Euro 2012 - Official Discussion Thread

[Lief 🗽]

God I hate England.

[argentarius]

People are whining that the goal line referees are useless/haven't gotten any calls right this tournament? Uh...they must have missed yesterday's Cassano goal. They certainly got that right. To be fair, there haven't been many close calls this tournament anyway.

The problem is they don't make any calls and are therefore useless. Sweden really should've won this pool. In the end very strong pool on paper, but the games looked more like coca-cola championship games than Euro 2012 games.

[Tender Branson]

The 2:0 for Sweden goal by Larsson I guess:

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good job from the Swedes, they definitely dominated the second part of the match and got the victory they deserved. It's almost a shame they got eliminated. But to be fair, it's mostly France that pathetically sucked.

Still, too bad we don't get a good France-Italy.

[Keystone Phil]

Still, too bad we don't get a good France-Italy.

I would have liked it, too, but this is better for us and we could still see that match up in the Final.

[Keystone Phil]

Revised predictions for the knockout rounds...

Quarter finals

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy


Semi finals

Portugal vs. Spain
Germany vs. Italy



Final

Spain vs. Italy

[Lief 🗽]

Czech Republic v. Portugal
Germany v. Greece
Spain v. France
England v. Italy

Spain v. Portugal
England v. Greece

Spain v. England

Basically I've lost all faith in this tournament.

[Insula Dei]

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy

France vs. Portugal
Greece vs. England

Greece vs. Portugal

2004 may yet be repeated!

[Keystone Phil]

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy

France vs. Portugal
Greece vs. England

Greece vs. Portugal

2004 may yet be repeated!

Italy beats England yet England advances to the Semis?

[Franzl]

I don't really believe we can lose to Greece. (Although I could be proven wrong...)

So I believe the semis will likely be:

Germany - Italy
Spain - Portugal

What happens then?

I imagine Italy beats us. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. But who knows. Germany is a Turniermannschaft.

Think Portugal would actually beat Spain and has a chance of beating both Germany and Italy in the final.

[Keystone Phil]

How painful would an Italy-England penalty shoot out be? I think they might just flip a coin if it's tied after over time.

[Tender Branson]

Quarter finals

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy

Semi finals

Portugal vs. Spain
Germany vs. England

Final

Spain vs. Germany

[Gustaf]

I predict

Portugal
Germany
Spain
Italy

Semis are always pretty tricky. But I do think Spain beats Portugal. Germany v Italy...I know Italy has a strong record against Germany, but even so, I would predict Germany to take it. They just seem too much better for me to predict otherwise. Then I have to go with my heart and predict Germany for the win.

[Keystone Phil]

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

[Franzl]

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

How bad are things going to be on July 2?

[Tender Branson]

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

And a very hot one. My car thermometer just showed 32.5°C ...

And because I have a day off, I went to the swimming lake.

We don't need football every day ...

[Hatman 🍁]

Czech Republic 1:3 Portugal
Germany 2:1 Greece
Spain 2:1 France
England 1:1 Italy (Italy wins on penalty kicks)

Portugal 1:2 Germany
Spain 2:1 Italy

Germany 1:1 Spain (Germany wins on penalty kicks)

[Keystone Phil]

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

How bad are things going to be on July 2?

Stop it!

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

And a very hot one. My car thermometer just showed 32.5°C ...

And because I have a day off, I went to the swimming lake.

We don't need football every day ...

It's going to be 97° here today!

Czech Republic 1:3 Portugal
Germany 2:1 Greece
Spain 2:1 France
England 1:1 Italy (Italy wins on penalty kicks)

Portugal 1:2 Germany
Spain 2:1 Italy

Germany 1:1 Spain (Germany wins on penalty kicks)

You got the bracket wrong, dude. Italy and Spain and Portugal and Germany can't meet in the Semis.

[Tender Branson]

Today will be an especially long and boring day. Our first day without Euro action since June 7th.

And a very hot one. My car thermometer just showed 32.5°C ...

And because I have a day off, I went to the swimming lake.

We don't need football every day ...

It's going to be 97° here today!

Yeah, some towns in Lower Austria are already at 36°C too @ 4pm now, which is about 97°F.

It's always a bit "colder" in the mountains.

http://teletext.orf.at/600/601_0002.htm

[Tender Branson]

Even though the June record for Austria will not be broken today.

It was 37.8°C (100°F) in the year 2000.

[Insula Dei]

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy

France vs. Portugal
Greece vs. England

Greece vs. Portugal

2004 may yet be repeated!

Italy beats England yet England advances to the Semis?

Who cares as long as the Greeks win?

[Hans-im-Glück]

Czech Republic vs. Portugal
Germany vs. Greece
Spain vs. France
England vs. Italy

Spain vs. Portugal (In the World cup it was a close game, but Spain is a little bit worse and Portugal is a little bit better than in the WC)
Germany vs. Italy (Germany never won a match against Italy in a Euro or world cup)

Italy vs. Portugal (This would be a 50/50 game)

[minionofmidas]

But that's what you get with the DFB's best-rated refs, to a man.)

What do you mean by this? Shouldn't a good rating indicate fair refereeing?

The instrumental word being "should".

[Keystone Phil]

Fun note about Italy vs. England: the first match after the Euros will be a rematch as the two sides have an August 15th Friendly scheduled. It will be the very next match for this Sunday's loser.

[Napoleon]

Go Italy!!