The fact that I am worse at predicting football than I am at predicting NFL makes me upset.

I predicted Italy 2-1 Sweden, Czech Republic-Croatia 2-2 and Spain-Turkey 2-0. That middle one will probably not be that goal-heavy though.

EDIT: misread my spreadsheet, Italy 2-1, Spain 2-0, not that it'll make much of a difference though...

On World Cups maybe. This is a European Cup, and we suck at European Cups. I'm pretty sure we would have painfully lost all three group games anyway had we qualified lol.

You must have been watching a different game, or are sour as hell. Or know nothing about football. It was a good game of two equally good teams and I think both teams got a good estimate of where they are at right now. This was still only the group stage, keep it in mind.

Germany dominated the ball, but we had more and better scoring opportunities and were closer to scoring. Milik wasted such great opportunities it was painful, his header at the start of second half was the best opportunity of the entire game. The 11m shot he wasted later should have been an execution as well. Lewandowski had his opportunity as well, but waited too long. All these guys were wide open, these were clear situations, if having so many open situations againt the World Champions indicates a team that can't score, then who can? I agree that Milik and Lewandowski are blocked a bit, but this is a tournament, we've already advanced to the next round, so there is time to improve and these players are the cream of the crop, so I have no doubt they'll wake up. There are many games in front of us and I see the game with Ukraine as the perfect opportunity to finally get over this funk and enter the knock-out stage on fire. The opportunities are there, the team works great, is very deep (we lost our first goalie to injury - did anyone notice it yesterday?), has its style and knows what it wants to do and creates great opportunities - they just have to start converting, but I have no doubt they will get locked in soon. This is a tounament, you won't win it, unless you grow during it, but so far not many teams have shown more, while our players are still hungry and have room to grow.

The players admitted, that they started the game with too much respect for Germany, but then again - Germany is among the established teams, while we're still searching for our ceiling. So many people still believe that teams like England are better, after all (if yuo still think you're better, compare the teams in which our players play. There are no English players in the top teams). I think this is the last tournament for quite some time that we play in this role.

And sure, we're not on the same level as Germany. Last 5 games in last 5 years were 3 draws and one victory for each of the teams, equal in goals scored. That clearly indicates a noticable difference in level Sorry, but that's too many games to call it a fluke. We are in the same league, no matter what you say.

To me there are 3 groups in this Cup:
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland - the best teams, they will decide who the winner is going to be
Croatia, England, Portugal, Iceland, Belgium - a notch lower, but still dangerous. Croatia is probably the best here, Iceland can be scary as hell
The rest - the rest Czech Rep is potentially worthy of note here, we'll see how they play againt Croatia.

Came too late to bet Italy:Sweden (I was expecting 1:0 for Italy)
Czech Rep 1:2 Croatia
Spain 2:0 Turkey

lmao

so how many times did a team win with a goal in the last few minutes thiss tournament.. -_-"

Oh, c'mon. The second half was very different to the first one. We didn't have more opportunities because you were more open, but because we were more open and started attacking you

The defence was very good. In the first half you had no clue how to dismantle it. Pazdan played the game of his life - notably, he was by far the worst player in the game vs N. Ireland, so we are still to see which Pazdan we're going to get in the future. If he keeps this level, it will be glorous, but I'm affraid he may remain a hit or miss.

Both teams played like two good teams would play at this stage of the tournament. Nobody pushed to 100%, but we got a piece of each other. It's a good sign going forward and the fight for first place in the group is going to be exciting

From the pespective of a Sunday fan? No. From a perspective of someone who knows football? Absolutely.

Italy won. Nice. Now if the next one draws and Spain wins later on, I'll be happy for today.

Another late goal for the win.