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Scisca on 15 June 2016

Again result on the nose

The rest for today from me:
Romania 1:0 Switzerland
France 3:0 Albania

I'm going a bit crazy with France, but I think a lot of pressure left their shoulders after the first game and now they'll dominate this outsider.



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Slimebeast on 15 June 2016
Kerotan said:
Slimebeast said:

Sooooo lucky.

Unbelievable atmosphere in the Ireland - Sweden game! The best atmosphere there can be in Euro or World cup.

6 games, damn u lucky!!! How much u paid for tickets, could u give an example?

France v Romania opening match €200

Turkey v Croatia €55

Ireland v Sweden €55

Romania v Switzerland €55

Ireland v Belgium €105

Ireland v Italy €55

 

So just over €500 for the 6 matches.  

 

Today we go to the Parc de Princes for the Romania v Switzerland match.  

Cool! Where do you get to sit for those 55 Euros?



Slimebeast on 15 June 2016
RolStoppable said:
Slimebeast said:

What do you mean tomorrow? The Austrian match is today, right now.

And what do you mean "finally" and "last time"? Are you watching them live in France, or do you almost never watch Austria national team on TV??

The post you quoted was written on Monday.

I was talking about watching games on TV. I wouldn't go through the trouble of going to a stadium to watch our national team. Rightly so, because yesterday they looked just like I remembered them. They had a good start, but after 15 minutes it became the worst game of the tournament when both teams displayed poor pass accuracy. Hungary didn't have a good scoring chance until the second half, but they played really well against an Austrian team that got worse by the minute.

I said that four points will be enough to reach the round of 16, but considering how tough Iceland looked, that's going to take a miracle. Portugal was dominant and looked like the best team in the group (expected), so how is Austria supposed to get a win and a draw in the two remaining games. I suppose that the reactive role will suit them better, but Portugal is going to be pretty pissed after their draw, so a 4-0 loss of Austria wouldn't surprise me on Saturday.

Wow, pretty amazing that a guy who's interested in football doesn't follow his national team. But if I understand it right, it's cos of the endless disappointments.

This year Austria had a good team compared to 2008.
But now it's gonna be tough to make the knockout phase.



Scisca on 15 June 2016

An English fan passed away in a hospital after he was beaten up by Russians.



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Scisca on 15 June 2016
RolStoppable said:
Slimebeast said:

Wow, pretty amazing that a guy who's interested in football doesn't follow his national team. But if I understand it right, it's cos of the endless disappointments.

This year Austria had a good team compared to 2008.
But now it's gonna be tough to make the knockout phase.

It's disappointing results and disappointing play. They aren't fun to watch.

Yes, 2008 was embarrassing. There had been so many plans to field a good team by the time the Euro came around (they had at least six years to put things together), but in the end all the Austrian fan could hope for was that it didn't come to complete humiliation. The results weren't that bad (0-1 against Croatia via a penalty; 1-1 vs. Poland, although Austria's goal came via a penalty; 0-1 vs. Germany), but it was hopeless the entire time.

This time around a better team lost 0-2 vs. Hungary. It's typical for Austria.

Don't worry, we've failed to build a good team for our Euro as well I know how shitty it feels. But fortunately we have benefits 4 years later, so you never know, there's always hope. The thing that makes me laugh though, is that half of your team has names ending with -ić. There are move -ić players in Austria than Croatia I'm not sure if that's the best way to go about buildign a national team

I remember the slugfest that Poland-Austria was in 2008. We scored from an offside, while you scored from an absurd penalty that the ref pulled from his hat, as there was no foul there. We had no doubt that he was compensating you for missing the offside when we scored. A game and tournament to forget



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

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Barozi on 15 June 2016
Slimebeast said:
RolStoppable said:

The post you quoted was written on Monday.

I was talking about watching games on TV. I wouldn't go through the trouble of going to a stadium to watch our national team. Rightly so, because yesterday they looked just like I remembered them. They had a good start, but after 15 minutes it became the worst game of the tournament when both teams displayed poor pass accuracy. Hungary didn't have a good scoring chance until the second half, but they played really well against an Austrian team that got worse by the minute.

I said that four points will be enough to reach the round of 16, but considering how tough Iceland looked, that's going to take a miracle. Portugal was dominant and looked like the best team in the group (expected), so how is Austria supposed to get a win and a draw in the two remaining games. I suppose that the reactive role will suit them better, but Portugal is going to be pretty pissed after their draw, so a 4-0 loss of Austria wouldn't surprise me on Saturday.

Wow, pretty amazing that a guy who's interested in football doesn't follow his national team. But if I understand it right, it's cos of the endless disappointments.

This year Austria had a good team compared to 2008.
But now it's gonna be tough to make the knockout phase.

To be fair I never got to see the German national team either. You'd think they play more often in Berlin, but since I live here (~3 years) they only had one game here (very recently in fact) and for that I was already too late to get tickets. Well they lost the game, so it wasn't too bad lol.



Carl on 15 June 2016
Scisca said:
An English fan passed away in a hospital after he was beaten up by Russians.

I'm looking for a source on this but can't find one. Admittedly, I've not looked far. Can you link please?



                            

AZWification on 15 June 2016

Not the best 45 minutes, but I will take it!



                
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AZWification on 15 June 2016

Not a great perfomance. Keseru, Prepelita, Torje and Stancu to a lesser extent  were all wank.



                
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Scisca on 15 June 2016
Carl2291 said:
Scisca said:
An English fan passed away in a hospital after he was beaten up by Russians.

I'm looking for a source on this but can't find one. Admittedly, I've not looked far. Can you link please?

I've heard it on the radio news.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.