Euro 2016 Discussion

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Thats an awful pass from Kane

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Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Payet with a cynical tackle? Pretty sure he just goes in a bit hard, gets the ball and there's an accidental collision

Launched into one shortly before in Sanchez too, lost his head - subbed too, completely ineffective tonight and he'd been one of the players of the tournament.

Lost his head. Oh you.

He's scored and then he also played the pass of the game to set up Griezemann earlier. Think they're regretting having him off the pitch, Sissoko's effectiveness has faded as Portugal's ambition has. I find Coman a bit inconsistent too, although in all this its ignoring the fact France have a substitution in hand and not using it.

Clattenburg truly is an inspiration, colorblind in this age.

Beauty!!!

Kos being booked for Eder handling the ball is the funniest thing I've seen in football since Gibbs was sent off instead of Ox

What a strike.

What a goal

Ederrrrrr

Portugal are about to Greece France.

The handbrake has just been applied on the team bus.

This is up there with worst winners of a tournament. What a goal though. France waiting for a game to go to penalties to make a specific substitution, been caught cold

This is SO UNBELIEVABLY FUNNY. Crying Pogba is about to overtake crying Jordan. I can feel it

Nani almost in that time

Ronaldo is in the technical area

Brilliant - now close it out

Nobody will ever top Greece as worst football tourney winner

France had a good chance there

Is Ronaldo in charge?

Ronaldo limping over to push an injured teammate back on

GSC wrote:Nobody will ever top Greece as worst football tourney winner

Because they're Greece I assume? How ignorant.

France have bottled this in extra time.

No because the were the kings of parking the bus. Also I wanted Czech to win

Swansea player Eder to win Euro 2016.  He wouldn't even have made the England Squad (if he were English ).

GSC wrote:No because the were the kings of parking the bus. Also I wanted Czech to win

It's a fair tactic. Denmark 92 were worse.

Not a bad night's work for a one man team.

yes - that should be it

France will be there or thereabouts for the next few years most certainly, they've got the best core of young players in the world.

Congrats to Portugal. Finally we can stop talking about them as dark horses. They know Frances agony only too well.

Griezzles better still get the golden ball. I put money on him after the Ireland game

Depends Hero. This is a bitter pill to recover from.

They just bottled this game completely. Lost it in extra time. Portugal turned up under no pressure, well organised and just waited for France to crack.

I don't think Pogba even left the centre circle all night, totally anonymous all tournament.

I would it was more due to the manager's tactics rather than a bottle job.

English Championship player Sissoko (Newcastle), best player in the final ... match winner Swansea player Eder.

LiamB wrote:I don't think Pogba even left the centre circle all night, totally anonymous all tournament.

But that was his role, he was saddled with the DM role whilst Matuidi and Sissoko had the licence to come forward.

Don't think there was cause to change the tactics. Griezzman, Giroud and Gignac all should've won the game in normal time.

In Extra time they just collapsed. Portugal picked them off.

It was smash and grab. Worse than Greece. Only reason Danish are worse is cos they didn't even qualify!

Doesn't help when your best player and arguably one of the top three players in the world misses an absolute sitter.

Griemann must be thinking how different his 2016 could have been. Missed a pen in the champions league and then missed a sitter here.

Being cynical, Portugal are worthy winners of this tournament. Well organised, lacking real ambition to take teams apart, know what they do well and bailed out by a crap format.

Can somebody pull Thierry Henry aside and explain to him that starting a sentence with "listen.." is f***ing rude!!!

GSC wrote:Being cynical, Portugal are worthy winners of this tournament. Well organised, lacking real ambition to take teams apart, know what they do well and bailed out by a crap format.

To be fair to them, they beat half the group winners in the competition in the knock outs

FreekShow wrote:Can somebody pull Thierry Henry aside and explain to him that starting a sentence with "listen.." is f***ing rude!!!

+1

He sounds so serious all of the time.

I was more referring to this tournament to be honest Raf, it's been a 4/10 at best.

pepe for ballon dor? been far and away portugals best player. add to that his champions league win. more than cannavaro did. not very likable but been superb

Fair play to the French fans still in the stadium, I'd be 10 miles away by now.

compelling and rich wrote:pepe for ballon dor? been far and away portugals best player. add to that his champions league win. more than cannavaro did. not very likable but been superb

No.

Can't help but feel happy for Portugal.

He was sensational today, I'll give him that.

Alas, I think this is the worst tournament I can remember. My memory of life starts at Euro 96, and I don't remember ever being so desperate for games to end due to boredom

It was a terrible tournament. My memory stretches back to Mexico 86 and only Euro 92 gets close.

3/10.

It's been a tournament where teams have largely played to avoid losing. In the group stage 3 draws would see you through. Then in the knockout rounds it was mainly tight, probably too many teams happy to be there playing tight.

That goal will make Robson Kanu about 5m. Or until teams realise he's a mediocre Championship player who had one great moment.

Watching Eder's goal again. LMFAO. 30m away. Eder has the ball. FIVE French players around him. He probably concedes the ball and the resultant counter leads to a goal 5/10