UEFA Euro 2020 Semi Finals spoilers [6th - 7th July 2021]

RoboCod · 8 Jul 2021 at 19:48

Heat maps of 1st and 2nd half ET

MartinPrince · 8 Jul 2021 at 19:59

Trusty said:
... highlighted by the fact the GK had a MOTM performance.

Exactly, any time the goal keeper is man of the match (as was Schmeichel in this case) it normally indicates that the other side were far the better side and it was the keeper that kept them in it.

Trusty · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:03

MartinPrince said:
Exactly, any time the goal keeper is man of the match (as was Schmeichel in this case) it normally indicates that the other side were far the better side and it was the keeper that kept them in it.

yep, pity he's not English, top goalkeeper.

If it had gone to penalties, and he'd saved a couple, he would have won that game for Denmark single-handedly

Andybtsn · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:04

I hope we see all these England supporters in the PL threads in a few weeks time

Superficial · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:10

Trusty said:
yep, pity he's not English, top goalkeeper.

If it had gone to penalties, and he'd saved a couple, he would have won that game for Denmark single-handedly

Maybe/maybe not but he lost them the match when he saved an easy penalty and let it go. Not his finest 5 seconds.

RoboCod · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:11

Andybtsn said:
I hope we see all these England supporters in the PL threads in a few weeks time

Yuck

azazl187 · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:11

200sols said:
Their free kick wasnt a foul either.

Italians rolling around on the floor after someone's breathed near them.... meh. Sterling goes down after two players sandwich him.... OMG evil diver!!!!!!

I think you might be being a little dramatic yourself ironically

Andybtsn · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:15

RoboCod said:
Yuck

Sorry Championship/League 1, not sure which your boys are in?

Trusty · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:16

Superficial said:
Maybe/maybe not but he lost them the match when he saved an easy penalty and let it go. Not his finest 5 seconds.

yea, he of should have parried it away.

RoboCod · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:17

Andybtsn said:
Sorry Championship/League 1, not sure which your boys are in?

The cheating gods allowed us to stay up. You know this

Rroff · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:26

Andybtsn said:
I hope we see all these England supporters in the PL threads in a few weeks time

No interest in PL - I only follow local team (national league) and England.

Andybtsn · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:28

Rroff said:
No interest in PL - I only follow local team (national league) and England.

I'm sure there's a thread somewhere for that

RoboCod · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:42

Rroff said:
No interest in PL - I only follow local team (national league) and England.

The banter in there is whack anyway.

MartinPrince · 8 Jul 2021 at 20:55

Andybtsn said:
I hope we see all these England supporters in the PL threads in a few weeks time

I'm rare one when it comes to that; I went to the World Cup in Brazil but have never watched my 'supported' PL team at home. :rolleyes:

A case for supporting your local team instead of the favoured/best one in the land when you're a kid.

(i.e. many Man Utd and Liverpool fans!)

dave28 · 8 Jul 2021 at 21:12

Fair play getting to the final, if they have the game of their life they may be able to win but Italy are on one hell of a win streak

robfosters · 8 Jul 2021 at 21:21

Can’t believe bookies have us as favourites. Must be the casuals sticking all their cash on. Italy looking like a decent bet at 2/1.

FoxEye · 8 Jul 2021 at 22:12

Andybtsn said:
I hope we see all these England supporters in the PL threads in a few weeks time

Be careful what you wish for

steve_c · 8 Jul 2021 at 22:19

robfosters said:
Can’t believe bookies have us as favourites.

Why can't you believe it? I know it's flavour of the month to be down on England but they are ranked better than Italy, have had a very successful path through the tournament and have the home advantage with the entire capacity of Wembley behind them.

Why on earth would the bookies rank Italy as favourites? Genuinely confused.

Kirby Wurm · 8 Jul 2021 at 23:18

steve_c said:
Why can't you believe it? I know it's flavour of the month to be down on England but they are ranked better than Italy, have had a very successful path through the tournament and have the home advantage with the entire capacity of Wembley behind them.

Why on earth would the bookies rank Italy as favourites? Genuinely confused.

Italy have overcome tougher opponents in the last two rounds than England have on their path to the final and are on a big unbeaten streak, coupled with a good H2H record (not that it actually counts for anything but it seems to be taken into consideration by bookies). Based on that it's not hard to see how bookies could have favoured them.

As it is I think home advantage is the only thing swaying it England's way. I'd be very surprised if it's not a tight contest.

Jean-F · 8 Jul 2021 at 23:45

dave28 said:
Fair play getting to the final, if they have the game of their life they may be able to win but Italy are on one hell of a win streak

An Italian/American friend in NYC WhatsApped me to say that it was the final that he’d hoped for.
“All we, (Italy), have to worry about is England’s pace, but Bastoni and Chiellini, (if he plays), will have your guys legs off, and make it look like the England player was committing the foul.”

Dis86 said:
There's a difference between outcome and intent. He may have had the intent but there was no negative outcome.

So with a gazillion cameras on us, if I fired a gun at you and missed, the police would say, “Okay Jean, you meant to shoot him but you missed and he’s not hurt, now go home and don’t do it again.”
Gimme a break.

Eddie said:
It may well be disrespect (and a lot more!) between some countries, but I don't think the vast majority of English fans booing last night have any ill feeling towards the nation of Denmark or Danish people.

So booing means “We love you and your country, welcome to England”, I see.

UEFA Euro 2020 Semi Finals ** spoilers ** [6th - 7th July 2021]

UEFA Euro 2020 Semi Finals spoilers [6th - 7th July 2021]