Euro 2020 (2021)
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Imagine what would Busquets do to English thugs
England would chase the ball for the whole game against Pedri-Busquest-Koke.
malvolio
Senior Member
What's that got to do with Argentina?
utility73
Senior Member
Hillsborough FFS!
Mateka
New member
Italy were the better team.
The better team won. 14-4 shots and 66% possession. Well done for coming back from a goal down after 2 mins. You dominated the second half.
Southgate thought they could hold on for an hour. Mancini match management superior. Grealish, Sancho sat on the bench too long while Sterling and Mount ineffective.
But, a team still needs luck. England luck ran out. It ran out when Rashford- a poor season by his standards - hit the post.
Southgate decisions on penalty takers poor. A future example of how not to do it. Bring two takers on in the last minute, who have not time to warm up.
Well done Italy, your unbeaten run is now 34 matches, Spain and Brazil record of 35 in sight.
But well done England. First final in 55 years. You made the final, whilst others had been sent home long before. The overly defensive set up will be questioned for years to come. You had the better bench, yet Mancini use of his won the game.
EPL provided most players for the final.
Finally, the ref had an excellent game. Jorginho was lucky to stay on the pitch, but nobody wanted the final to be a 11v10.
UEFA your organisation of the tournament was disastrous. All so that Turkey could not host it.
The better team won. 14-4 shots and 66% possession. Well done for coming back from a goal down after 2 mins. You dominated the second half.
Southgate thought they could hold on for an hour. Mancini match management superior. Grealish, Sancho sat on the bench too long while Sterling and Mount ineffective.
But, a team still needs luck. England luck ran out. It ran out when Rashford- a poor season by his standards - hit the post.
Southgate decisions on penalty takers poor. A future example of how not to do it. Bring two takers on in the last minute, who have not time to warm up.
Well done Italy, your unbeaten run is now 34 matches, Spain and Brazil record of 35 in sight.
But well done England. First final in 55 years. You made the final, whilst others had been sent home long before. The overly defensive set up will be questioned for years to come. You had the better bench, yet Mancini use of his won the game.
EPL provided most players for the final.
Finally, the ref had an excellent game. Jorginho was lucky to stay on the pitch, but nobody wanted the final to be a 11v10.
UEFA your organisation of the tournament was disastrous. All so that Turkey could not host it.
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raskolnikov
Well-known member
Rashford was the right choice iko. Just should hsve subbed on sooner. Also have Grealish and Hebderson take on.
Yannik
Senior Member
Sure that could normally be a concern. But not really in a 90k stadium, that was only like half filled anyway.
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MTL_Barca
Well-known member
Subbing them in just to take penalties already spelled disaster for me. He should've subbed them way earlier, it's not like they couldn't have helped them in regular time as well.
And letting a 19 year old take the last one is just criminal. Unless every other player refused that's just nuts.
Penalties are always luck based but i think Southgate did everything in his power to lose it
Maybe so he isn't the only one missing a critical penalty in a home final any longer 
Messi983
Senior Member
If it's for the "fans" then almost no team ever would deserve to win anything. Every fan base has scumbags, racists or at least supporters who are maybe not bad people in general but let "the bad side" (which everyone has deep inside us) out of them in a heat of the moment. There are obvious things that no sane grown-up person should never say to another person. But nowadays "keyboard warriors" write things that 99% of them would never say if they would met that person face to face.
If it's for true fans who will support their team and players through good and bad and can behave then every team deserves to win.
I would like to believe than in any fan base second group is in a big majority but that smaller % of people is usually who we see most of the times doing things that embarass other well behaved fans supporting the same team.
And well, (social) media makes things even worse. Mediots are condemning the fans who put their team/country in a bad light with their behaviour but at the same time I don't think most of them really care too much as long as they get their clicks, retweets, likes etc. And because of how human brain work people fighting and kicking each other create more interest than people singing, dancing and peacefully supporting their team.
But at the end of the day it's just football. Support your team and players (especially those going through bad period who need someone to cheer them up) and respect the opponents, it's not that hard. It maybe doesn't seem so a day after the big final but there are far more important things in life than winning or losing a football game.
What happened to Eriksen is one of those things. In one moment he was a young, healthy, famous, rich footballer with a lovely family and a few seconds later he could lose all of that if not for a sober reaction of his teammates (mostly Kjaer) and doctors saving him. It's just another reminder how quickly a life we know can turn on the head. But the amount of love, support and unity he got not only from a football community but basically the whole world still makes me love football and keep faith there is something good in humanity even if we also get regular reminders of fans acting like idiots.
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