UEFA Euro 2020 Group D ** spoilers ** (England, Croatia, Scotland, C.Republic)

[200sols]

The crowd look exactly how you imagine them to be

 

[muon]

I always wonder in these type of games is it we’ve made Croatia look past their best or are they actually past their best and we should have hammered them 3 nil.

Both teams have been very slow. Gonna blame the 28C heat.

 

[chroniclard]

Philips motm and winner of worst haircut of the tournament in his first game.

 

[McBain]

Jesus on a mad one in the stands.

Haha he was/is absolutely blazing!

 

[montymint]

Philips won’t be a Leeds player next season if he keeps this up

 

[muon]

Got to play Shaw next game. Trippier has been poor.

 

[Trusty]

Not it's a pattern, not one incident. When we're hanging on in a situation like this, everybody is back in their own half, and every time we get the ball we just hoof it away, rather than keeping it and frustrating the opponent.

And since we don't leave even a single player as an outlet up the field, it just comes straight back at us.

It's crazy.

Better than losing the ball in our defensive 3rd trying to play out from the back. There is a reason that teams do what we're doing, because its safer when 1 up and 5 to go.

 

[mmj_uk]

Typical boring England match, good result, fairly comfortable but never really got going in an attacking sense. I don't think the Group F runners-up will be too worried should we win the group.

 

[Kenai]

It's a good result but I don't think the performance will be sending shockwaves of fear throughout the tournament

 

[McBain]

A win is a win and to get off to a good start is essential. Croatia are absolutely gash though, said it before the tournament started that they are well past their best.

Philips man of the match easily, all over the pitch like an animal. Awesome performance.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Decent performance against a poor team with Phillips being the only player to really stand out. Scotland will be a much tougher game.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Happy with that, first time we’ve won an opener at the euros!

 

[mysticsniper]

Typical boring England match, good result, fairly comfortable but never really got going in an attacking sense. I don't think the Group F runners-up will be too worried should we win the group.

It's a results business, let's take the positives and move on

 

[Dis86]

Philips defo motm. But that hair is awful!

 

[Ayahuasca]

Philips defo motm. But that hair is awful!

Predator

 

[Trusty]

Solid win. I think most people would have taken draw before the match. Croatia hardly ever got into England's defensive 3rd throughout game. Pretty controlled game tbf

 

[BaZ87]

Reading this thread was more entertaining than the match. A reasonable performance vs a pretty rubbish side.

 

[muon]

Decent performance against a poor team with Phillips being the only player to really stand out. Scotland will be a much tougher game.

Will be a very different game at 8pm against a team that doesn't play possession football.

 

[mikedigitales]

Good result, not many highlights to recall though.

 

[Robbo]

Good result but the pundits are massively overplaying it. Average performance.

 

[LtMatt]

Philips won’t be a Leeds player next season if he keeps this up

Yes he was very impressive.

 

[montymint]

Good result with a decent performance, much better than we were in 2018.