bosnia with 29:4 attempts for Greece. 

As I mentioned in an earlier comment, Bosnia has a very limited quality team, with only 2 extra players, Djeko and Pjanic.
When one of them is absent, like Djeko, their chances of winning are minimal.
They still have some chances to win on their ground, which we saw in the match against Finland, but away they are very weak and have lost all group matches.
Now, Bosnia will have a new opportunity in the playoffs, it seems to me against Northern Ireland, Wales and some other team but realistically their chances for the Euro are almost nonexistent.
They just don't have the quality they need to do it.

Bosnia is not a superb team, definitely not - still you couldnt expect them to be dominated like that from Greece. I love the fact we played well (Im Greek  ) for the first time in years! If you watched us in the previous matches though, you would understand what I am talking about. We managed to loose to Faeroer Islands twice... LOL 

[EdenHazard]

Too bad you'll have too settle for a refund right ? After playing just the single goal through the first half I thought will only be able score a maximum of 2-3 more goals.

Yep, it's a refund. Shame, the last goal was in 92. min. Still better than a loss, right?

I don't know what's inside robert moreno's head as spain manager considering it was an important match to qualify he switch kepa with de gea who always in the starting line up and benched the striker rodrigo.

they need a win actually but Romania gets draw which makes spain need at least a draw to qualify and luckily they got it thanks to rodrigo's late goal.

FYI spain didn't really play with the reserve , a key players like Ramos is suspended due card accumulation, jordi alba, Marco Asensio and  Isco is injured, that why there's some changes. What I don't understand is that he switch kepa with de gea.
Next time You should really making a deep research about how the match will run , not just an ordinary research based on statistics.

There are 2 games left and Spain has Malta at home next. They did not need that draw, it just made it mathematically secure for them with 2 games remaining.

I see that situation.. but is it better to secure the spot early and making an experimental game later on the rest of the group matches... isn't it? That logic seems unacceptable.

With a lot of key players missing the odds for spain to win that time was terrible below @2 , wonder why It's supposed to be more than @2

Well, I didn't know they were suspended and many of them injured.
When I saw the lineup I considered that they key players were benched.
Finally the game ended up with a draw 1-1.

Now you learned a lesson. Better luck next time pal.

[TopT3ns]

Just catching up a bit and saw that Italy has done there job well , and again spain was struggling in Sweden damn !
Switzerland won against Ireland after they got and Red Card in the Match.
The next Qualifying Round is starting on the 11 November and there are some intressting Matches coming .

There are 2 matches left for each team at the same time the opportunity to stay on track, the competition will be tougher especially for the teams ranked 3rd to 5th
Group G will offer the most intense competition, with several teams still having the same opportunities.