UEFA Euro 2012 - Quarter-finals - ** spoilers **

forget the penalties, we were woeful

4 shots on target? simply not good enough and i can't see what youth we have coming through that could make it any better.

That's one of the reasons people aren't crying about going out on penalties I think, as we were so bad we simply didn't deserve to go through.

As many have already said, it would have been absolutely criminal to go through after that performance.

At least we can sit back and enjoy the 2 quarter finals without getting wound up by watching our limp efforts.
 
Unlucky England...from what i watched of the match, it seemed like england only had decent possession for the first 20 mins of the first half where Johnson should have scored, only to have Buffon save it.

From there on in, all i saw was a hell of a lot of Italian possession where they should have been a few goals up...Balotelli didnt have a great game as he missed quite a few chances. Only thing i dont understand is why Di Natale wasnt playing??:confused:....he would have bagged those chances that Balo had.

As for the penalties, well this time imho the right team won unlike the CL final;):p....but Pirlo's penalty was just pure win, cool, calmed and collected...its the sort of penalty that Messi would do or forget penalties, he does those type of shots in regulation time of a game:p. But he made Hart look like a helpless fool:p...pure cheek of his penalty:p.

Didnt really think England had it to beat Italy...its a shame it went to penalties but dems the rules i suppose.

Looking forward to the German and Italy semi...that should be a cracker, wouldnt be surprised if Italy beat Germany...i said at the start that Italy could very well be the dark horses of the Euros.
 
The German camp will be disappointed that Italy won on penalties, Greece and then us would have been an easy run to the final for them as I can't imagine we would have faired much better than the Greeks did against them.

I just hope the Italians aren't too tired from trying to circumvent our bus for 120mins, they only have 48hrs to recover.
 
Someone just been on Talksport, saying we were "fantastic" and that he can't understand where all the negativity is coming from. :confused:
 
the thing i'm most negative about is that teams who are better than us, didn't get as far.

i'd even go as far as to say that from our group, england deserved to qualify the least. we blagged our way through, no real conclusive performances that showed we had what it takes.

john terry, hart and cole are the only players who put in consitently good shifts and even they were nothing more than average for a tournament.
 
So a world class team are having an off night in a really important match against an average team like England, can't score a goal and only win by lucky penalties? Did you ever stop to think that the only reason Italy had so much more possession wasn't because they're great but because England are so goddamn useless? Go on, ask me again if I know the meaning of the word average, you seem to like doing that. :p

Italy had an off night in terms of scoring goals but the rest of their game was pretty good is the point Shamikebab was trying to make I think. England made it difficult for Italy and had some great last ditch tackles but I think you're doing both sides a disservice if you are saying it was just down to England being useless that Italy had so much possession. I suspect on another night Italy would have won by two or three clear goals in normal time.

Someone just been on Talksport, saying we were "fantastic" and that he can't understand where all the negativity is coming from. :confused:

Maybe they're on the wind-up? I don't think it was a terrible tournament for the English team but to describe it as fantastic is taking liberties of the most extreme sort with the word.
 
Maybe they're on the wind-up? I don't think it was a terrible tournament for the English team but to describe it as fantastic is taking liberties of the most extreme sort with the word.

It's the only explanation for it. Surely someone can't be that blinkered/biased/deluded to think we were "Fantastic".
 
It's the only explanation for it. Surely someone can't be that blinkered/biased/deluded to think we were "Fantastic".

Of course they can.
When someone is fanatical about their team, sometimes they can't see the fault of their team. It happens all the time and is nothing new.
 
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