Official 2024 UEFA Euro Cup Thread

[Ironhorse]

Yesssss

[soreshins]

Originally Posted by Locke

Come on you cheese-eating chuckleheads! Dont let these Baklava gobbling bastards get the better of you!

Nice header. 1-1. You gouda give the Dutch some credit. It would have been an edam shame if they had leyden to the Turks.

[Ironhorse]

Gakpo!!!

[KelVarnsen]

That’s a own goal

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

That’s a own goal

Does look like it

[White Out 403]

It's nice to see an actual European team advance and hopefully knock off England

[Locke]

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Gakpo!!!

Good Liverpool player!

Send those Baklava munching Turks back across the Bosporus!!!

*just to be clear, I have nothing against the Turks in general I'm just cheering against them using food references.

[devo22]

liked this Twitter thread from football journalist Martin Rafelt:

An unpleasant feature of the #EURO2024 is that two super-defensive teams made the semis which will enforce the idea that this is how you should approach a tournament. But actually they needed to survive penalties against inferior teams while the two most ambitious teams had to face each other (= 1 automatically eliminated) and overall performed much more solidely and got more secure wins before. Realistically, we saw a streak of success from more offensive football:

Germany & Spain had the most secure paths into the quarters. Switzerland, Romania, Austria, Turkey, Slovakia outperformed expectations with very or rather ambitious approaches. Scotland & Serbia quickly failed with very defensive ideas. When defensive approaches fail early, we don't talk much about the approach, but we talk about how the teams "just were bad", because this kind of strategy makes not only teams, but also the individual players look bad. Easier for coaches to hide behind their squad quality then. Brazil had a similar approach in the Copa, scored only 5 goals in 4 games and failed the penalties. Just defense is not "the safe option". Scoring goals helps winning games. There's a chance to get through in a tournament without scoring goals, but it isn't particularly great.

Why I'm posting this: Football journalists & people on social media should not enforce the idea that avoiding risks and playing defensive is a better way to approach a tournament (or the game in general). It will affect opinions and decisions and make the game worse and boring.

it sucks that football terrorists like Southgate and Deschamps have made it this far once again. Living off squad strength and luck in the penalties, but their approach has been nauseating again.

[Locke]

And thats where we're at. Unfortunately 'Negative Play' tends to generate results.

[Paulie Walnuts]

The flair of the game is gone. Just look at Brazil a team that always played with that flair and pushing forward.

It’s over coached. Smaller nations trying to win sure. But when you’re one of the bigger nations with talent and you play the same way it kills the game.

[GirlySports]

France and Spain have always played great matches, their styles are compatible. Let's hope for another great one.

The euro 2000 quarterfinal is considered one of the most technically perfect matches ever if you ever get a chance to rewatch it.

[GirlySports]

There we go! An early goal!

[KelVarnsen]

Holy moly. A France goal

[Beninho]

Great cross by Mbappe and good movement by Kolo Muani

[Senator Clay Davis]

Spain miss a sitter, immediately concede after. Game over, France have what they need, no shot Spain score.

[lazypucker]

Holy sh*t!! Lamine Yamal.

Youngest player to score in the Euro by like 2 years!!

[Beninho]

WOW what a goal

[Senator Clay Davis]

Lamine might really be worthy of the Messi shouts.

[GirlySports]

Styles make fights. Spain against France rarely disappoints.

France dropped Greizemann to play faster.