Euro 2016 (Football)

[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.

Today's matches.

Group of 16.

France vs Republic of Ireland KO at 3pm at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon.

FT France 2 Republic of Ireland 1.

France into the Quarter Final.

Germany vs Slovakia KO at 6pm at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Villeneuve-d'Ascq which is about 11 km East of Lille.

Germany to win, I'm not predicting how many goals.

Germany 1 Slovakia 0, Jérôme Boateng goal at 8 minutes, Mesut Özil missed a penalty at 14 minutes.

Germany 2 Slovakia 0, the brilliance of Julian Draxler leads to Mario Gomez goal at 43 minutes.

HT Germany 2 Slovakia 0.

SH.

Germany 3 Slovakia 0, Julian Draxler goat at 62 minutes.

Edited to add further comment.

Group of 16.

FT Germany 3 Slovakia 0.

Germany into the Quarter Final.

Group of 16.

Hungary vs Belgium KO at 9pm at the Stadium Municipal, Toulouse.

HT Hungary 0 Belgium 1.

Edited to add comment.

Group of 16.

Hungary vs Belgium KO at 9pm at the Stadium Municipal, Toulouse.

Hungary 0 Belgium 2 at 78 minutes.

Hungary have had multiple near misses at goal, on another night this could be 4-2 to Hungary.

FT Hungary 0 Belgium 4.

Belgium into the Quarter Final.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Lucy, they played Iceland announcer during stoppage time goal on radio. I thought he was going to die!! Very sporting of u to acknowledge Ice victory.


As sidenote, I was so ignorant I thought Iceland was Greenland. I need to look up Wales and Iceland.......

Tonight: Col vs, Chili start soon.

Tonight is the Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile.

 

[Kristian]

Spain and Italy in one duell next day. Old Barbarians vs Rome.

Which want to win? I prefer Spain even there is Italy with no Balotelli in Euro glory. Manny new names in Italy a-team.

2 defensive team. 0-0 then they go to penalty and ones win 4-3.

 

[Kristian]

Belgium gonna beaten Poland in semis.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Spain and Italy in one duell next day. Old Barbarians vs Rome.

Which want to win? I prefer Spain even there is Italy with no Balotelli in Euro glory. Manny new names in Italy a-team.

2 defensive team. 0-0 then they go to penalty and ones win 4-3.

Yes, I'd say Spain to win, Spain have been superior to Italy in their matches, so this match could be difficult for Italy.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Lucy, they played Iceland announcer during stoppage time goal on radio. I thought he was going to die!! Very sporting of u to acknowledge Ice victory.


As sidenote, I was so ignorant I thought Iceland was Greenland. I need to look up Wales and Iceland.......

Tonight: Col vs, Chili start soon.

Tonight is the Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile.

Viva República Argentina

 

[leftwinger]

my bet:
Zwitserland - Polen
Wales - Noord-Ierland
Kroatië - Portugal

All correct? Nice jobby Dani67.

 

[leftwinger]

Lovely Loose one, Chili is very solid. Arg will have to play hard. If odds were good maybe take chance on Chi?

But, no bet, too close.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Loose one, Chili is very solid. Arg will have to play hard. If odds were good maybe take chance on Chi?

But, no bet, too close.

Argentina to win, yes Chile are good, but not that good.

KO in about 2 hours, Mr. Lucy is sorting things for us to watch the match.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Lucy, they played Iceland announcer during stoppage time goal on radio. I thought he was going to die!! Very sporting of u to acknowledge Ice victory.


As sidenote, I was so ignorant I thought Iceland was Greenland. I need to look up Wales and Iceland.......

Tonight: Col vs, Chili start soon.

Tonight is the Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile.

Viva República Argentina

Tonight's Argentina XI.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Lucy, they played Iceland announcer during stoppage time goal on radio. I thought he was going to die!! Very sporting of u to acknowledge Ice victory.


As sidenote, I was so ignorant I thought Iceland was Greenland. I need to look up Wales and Iceland.......

Tonight: Col vs, Chili start soon.

Tonight is the Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile.

Viva República Argentina

Tonight's Argentina XI.

Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile, has just KO.

Chile now down to 10 men at 30 minutes, Diaz red carded for a foul on Messi.

At 38 minutes, post-Argentina free-kick, bit of a dust up, resulting in Mascherano (Argentina) and Vidal (Chile) both getting a yellow card.

Argentina down to 10 men at 40 minutes, Rojo red carded.

HT Argentina 0 Chile 0.

Well that was an eventful and turbulent FH.

SH.

Argentina substitution at 59 minutes, Ángel Di María of PSG off and Matías Kranevitter of Atlético Madrid on.

Argentina substitution at 68 minutes, Gonzalo Higuaín of Napoli off and Sergio Agüero of Manchester City on.

Edited to add further comment.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lovely Lucy, they played Iceland announcer during stoppage time goal on radio. I thought he was going to die!! Very sporting of u to acknowledge Ice victory.


As sidenote, I was so ignorant I thought Iceland was Greenland. I need to look up Wales and Iceland.......

Tonight: Col vs, Chili start soon.

Tonight is the Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile.

Viva República Argentina

Tonight's Argentina XI.

Copa America Centennial Final.

Argentina vs Chile, has just KO.

Chile now down to 10 men at 30 minutes, Diaz red carded for a foul on Messi.

At 38 minutes, post-Argentina free-kick, bit of a dust up, resulting in Mascherano (Argentina) and Vidal (Chile) both getting a yellow card.

Argentina down to 10 men at 40 minutes, Rojo red carded.

HT Argentina 0 Chile 0.

Well that was an eventful and turbulent FH.

SH.

Argentina substitution at 59 minutes, Ángel Di María of PSG off and Matías Kranevitter of Atlético Madrid on.

Argentina substitution at 68 minutes, Gonzalo Higuaín of Napoli off and Sergio Agüero of Manchester City on.

Edited to add further comment.

Copa America Centennial Final.

FT Argentina 0 Chile 0

ET soon.

Argentina substitution at 110 minutes, Éver Banega of Internazionale off and Érik Lamela of Tottenham Hotspur on.

AET Argentina 0 Chile 0.

It's now a Penalty Shoot-Out....okay I'm going to say Chile win on Penalties.

Yes well, I said Chile on penalties, this happened the last time Argentina went to penalties with Chile.

FT Argentina 2 Chile 4 after the Penalty Shoot-Out.

After performing so well in previous matches, Argentina were very uninspiring in that match and deserved not to win.


Edited to add comment.

 

[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.

Today's matches.

Group of 16.

Italy vs Spain KO at 6pm at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis which is about 10 km from the centre of Paris.

Spain to win, I'm not predicting how many goals.

They've been playing for about 5 minutes, there's torrential rain.

Spain in a complete mess, at 11 minutes very nearly 1-0, Emanuele Giaccherini overhead kick which David de Gea was able to save, but lucky for Spain the ball was pushed onto the post, a little bit the other way and the ball would have been in the goal.

The rain not as heavy now.

Italy 1 Spain 0, Giorgio Chiellini at 33 minutes, he who was bitten by Luis Suárez at the 2014 Brasil World Cup.

HT Italy 1 Spain 0.

Italy are playing completely differently in this match to their previous matches, were it not for David de Gea this would be 4-0.

For the SH Spain have to change their format, Italy are playing a 3-5-2 and Spain playing a 4-3-3 can't cope.

Unless Spain change their format and if Italy play the SH the same as the FH, then I'm saying Italy to win.

Edited to add further comment.

 

[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.

Today's matches.

Group of 16.

Italy vs Spain KO at 6pm at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis which is about 10 km from the centre of Paris.

Spain to win, I'm not predicting how many goals.

They've been playing for about 5 minutes, there's torrential rain.

Spain in a complete mess, at 11 minutes very nearly 1-0, Emanuele Giaccherini overhead kick which David de Gea was able to save, but lucky for Spain the ball was pushed onto the post, a little bit the other way and the ball would have been in the goal.

The rain not as heavy now.

Italy 1 Spain 0, Giorgio Chiellini at 33 minutes, he who was bitten by Luis Suárez at the 2014 Brasil World Cup.

HT Italy 1 Spain 0.

Italy are playing completely differently in this match to their previous matches, were it not for David de Gea this would be 4-0.

For the SH Spain have to change their format, Italy are playing a 3-5-2 and Spain playing a 4-3-3 can't cope.

Unless Spain change their format and if Italy play the SH the same as the FH, then I'm saying Italy to win.

Edited to add further comment.

Group of 16.

Italy 2 Spain 0, Graziano Pellè goal at 91 minutes.

FT Italy 2 Spain 0.

That Italian performance was tactically perfect, I think Italy are now a contender to win Euro 2016 after that performance.

Italy into the Quarter Final.

 

[Kristian]

I like to see Wales vs England or Germany in finals specially when Poland can't win. Or new classical Portugal vs Germany and I hopes on Portugal. I changes me to Portugal when now them are in the 1:4 round. C.Ronaldo maybe win first with his home country.

 

[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.

Today's matches.

Group of 16.

Italy vs Spain KO at 6pm at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis which is about 10 km from the centre of Paris.

Spain to win, I'm not predicting how many goals.

They've been playing for about 5 minutes, there's torrential rain.

Spain in a complete mess, at 11 minutes very nearly 1-0, Emanuele Giaccherini overhead kick which David de Gea was able to save, but lucky for Spain the ball was pushed onto the post, a little bit the other way and the ball would have been in the goal.

The rain not as heavy now.

Italy 1 Spain 0, Giorgio Chiellini at 33 minutes, he who was bitten by Luis Suárez at the 2014 Brasil World Cup.

HT Italy 1 Spain 0.

Italy are playing completely differently in this match to their previous matches, were it not for David de Gea this would be 4-0.

For the SH Spain have to change their format, Italy are playing a 3-5-2 and Spain playing a 4-3-3 can't cope.

Unless Spain change their format and if Italy play the SH the same as the FH, then I'm saying Italy to win.

Edited to add further comment.

Group of 16.

Italy 2 Spain 0, Graziano Pellè goal at 91 minutes.

FT Italy 2 Spain 0.

That Italian performance was tactically perfect, I think Italy are now a contender to win Euro 2016 after that performance.

Italy into the Quarter Final.

Group of 16.

England vs Iceland KO at 9pm in about 25 minutes at the Allianz Riviera in Nice.

This could go to Extra Time, I expect England to win, but if it goes to a Penalty Shoot-Out, well, with England's track record in those.

What an hectic first 6 minutes.

England 1 Iceland 0, Wayne Rooney from a penalty at 4 minutes.

England 1 Iceland 1, one of the Iceland team got a goal at 6 minutes, I'm aware of only about 4 of the Icelandic team, the one that got the goal, he's not one of them.

England 1 Iceland 2, the goal at 18 minutes, not sure who got the goal.

Edited to add further comment.

 

[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.

Today's matches.

Group of 16.

Italy vs Spain KO at 6pm at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis which is about 10 km from the centre of Paris.

Spain to win, I'm not predicting how many goals.

They've been playing for about 5 minutes, there's torrential rain.

Spain in a complete mess, at 11 minutes very nearly 1-0, Emanuele Giaccherini overhead kick which David de Gea was able to save, but lucky for Spain the ball was pushed onto the post, a little bit the other way and the ball would have been in the goal.

The rain not as heavy now.

Italy 1 Spain 0, Giorgio Chiellini at 33 minutes, he who was bitten by Luis Suárez at the 2014 Brasil World Cup.

HT Italy 1 Spain 0.

Italy are playing completely differently in this match to their previous matches, were it not for David de Gea this would be 4-0.

For the SH Spain have to change their format, Italy are playing a 3-5-2 and Spain playing a 4-3-3 can't cope.

Unless Spain change their format and if Italy play the SH the same as the FH, then I'm saying Italy to win.

Edited to add further comment.

Group of 16.

Italy 2 Spain 0, Graziano Pellè goal at 91 minutes.

FT Italy 2 Spain 0.

That Italian performance was tactically perfect, I think Italy are now a contender to win Euro 2016 after that performance.

Italy into the Quarter Final.

Group of 16.

England vs Iceland KO at 9pm in about 25 minutes at the Allianz Riviera in Nice.

This could go to Extra Time, I expect England to win, but if it goes to a Penalty Shoot-Out, well, with England's track record in those.

What an hectic first 6 minutes.

England 1 Iceland 0, Wayne Rooney from a penalty at 4 minutes.

England 1 Iceland 1, one of the Iceland team got a goal at 6 minutes, I'm aware of only about 4 of the Icelandic team, the one that got the goal, he's not one of them.

England 1 Iceland 2, the goal at 18 minutes, not sure who got the goal.

Edited to add further comment.

Group of 16.

FT England 1 Iceland 2.

Iceland into the Quarter Final.

Iceland have been very impressive in this tournament and they play organised and attractive football and this is a magnificent achievement for that small and beautiful nation.

I think many people are going to want Iceland to beat France.

The England team, can only be described as a mess, no co-ordination, not even for most of the match playing as a team, more like a collection of players playing for five different teams.

I think Roy Hodgson is now going to be sacked, it's impossible to envisage him keeping his job.

Roy Hodgson has just resigned and it seems the whole England Backroom Team have also resigned.

Of course they would have all been pushed anyhow.

Edited to add comment.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

 

[Kristian]

Disapointed England when they wouldn't win against on Nordic after 3 best then England should win if they won today vs France but now it is time for France to celibrites there to semi and final maybe to if they won against Germany old Nazi regime wouldn't loses vs Italy now.

But I wanna Germany vs France in semi 2. Rest should been Portugal or Wales into final vs France or Germany. It doesn't matter in semi 1. Poland isn't good in English football in U.S. called soccer how in market place for north europeans.

U.S. have little better league that's Iceland out from national teams.

Reykjavik is one good team in Iceland but U.S. have Seattle, La Galaxy and Toronto example + little more star teams, from Nordic Iceland have Reykjavik and good anthem arena there in foreign land. France gonna win with 4-1 or 5-0 or 3-0.

 

[Toro]

England totally sucks.

England left Europe, so Europe booted England out of the football tournament.