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Rank Name Points
1 AZWification 39
2 Kapi96 36
  Rolstoppable 36
3 vivster 31
4 AUGEn 30
5 Nikkom 29
  Mike 321 29
6 Anfebious 26
7 S.Peelman 21
8 The Fury 20
  Carl2291 20


 

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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.

(...)

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.



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kowenicki said:
Balaclava wearing Russian scum attacking Welsh and English fans already in the new location.

Just kick the fuckers out now and boycott their World Cup. Bunch of racist, homophobic violent lunatics.

UEFA are gutless. Who are they sponsored by again. . ?

Lmao.  I just left Paris today and literally half the English are aggressive thugs.  The other half are cool and are embarrassed for what your fans are at.  

 

They are just so aggressive and not there to have fun like the Irish,  Welsh,  swedish etc.  

 

Kick England out and we'll have no more singing about Irish genocides at the hands of England, insulting Germans about WW2 and the Russian nut jobs will have 1 less team to fight.  

 

England have the worst history of major tournament violence of any country and you've the audacity to say Russia should go.  I say kick both of you out.  You're both just as bad.  The only difference is the Russians kicked the living day lights out of the English so they could play the sympathy card. Poor you :'(

 

The BBC had a report from lille yesterday saying England fans were clashing with police and it was all started by them.  Not Russians needed.  Stop making excuses for your countries appalling behaviour. 



Scisca said:
RolStoppable said:

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.

That's a bit overboard. First of all Poland was as passive in the second half as they were in the first. There were one or two more chances but that was because Germany left its defense more open by getting even more aggressive.

And you should not flatter your defense. The only one holding back the Germans were the Germans. There were a lot of opportunities and Poland's defense was as open as ever but if no one in the German team is going to make a proper pass, it's all in vain. Thinking your defense was actually good will only hurt in the next match.

Both teams played like shit and in the end Poland profited a bit more from it.



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I guess that's it.



Ecuador fell asleep until minute 70, deserved win for USA. Valencia was so stupid and they were lucky the ref gave that unfair red card to the US player. Wanted Ecuador to win but they blew it

 

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Not sure why many try to talk down the performance of the Polish and German team.
I think the German players actually improved from the Ukraine game. Boateng was much better, Hector was really active on his side, Khedira, while still a meh-ish performance improved quite a bit. Müller was better as well.

And no Poland wasn't open at all. Might wanna watch the latest Wales or Austria game again.



NiKKoM said:
Rank Name Points
1 AZWification 39
2 Kapi96 36
  Rolstoppable 36
3 vivster 31
4 AUGEn 30
5 Nikkom 29
  Mike 321 29
6 Anfebious 26
7 S.Peelman 21
8 The Fury 20
  Carl2291 20

AZW basically has double my points and we are 50% the way through the group stage. Now lets say for some reason I get double his points in the other 50% I could come back in this but... sometimes, don't know why, tells me I won't.



Hmm, pie.

The Fury said:
NiKKoM said:
Rank Name Points
1 AZWification 39
2 Kapi96 36
  Rolstoppable 36
3 vivster 31
4 AUGEn 30
5 Nikkom 29
  Mike 321 29
6 Anfebious 26
7 S.Peelman 21
8 The Fury 20
  Carl2291 20

AZW basically has double my points and we are 50% the way through the group stage. Now lets say for some reason I get double his points in the other 50% I could come back in this but... sometimes, don't know why, tells me I won't.

To be honest, 19 of my 39 points came from the last 2 days. I'm just having a small dose of luck..



                
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