UEFA Euro 2024, Germany

[Reaganfan Democrat]

Goal attempts: 9 Spain, 1 Italy. And yet, Spain only won due to an own goal by Italy.

In other words, a very Spanish performance, kind of like Swiss 1-1 draws or England bottling penalties.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

When the Euros was 16 teams, it was the best tournament in the world because everyone was so good except maybe 1-2 minnows. Now a third of the teams are minnows and you have the weakest group sending 3 teams to the knockouts. The World Cup is now, sadly, better than the Euros.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

This Euro has 3 squads which used to be often in the World Cup in the past, but never played a World Cup in the 21st century: Scotland, Austria, Romania

Hungary too, of course, who somehow didn't win in 1954 despite having one of the best international teams of all time.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

It's shaping up to be another Southgate England tournament - easy draw for the group stages and early knockouts, followed by a reality check against the first real opposition. Spain, France and Portugal - literally the top 3 seeds - will beat each other up in the other half of the draw.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

Czechia-Turkey is out of control.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

Czechia-Turkey is out of control.

This was posted in the later stages of the first half. Second half was even worse. Referee stole the game from the Czech team, who were heroic, and the fans.

Georgia humiliating Portugal was a nice consolation, though. Hopefully Roberto Martinez ruins them like he ruined Belgium.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

No one likes him around here, so, if this cup ends badly, his future will probably set and done.

With the way his career has gone, he'll probably end up as the Brazil manager or something. He's kind of an anti-Mourinho - he comes in, makes the team worse, doesn't win anything, and then moves on to light an even bigger team on fire.

[Reaganfan Democrat]

Italy is just pathetic. Switzerland winning is not really a surprise, but Italy are completely hopeless.