UEFA Euro 2012

SimianWonder wrote:

Competition? Barely. Maybe if the dutch had played like that from the start, it might have been.

I was talking about the last 20 minutes.

Good game.

It was properly pissing it down though.

Goddamn Lewandowski, I thought that was a sure goal.

Well the last 20 minutes have shown Poland can play pretty well, just not finish.

Fuck. Sod that game. Poland left the stadium half way through the game.

On another note, how on earth did Greece win? Greece?

Poland were awful. At no point did they look like they were a team on the verge of going out of the competition. There was just no urgency in their play and the Czechs were deserved winners.

In the first 20 minutes they had several good attacks on the break, and could have gone 1 up many times but for finishing. Where as the Czechs didn't play particularly well until the second half, but when they did Poland weren't the same side they were in the first half, god knows why, and they certainly deserved to in from that.

Holland have been terrible for the last hour. They started brightly, but since Portugal equalized, they've not looked like scoring. Sorry Kai, I don't wanna kick them while they're down but they've been so disappointing these last three games.

most of the people around here are glad Holland lost.

we live pretty close to the Dutch border you know, and we see lots of Dutch people and they're always on about how bad Belgium is (which is true but still) and how much better they are, and how they're gonna do so good at the EC or WC and all that. (i know that in Holland as a whole, people aren't actually like this, but around this area they definitely are)

and I can't help but laugh at them now for losing 3 times.

Ukraine got screwed.

Yeah, it was a goal but England were owed that for the Lampard Goal that-never-was against Germany in the 2010 World Cup. Still, England looking a little ragged again. They appeared to be in the ascendancy after the (rather fortuitous) opening goal, but they're rocking a little bit now.

Milner going off. Not really sure how he gets into the starting line up, he's not really delivered anything of quality during the first three games.

Oh, and just to compound the complete cock-up surrouding that Ukraine "goal", their striker was actually offside when the initial ball to him was played, but that wasn't given either.

Obviously top reffing.

Spoiler:

Fuck yeah Pirlo, having the balls to chip a penalty.

England deserved to lose. We all know Ukraine got robbed of their second place.

When does the US play?

When they become part of Europe.

Spain have been almost unplayable. One of, if not the, best teams to ever grace a football pitch. Awesome.

Damn i didn't want to see a battering like that at the end i knew it was gonna happen though.

Yeah Spain were unstoppable, they absolutely denied Italy the ability to play at all.