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mariner4life

That was a crazy 2 hours - England had all 4 countries as their opponents at some point and all teams bar France were going out at some point. Some really good ties in the last 16 to look forward to.

the Tournament was and still is screaming out for some jeopardy, so the knock outs will finally add something.

KiwiPie

According to the bookies pre-tournament, Turkey are the most fancied team to be knocked out ($50) and Wales the biggest outsiders to qualify ($125). So no real shocks in terms of qualifiers.

Favourites to reach the quarter-finals are

France v Spain
Italy v Belgium
Netherlands v Denmark
England v Sweden

although Portugal, Germany, Ukraine are not huge outsiders for their ties.

junior

@kiwipie said in Euros:

According to the bookies pre-tournament, Turkey are the most fancied team to be knocked out ($50) and Wales the biggest outsiders to qualify ($125). So no real shocks in terms of qualifiers.

Favourites to reach the quarter-finals are

France v Spain
Italy v Belgium
Netherlands v Denmark
England v Sweden

although Portugal, Germany, Ukraine are not huge outsiders for their ties.

I am astounded that England are favoured to progress at Germany's expense. While not the greatest German team of all time, it is still incredibly powerful as they showed against Portugal.

Bovidae

Some great matchups in the next round.

Let's hope that the refs don't have a big impact on the games like a certain Spanish ref this morning. 3 penalties, of which two were dubious, and then misses an obvious penalty late in the game.

MiketheSnow

Germany will slam England

canefan

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

Germany will slam England

I wouldn't bet against them

junior

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

Germany will slam England

We can only hope so

Bones

Bale 🤣 not only can he not score, he's blocking his teammates from doing so too.

MiketheSnow

Wales May rue that sustained early pressure with no return.

Great goal from Denmark but against the run of play.

Since then all Denmark

Shit yellow card decision against Moore

sparky

Denmark looking comfortably the better side. Still only 1-0 at half time.

MiketheSnow

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Bones

@mikethesnow but seriously, what was that clearing kick, very soon after a shit turnover on the far side too. How much does 3 have on Wales to bow out?

sparky

Still 2-0 to the Danes. Time running out for Wales.

sparky

Denmark 3 Wales 0. A bridge too far for Wales.

Billy Tell

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Your team was a disgrace today imo. Street fighters. Bale clapping the ref sarcastically was the icing. Good riddance. I prefer your rugby team!

MiketheSnow

@billy-tell said in Euros:

@mikethesnow said in Euros:

2-0 now after defensive guck up

Should have been a free kick to Wales further up the pitch for the hack on Moore though

Shit refereeing

Bale stole Moore’s opportunity there

Your team was a disgrace today imo. Street fighters. Bale clapping the ref sarcastically was the icing. Good riddance. I prefer your rugby team!

Harsh

Wales we’re outplayed and deservedly lost.

And the referee was average at best and shouldn’t proceed beyond the round of 16

MiketheSnow

Italy to progress comfortably

4-1 prediction

MiketheSnow

Christ, Italy making hard work of this

Billy Tell

Italy players diving all over the shop. Austrian just get on with the job and score!

MiketheSnow

@billy-tell said in Euros:

Italy players diving all over the shop. Austrian just get on with the job and score!

Great to see

The Silver Fern

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