The 2012 UEFA European Championship - Poland/Ukraine - The Thread!

[vennegoor of hesselink]

Poland have Polanski up front ... Russia have a 12 year old girl up front... this could get a bit messy

[Cheerio]

How was that not a penalty for Russia?

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

How was that not a penalty for Russia?

Host countries always have and always will get favourable reffing in their own country.

See Korea vs Italy & Spain in 2002

[Locke]

The commentator really needs to enunciate a little more clearly when pronouncing 'Zhirkov.'

It can easily be misconstrued and lead to an NSFW situation.

[Locke]

Kuba puts a dagger into the heart of the Russians!

For once the Poles are holding back the attack from the Eastern Front!

[troutman]

Police official Andrzej Borowiak says 10 Poles, three Irish fans and one Croat have been detained. Police are still trying to determine what role they had in the fight.

That has to be the set-up for a joke. #PostThePunchline

[troutman]

I bring back the CP Football (soccer) glossary, all rights reserved:

Help me create this glossary of soccer terms translated for North Americans watching soccer for the first time. Can you add to the list?

in touch = out of bounds
pace = fast
red card = game misconduct
insurmountable = 1-0 lead
good ball = nice pass
lacklustre = any game not involving England according to England commentators
blockbuster = any game involving England according to England commentators
strip/kit = uniform
nil = zero, nothing
naive = poor defending
optimistic = shot form outside the penalty area
penalty area = crease
own goal = scoring on your own goal by mistake
tackle = trip/kick in the shins
play-acting = diving
football = soccer
friendly = exhibition game
fixture = scheduled game
derby = local rivalry
away goal rule = arbitrary
aggregate = total combined goals in two game series
leg = one game in a two game series
cross = centering pass
side = team
relegation = demotion to lesser league
striker = sniper
table = standings
pitch = field
penalty/spot-kick = penalty shot
well struck = hard/accurate shot
header = hitting the ball with your head
Premiership = England's highest calibre league
Bundesliga = Germany's highest calibre league
Champions League = Tournament of European league champions and qualifiers
adrift = behind, as in "4 points adrift in the table"
dodgy = tense or questionable (depending on the circumstances)clean sheet = shut out
cracker = hard shot
Corners or Corner Kick - Any ball kicked out of the baseline of the defending team by the defending team will result in the attacking team kicking the ball from the corner
Free Kick - Any fouls commited outside the Penalty Area will result in a free kick.
Hand Ball - Touch the ball with ur hand up until the shoulder area (Allowed to use shoulders to touch the ball)
Cleats - Shoes
Set Pieces - The play after a dead ball (Corners, free kicks, Spot kicks)
Drop Kick - Face off (I don't actually remember if they do this... but I remember that in some places they do)
Throw In - Throwing the ball into play from the sidelines.
Sliding Tackle - A tackle (see several post above) while u are sliding along the grass
caution - yellow card
challenge - aerial battle for the ball or a tackle
finish - conversion of a play into a goal
form - fitness level of a player, current ability to perform at a high level
Serie A - Italian top flight league
La Liga - Spanish top flight league
golden boot - award to top goal scorer in a tournament
Ballon d'Or - player of the year
Talisman - influential player
Flick = one-time pass or deflection to a teammate while in motion
Woodwork = goalposts and crossbar
Nutmeg = passing or shooting the ball between an opponents legs
Dummy = pretending to receive a pass then letting it go to an open teammate - I actually see this a lot in hockey. Mario Lemieux did it in the 02 gold medal game and Paul Kariya scored on a wide open net.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

kit - uniform/jerseys (incl. shorts and socks)

racism - Huh? What are you talking about? Those fans were pointing with their arm outstreched to a cloud they saw in the sky that looked interesting.

[You Need a Thneed]

Scenarios for Group A final games:

Russia - advances with a win or tie; advance with a 1 or 2 goal loss & a Czech/Poland tie.

Czech - advance with a win; advance with a tie & Russia win or tie

Poland - advance with a win

Greece - advance with a win & Poland/Czech does not end in a draw; advance with a win by two goals & Poland/Czech tie.

I think that is right.

[Bagor]

For ten musicians from England it was the night they never even got the chance to ‘play on.’ Sitting expectantly in their seats at the 50,000 capacity Donbass Arena on Monday evening the famous brass band were looking forward to backing England’s bid to win the Euro 2012 championship with their trademark support.

But the band members had not reckoned with one particularly over zealous stadium controller who saw them preparing to play their famous ‘Great Escape’ tune for the 5,000 travelling England fans .

And before they could raise their trombones and trumpets to their lips they were told they would have to leave the stadium - and would be refused permission to re-enter if they tried to bring in their instruments.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-stadium.html

Good. They should be banned until they learn another tune.

[Magnum PEI]

Flick = one-time pass or deflection to a teammate while in motion

Woodwork = goalposts and crossbar

Nutmeg = passing or shooting the ball between an opponents legs

Dummy = pretending to receive a pass then letting it go to an open teammate - I actually see this a lot in hockey. Mario Lemieux did it in the 02 gold medal game and Paul Kariya scored on a wide open net.

[Phaneufenstein]

Russia looked pretty bad vs Poland today.
Agreed that reffing was pretty mediocre. Dzagoev got a card for yapping his mouth, which was deserved, but a lot of plays went unpunished and some were straight up bs.
Also, home field advantage is huge in tournaments like these, so I'm somewhat content witht the result

Terms for troutman's glossary, who should put it in alphabetic order :
caution - yellow card
challenge - aerial battle for the ball or a tackle
finish - conversion of a play into a goal
form - fitness level of a player, current ability to perform at a high level
Serie A - Italian top flight league
La Liga - Spanish top flight league
golden boot - award to top goal scorer in a tournament
Ballon d'Or - player of the year

[joe_mullen]

Talisman - influential player

[joe_mullen]

Originally Posted by Phaneufenstein

Russia looked pretty bad vs Poland today.
Agreed that reffing was pretty mediocre. Dzagoev got a card for yapping his mouth, which was deserved, but a lot of plays went unpunished and some were straight up bs.
Also, home field advantage is huge in tournaments like these, so I'm somewhat content witht the result

Terms for troutman's glossary, who should put it in alphabetic order :
caution - yellow card
challenge - aerial battle for the ball or a tackle
finish - conversion of a play into a goal
form - fitness level of a player, current ability to perform at a high level
Serie A - Italian top flight league
La Liga - Spanish top flight league
golden boot - award to top goal scorer in a tournament
Ballon d'Or - player of the year

IMO, that was the best refereed game of the tournament. No obvious missed calls either way.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by joe_mullen

Talisman - influential player

Talisman is the tall #9 forward position that I'm in love with.

[moon]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Scenarios for Group A final games:

Russia - advances with a win or tie; advance with a 1 or 2 goal loss & a Czech/Poland tie.

Czech - advance with a win; advance with a tie & Russia win or tie

Poland - advance with a win

Greece - advance with a win & Poland/Czech does not end in a draw; advance with a win by two goals & Poland/Czech tie.

I think that is right.

It may have been addresses already but how is group A so terrible and group B so tough?

Every team in group B is better than the teams in group A.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by moon

It may have been addresses already but how is group A so terrible and group B so tough?

Every team in group B is better than the teams in group A.

Poland and Ukraine got into Pot A for the draw

[GirlySports]

yeah somehow BOTH France and Denmark were in Pot 4.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Bento is starting Postiga tomorrow at striker again despite him being pretty awful versus Germany. So he told reporters at least.

Not a fan of this choice, I would like to see Almeida get a chance for 60 minutes to use his big lumbering body to advantage as I believe will be in Denmark's final third a lot tomorrow. Well, more than versus Germany's before the goal.

Ronaldo has to step up tomorrow. He just flat out has to and he needs players like Mountinho and Meireles to feed him the ball in stride and use that speed. He needs to win free kicks and he needs to take a few as well. Portugal didn't win one free kick in a dangerous area versus Germany.

9 hours away....the nerves are kicking in again.

[d_phaneuf]

it's based on the coefficient

40% of the average points per game, earned in the 2012 Euro qualifying stage.
40% of the average points per game, earned in the 2010 World Cup qualifying stage and final tournament.
20% of the average points per game, earned in the 2008 Euro qualifying stage and final tournament