WEURO22 Group D Winners France Runners Up Belgium Thread Closed

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Lol look again. If de Bruyne copped for that you’d be screaming red card

I generally don’t scream about any decision.

I’d want that to be a yellow card, for or against my team.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

It seems like a high percentage of headers on target in this tournament results in a goal.

 

[Lauz9888]

Belgium Iceland the dullest match of the tournament so far.

France very impressive against Italy. Similar kind of dismantling to what Germany did to Denmark.

Italy all over the shop but I actually think they'll get something out of their other matches in the group.

 

[JRockBlues]

Thought the way the French moved the ball around was very impressive. Particularly in the 1st half. Seemed not to want to push it too much in the 2nd to presumably conserve energy. All the pre-tournament talk was of them being in disarray over selection issues but they looked like a cohesive unit to me.

 

[mrsprkl]

The BBC website:

Iceland and Belgium were forced to settle for a point each after an entertaining Euro 2022 Group D encounter in front of a raucous crowd at Manchester City's Academy Stadium.

Entertaining? ENTERFUCKINTAINING?

This has been the worst game of the tournament so far, it was so boring that there wasn't anything, apart from the comedy entertainment at the missed pen, that would provide a shred of entertainment.

It just shows where the BBC are with their idea of entertaining football. Bloody clueless!
And the entertainment comment comes after the Bangkok Broadcasting Company spent all day chasing a vacuous tale re the Dippers that would have gently lifted a hot air balloon skywards.

Worst part of the tournament is the defending in all the games, the quality of the defendings been local park stuff you'd see on eurosport at 4am on a Saturday morning

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Worst part of the tournament is the defending in all the games, the quality of the defendings been local park stuff you'd see on eurosport at 4am on a Saturday morning

I watched the game last night and at one point I just had this picture of Hough End on a Saturday afternoon. But on reflection I think the better defences were at HE!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Thursday July 14:
WEURO22 Day 9 Group D Italy vs Iceland 17.00 Manchester City Academy Stadium:

Yer have to feel a little sorry for these two teams, particularly Iceland, having to play on a pitch that can only be described as a downgrade on a ploughed field.

 

[mexico1970]

Yer have to feel a little sorry for these two teams, particularly Iceland, having to play on a pitch that can only be described as a downgrade on a ploughed field.

It'll never be able to host the expected 80,000, another Paris re-run is on the cards.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It'll never be able to host the expected 80,000, another Paris re-run is on the cards.

I hope Uefa has got a better organisation set up in Beswick. I would have gone but I feared for thousands turning up with no tickets, hordes jumping over the fencing, and getting to my seat only to find some Cuntdottir was claiming the seat on a fake ticket. And then there's the local Beswick, Clayton 'n Bradford Rags Supporters Club (incorporated in the Caymans!) ready, willing and able to divest me of my last brass farthing!

 

[Cityfan1977]

Iceland 1-0