Euro 2016 : Players and teams that have not impressed you.

[sallycinnamin]

Well for me the lack of clinical, pure strikers. Lewandowski, Muller no goals, Kane and Long didn't score at all or Ibrahimovic. As for teams Spain, England, Austria were a few peoples outside tip and Russia- Ukraine didn't show up at all. I am sure there are plenty of other players/ teams that have left people perplexed and disappointed.

If this thread or one like it has been done apologies in advance.

 

[JamesB__]

Joao Moutinho and Andre Gomes for Portugal.

Konoplyanka and Yarmelenko for Ukraine.

Embolo and Shaqiri (round of 16 aside) for Switzerland.

 

[2 man midfield]

I'm getting on the Kane train.

 

[do.ob]

Embolo was quite the disappointment, given his hype.

England fecked up even worse than I expected.

France with all their very narrow and last minute wins against mediocre to weak opposition were also a bit disappointing.

Austria were a big disappointment, their team isn't great but I would've expected them to at least make it out of the group stages.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Pogba and France so far haven't blown me away. Having said that you can easily see them going on to win the thing.

 

[donkeyfish]

Fabregas & Silva. Iniesta gets a break since he was OK in the first group matches.

As a corollary, Spain didn't impress me.

 

[a_devil_inside]

David Silva seems like he has some clause that says he has to play every match no matter what.
Pogba was expected to be one of the main stars but hasn't done much.
Giroud should be top scorer with the players he has behind him creating loads of chances.
Kane and Janko didn't perform at all.

 

[Wedge]

I was expecting big things from the two ukranian lads Konoplyanka and Yarmelenko.
And up until the round 16 tie Belgium just won a few of their players been a let down.

 

[tentan]

David Silva seems like he has some clause that says he has to play every match no matter what.
Pogba was expected to be one of the main stars but hasn't done much.
Giroud should be top scorer with the players he has behind him creating loads of chances.

All three have had decent tournaments I think. Silva did ok in the group stages, Pogba links up play well with his teammates and Giroud has been good - he was excellent in the Ireland game, gave his team a target to use for knock downs and create chances.

 

[Cnaiür urs Skiötha]

Alaba was really bad which is only to a certain extent his own fault. Koller keeps playing him as midfielder where he is just not good enough.

England looked quite ok in the Group stage but they were a collective disaster against Iceland.

 

[Earthquake]

Kane, Alli, Dier, Embolo, Alaba, Pogba, Lewandowski, Spain.

 

[Perrick Dubois]

Hamsik almost scored one of the goals of the tournament but in my opinion he has been a bit underwhelming. Slovakia don't really have much to support him with.

 

[Gio]

Hamsik almost scored one of the goals of the tournament but in my opinion he has been a bit underwhelming. Slovakia don't really have much to support him with.

What about the goal of the tournament he did score? Or one of the assists of the tournament off his weaker foot?

Strikers have mostly been poor. Russia were dreadful, reminiscent of Ireland in 2012. Austria were disappointing given the strength of their qualifying campaign, but according to that Austrian on here that was no surprise following their recent patchy form. Most of the big teams have been lucky enough to use the group stages to find their feet.

 

[Oo0AahCantona]

England are a bit shit aren't they?

 

[R.N7]

Everyone but the Icelandic ones

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

Austria and England for teams.

Embolo has been a huge disappointment.

 

[harms]

Russia was awful but I expected it, the same with England. Ukraine has done worse than I anticipated and I was sure that Austria will qualify.

Ronaldo, Lewa, Muller

 

[Panther]

I expected Muller to do a lot better and Lewandowski, both were touted to be top scorer yet haven't scored any at all (correct me if I'm wrong).
Portugal haven't impressed me, they didn't win a game in the groups and have been outplayed in most of their games.
England haven't either obviously but I'd blame Kane, Sterling, Alli, Rooney etc before the manager, these are £40+ million players who are expected to perform better yet have been awful.

 

[RocK3T]

Surely Ronaldo has been one of the worst relative to what he's capable of? Ability wise we know he falls into the elite but his performances have been poor and all round game severely lacking. Lewandowski has made a cnut of me at my old work though. I told my colleagues that he's my outside bet for top scorer!

 

[nick2004]

Ronaldo, Kane, Alli.

 

[shaggy]

Portugal are the cockroach of the tournament. Someone please kill it.

 

[a_devil_inside]

The Sun gave Ronaldo star man in their ratings today for some reason

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Portugal. How they've scraped through is annoying and frustrating.

 

[prarek]

Too many to name. Lots of top players have disappointed.

 

[Giggs86]

I think the proper question would be what team and players DID impress you? The majority of teams so far under performed big time. Biggest shout will go to England, Spain, Portugal, Croatia. More was expected of France, I think they will crumble once they face a real tough opponent. The only teams that can hold their heads high are Iceland, Italy, Wales, Ireland and Belgium to some extent.

 

[Perrick Dubois]

What about the goal of the tournament he did score? Or one of the assists of the tournament off his weaker foot?

Almost scored. I was at the first game, he danced through about 6 welsh players and had a shot cleared off the line. Funnily enough, easily the best piece of defending of the tournament.

edit: Oh right, excuse me I completely brain farted there. Yes you are right, perhaps I am being harsh.

 

[paulscholes18]

Andre Gomes
Thomas Muller
England (bar Rashford & Barkley)
Mario Gotze

 

[Jayvin]

Portugal are the cockroach of the tournament. Someone please kill it.

Cockroach always survives until the end

 

[Silverman]

Twitter was very critical of Joao Mario after Portugals win over Poland.

 

[B20]

It would be far simpler to name that players that have not disappointed, much less actually impressed.

 

[Sky1981]

No rooney?

Hart... Urgh... Worst keeper of the tournament

Sterling/Kane useless headless chicken

Moutinho (not fit they say)

Zlatan

 

[a_devil_inside]

Andre Gomes
Thomas Muller
England (bar Rashford & Barkley)
Mario Gotze

Barkley? Did he even play any part in it?

 

[paulscholes18]

Barkley? Did he even play any part in it?

Nope, so can't blame him

 

[rollingstoned1]

Thread should have Been who's impressed you at the tournament so far which would've been a lot more concise. Payet has been one who had shone and Wales have impressed with their team spirit but this tournament has been more conspicuous for its lack of quality a lot of matches reminding me of lvg last year.

 

[Ish]

Portugal are the cockroach of the tournament. Someone please kill it.

I see them making it to the final, and then it's anyone's game. God forbid Ronaldo to have a shit tournament and score the winner, from a penalty, in the final! The amount of ab shots well be getting with Ronny posing around topless!

On topic:
Team: a whole host of them. England, Belgium, Spain the main ones. France haven't been impressive either, but they had he individual brilliance to get them the results.

Players: too many to mention. Almost all the big names, barring Bale, Griezzman (been better after the first couple).

 

[Dec9003]

Wales, I'm not impressed with them getting to the semis.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Müller has been abysmal.

 

[Ban]

Muller definitely.

 

[barros]

All the teams besides iceland

 

[Theafonis]

Euro 2016 has been disappointing in its entirety.

I truly regret every match I watched of this tournament. Basically wasting 90 minutes of my life watching the god awful brand of football and so called entertainment that has been served up these last few weeks.