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Re: Today's Games

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:37 pm

Back to the Finland game to see if they can muster a shot.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Buxtonclaret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:37 pm

Phew!
Pick that one out!

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Re: Today's Games

Post by taio » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:37 pm

Brilliant entertainment 1-4

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Re: Today's Games

Post by yTib » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:37 pm

...and denmark put it to bed.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:38 pm

Games sets matches

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:38 pm

Bet this was a fun night in Copenhagen.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Elizabeth » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:39 pm

Wales suddenly play Denmark not Finland

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Buxtonclaret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:39 pm

Turning into a real classic this!

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Elizabeth » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:39 pm

Lukaku for golden boot?

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Re: Today's Games

Post by minnieclaret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:40 pm

As poor a Russia team as I can remember.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Whitgord » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:40 pm

I reckon any team on 4 points has qualified to progress to the knockout phase. Bar any last minute miracles.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:41 pm

Some performance by Denmark if they go through following that horrific start to their campaign in more ways than one.

And it's looking highly likely that they will progress now, 2-0 Belgium Lukaku again, and this one will certainly count.

4-1 Denmark and some incredible finishing by the Danes tonight they've been ruthless when the chances have come their way.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Spijed » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:47 pm

Surely Belgium have better back up strikers than Benteke?

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tim_noone » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 pm

The Danish crowd are dissapointingly Quiet...

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Re: Today's Games

Post by yTib » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:51 pm

the danes are through.

great stuff.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Buxtonclaret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:51 pm

Great entertainment that.
Second half exploded!

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Re: Today's Games

Post by jrgbfc » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:52 pm

Wales Denmark should be a decent game on Saturday.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by boatshed bill » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:52 pm

Brilliant for Denmark after what happened vs Finland

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tim_noone » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:59 pm

yTib wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:51 pm
the danes are through.

great stuff.
Give over...England Would Thrash em..... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Today's Games

Post by boatshed bill » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:02 pm

tim_noone wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:59 pm
Give over...England Would Thrash em..... :lol: :lol: :lol:
In their dreams :D

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Re: Today's Games

Post by evensteadiereddie » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:05 pm

Good to watch, that. The Russians were a strong mix of the Dark Arts and some pretty decent football and were then blown away in the second half. The Danes are celebrating as if they've won the trophy - and why not ?

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Vegas Claret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:05 pm

England now mathematically through if they finish 3rd, so exciting

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Re: Today's Games

Post by boatshed bill » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:06 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:05 pm
Good to watch, that. The Russians were a strong mix of the Dark Arts and some pretty decent football and were then blown away in the second half. The Danes are celebrating as if they've won the trophy - and why not ?
Passionate.

Something I rarely see from our lot.
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Re: Today's Games

Post by evensteadiereddie » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:06 pm

I'm afraid that any side playing as directly and as quickly as Denmark did would have no problem beating us.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:07 pm

tim_noone wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:59 pm
Give over...England Would Thrash em..... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Aye course we would that's why they won at Wembley, and drew with England at home in the Nations League without conceding a goal. :lol:

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Re: Today's Games

Post by IanMcL » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:10 pm

BBC pundits showing the variation of 'VAR' offside for the Belgium 1st Lukaku disallowed goal.

Demonstrates precisely that the prem can get tge result they want from VAR, until there is a very different rule about offside.
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Re: Today's Games

Post by tim_noone » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:15 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:07 pm
Aye course we would that's why they won at Wembley, and drew with England at home in the Nations League without conceding a goal. :lol:
Sorry I missed the Wink.....

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:16 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:10 pm
BBC pundits showing the variation of 'VAR' offside for the Belgium 1st Lukaku disallowed goal.

Demonstrates precisely that the prem can get tge result they want from VAR, until there is a very different rule about offside.
I've given up with the offside laws anymore they seem to get more bizarre by the game.

Good news for you guys tonight Ian, those results mean that a Scotland win will ensure you qualify for the next stage, and it could be an omen that Austria reached the knockout phase of the Euro's for the 1st time ever today.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by IanMcL » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:22 pm

Beating Croatia is no easy task!

I can see a draw and that would leave Scotland short.

Time for a wee bit of luck and see all 3 home nations march on.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:34 pm

IanMcL wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:22 pm
Beating Croatia is no easy task!

I can see a draw and that would leave Scotland short.

Time for a wee bit of luck and see all 3 home nations march on.
A draw does neither team any good, so you'd expect a fairly open game, however both teams have struggled to score goals, so it may well come down to perhaps a set piece or even a mistake, I hope for everyone's sale it isn't the latter as that would be a horrible way to go out for either team.

Best of luck to Scotland tomorrow anyway, and it would be great to have all 3 home nations still involved come the last 16.

Perhaps the Billy Gilmour news will inspire Scotland, it certainly looked like Denmark were playing their hearts out tonight for CE.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by IanMcL » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:38 pm

I am sure Scotland fancy another Wembley outing!

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:41 pm

Vegas Claret wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:05 pm
England now mathematically through if they finish 3rd, so exciting
They always were, the Spain group could only get 3 points and the Swiss had negative GD and that's without mentioning the rest. 4 points is always enough

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:42 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:06 pm
I'm afraid that any side playing as directly and as quickly as Denmark did would have no problem beating us.
are you Scottish?

the scary Danes, who'd have thought it!!!! they're shite and nothing to fear

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Re: Today's Games

Post by tiger76 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:09 pm

KRBFC wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:42 pm
are you Scottish?

the scary Danes, who'd have thought it!!!! they're shite and nothing to fear
Funnily enough I'm sure the same things were thought about Iceland in 2016, and look how that turned out.

Plus this Danish team are far better than Iceland were in 2016, and they also finished 2nd behind Belgium in England's Nations League group only about a year ago, taking 4 points from England in the process, can England beat Denmark on any given day yes of course we can, but it's definitely not an encounter I'd be hugely confident about if it should occur.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:10 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:09 pm
but it's definitely not an encounter I'd be hugely confident about if it should occur.
Why doesn't that surprise me? you've done nothing but whine since the Euros started, waiting for England to fail to stick the boot in, it's sad.

France draw to Hungary and it's a good point, England draw with Scotland and you're quick on here telling us all about why Southgate is shite.


As for the nations league group, I swear we had 10 men nearly all game against Denmark.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by yTib » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:17 pm

KRBFC wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:10 pm
Why doesn't that surprise me? you've done nothing but whine since the Euros started, waiting for England to fail to stick the boot in, it's sad.
now i know you're just a troll.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Vegas Claret » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:38 pm

KRBFC wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:41 pm
They always were, the Spain group could only get 3 points and the Swiss had negative GD and that's without mentioning the rest. 4 points is always enough
Seems you know more than the experts and UEFA, nice one

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:44 pm

Vegas Claret wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:38 pm
Seems you know more than the experts and UEFA, nice one
Yep, clearly.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Elizabeth » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:53 pm

It’s a tough one that. Someone getting Covid and someone having a heart seizure. Let’s all go out and play for Billy

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Re: Today's Games

Post by evensteadiereddie » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:51 am

KRBFC wrote:
Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:42 pm
are you Scottish?

the scary Danes, who'd have thought it!!!! they're shite and nothing to fear

I don't think you don't need to be Scottish to see that a fluent, freely-attacking side playing with the intensity the er, "scary" Danes did would cause the English defence severe problems.

Perhaps your agenda is blocking your view ?

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:57 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 6:51 am
I don't think you don't need to be Scottish to see that a fluent, freely-attacking side playing with the intensity the er, "scary" Danes did would cause the English defence severe problems.

Perhaps your agenda is blocking your view ?
I don't really have an agenda, I'm just positive about England's chances. I don't see Denmark as a serious threat to England despite all the OTT negativity about how bad England are.

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Post by Winstonswhite » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:02 am

I can’t understand the negativity either and thought it was massively arrogant to think that all we had to do was turn up and we’d beat Scotland.

Tonight’s a far better indicator as to where we are as a team.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:04 am

Winstonswhite wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:02 am
I can’t understand the negativity either and thought it was massively arrogant to think that all we had to do was turn up and we’d beat Scotland.

Tonight’s a far better indicator as to where we are as a team.
I think we'll beat the Czechs 3-0 tonight!!

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Re: Today's Games

Post by evensteadiereddie » Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:05 am

If we turn up with a must not lose attitude as we did against the Scots, we'll no doubt labour for 90 mins and grind out an eventual win.
I'd like to see us play with a bit of verve and confidence - we're certainly capable of beating the Czechs 3-0* - there's no excuse tonight for more tedium and pragmatism.
The job of qualifying has been done successfully so why not show off what we can do ?


* 3-1 would be better, I'd like Vydra to come on and get one.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:05 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:05 am
If we turn up with a must not lose attitude as we did against the Scots, we'll no doubt labour for 90 mins and grind out an eventual win.
I'd like to see us play with a bit of verve and confidence - we're certainly capable of beating the Czechs 3-0* - there's no excuse tonight for more tedium and pragmatism.
The job of qualifying has been done successfully so why not show off what we can do ?


* 3-1 would be better, I'd like Vydra to come on and get one.
Tonight is the night the nation starts to believe.

Slowly but surely we'll turn it up a notch, go through the gears gradually, we coasted through the group qualification in gear 2. Like i've said all along, it's about peaking at the right time, not too early, get the crappy performances out of the way in the group stage and just ugly grind our way through until we click and come alive.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by DCWat » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:09 pm

KRBFC wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:05 pm
Tonight is the night the nation starts to believe.

Slowly but surely we'll turn it up a notch, go through the gears gradually, we coasted through the group qualification in gear 2. Like i've said all along, it's about peaking at the right time, not too early, get the crappy performances out of the way in the group stage and just ugly grind our way through until we click and come alive.
I hope you’re right. So far there’s not been much indication that there’s a whole load more to come, unless Southgate is prepared to release the shackles.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by taio » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:11 pm

I've gone 2-0 England. Let's try to bully Czech Republic playing with confidence and attacking ruthlessness. Looking forward to it and hope we can progress to the latter stages or even last stage of the tournament. Would be a big lift to the country.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by KRBFC » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:19 pm

DCWat wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:09 pm
I hope you’re right. So far there’s not been much indication that there’s a whole load more to come, unless Southgate is prepared to release the shackles.
There simply has to be more to come, so I believe there is.

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Re: Today's Games

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:38 pm

Some football fans that follow the international team might 'get a lift' but for the majority in the country it's an end to living life under ill- thought out rules and restrictions that's the key to a feel good factor; we'll, at least a feel better factor. Football isn't important currently despite the media attempt to make it so.
As for 'getting crappy performances out of the way' if it were at all legitimate then one has to take into account all of the other teams' indifferent performances so far. Anyway, if you are watching it I hope it has a satisfactory conclusion.
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Re: Today's Games

Post by taio » Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:45 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:38 pm
Some football fans that follow the international team might 'get a lift' but for the majority in the country it's an end to living life under ill- thought out rules and restrictions that's the key to a feel good factor; we'll, at least a feel better factor. Football isn't important currently despite the media attempt to make it so.
As for 'getting crappy performances out of the way' if it were at all legitimate then one has to take into account all of the other teams' indifferent performances so far. Anyway, if you are watching it I hope it has a satisfactory conclusion.
Of course it's the end of the restrictions etc that will make the fundamental difference but England winning the tournament would make a positive contribution or give many people a lift.

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