ShinjiNinja26
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3-0 win for Ralf on his debut!
What a win from Denmark against France, perhaps the best international team in Europe, in Stade de France.
Can I be annoying here and say the 84 team was even better than the 86 team even if they lost Simonsen with a horrific injury in the first game of the tournament if I am not wrong on this one.Best team since 1986 now, surely? Hjulmand is a very special coach and Denmark are very lucky to have him.
They are coached well, which is a rare thing in international football. Most national teams don't have a coach who is able to implement a system that isn't sit back, counter attack with individual ability. Spain, Netherlands with LvG, Germany with Flick now, Denmark, Italy (although they have gotten complacent since the euros) are pretty much the only others that have that. Not sure about south american sides, Brazil don't have it, Argentina I haven't seen enough of to say for sure.Would it be better if we just signed the Netherlands national team as a whole.
I don't get it. Who is supposed to be the English man? Dumphreys?Why is there an english man in that lineup?
Can I be annoying here and say the 84 team was even better than the 86 team even if they lost Simonsen with a horrific injury in the first game of the tournament if I am not wrong on this one.
But I get your point regarding their performance in 86 on the group stage, and also that game in the qualifiers vs the Soviet Union was great.
After watching that Denmark team in euro 84 compared to Mexico 86 even if the group of players were similar they looked maybe more focused in the knockout stages, even if it must be said the opponent was the same, Spain, who by the way was a better team in 86 with Michel and Butragueno, but in the group stages and on the qualifiers vs the Soviet Union they were regarded as one of the most spectacular teams in Europe, must be said Spain is their real kryptonite, also knocked them out of reaching USA 94.It's very close, and to be honest I'm not so knowledgeable on that period in Danish football history to compare 84 and 86 and confidently ascertain the better one. It was very similar squads from what I can tell with most of the key players being the same players. That said, the point would still stand, 84 or 86, that the current team is the best team of the last 30 years.
They are coached well, which is a rare thing in international football. Most national teams don't have a coach who is able to implement a system that isn't sit back, counter attack with individual ability. Spain, Netherlands with LvG, Germany with Flick now, Denmark, Italy (although they have gotten complacent since the euros) are pretty much the only others that have that. Not sure about south american sides, Brazil don't have it, Argentina I haven't seen enough of to say for sure.
Belgium, England, France, Portugal have the talent but don't have the coaches to actually be dominant teams. So they'll always come short against other top sides who are coached well.
The same Italy that dominated the euros just last summer? Not the first time that a team gets complacent after a tournament win. But up until they won the euros (you know, achieved their main goal), they were magnificent for quite a while.Hang on a minute may I just enquire here, are you trying to put forward the notion that Italy are coached well??
The same Italy that are not going to the World Cup, the same Italy that got beat very easily by Argentina........THAT Italy??!!
The same Italy that dominated the euros just last summer? Not the first time that a team gets complacent after a tournament win. But up until they won the euros (you know, achieved their main goal), they were magnificent for quite a while.
Ballon d'Or 2022 will be awarded before the WC.Courtois certainly going to be Balon D'or winner if Belgium get to SF of world cup, they look a very tired team now with seemingly no young defenders coming through.
Can't remember what their group is like but they seem to fit the shock early exit team from top 6-7 favourites.
Sure, whatever has happened since the euros they've fallen off a cliff. Might inclination is to say it's complacency and lack of motivation maybe. Because you don't go from being as good as they were for multiple years, dominating the euros, to flopping like that with anything other than complacency.Yes they were good then, but where is the evidence since then, that they have been coached well??
Name me the last side that won the Euro's, then didn't play at the next or subsequent World Cup??
They have been coached unbelievably poorly.
Is always this good (like this game), the whole season?I know people are laughing at Cornelius in England because of his time in Cardiff. But he has scored at lot of goals in Turkey this season and is much older know. France - Denmark 1-1
Sure, whatever has happened since the euros they've fallen off a cliff. Might inclination is to say it's complacency and lack of motivation maybe. Because you don't go from being as good as they were for multiple years, dominating the euros, to flopping like that with anything other than complacency.
Point is, Mancini is a very good coach, and coached his team really well, and that coaching quality made a difference in the euros that the others apart from Luis Enrique couldn't match with their coaching.
Football on Channel 4, that's novel.
Unfortunately, Michael Owen involved. Are these people idiots?
The last time C4 was relevant in football coverage, it was built on the charm and personality of James Richardson.
How the mighty have fallen.
I'm too old to watch C4 pre-match
I believe he plays for Leicester City.I don't even know who James Justin is
Commentator just called Trent "Alexander Arsehole"
Ex MUTV lad. Probably been desperate to say it.I guess I'm not the only one who heard that
What an arseholeWell that was cr*p Trent.