Quote from: giammangiato on Today at 02:59:41 PM

Quote from: red4slash on June 24, 2024, 09:14:58 PM

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Congratulations to Italy and Spain who today followed Germany and Switzerland into the next phase.

A super hard-fought match, I was glued to the TV with friends to watch it.
It was incredible but no one spoke in the last minutes, everyone was silent to see what could happen. What suffering.
Ok we are qualified but we need a miracle to get the plays out of the hat.

Well this will not be forgotten for Croatia as it is likely to be for the time being as Mattia Zaccagni will not be out of their memories given the brilliant goal where his delivery was really into the corner which was very difficult to stop.

It's a nightmare for Croatia but it can't be changed for now because after all, Mattia Zaccagni's one goal in this match made them have to give up hope in the same shocking way they showed in the last world cup.

For Italy they are very good but for now compared to some of the other clubs that qualified like Germany or Spain, it seems like Spalletti should try to explore more about the strength of the current squad because I think this is still not enough if their target is to win the euro.

Quote from: AprilioMP on Today at 08:19:04 PM

Quote from: Kavelj22 on Today at 07:53:43 PM

Throughout the first half of the England-Slovenia match, it was noted that the England team found it difficult to penetrate the Slovenian defense and approach the goal. The only chance was in the 40th minute, as a result of a corner kick that the English attackers did not exploit well.
On the other hand, the Slovenian team played with great performance despite the pressure from the English attackers, who found no solution other than long balls.

The first half ended without extra time. I expect that the English will correct the mistakes of the first half after they understood the way the Slovenians play, and they are likely to score the first goal in the first minutes of the second half.

It is difficult to understand Southgate's strategy at the Euros this time. In the first half, England had almost 70% ball possession, but Slovenia had a good defense with the winning side of the duel. The ongoing second round is also not much different. Slovenia was still quite good at defending even though the English team was in control with ball possession of 85%.

The star-studded club and players with above-average skills again did not find their best performance and of all the groups in this Euro, in my opinion Group C is the most boring group even though my previous expectations were that England would dominate because of the different strengths.
But what happened in these 3 matches really did not reflect that they were a big team and a favorite candidate in this Euro.

From the initial match, Southgate's scheme was not clear, which actually hampered the players to get a good performance and from the 3 matches that occurred in the group phase it seemed that Southgate was still very difficult to do his job well.
In the end, the same context happened again where for now what destroyed England was not the opponent but indeed the tactics of Southgate, who was unable to maximize the great players available at this time.

Another surprise for group D Cheesy

Austria's is at the top standings even though there's France and the Netherlands there lol