The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Scisca]

RolStoppable said:

Scisca said:

So my predictions for today:

England 0:0 Wales - both teams are bad to be honest. This will be a struggle for both players and fans. This whole group is shit to be honest, the worst one in the tournament.
Ukraine 0:0 N. Ireland - this will be a very bad and boring game. Irish will keep on defending, while Ukraine doesn't have what it takes to dismantle their defence.
Poland 2:1 Germany - I'm a little conservative here, since my heart tells me it's going to be 3:2 for Poland. I hope we'll take it this time, we need to get a win over a quality team on a big tournament, it hasn't happened since the 80s. Otherwise we'll still be considered pretenders and not one ofthe heavyweights. We win here and nobody will talk the nonsense that England is better than us.

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Great job on predicting two 0:0s while hyping up the one game that actually ended 0:0.

Now we know for sure that England being better than Poland is not nonsense. All that talk about Poland having offensive firepower, now that was nonsense. One goal in two matches... wow, just wow. Underdog Hungary managed to score two goals in one match.

You're kidding, right? Sorry, but after this game Poland vs England is no contest. Poland entered the elite top 5 of the tournament's favourites. The group is Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland. England isn't up there, unless you think that a draw against struggling Russia is somehow on par with a draw against the World Champion Germany. Hint - it's not.

To me the game went according to our team's gameplan the whole way. The first half the coach wanted to defend, the second he wanted to fight and trade blows - and that's what happened. Lets be honest, if we can keep Germany's offence so limited, England wouldn't even sniff our penalty box. Also, despite Germany being in possession of the ball for a longer time, we had more and better scoring opportunities. The draw is well deserved though, obviously. It was the most fair result, as both teams are very evenly matched. It's not the result I was hoping for, but then again - it's still a group match. The coach wanted to see what the team is capable of and I'm sure he's very happy with the result, as the team proved to be very versatile and capable of playing rock solid defence as well as offence on par with Germany. I'm satisfied with what I saw, considering the stage of the tournament we're at.

The last series of games is going to be fun with both teams going all out, wanting to score more goals to get the first place in the group

Congrats to both teams, it was a tense game despite the lack of goals.