⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers➡Group Stage➡1/8➡QF➡HF➡FINAL

[MK-74]

We could have easily beaten the Netherlands but I think we played with 2 players missing.
Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Kenan Yıldız were not on the field, if they had taken at least 1 striker instead, we would have been thinking about different things right now.

Montella and Hamit Altıntop should be sent off this team, they are both harming the team.
Montella is one of the most incompetent coaches, he does not play very good players even though he has them.

[EFS]

In this tournament, France is playing bad, England is bad, Netherlands is bad, but they all reached the semi final. Spain is by far playing the best football. It would be a surprise if Spain doesn't become champion. Underdog teams like Türkiye, Switzerland and Austria played much better than these teams in this tournament. As a result, the cup will go to one of the favorite teams again, this is clear.

[Ndabagi01]

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

I fell he got too comfortable with the scoreline after they were leading by one goals. Even after the equalizer, he was still waiting for the team to turn things around and lead back again since they’ve been ahead for a longer time than expected from the first half. It was really a game they could have won but they just messed things up and lost to Netherlands. The manager should be blamed for this defeat because some intellectual changes should have been made to revert this that have happened.

In this tournament, France is playing bad, England is bad, Netherlands is bad, but they all reached the semi final. Spain is by far playing the best football. It would be a surprise if Spain doesn't become champion. Underdog teams like Türkiye, Switzerland and Austria played much better than these teams in this tournament. As a result, the cup will go to one of the favorite teams again, this is clear.

Spain and France were my two best picks to win the trophy of this years Euro but along the line, I saw some improvement in England and they stand amongst he favourite to win the title also. The semifinals draws have this teams separated with two meeting each other. While I foresee England making it to the finals after beating Netherlands, Spain or France still stands an equal chance to make it to the finals to meet with England.

[TelolettOm]

There are many people blaming Felix for missing this penalty, but in my opinion, there is no one to blame, they have fought optimally for their team and country, it's just that there is only 1 winner, and France is the one to continue.
Congratulations to France and Thanks so much to Portugal. My heart actually also broke when seeing especially how Pepe sad expression in the field.
respect. 

Yes, in a penalty shootout anything can happen because 50% relies on luck and 50% relies on ability + experience We know that several great players in the world have experienced failures in taking penalties well, if this happened to Felix, of course it wouldn't be surprising but if the fans insult him, that is a risk as a player is expected to take.

That's a huge amount of pressure. Even top players have failed. Let it be, because no matter what, they have done their best even though they haven't gotten the best. Big respect for all players. Regarding how people out there talk about losing players and especially Felix, it's bound to be there. And whoever it is, of course there will still be people who curse, whether they win or lose, there will definitely be insults and pros and cons, so that when I saw the various negative comments, I thought, there are still many people who can easily type their fingers to hurt other people's hearts, especially those who are fighters for their country.

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

They exactly had the chance. They were leading the match at first with a goal in their first-half by Samet Akaydin assist by A Guller, A very satisfying goal. and that lasted until the 69th minute, the Turkish defender was also quite good, trying to repel all attacks and being able to maintain his position quite well. It's just that they had to stop in the 69' minute, and it was even more painful when Mert Muldur's OG happened, this seemed enough to make Turkey's mentality drop a little at that time.

Spain and France were my two best picks to win the trophy of this years Euro but along the line, I saw some improvement in England and they stand amongst he favourite to win the title also. The semifinals draws have this teams separated with two meeting each other. While I foresee England making it to the finals after beating Netherlands, Spain or France still stands an equal chance to make it to the finals to meet with England.

If you look at the solidity and consistency of the matches so far, Spain is indeed better than the three teams. It's just that this has reached the semi-finals, and of course that will make each team compete at their best. Mbappe has quite big ambitions for this. And is it possible that he will be able to lead France to win at Euro 2024?

Between Spain vs France, again it was like a final at the start. what if the final is France vs England? The representatives: Mbappe and Dembelle vs Harry Kane and Bellingham.  

[bering]

Although Turkey lost today but i still impress to see their performance and in the last 10 minutes of second half Turkey could force the Netherlands to play more defensively and they even can gets several chances to scores but unfortunately Netherlands defense is very solid which make them cannot utilize those chances to scores and for Netherlands congratulations for them and this result is very special for Netherlands because finally after 20 years they can able to advances to the semifinal again and next match would be so interesting because Netherlands will fight against England and just like we know England has just advances to the semifinal after beat Swiss through an penalty kick so this is hard match for both teams because they want to go further especially England that as the finalist of last tournament they want to repeat their achievement and for betting option i haven't checked the odds yet but i assume Netherlands a bit the favourite than England

[Smartvirus]

We could have easily beaten the Netherlands but I think we played with 2 players missing.
Hakan Çalhanoğlu and Kenan Yıldız were not on the field, if they had taken at least 1 striker instead, we would have been thinking about different things right now.

Montella and Hamit Altıntop should be sent off this team, they are both harming the team.
Montella is one of the most incompetent coaches, he does not play very good players even though he has them.

Easily might not be the word here but, I sure enjoyed how Türkiye played today than in their previous game against Austria. They understood the challenge and was very aggressive defensively as well as did their most to be more dangerous when they went forward. They pressed high but, you can’t deny the might of the Netherlands. Their win might have come out of an OG but, they were already the loosing side, pressed high to force an own goal out of the Turkish team.

An interesting turn of events however, given how Türkiye was able to handle the Netherland team, they weren’t matched in quality but, the Turks sure played like they wanted this win as they evidently did.

It was the only game that wasn’t didn’t go into the extra time like we have it in all other of the quarter final matches. Netherland was just how far the Turks could have gone and it was a good tournament for them if I may.

England on their part haven’t been really good this far but, they get to play Netherland in the Semi and should get there game in order else, it’s just going to be as far as they could go.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

Yes, it's a shame that Türkiye couldn't control the match after winning in the first half then several mistakes occurred in the second half and conceded 2 goals of course it's very sad but I'm not sure we blame anyone maybe it was an unlucky day who could come at any time. Basically Türkiye has played well in attacks and shoots and they almost won it It's just that luck was on Netherland side by getting an own goal. If the match had continued through a penalty shootout, maybe we would have seen a different result there is a possibility that Türkiye will win. We have seen the 4 best teams in the semifinals and I guess Spain vs England will be in the final, I know France can't be underestimated but I don't think this is their season.

[snipie]

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

Yes, it's a shame that Türkiye couldn't control the match after winning in the first half then several mistakes occurred in the second half and conceded 2 goals of course it's very sad but I'm not sure we blame anyone maybe it was an unlucky day who could come at any time. Basically Türkiye has played well in attacks and shoots and they almost won it It's just that luck was on Netherland side by getting an own goal.

The difference between Turkiye and other medium teams comparing to top tier teams is the ability to play with full power or at least guarantee some stability from the beginning of the match until its end.
Turkiye was leading for most part of the game then they received fast two goals in like 6 minutes. That's bad for them. Netherlands will face England now and France will face Spain. England to play finals? Spain to pass?

[Oluwa-btc]

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This match surprised the Netherlands - Turkey how until Turkey defended until the end, while the Netherlands still struggled to equalize, I think many thought the Netherlands would qualify but this reality is still difficult, now there is still time for the Netherlands to do that.

Netherlands have equalized in the 70th minute and have also added another goal to take the lead now. It is now 2-1 in favour of Netherlands who came from behind to conquer the game. The pressure on Turkey was too much and they couldn’t hold on to that and defend their one goal, it is now turning sides and the possession and full control of the game is now in the Netherlands side. They just have about 12 minutes to the end of the match and Netherlands are still in full control of the game, which of course means they can add more goals before the end of the match to end 3-1. Turkey can try as football is unpredictable but I’m not certain they can win the game now again.

It turned out that Turkey could not hold on until the end because it was indeed more pressure for the Netherlands to Turkey which is more painful is the second goal suicide if this does not happen then Turkey can have time until extra time but this scenario remains different.
In the final minutes Turkey attacked several times with crosses but the ball was successfully defended by the Dutch goalkeeper several times it should have been a big enough goal opportunity but look again the Dutch defense at the end is quite solid difficult to penetrate even though the attack was relentless.

They bottled the chance they had, how can they let such a comeback happen? It's what it is right now and there's little wee can honestly do to help the situation. Y'all should look out for Netherland. They have a coach who has experience of this kind of tournaments as he was amongst the squad that won years ago.
He shouldn't rely so much on Memphis Depay, Wout Weghorst us a much better option for me as he'll be able to attack and at the same time press hard. Turkey did the best they can but they still got fried up like a chicken.

As for England, I haven't seen the shitty games they played since group stage, I want to see what they do with Gareth Southgate. Having such a team but handles them like he has nothing. Seems weird and Awkward for me.

[X-ray]

Türkiye lost a game they could have won, because of Montella. In the second half of the match, when the Netherlands increased the pressure, he made no substitutions and just watched the game. He made his first substitutions after the score was 2-1 and it was too late. Montella is responsible for this defeat. He is not a technical director. He had nothing to do with the team getting this far. This team would have been more successful without him.

Yes, it's a shame that Türkiye couldn't control the match after winning in the first half then several mistakes occurred in the second half and conceded 2 goals of course it's very sad but I'm not sure we blame anyone maybe it was an unlucky day who could come at any time. Basically Türkiye has played well in attacks and shoots and they almost won it It's just that luck was on Netherland side by getting an own goal.

Turkiye was hell-bent on winning. They wanted to get a result, but OG was disappointed them. Only a few teams play with such heart and relentless desire like Turkiye in euro 2024. I've been impressed with Turkey in reach quarter final, though they failed in beating dutch. They deserved better, and probably deserved a late break to send it to extra time. This was because of their effort until the last minutes; However, they were not lucky. The Dutch have a lot of work to do as preparation before another serious game. Only a few players from dutch were running to set up, and break through to tie the match. I feel like dutch team lacks a bit of passion, but weghorst was exceptional.

Hats off to turkiye's effort in this game!

[Sithara007]

Life is quite tough, isn't it. It was probably Cristiano Ronaldo's last Euro appearance, and his team got defeated in the quarter-finals. BTW, a lot of rumors are circulating regarding his retirement from international football. He is already 39 years old, and a lot of people were angry after he missed a straight-forward chance during the last game. The coach (Roberto Martinez) didn't gave a response when asked about Ronaldo's future in the team. Personally I don't want him to retire. He currently has 212 caps, compared to Messi's 185.

[Xcode7]

Portugal looked better, but as I said earlier, defense plays a very big role in such matches, and both coaches understood this very well, so they focused on defense. There are no complaints about the Portuguese attack, they were good from the very beginning, not all matches allow you to score, this happens sometimes, but there are actually a lot of complaints about the French attack. And the penalty shootout is just a factor of luck, yesterday France was more fortunate and they move on.

I also think so, it was luck that was on France's side in this match so they managed to qualify for the semifinals, but that's football, it's a natural thing.
Even though Portugal's performance was much better, they were unlucky to score a goal and it must also be admitted that the French defense played quite disciplined so that Portugal could not penetrate it.

And in another match, hosts Germany were knocked out quite painfully by Spain because of a goal at the end of the match.
Germany had made a lot of efforts to take this match to the penalty shootout but in the last minute they conceded due to lack of focus and I think the fatigue factor also influenced Spain managed to score the winning goal at the end of the match.

Indeed, the two quarter-final matches that were played were quite fierce, and there was a lot of drama.
I think Spain and France, who have qualified for the semifinals, are quite worthy.

[virasog]

I agree with you that Portugal players neglected Ronaldo in this match. Ronaldo did not get any support from midfielder or forward players in this match. In particular, I would say that if Rafael Leao had assisted Ronaldo properly, or if there had been a good understanding between Leao and Ronaldo, Portugal would have been able to score in this match.

The match was very competitive. Both teams tried to dominate the match. Neither team was able to score as the defenders of both teams played very well. However, the two main attractions of this match, Mbappe and Ronaldo, did not perform as well as we expected.

Cristiano Ronaldo is under a lot of criticism after his team's elimination from the Euro 2024. It seems that he has little to no impact on the team and some are pointing fingers on his captaincy too.

Check out the commentator's Murphy thoughts on Ronaldo's performance. Everyone believes that Ronaldo is being a burden on the team as he is not able to perform as he should.

He told the BBC: “I’d be having conversations with the manager. It does seem ridiculous at times that he keeps Ronaldo on when he is having no impact.

“He [Goncalo Ramos] kind of must be thinking, what was he brought here for?” Murphy asked.

[Minecache]

Although Turkey lost today but i still impress to see their performance and in the last 10 minutes of second half Turkey could force the Netherlands to play more defensively and they even can gets several chances to scores but unfortunately Netherlands defense is very solid which make them cannot utilize those chances to scores and for Netherlands congratulations for them and this result is very special for Netherlands because finally after 20 years they can able to advances to the semifinal again.

Turkiye players tried hard to win this match, and Turkiye players were very hardworking. But luck was not with them. Despite performing well in the entire match against Netherlands, Turkiye failed to win.

The match was not dominated by the Turkiye players, but many attacks were made by the Turkiye players in this match. However, the defense of the Netherlands is very strong. Van Dijk, Ake and De Vrji's defense was not easy to break through for the Turkiye players. Still, Turkiye's players put in a lot of effort. However, the Netherlands took a 2-1 lead after just 6 minutes. In the 70th minute, the Netherlands scored their first goal to equalize the match. And in the 76th minute Mert Muldur's goal gave the Netherlands a 2-1 lead.

[Silence Scream]

Of course, Turkey's victory is being envied elsewhere. The German minister applied for an investigation after Merih Demiral's sign. I don't think UEFA will give a penalty, I think it shows the respect of Germany that the German minister, who was silent about a lot of actions before this action, is silent about this action. Turkey's win seems to have upset not only the Austrians.

Although Uefa had previously fined players such as Bellingham and Xhaka, it gave Merih a 2-match suspension, without any postponement. Uefa, which announced Bellingham's penalty in 3 days, approved Merih's penalty in 3 hours. That's why there is no more trust anymore. Merih was a defender who could make a great contribution in the Netherlands match played yesterday. We will now say that we are eliminated, that's it. Good luck to the remaining teams. In our opinion, it is a good tournament.

[OcTradism]

Although Uefa had previously fined players such as Bellingham and Xhaka, it gave Merih a 2-match suspension, without any postponement. Uefa, which announced Bellingham's penalty in 3 days, approved Merih's penalty in 3 hours. That's why there is no more trust anymore. Merih was a defender who could make a great contribution in the Netherlands match played yesterday. We will now say that we are eliminated, that's it. Good luck to the remaining teams. In our opinion, it is a good tournament.

That's unfair and ridiculous decision from UEFA but we can guess what happened in their train of thinking and how they came to that decision which bring big disadvantage to Turkey. Turkey played well but Netherlands are better and they will have a first semi final match in a big tournament after World Cup 2010, 14 years ago.

In another match, England again did not play impressively or convincingly but they again won their match and moved to semi final, one more step toward the final match. Switzerland scored first at 75th minute but they failed to secure this advantage, let England equalizing only 5 minutes after that. At penalty spot, Pickford is a hero for England and England are like France, going to semi final stage with no impression so far.

[X-ray]

I agree with you that Portugal players neglected Ronaldo in this match. Ronaldo did not get any support from midfielder or forward players in this match. In particular, I would say that if Rafael Leao had assisted Ronaldo properly, or if there had been a good understanding between Leao and Ronaldo, Portugal would have been able to score in this match.

The match was very competitive. Both teams tried to dominate the match. Neither team was able to score as the defenders of both teams played very well. However, the two main attractions of this match, Mbappe and Ronaldo, did not perform as well as we expected.

Cristiano Ronaldo is under a lot of criticism after his team's elimination from the Euro 2024. It seems that he has little to no impact on the team and some are pointing fingers on his captaincy too.

Check out the commentator's Murphy thoughts on Ronaldo's performance. Everyone believes that Ronaldo is being a burden on the team as he is not able to perform as he should.

He told the BBC: “I’d be having conversations with the manager. It does seem ridiculous at times that he keeps Ronaldo on when he is having no impact.

“He [Goncalo Ramos] kind of must be thinking, what was he brought here for?” Murphy asked.

Murphy's statement makes sense. I was also concerned about how Mendes did not replace Ronaldo in the last game against France. Ronaldo did absolutely nothing. Mendes and Jota were at the bench. I though Mindes should give them a chance to play. But, it's absurd because of Mendes was always keeping Ronaldo to play.
Perhaps, Mendes may be doing it to honor Ronaldo. This was because  it's Ronaldo's last Euro with Portugal.

It's also very embarrassing to see how Ronaldo doesn't seem to realize if that damages his legacy more than failing to score or break new records.

[Barikui1]

I agree with you that Portugal players neglected Ronaldo in this match. Ronaldo did not get any support from midfielder or forward players in this match. In particular, I would say that if Rafael Leao had assisted Ronaldo properly, or if there had been a good understanding between Leao and Ronaldo, Portugal would have been able to score in this match.

The match was very competitive. Both teams tried to dominate the match. Neither team was able to score as the defenders of both teams played very well. However, the two main attractions of this match, Mbappe and Ronaldo, did not perform as well as we expected.

Cristiano Ronaldo is under a lot of criticism after his team's elimination from the Euro 2024. It seems that he has little to no impact on the team and some are pointing fingers on his captaincy too.

Check out the commentator's Murphy thoughts on Ronaldo's performance. Everyone believes that Ronaldo is being a burden on the team as he is not able to perform as he should.

He told the BBC: “I’d be having conversations with the manager. It does seem ridiculous at times that he keeps Ronaldo on when he is having no impact.

“He [Goncalo Ramos] kind of must be thinking, what was he brought here for?” Murphy asked.

Murphy's statement makes sense. I was also concerned about how Mendes did not replace Ronaldo in the last game against France. Ronaldo did absolutely nothing. Mendes and Jota were at the bench. I though Mindes should give them a chance to play. But, it's absurd because of Mendes was always keeping Ronaldo to play.
Perhaps, Mendes may be doing it to honor Ronaldo. This was because  it's Ronaldo's last Euro with Portugal.

It's also very embarrassing to see how Ronaldo doesn't seem to realize if that damages his legacy more than failing to score or break new records.

Though I think that this criticism is a bit unfair, yes it's actually true that the performance of cristiano Ronaldo has massively declined a lot due to his age, but for him to be left on the pitch by Roberto Martinez is actually not his fault, and it shows that his presence alone is a massive threat to any opposition, so taking him off wouldn't have been the best idea either, but to be frank, what I think that makes cristiano Ronaldo less effective is where he was being utilized, he is actually not as effective playing as an attacker, than when he is playing from the left wing.

But sincerely speaking, I have never seen cristiano Ronaldo less of a threat than the way he is right now, especially when he is playing as an attacker, and I honestly think it's time to call his glorious career to an end, because he has given all he had inside of him, so the best thing he should do now is to retire now that his legacy is still intact.

[HajiBagi]

Another poor game for England but the won in the penalty lottery.
So far England is not playing a great football the only thiongs that's matter is the result.

Great game for Switzerland.

Inthe time Nederlands and Turkey are playing and Turkey just scored.
They are now "my" team for the rest of the completion.

We don’t have to be surprised by seeing England's performance again, this is how England has been performing from the beginning of the league and gradually they are moving, England is in the semi-final and I believe that they will still find a way to qualify for the final of the tournament, I think it is time that England coach should know that Foden should not be starting the game for England, I prefer palmer as a wing player than Foden, if that will be the case then he should use Foden as a midfielder and use palmer as a winger and England should play well so that everyone will not be complaining about England performance, England just thanks the goalkeeper by saving one penalty if not England will be at home today crying for their loss.

About Turkey and the Netherlands, the coach is to be blamed for the loss of the team, how can a coach tell the players to play a defensive game after scoring just one goal in the match? It is not good when a team scores one goal and starts playing a defensive game, Netherland used the opportunity of Turkey's defensive game to score two goals yesterday and those goals were scored within 6 minutes, though that is the spirit of the game, one team must loss to a team so turkey should try next time when they are playing in this kind of tournament.

[DanWalker]

In another match, England again did not play impressively or convincingly but they again won their match and moved to semi final, one more step toward the final match. Switzerland scored first at 75th minute but they failed to secure this advantage, let England equalizing only 5 minutes after that. At penalty spot, Pickford is a hero for England and England are like France, going to semi final stage with no impression so far.

None of yesterday's matches were as competitive. The England vs Switzerland match was not that competitive either. The gameplay of both teams was slow. Actually the match was not that enjoyable. Neither team tried to attack too much in this match. Both teams performed very carefully and kept their defenses strong.

But I would say England were lucky in this match. After Breel Embolo scored in the 75th minute, I thought England would not be able to make a comeback in this match. Because Switzerland's defense was strong. But Saka's goal equalized the match in just 5 minutes. And finally England won through a penalty shootout.