Euro 2004 Football discussion

[LizardWizard]

Whew!
The French managed to get away.
I hope they won't have the same kind of trouble with Switzerland...
IMHO, France will be the first, England second, Croatia third, and Switzerland last with a big ZERO in both points and goals.

 

[Capellan]

Switzerland last with a big ZERO in both points and goals.

I bet you a thousand US dollars they get at least one point

(they drew their first game, after all ... )

 

[AGGEMAM]

Tallern, you say you occasionally have a disagreement with AGGEMAM regarding football matters?

Him being a Spurs man and me a Toonie we occasionally discuss football on Random's. It's safe to say that the number of times we've agreed on something are indeed rare. That doesn't prevent a good discussion though.

They way I see football is that it doesn't matter whether the team I'm rooting for wins or losses as long as they play well. I think Tallarn sees it the way that only points count. It's a classic clash of football philosophies.

 

[AGGEMAM]

(they drew their first game, after all ... )

And nothing is settled in that group yet. They can all make it or bust.

 

[LizardWizard]

I bet you a thousand US dollars they get at least one point

(they drew their first game, after all ... )

Oops.
My bad.

 

[MonsterMash]

Well with Group B now the last matches should be interesting:
England Wins France Wins - France and England through
England Wins France Draw - England and France through
England Wins France Lose - England and one from France or Switzerland go through

England Draw France Win - France and England through
England Draw France Draw - France and England through
England Draw France Lose - England and one from France or Switzerland go through

England Lose France Win - France and Croatia through
England Lose France Draw - France and Croatia through, but who wins the group is down to goals
England Lose France Lose - Croatia and one from France or Switzerland

Everything to play for still.

Unlike Group A where Russia are definietly out already.

I think the Sweden - Italy game could be a good match and I think Denmark will beat Bulgaria fairly comfortably.

 

[LizardWizard]

Denmark have played quite well and deserved their three points.
However, Batista is a real dumb@$$ of a referee.

 

[johnsemlak]

Yeah, that no-call near the penalty area was a huge miss. That's got to be the biggest referee mistake of the tournament.

I hope the fans didn't do anything stupid. Things were getting ugly there toward the end.

 

[Lichtenhart]

And once again Trapattoni shows he's the stupidest man in the world, calling off every man that could try to ressurrect the game when things go wrong.
I changed my mind, I hope we leave these championships as soon as possible so we haven't got any more chances to embarass ourselves further.
I thought we had some chances in the first half, but no way, he's still anchored to game concepts that died at least 30 years ago.
We deserve to go home.

 

[LizardWizard]

I wouldn't be such a pessimist, Lichtenheart.
All you have is to beat Bulgaria really hard and hope Sweden vs. Denmark doesn't resut in a draw.