⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Winner: ITALY!

[snipie]

Yep, Spain won and it's looks like Italy will win against Belgium (2:1 for now, and it's 82 minute of the match)

It's good that i missed with betting bot of this two matches. Maybe I even would bet on Spain, but for sure would bet on Belgium

I thought we would see another underdog to win against a heavy favourite team again.

No man. It was enough clear that Spain will win. But not so clear for me to bet  

Nothing was clear in today's hard games. Spain the favorite team won hardly, Italy too won after hard moments until the last whistle! I really enjoyed Belgium 1 - 2 Italy game, you know if Belgium got a draw they will definitely pass regarding the risky substitutions in the Italy side!

Italy 🔥🔥 - Spain 🔥

[FatFork]

I thought we would see another underdog to win against a heavy favourite team again.

No man. It was enough clear that Spain will win. But not so clear for me to bet 

A good game at least after the boredom of the first one. That's real football, as opposed to the Spanish show. It's a shame the Swiss couldn't kick them out.

[DIA7]

Italy, which is pleasant to look at with its spirit, its fighting and its beauty, eliminates Belgium despite its clear chances in the second half.
Insigne, Chiesa, Verratti, Jorginho, Barella Today he was a musician, not a football player.
Lukaku could have returned but was lost..De Bruyne despite injury He made magic touches.a very heavyweight football match.
Next pray for Italy will be Belgium, it's going to be the thought one for the Italiens as Spain have been creating a lot of chances and they started to make use of them scoring now 11 goals from their last 3 games.

[DU18]

Switzerland deserves massive respect. Playing against Spain without 1 player for almost 50 minutes and don't concede goal. Spain really put pressure on extra time. Sommer was great on penalties, but 2 saved shots weren't enough. Spain scored many goals in recent 2 games, but now again they had issues with finishing like in starting games of EURO.

Switzerland was really great tonight and in my opinion Spain was just lucky to get an own goal from Zakaria in the first half, the match between Switzerland and Spain was really quite interesting before Switzerland got 1 red card for Remo Freuler for the foul, I think the red card really changed the swiss game and forced them to defend completely until the match continued with a penalty, although spain managed to win today's match but deservedly the best player in the match was Yann Sommer, the swiss goalkeeper managed to become the last stronghold for switzerland during the match and what a performance which is quite remarkable because Yann Sommer managed to make 10 saves from 28 shots made by the Spain player.

[Ratash]

Belgium vs Italy, it's 77th minute and Italy is leading by 2-1. Nicolo Barella and Lorenzo Insign both scored for Italy as Romelu Lukaku scored for Germany.The game is still on,but I think Italy will win consdering their performance and strong defence.

Yes the game ended and italy is in the semi finals they have a good team with a good defensive side lukaku had two golden chances to score but unlucky for belgium it didnt go in they lack on team play almost all players were off today except for doku who played really good.

[johhnyUA]

Spain the favorite team won hardly, Italy too won after hard moments until the last whistle! I really enjoyed Belgium 1 - 2 Italy game, you know if Belgium got a draw they will definitely pass regarding the risky substitutions in the Italy side!

Yep, it's said that Belgium is out now. So i think tomorrow we will see loss of Czech to Denmark and hope that we will not see loss of Ukraine to England   (at least not something like 3:0)

Italy 🔥🔥 - Spain 🔥

Yep, that will be good to see. But without my money on it, i think  

[swogerino]

Brilliant game from Italy tonight.I think that they will beat Spain easily in the semi-final.Why?Simple,because has not been consistent and has not been able to score goals like they used to even against teams much weaker in defense than Italy.This last game tonight against Switzerland shows just that.

[Trofo]

Brilliant game from Italy tonight.I think that they will beat Spain easily in the semi-final.Why?Simple,because has not been consistent and has not been able to score goals like they used to even against teams much weaker in defense than Italy.This last game tonight against Switzerland shows just that.

Italy definitely showed much more in this EURO than Spain. But this will be semi final match and everything can happen. Very tough to predict, but I am also expecting Italy to win. I would love to see them lift the trophy now when they are actually playing good football as a counter point to most of their titles which came trough granite defense and winning 1:0 in 90+ minute 

[CLS63]

The final whistle has been blown and Italy are the winners! I can say very comfortably that I enjoyed the game mostly. Italy were literally awesome in the first half. They wanted to end Belgium in the first half already. Barella's and Insigne's goals were both great to see. In the last minute of the first half, Belgium won a penalty. But I don't think that it was fair. Even VAR check resulted in a penalty. It was interesting to me honestly. Lukaku scored the penalty nicely and gave hope for his team in the second half.

But things didn't go their way actually. Italy really knew what they were doing. And they acted smart in the last minutes. In my opinion, Italy really deserved this win.

[CryptocurencyKing]

Just like Belgium 1-0 Portugal in the round of 16, the Belgium 1-2 Italy game is another game that i wished not to have end in just 90 minutes. Mehn, this game was quite entertaining  and the Belgium players were really out for a draw they could not get because of the Italy defense line, headed by two states of the act defenders in the likes of G. Chiellini and L. Bonucci.

The Belgium team would have had it easier should they have put most of there efforts in the first half. It wasn't an easy first half though, the Italians were all over the place and seriously dominating the whole half with Belgium having very little to play. It was an intensed game and a well deserved win for Italy.

[ingiltere]

Brilliant game from Italy tonight.I think that they will beat Spain easily in the semi-final.Why?Simple,because has not been consistent and has not been able to score goals like they used to even against teams much weaker in defense than Italy.This last game tonight against Switzerland shows just that.

I don't think any game would be easy in Euro semi finals. Italy had a good defense but Spain is also playing good and controlling the game. Spain's problem is their attacking side, they don't have a top quality striker. But they find some chances in position play. I think both teams have same chance to be in finals, not 51-49, %50-50 chance.
Italy lost Spinazzola today, their one of the best players. I wish he gets well soon, it was a pretty bad injury and will make him unavailable for a fairly long time.

[kawetsriyanto]

I expect Spain to win over Switzerland. But I understand Switzerland is a great team. They can win, anything can happen before the game ends.

Spain won the match today and they go to the next stage, it is as you expected.  
But remember that Switzerland played quite well today, even the match lasted till the penalty shootout. The two goals today made by Switzerland players, I think Switzerland was unlucky today. They made 1 own goal and got 1 red card. If there was no own goal, Switzerland can defeat Spain today. This means although Spain is a bigger team but no guarantee to win easily.

[johhnyUA]

Brilliant game from Italy tonight.I think that they will beat Spain easily in the semi-final.Why?Simple,because has not been consistent and has not been able to score goals like they used to even against teams much weaker in defense than Italy.This last game tonight against Switzerland shows just that.

Meh. It's more likely to get draw in Italy-Spain and as a result - few penalties. And in this case Spain will be in favor, because it's team is better in attack and precise blows (as we could see today against Switz)  

Belgium is weaker than Spain. So for Italy it will be not an easy walk.

[coinlocket$]

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1411073000435240963

Good player but injury-prone. Good luck to him.
He will probably skip 1 year almost completely.

[Jackl87]

Shame for Switzerland, really bad penalties from Schar, Akanji and Vargas. Sommer saved 2 after saving 10 shots before that, I thought it would be enough - all Swiss players shot them really well against France.

Yeah totally true after busquets missed the very first penalty of the shootout i was already sure that Switzerland would go through because of the high confidence they should already had at that point after the shootout against france but then everything came completely different. I am always cautious with blaming players to have shot a poor penalty i mean in the end i would say most penalties can be saved if the goalkeeper is anticipating correctly and dives into the right corner. I would say only every 3rd penalty is really shot that well that a keeper has 0 chance to save it.
Anyway it was still a great tournament of switzerland and everyone who placed a bet that they would manage to achieve a draw against france and italy after 90 minuts made some crazy profits.

[KTChampions]

I was hoping for Belgium to win, but Italy won, the match was good and I think that if Belgium opened the scoring they had every chance to win.
Now we are waiting for an excellent semi-final Italy - Spain, at the moment Italy looks like the favorite in this confrontation. Hopefully we'll see a lot of goals here.

[aoluain]

I was hoping for Belgium to win, but Italy won, the match was good and I think that if Belgium opened the scoring they had every chance to win.
Now we are waiting for an excellent semi-final Italy - Spain, at the moment Italy looks like the favorite in this confrontation. Hopefully we'll see a lot of goals here.

Yes that would have been a great result for a kind of dream team from Belgium
even though they are ranked #1 in the world they never won a major tournament
apart from an Olympic title, that is a record of sorts!

To date, Belgium is the only national team in the world to top the FIFA ranking without having won a World Cup or a continental trophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium_national_football_team


Switzerland were unlucky today not to beat Spain, even down to 9 men they forced
Spain to penalties.
Italy for sure look like the will beat Spain. Looking at Spains stats against Switzerland
doesnt paint a great picture.

73% Possesion and 28 shots with 10 on target and 13 corners

[Joca97]

I was hoping for Belgium to win, but Italy won, the match was good and I think that if Belgium opened the scoring they had every chance to win.
Now we are waiting for an excellent semi-final Italy - Spain, at the moment Italy looks like the favorite in this confrontation. Hopefully we'll see a lot of goals here.

What a match between Belgium and Italy some epic first half so many chances and so many goals. Didnt expect both teams to play that opened but expected both teams to score. If Italy plays like this Spain dosent stand a chance in that match

[CryptocurencyKing]

I was hoping for Belgium to win, but Italy won, the match was good and I think that if Belgium opened the scoring they had every chance to win.

It wasn't just about them scoring to me, in fact, them conceiving a first goal should have been enough wake up call for the Belgium team to game out and play, especially in the first half of the game. It was as though the Belgium players were scared, probably with the absences of Eden Hazard from the game and as such, they forgot a the other quality players they've got and went for a more defensive strategy kind of football.  They forgot being under constant pressure simply means, you might be injured. Too bad it took them 2 goals, 2 properly placed goals to wake them up. They were lucky to have earned that penalty and scored else, it could have been 2 goals to nothing  with that sort of defense from the Italians.

[Dewi Aries]

I was hoping for Belgium to win, but Italy won, the match was good and I think that if Belgium opened the scoring they had every chance to win.
Now we are waiting for an excellent semi-final Italy - Spain, at the moment Italy looks like the favorite in this confrontation. Hopefully we'll see a lot of goals here.

What a match between Belgium and Italy some epic first half so many chances and so many goals. Didnt expect both teams to play that opened but expected both teams to score. If Italy plays like this Spain dosent stand a chance in that match

Yes, I agree, if you compare the games between Spain and Italy, I'm more sure that Italy has a bigger chance
As I said before most of Spain's wins were in extra time and penalties so if spain can draw then the chance is 50:50