Euro 2016

Who will win it?

  • France

    Votes: 27 25.0%

  • Germany

    Votes: 24 22.2%

  • Spain

    Votes: 28 25.9%

  • Italy

    Votes: 5 4.6%

  • England

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Portugal

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Belgium

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Sweden

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Croatia

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 4.6%
  • Total voters
    108
Chainsaw

Chainsaw

Killahead
DonAK said:
Let's look at it from De Gea's perspective. This is something I've talked about a lot, and many seem to disagree with for some reason or another, but for goalkeepers, the most important thing to build confidence and gain an understanding with the team is...........playing. Because unlike in other positions where you can get subbed in or rotate with other players, here you cannot. You either play or you don't. The more experienced GKs are usually affected less by irregularity of minutes, but for the younger ones, that's often an issue.

Del Bosque mostly started Casillas in the qualifers and friendlies, and then we're here for the Euros and he decides to start De Gea.

Now, if you've noticed, then De Gea in all three games has been somewhat shaky. He's looked unsure, he doesn't have any understanding with his defence and that can cause plenty of problems.

That's not to say it wasn't his fault today for the 2nd goal, because that was his mistake. Just his. No GK should let in a goal at their near post, but the way he positioned himself was odd to say the least. That might be related to just that. No understanding, shaky, unsure to whether do one thing or another. Because from what I've seen, I doubt he'd ever make such a big positional error for Manchester United these days. That won't happen.

I don't know why Del Bosque took so long to start him over Casillas when that should have happened two years ago, but I'm not really surprised either as VDB is hardly the most pragmatic coach.
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Spot on DonAK. Good post!
 
BBZ8800

BBZ8800

Senior Member
Messi983 said:
This whole system is just so wrong IMHO. At least we should get some good games (hopefully) at that side of the draw.
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Well, if top teams would have won their groups, then Spain, England and Portugal would have been on one side.
And Italy, Germany, France on the other side.

3+3 big teams/seeded teams on each side.

A problem occurred when England and Spain didn't win their groups and they entered the other part of a semis/quarters draw.

If all big teams would have won their groups, we would have semis Spain (easy route):England/Portugal and France (easy route):Germany/Italy.
The original draw was made so that France can face a 3rd placed team in 1/8, then Wales/Iceland in quarters, lol.

Spain was supposed to play with Austria and then Poland/Switzerland. Lol again.
The easiest (on paper) and rigged draw for a former winner and for a home team.

So, it is hard to tell whether the current scenario is bad (with Spain, Germany, Italy, England, France on one side of a draw).
Or the thing how rigged Uefa/Fifa draw was once again, and it happens all the time.

Luckily for football, Spain and England lost their groups and ruined Platini's plan of Spain:France/Germany big final.

France and Spain had rigged (easy) draws, the same as Real in a CL.
Well, that is also a crap, imo.

Plus, a penalty for Spain yesterday (lol), which again proves that both a draw is rigged, that certain referees received some guidelines what would be the best for "tournament", sponsors and earnings.

I have written a few times about this conspiracy theory (even though I don't like conspiracy theories), but it really isn't that hard to imagine how Uefa/Fifa are constantly making rigged draws and how they are helping to big teams with refereeing (if needed sometimes, in key moments) because big-top teams from big and rich football countries in finals usually bring more viewers, more money and more sponsors.

And since football is one big business, and since majority of directors in that business are corrupted, these conspiracy theories (imo) doesn't sound too insane then.

Because of everything, I am quite happy that some teams (Wales and Croatia for now) ruined Uefa's plan with rigged draws and refereeing.
 
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