Day 6: Finland vs Russia | Turkey vs Wales | Italy vs Switzerland

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Match 15
Wednesday 16 June, 15.00 CET @ Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg
Group B
Ref: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)



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Match 13
Wednesday 16 June, 18.00 CET @ Olympic Stadium, Baku
Group A
Ref: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)



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Match 14
Wednesday 16 June, 21.00 CET @ Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Group A
Ref: Sergei Karasev (Russia)​
 

Samid

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Crazy how the worst team in the competition can be the first to qualify from the groups.
 

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Crazy how the worst team in the competition can be the first to qualify from the groups.
I fancy Finland to get a result too. If they keep discipline at the back similarly to how they did against Denmark, they can nick a goal.
 

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Crazy how the worst team in the competition can be the first to qualify from the groups.
Maybe some day you will get to the tournament also and don't have to watch from home :)
 

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I’ve been to a couple of tournaments. Would have been at this one too if not for the restrictions :)
Yup. Copenhagen was fine. Still have 24h left of my quarantine. Skipping Russia, but maybe there will be R16. :drool:
 

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Yup. Copenhagen was fine. Still have 24h left of my quarantine. Skipping Russia, but maybe there will be R16. :drool:
Fair play, I would have been traumatised for months after Copenhagen. Get a point today and you're 99.9 % guaranteed a R16.
 

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Fair play, I would have been traumatised for months after Copenhagen. Get a point today and you're 99.9 % guaranteed a R16.
I was at the other side of the stadium. And we didn't get the close-ups. And I am not into disaster porn, so didn't look for images. Obviously knew what happened in 2 secs. Just wait and see and hope. The way he has recovered so far, there is no reason to think he doesn't have above average life-quality in the next 30 years.
 

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Looking forward to all the games today should make decent viewing. Welsh need to really have go. Taking the lad to his training then my 8 a side followed by hours of catch euro's. Sun's out, quality day all around!
 
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Definitely is. The FA could learn a lot watching this tournament but in their defence UEFA have operated with VAR for longer.
so much better.

no reason to have done in this match this far - but is there the option/ direction for refs to go over to the monitor?

they need to find a way of removing that - it’s slow, it’s cumbersome, and overly influenced by the VAR by telling them to go to the monitor.

in the Euros it’s been very clean and quick.
 

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Definitely is. The FA could learn a lot watching this tournament but in their defence UEFA have operated with VAR for longer.
Almost feels like the PL refs want to deliberately make VAR unbearable so it is removed from the PL.
 

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Is it me or this VAR operates significantly faster than in the PL?
There hasn't been that much to mull over to be fair. I do think the English commentators make big deals out of potential decisions that seems to drag everything out and seem longer.
 

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There hasn't been that much to mull over to be fair. I do think the English commentators make big deals out of potential decisions that seems to drag everything out and seem longer.
Every tight offside call takes forever in the PL. As if its always their first time and they are reading the manuals.
 

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Almost feels like the PL refs want to deliberately make VAR unbearable so it is removed from the PL.
Does feel like that sometimes. The way VAR has operated in the Premier League only benefits neutral fans watching on television - which is probably the significant portion of paying customers.
 

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Even though, it has been quick, I still don't think VAR should be used on offsides. The whole point of the offside rule was to stop goal hanging; it was never there to be analysed to this minute detail. The whole reason for it being brought in seems to have been forgotten.
 

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Neither team look solid defensively here. Finland look a completely different team.
 

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Russia are just pumping the ball into the box with some David Moyes football.
 

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Match 14
Wednesday 16 June, 21.00 CET @ Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Group A
Ref: Sergei Karasev (Russia)​
I just looked at that logo for ages trying to work out who the f*ck Italy were playing. That has to be the worst national football emblem in the world.
 

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Going back to the disallowed goal for a moment. Clearly offside under the Laws.

But could we not tweak the offside rule to provide that only the foot can be offside? It seems to me we would all want to a goal like one we just saw be allowed. If you’ve taken a step, even by an inch, past the defender you’re offside. But if your foot is onside and you’ve leaned beyond the imaginary line, let it fukking go.
 

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Every tight offside call takes forever in the PL. As if its always their first time and they are reading the manuals.
Tbf Benzema took ages yesterday. Benzema was being carried out on players shoulders before it was ruled out.
I honestly think its because we havent got the usual suspects automatically complaining. Look at McCoist yesterday after Mbappes offside. He had a go at the rules that gave the goal every chance to stand. What if the linesman just flags early.. And he was wrong? Either way you lose the goal and even have a great goal disallowed if its a bit tighter going by Allys logic.
Maybe because we are neutral compared to watching the EPL but 100 percent that would have been used as a stick to beat VAR with if that were City being denied or, say a Liverpool player making a long awaited return and getting a goal with the commentators wanking themselves silly over the narrative. Can't celebrate and all that.