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Slimebeast on 13 June 2016
Slarvax said:
Giaccherini looks like is playing for Belgium.

Until he scored.

Exciting that Italy scored, not only because I want Italy to win but will be interesing to see how Belgium react.



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Scisca on 13 June 2016
Slimebeast said:
Scisca said:

I don't believe in Belgium that much, but maybe they'll surprise me today. Also, I absolutely can't agree with England at the fifth spot, I think Poland would be a clear favorite in this matchup. To me the top tier favorites is France, Germany and Spain - obviously. After that it's Poland and Belgium as the two dark horses that can take down every other team with some luck and it won't really be a huge surprise (though I'm not convinced if Belgium actually is a team). After that there's England, Croatia and Portugal - good teams, dangerous, but I can't see them going all the way. Italy is totally unpredictable, it's hard to put a finger on that team - as usual. I can see them failing to advance out of the group stage just as well as winning the whole thing.

It's always interesting to debate this.

England has been impressive consistantly for over a year now, and Belgium is filled with amazing players.

Poland has the potential you speak of, but they still have to prove it until I really believe. Among betting bureaus Poland is rated much lower than England.

Poland has recently been rated the lowest in its group, so don't read too much into this FIFA rankings are pure bs. England has been very consistent, but in an average group and their squad isn't impressive at all and they are already choking. With Rooney as their leader, they won't win anything, sorry. Poland has been consistent as well with Lewandowski being the top scorer of the qualifiers - and by far - and taking down Germany in one of the qualifiers. The truth for us will be in the Thursday's pudding though.

 

And we already see why I wasn't buying the Belgian hype. They lack the quality and don't form a team.



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Slarvax on 13 June 2016
Slimebeast said:
Slarvax said:
Giaccherini looks like is playing for Belgium.

Until he scored.

Exciting that Italy scored, not only because I want Italy to win but will be interesing to see how Belgium react.

Seems like it gave Italy more momentum.



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Wyrdness on 13 June 2016

Belgian's issue is the mentality for tournaments, individually they're the best team at the Euro's but Italy have been in tournaments as one of the big teams for decades consistently. Belgian really need to compose themselves now and react.



vivster on 13 June 2016

Looks like the better team is leading after the first half.

Belgium is playing as bad as France. Singular points of quality with no team coherence.



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pastro243 on 13 June 2016

Italy just being Italy



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Slimebeast on 13 June 2016
Scisca said:
Slimebeast said:

It's always interesting to debate this.

England has been impressive consistantly for over a year now, and Belgium is filled with amazing players.

Poland has the potential you speak of, but they still have to prove it until I really believe. Among betting bureaus Poland is rated much lower than England.

Poland has recently been rated the lowest in its group, so don't read too much into this FIFA rankings are pure bs. England has been very consistent, but in an average group and their squad isn't impressive at all and they are already choking. With Rooney as their leader, they won't win anything, sorry. Poland has been consistent as well with Lewandowski being the top scorer of the qualifiers - and by far - and taking down Germany in one of the qualifiers. The truth for us will be in the Thursday's pudding though.

 

And we already see why I wasn't buying the Belgian hype. They lack the quality and don't form a team.

lol I'm not talking about FIFA rankings, they're complete BS. I'm saying the betting sites have Poland much lower than England, and they're pros who set the odds.

I have no faith in Rooney either.

Thursday's match will be soooo cool, such a battle. I hope many Polish fans are at the site.

Don't rule out Belgium yet, it's only half a match.



Slarvax on 13 June 2016

What is this shit. Exciting game, but mistakes left and right every minute.



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LipeJJ on 13 June 2016

Belgium is actually deserving to score a goal on the 2nd half...



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vivster on 13 June 2016

Looks like Italy and Germany are the only teams so far who are playing football.



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