Don't the Italians have a knack of getting sent off?
Under 21 European Championship 2021 (March & May - June)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
And why was Vinagre not called? That is the real question.
Him and Inácio should be starting and didn't even get called up...
Agree: Diogo Leite barely got minutes in the last third of the season. Not the best decision
We survived this time. Diogo Costa surely going to be MOTM
Wahid Faghir has scored to 1-0 for Denmark vs. Germany. He is only 17 years old and scored on what I think, was his first touch of the ball
Portugal have bottled this.
Rui Jorge getting what he deserves for being an idiot. Tiago Tomas not coming on is bonkers, Dany is clearly tired and TT kills everyone on the counter
Why would Conceição come into the game at this time?
Why would Conceição come into the game at this time?
Poor substitutions by our manager just ruined our game.
Gedson starting the game is the biggest mistery tbh. And Ramos for Florentino just sent the wrong message to the players. Chicken substitutionRui Jorge getting what he deserves for being an idiot. Tiago Tomas not coming on is bonkers, Dany is clearly tired and TT kills everyone on the counter
Why would Conceição come into the game at this time?
Italy look a tired team, and they have a lot of attackers out there atm, I wonder what formation they are running here.
They put all the meat in the barbecue, they are completely unbalanced now. But PT team is also very tired.
Mota is out of gas. We're fecked
Italy made a defensive substitution: off a striker in a CB
Abdu Conte for Tavares and TT for Dany Mota have been the obvious subs for about half an hour. This game should have been over ages ago if he didn't play favourites.
Florentino's been great since he came on, he should 100% start instead of Gedson.
That is a tough 2nd yellow.
Poor refereeing: the game is always better with 11 vs 11
Rafael Leão on... Tiago Tomas must play a different sport. We win the league with a bunch of kids and he plays one of them at the Euros at the end of the year... I actually want us to lose now, that's how bad these substitutions are.
I don't think we're scoring here even against 10
I don't think we're scoring here even against 10
Germany 2-1
Typically Germany. Denmark has been the best team, but the Germans have been lucky
football is a game played by 22 players and in the end germany wins
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker
Penalty to Denmark
This was a game that could had ended without a single card: the players are being fair, no malicious intents, but somehow the ref managed to give more than two yellow cards.
Rafael Leão is a flop
Both these games have been bonkers. Denmark should have taken the lead there.
Denmark better finish it before 120 min . German teams are extremely good in penalty's.
Penalty shootouts intensify my PTSD 
The Danes do not have much experience in penalty kicks. However, the goalkeeper is usually quite good at saving a penalty kick
Denmark sub the goalkeeper allready pays off.lol
It's coming home!
So the semi finals are 2 real classics . Spain/Portugal Germany/Holland .
Pity. I think Denmark was better than Germany, even though it was a "straight fight". Crazy that a country with over 80 million inhabitants and a country with 5.5 million can be about equal.
The Maier penalty was the one that changed the shootout. Proper captain.
I´d swear that I have seen dozens of Spain-Portugal in sub 21. It would be one of my weird feelings in football.
Denmark's penalties were just weak. Dahmen is pretty small for a keeper, but even he saved two and it would have been three if he didn't slip.
Spain are just extremely consistent performers in the competition, so they always play most or all of the possible games and so it's only natural that they meet other strong nations a lot.
The 2 missed penalties were taken by the two youngest players (17 and 18). I guess they did not have the nerves.
While I don’t agree with some of Rui Jorge choices, I completely agree with him not starting Leão. He has a terrible competitive attitude, he isn’t going anywhere as a professional player if he doesn’t change.
Regarding this competition being amongst the best 4 is always good, but honestly the generations keep going and I really hope Goncalo Inácio develops as a CB option, because I don’t see nothing on Queirós or Leite, at least for top level football, no wonder we’re still stuck with Pepe and Fonte.
How was Dalot?
What if I told you those 4 Diogos played together in Porto youth system and are actually GK, CB, CB and RB, basically 4/5 of the defensive positions?