UEFA EURO 2024

jimmymelrose said:

fenaddick said:

jimmymelrose said:

Back to England:

I’ve just read on the BBC about Wharton replacing AA. How accurate that may be is another matter.

It’s not easy to find the teamlists for the qualifiers so I was wondering if anyone remembers who played in that position in the qualifiers. I seem to remember Mainoo playing there in the last few games or was that just the friendlies?

I really don’t get all this confusion. First AA, now Wharton. Who was there before?. Was it Henderson at the start of qualifying, maybe Bellingham for a few games, finishing with Mainoo, or were we playing a different formation with Rice on his own?

We didn’t play 4-2-3-1 a huge amount, when we did sometimes it was TAA and sometimes Phillips. In a 4-3-3 it was Rice, TAA and Henderson/Gallagher (Bellingham must have been injured). Mainoo only came in for friendlies. The issue is we were qualifying against much weaker teams.

So the mistake was not picking Henderson and/or Phillips. This what you get for cricising the manager for picking his favourites and pressurising him to pick ’on form’ players. Wharton may be on form but he’s too high risk for my liking. With Henderson in there I’d feel assured.

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

Sillybilly said:

Looking forward to the knockout stages. It’s been a good tournament so far by all accounts but apart from the England and Scotland games I just can’t muster any interest. Even my football hating wife has remarked on how little I’ve watched. Must be an age thing. 

Same here. I haven't watched a single match other than the two England games (then wished I hadn't bothered).
I guess I'll get into it at some point but I am not altogether convinced.
Weird really. The younger me would be disgusted

WHAddick said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

WHAddick said:

bolloxbolder said:

Callumcafc said:

Callumcafc said:

One round of games completed… if the groups were final at this moment in time, the round of 16 would look like this:

Spain(1B) v Czechia(3F)

Germany(1A) v Denmark(2C)

Turkey(1F) v Albania(3B)

France(2D) v Slovakia(2E)

Romania(1E) v Slovenia(3C)

Netherlands(1D) v Portugal(2F)

England(1C) v Poland(3D)

Switzerland(2A) v Italy(2B)

Updated after two games played:

Spain(1B) v Slovakia(3E)

Germany(1A) v Denmark(2C)

Portugal(1F) v Slovenia(3C)

France(2D) v Belgium(2E)

Romania(1E) v Albania(3B)

Netherlands(1D) v Turkey(2F)

England(1C) v Austria(3D)

Switzerland(2A) v Italy(2B)

I don't fancy our chances of making the quarters looking at that.

I get how the order of the third place teams is decided but why do we get Austria?
Seems they (3D) could play Spain, 1E or 1C.
So why is it 1C decided already?

It isn't decided already, Callum was posting what the second round would look like if the groups finished now. It's quite likely it will look a whole different in a few days time.

I think he's picked worst hasn't he. Currently we could get Austria, Slovakia or the Czechs can't we?

That would mean 3rd placed teams from Groups B, C, D and E would qualify and therefore 1C gets 3D, 1E gets 3B, 1F gets 3C and 1B gets 3E.

ForeverAddickted said:

Callumcafc said:

Switzerland 1-0

Top of the group as it stands. Would throw Germany into the quarter of the knockout draw that includes the winner of England’s group.

God sake... Piss off Germany!!

ForeverAddickted said:

Callumcafc said:

Hungary hit the Scottish crossbar

Would have been a joke had they scored, seeing that they got a free kick for a high foot that didnt even touch their player.