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5 minutes ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

It's funny for a couple of reasons. 

1. My biological father is German. Born in Germany. Spoke German. Adopt a brain.

2. I'd say Germany were favorites in a LOT of those games. But that's the nature of being a top 5 side, and one of the 3 most successful sides in football history. Almost every loss you're ever going to have is going to be against a team who is worse or at best, considered roughly as good. You have offered a very false equivalence. Also you'll notice Italy there a million times. Well known fact they're Germanys kryptonite. 

1. Adopted also means the team you support you single cell amoeba brain

2. Which is the whole point. When it comes to teams that are equally good Germany don't really have that great of a record lately and should've won more over the years

Speaking of valid criticism. DDW's adopted country's performance on occasions they were not favorites in over the years so Brazil France 2014 etc doesn't count

Spain 2008 L

Spain 2010 L

Spain 2022 D

Spain 2024 L

Italy 2006 L

Italy 2012 L

Italy 2016 penalties (arguably they were favorites)

France 2016 L

France 2021 D

Argentina 2006 penalties

Argentina 2010 W

Argentina 2014 W

8 minutes ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

Oh no, the english are chad and I am soy! What an awful day.

You're a cunt not soy

The same old discussion every tournament lately

Agree with the English members. Plenty of examples given of teams playing unsavory football but eventually winning and people only remember them winning not how they played. England are just scrutinized more, rightfully so bcz of the media attention they draw upon themselves 'ah muh best league in z world'

Tuesday 9th July, 2024
Spain 2-0 France, 20.00

Wednesday 10th July, 2024
Netherlands 4-1 England, 21.00

Turkey just had a brain fade for 5 minutes and conceded two goals

3 minutes ago, El Profesor said:

I actually wonder if the competition being in Germany isn´t giving Turkey a bit of an advantage in terms of fan support, considering how large the turkish community in Germany is.

 

 

That is a good point I remember @Tommy mentioning about more Turks than Germans being in the stadium in a friendly between the two in Germany earlier

Cross was good by Guler. The final should be between Spain and whoever is the winner of this match

yeah Pickford was only confusing himself not the penalty taker

England should be happy at least individual moment of brilliance are saving their ass most other teams haven't even shown that.

1 minute ago, RandoEFC said:

Someone I listened to on a podcast somewhere said that Switzerland are the one team who never over or underperform in a tournament. Always through the groups but never in the semi-finals. I thought that's so true. They have beaten Italy though so maybe they've changed their ways this time.

They beat France last Euros as well

13 minutes ago, couscous said:

I think Switzerland come to these international tournaments with the sole aim of making it to the knockout stage.  I doubt the players expect anything more from themselves. I doubt the fans expect anything more. They look clueless out there. Their target has already been achieved. They can just go home happily now.

Precisely this. It's the same every tournament with them

3 minutes ago, RonnieM90 said:

The Copa America is held every 4 years, although for different reasons, in the last decade there have been several exceptions to that rule. One of those involved the holding of the Copa America Centenario in 2016, just a year after the competition was held in Chile.

It has been held for the most part every two years and since 90s pretty irregularly

Even start so far

Just hope it's not 0-0

8 minutes ago, Redcanuck said:

Arnautovic's insult was towards a North Macedonian player and with Arnautovic's Albanian roots it was seen as a political or ethic insult. Bellingham's action was just stupid there were no political or ethic reasons in it.

 

 

 

 

Stupid but still insulting hence why he's not given off the hook fined and suspended just not during the Euros.

First thing South America needs to do to make Copa America more important is sticking with one format and make it happen after consistent interval whether 2 or 4 years. Holding it irregularly diminishes it importance

https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/02/photo-proves-jude-bellingham-wasnt-insulting-slovakia-x-rated-gesture-21143104/amp/

the investigation is over insulting opposition like Arnautović not just grabbing cock. 

15 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Grabbing your cock doesn’t merit a suspension the same way overtly supporting an extremist group does.

*grabbing your cock towards the opposition bench after scoring. 

Arnautovic of Austria was also suspended for one game under insulting opposition players last Euros.

5 hours ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Learned UEFA withdrew Morata's yellow card, and therefore his ban from the semis! Without wanting a discussion whether that yellow card was or wasn't deserved/correct, wondering what happened to the holy cow ref's factual decisions on pitch were unchangeable, retrospectively?

That's odd. Uefa's decision on Bellingham also seems favouritism. He grabbed his crotch towards the Slovakian bench after scoring. A 'suspended' ban so he can play against Switzerland, just ban him for one game immediately if he did breached the conduct. If I'm not wrong last Euros some Austrian player also made obscene remarks against opposition and he was banned for the next game. 

A more fair bracket for this 24-team format for me. The bracket should be decided based on points in the group stages Team1 vs Team16, Team2 vs Team15 and so on. Spain were the top team with 9 pts so they should play Slovenia the lowest of the third-place teams and . Unless both teams were already in the group together.

Surely England can't play worse than the Portugal France game ?

Indeed Ronaldo has a poor record at major tournaments but I don't agree with the notion that Portugal are that big of a team and they would go wow without Ronaldo. 

They are a bit of lucky to not have missed a single tournament in recent times when England, Italy, Netherlands have all missed some tournaments over the years. As El Professor mentioned those playoffs vs Sweden, which is one of the many times they flirted with not qualifying and Ronaldo deserves credit for bailing them out in those qualifier matches quite a few times.

If not for the expansions I'm pretty sure they would've missed some international tournaments post-Ronaldo

He was good at freekicks early on but became worse.