Day 2: Wales vs Switzerland | Denmark vs Finland | Belgium vs Russia

[Hester_manc]

The darkest day I can remember for danish football;
accident.
-
- Eriksen`s accident
- Finland has a single attack in the whole match. They score on it.
- Schmeichel will usually have saved the attempt.
- Højbjerg kicks a miserable penalty kick.
- The Danish captain must be substituted.
- We are done at the European Championships already.

A dark, dark day

 

[Achilles McCool]

You don't think it's relevant?

It was almost instantaneous! One second, the ball is played into Lukaku, the very next second, a defender right in front of Lukaku attempts to clear the ball, which falls to an offside Lukaku to score. Same PoP in my opinion but PoP is so obtuse that it can be defined in many different ways

 

[Acole9]

Bloody hell Zhirkov is still playing.

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

Hard to scout them under the circumstances but without Erikson they don't seem to have much creativity.

The fact they resorted to long balls and a centre half up front fairly early on surprised me.

They're all most likely still in a daze. There's no way they could have been focused.

 

[FootballHQ]

Zhirkov must be about 48 by now, off injured.

 

[GifLord]

2-0
Meunier

 

[032Devil]

Russia are not very good.

They haven't been good for a very long time

 

[Sheamus]

Sad that Eriksen’s footballing career is most likely over, but I’m sure he’ll have plenty of good people around him to help with the transition into whatever he chooses to do next. I’m just glad this happened in a stadium where the right people were in place to help him. Imagine if he was exercising by himself with nobody around to help him. Scary thought. We have to be thankful for that.

 

[Drifter]

Zhirkov injured

 

[el3mel]

This group will probably not have a best 3rd. The 3rd team will probably end with 3 points or so and a minus goal difference.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Heartless Fins

Lukaku wasn't active

If he is not active he should be sacked.

 

[bosnian_red]

I’m curious if the younger generation are the posters saying that it’s ONSIDE while the older generation says clearly that’s Offsides?
I’d love to see a breakdown of the age of poster and their opinion of the new offside interpretation, but I’ll just have to admit that I’ll never know

I'm 27... do I still count as younger???

 

[Wonder Pigeon]

Off to the Weird Feelings of Football thread to say that Russian keepers drop a howler at every tournament

 

[GDaly95]

Time to switch back to RTE2 for HD if you have it. Piss poor picture quality on RTE news.

Have switched over now!

Now that I can actually see the fecking screen, Zhirkov could easily pass for mid 50s

 

[Berbaclass]

It was almost instantaneous! One second, the ball is played into Lukaku, the very next second, a defender right in front of Lukaku attempts to clear the ball, which falls to an offside Lukaku to score. Same PoP in my opinion but PoP is so obtuse that it can be defined in many different ways

Lukaku was about 3-4 yeards behind him. PoP resets when the Russian touches the ball.

 

[AmanNits04]

Is it just me or is Golovin the best Russian player in pitch right now, he looks lively.

 

[Godfather]

I can't lie. Seeing Lukaku that sharp pisses me off

 

[The Firestarter]

They haven't been good for a very long time

Since Arseshavin

 

[Berbaclass]

Is it just me or is Golovin the best Russian player in pitch right now, he looks lively.

No question. Been like that for a while.

 

[DouLou]

Unreal that Finland won that game. Kinda horrible terms to win a match on, but hope all the Finns enjoy it, this country will go crazy if they reach the second round!

 

[032Devil]

The darkest day I can remember for danish football;
accident.
-
- Eriksen`s accident
- Finland has a single attack in the whole match. They score on it.
- Schmeichel will usually have saved the attempt.
- Højbjerg kicks a miserable penalty kick.
- The Danish captain must be substituted.
- We are done at the European Championships already.

A dark, dark day

You've still got 2/3 games. They still have opportunities

 

[WeePat]

Yep. Our biggest issue. Really hoping Skov Olsen develops - would be our first proper wide player in years.

Skov Olsen looks interesting indeed.

There always was a steady stream of capable strikers before that with Tomasson, Brian Laudrup, Fleming Povlsen all the way back to Elkjær. Seems like the talent in that position dried up after Bendtner fell off a cliff.

 

[Mike Smalling]

If the players had decided to postpone the game, would they have played a full new game or just the remainder? Anyone know?

 

[Pscholes18]

So has Lukaku become world class since he left Utd?

 

[el3mel]

I'm 27... do I still count as younger???

I see you're older than me by only one year, and you think it's offside while I think it's onside. Well, I guess the age metric he was talking about is fecked now.

 

[Achilles McCool]

I'm 27... do I still count as younger???

Well then I’ll group you in with me by saying you’re an “old soul”!

 

[RonaldoVII]

Never a pen

 

[Godfather]

How is that even checked

 

[Achilles McCool]

Lukaku was about 3-4 yeards behind him. PoP resets when the Russian touches the ball.

From what I understand, a change in PoP is when possession is changed? He definitely didn’t gain possession of the ball, therefore still same Phase of Play, no?

 

[mu4c_20le]

So has Lukaku decided to become world class since he left Utd?

fixed

 

[Berbaclass]

How is that even checked

Nothing wrong with looking at that again

 

[Berbaclass]

From what I understand, a change in PoP is when possession is changed? He definitely didn’t gain possession of the ball, therefore still same Phase of Play, no?

He made a deliberate attempt for the ball. THats when PoP changes.

 

[mazhar13]

So has Lukaku become world class since he left Utd?

He's always been good, but Inter fans haven't exaggerated his flaws as much as United fans have, so he's presented as a much better player, publicly.

EDIT: It helps that Lukaku feels more confident and motivated when playing for Inter.

 

[Godfather]

Nothing wrong with looking at that again

Well no but that wasn't even close

 

[pablo__p]

I know they play v top opposition but Russia look really poor.

 

[Achilles McCool]

I see you're older than me by only one year, and you think it's offside while I think it's onside. Well, I guess the age metric he was talking about is fecked now.

Good thing I’m not a pollster or statistician!
I give up.

 

[Berbaclass]

WTF was that change

 

[Godfather]

Zhirkov coming off. Fought hard for a 50 year old

 

[Berbaclass]

Zhirkov coming off. Fought hard for a 50 year old

 

[el3mel]

Good thing I’m not a pollster or statistician!
I give up.

Don't worry, happens to the best of us I guess.