Euro 2016 (Football)

[Lucy Hamilton]

I thought he bit lower back I WC? Guy pull up shirt show ref, yes Chris hiney was on camera too.

Panama down to 10 men, I can't remember the player's name but he's been sent off, he was already on a yellow, he side-slapped Gaitan right in the head.

Now Argentina have Di Maria injured, so he's been substituted and Lamela is now on. Not a good situation, getting an early injury forcing you to use up one of your substitutes.

Panama players getting VERY irritating, falling over, another one just fell over for no reason at all.

Now HT Argentina 1 Panama 0.

Two minutes of stoppage time, Higuain could have had another goal, Panamanian defence in a bit of a panic, but at second attempt prevented a second goal.

Edited to add comments.

 

[leftwinger]

Not a lot of penalty for midfield fouls. You can shut them down and so what? Free kick from 75 yds out? As long as ni yellow you can rough them up if they seem headed with advantage.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Not a lot of penalty for midfield fouls. You can shut them down and so what? Free kick from 75 yds out? As long as ni yellow you can rough them up if they seem headed with advantage.

The refereeing has been a bit strange, but they just re-played the Godoy side-slap to Gaitan's head and that was a correct decision to send him off, Godoy that's the Panamanian players name.

SH just started.

WTF? Panama are already at it, some player called Cooper now, a yellow card for a late challenge on Gaitan and then another WTF they nearly scored an own goal, wow what a shambles.

No discipline at all from Panama, half the team have lost the plot.

Panama just got a free kick and were completely hopeless, almost seconds later there's a corner at the other end of the pitch, but it's cleared.

Argentina bringing off Augusto Fernandez and Lionel Messi is on at 61 minutes.

I'd be happy with a 1-0 as Panama are never going to beat Argentina in a million years, but I'd be more comfortable if Argentina got a second goal, because Panama could get a freak goal from a deflection or something.

Now Gaitan has a yellow card for a tackle on some Panamanian player who's name I can't remember.

Lionel Messi goal at 68 minutes, that's it I can now be comfortable

Argentina 2 Panama 0.

Argentina had most of the team inside the Panama half, then lost the ball, then some Panamanian player was up front and thank goodness Mascherano was at the back to get that situation sorted.

Panama making a double substitution and Argentina using their third substitution, Higuain off, Agüero on. The luxury that a great team have, to be able to take a player like Higuain off and replace him with a player like Agüero.

Argentina 3 Panama 0.

Lionel Messi at 78 minutes, from a free-kick about 30 yards out, I instinctively knew he would score. He's been on for 19 minutes and has got two goals, he is THE greatest player of his generation, he's a genius and a God.

I'm getting text messages from my relatives in Buenos Aires, they agree Lionel Messi is a genius and a God

Lionel Messi is only 4 goals away now from levelling Gabriel Batistuta's 56 International goals.

I should mention Messi's goal tally for Barcelona - 348 games and 312 goals.

Agüero scored at 84 minutes, but it’s ruled offside.

Argentina 4 Panama 0.

The God again at 87 minutes, he's now just 3 goals away from Batistuta.

Argentina 5 Panama 0.

Agüero at 89 minutes.

This is SADISTIC

Now 2 minutes of stoppage time.

FT Argentina 5 Panama 0.

Viva Argentina

Edited to add further comments during SH of the match.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

euro 2008, epic semifinal vs. germany

Germany always wins. Its just the way it is.

like in the sf 1988, 2006, 2010, the finals in 1966, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1992, 2002, 2008, and in those really important matches vs. england recently. hehe

We always support Germany when they play England. When the Germans win it saves us from a summer of gloating.

 

[Militants]

euro 2008, epic semifinal vs. germany

Germany always wins. Its just the way it is.

Not this time in France.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

euro 2008, epic semifinal vs. germany

Germany always wins. Its just the way it is.

Not this time in France.

Who do you fancy ?

 

[dani67]

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

So the UEFA Euro 2016 football begins today in France and goes on until July 10th.

I've started this thread for anyone who'll be following the tournament and wants to comment etc. Myself, I'll attempt to give updates each day.

The opening match is France vs Romania, which France should win. The Romanian's aren't the sort of team they had when Gheorghe Hagi and Dan Petrescu represented that nation.

Here's the UEFA Euro 2016 official website, with the match fixtures.

UEFA EURO 2016 - Matches - UEFA.com

Edited for spelling error.

Group B began today.

Albania 0 Switzerland 1 at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens. I was told this was a pretty boring match.

Wales vs Slovakia about to kick off at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux in Bordeaux.

England vs Russia kick off in about three hours at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille.

Wales 1 Slovakia 0 Gareth Bale from a free-kick.

This is against the run of play because Slovakia have already been pretty dangerous, especially Marek Hamšík who plays for Napoli.

The problem for a team like Wales is they're a one player team, if Gareth Bale gets injured then they have nothing.

HT Wales 1 Slovakia 0.

Since the Gareth Bale goal at 10 minutes, it's been a lot of Wales having to defend, often when Slovakia have come forward, it's looked like half the Wales team have been in their own penalty area.

A few strange Refereeing moments.

A Wales player, Neil Taylor should have been Red Carded for a nasty foul on Marek Hamšík.

Martin Škrtel body-charged a Wales player, I'm not entirely sure that Wales shouldn't have had a penalty.

At the other end in stoppage time Škrtel had a scoring opportunity had his head have made better contact with the ball.

Again as is the situation with footballers, we have some awful hairdos. Marek Hamšík has a mohican, I wish for once Martin Škrtel would sport some hair, I can't stand Gareth Bale's ponytail and for some curious reason Aaron Ramsey has decided to become a Platinum Blonde.

SH

Wales 1 Slovakia 1 Ondrej Duda at 61 minutes, Duda plays for Legia Warszawa.

Duda the substitute, he was on the pitch for just 52 seconds when he got the goal.

Edited to add further comments during the match.

 

[dani67]

nice goal .bale

 

[Tommy Tainant]

VIVA GARETH BALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Still very tense. We usually find a way to screw it up.

 

[dani67]

its 24 team .
how 1/8 ????

 

[Tilly]

VIVA ONDREJ DUDA!
Great goal!

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

VIVA ONDREJ DUDA!
Great goal!

There he is the number 8, Ondrej Duda, the number 17 is Marek Hamšík, a great player, but I hate that Mohican hairdo. WTF?!

 

[Tilly]

VIVA ONDREJ DUDA!
Great goal!

There he is the number 8, Ondrej Duda, the number 17 is Marek Hamšík, a great player, but I hate that Mohican hairdo. WTF?!


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It's ugly, but aerodynamic maybe

 

[Tilly]

Wales struggling to even get possession now

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

VIVA ONDREJ DUDA!
Great goal!

There he is the number 8, Ondrej Duda, the number 17 is Marek Hamšík, a great player, but I hate that Mohican hairdo. WTF?!


View attachment 77791

It's ugly, but aerodynamic maybe

A friend of ours, he's from Dubrovnik, Croatia, he's a sports journalist in Zagreb, he's commentating on this Wales vs Slovakia match for Croatian radio and he texted me at HT saying how much he was hating Marek Hamšík's Mohican as well

Viva Republika Hrvatska - Viva Republic of Croatia.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

So the UEFA Euro 2016 football begins today in France and goes on until July 10th.

I've started this thread for anyone who'll be following the tournament and wants to comment etc. Myself, I'll attempt to give updates each day.

The opening match is France vs Romania, which France should win. The Romanian's aren't the sort of team they had when Gheorghe Hagi and Dan Petrescu represented that nation.

Here's the UEFA Euro 2016 official website, with the match fixtures.

UEFA EURO 2016 - Matches - UEFA.com

Edited for spelling error.

Group B began today.

Albania 0 Switzerland 1 at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens. I was told this was a pretty boring match.

Wales vs Slovakia about to kick off at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux in Bordeaux.

England vs Russia kick off in about three hours at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille.

Wales 1 Slovakia 0 Gareth Bale from a free-kick.

This is against the run of play because Slovakia have already been pretty dangerous, especially Marek Hamšík who plays for Napoli.

The problem for a team like Wales is they're a one player team, if Gareth Bale gets injured then they have nothing.

HT Wales 1 Slovakia 0.

Since the Gareth Bale goal at 10 minutes, it's been a lot of Wales having to defend, often when Slovakia have come forward, it's looked like half the Wales team have been in their own penalty area.

A few strange Refereeing moments.

A Wales player, Neil Taylor should have been Red Carded for a nasty foul on Marek Hamšík.

Martin Škrtel body-charged a Wales player, I'm not entirely sure that Wales shouldn't have had a penalty.

At the other end in stoppage time Škrtel had a scoring opportunity had his head have made better contact with the ball.

Again as is the situation with footballers, we have some awful hairdos. Marek Hamšík has a mohican, I wish for once Martin Škrtel would sport some hair, I can't stand Gareth Bale's ponytail and for some curious reason Aaron Ramsey has decided to become a Platinum Blonde.

SH

Wales 1 Slovakia 1 Ondrej Duda at 61 minutes, Duda plays for Legia Warszawa.

Duda the substitute, he was on the pitch for just 52 seconds when he got the goal.

Edited to add further comments during the match.

Wales 2 Slovakia 1, the not from Wales but allowed to play for Wales, Hal Robson-Kanu (GREAT Welsh name huh? ) goal at 81 minutes.

He started playing for England and then decided he wanted to play for Wales instead, wow, these people hop around switching allegiances to actual nations like cheap whores hopping from punter to punter or something.

FT Wales 2 Slovakia 1.

I think considering this is the first football tournament that Wales have played in in nearly 60 years, they deserved to have a win, a monumental achievement for them.

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[Tilly]

Great game!

 

[Militants]

2-1 to Wales.