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Official Euro 2012 Thread

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Fun_dip
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Official Discussion Thread for the Euro this Summer.
I for one am stoked since I feel the Euro is the best International competition "trimming the fat" if you will.

Predicitions.
Group A: Russia- 1, Poland- 2(a toss up between them and Czech)
Group B: Germany- 1, Netherlands- 2.... wish Portugal could surprise someone, but I doubt it
Group C: Spain-1, Croatia- 2... Croatia partially because I hate Italy, but I think Croatia can actually take Italy
Group D: France- 1, England- 2


France wins it all by beating England for a second time.. more of a hope than a prediction, but oh well. Hope Spain doesn't win and I'd love to see Ireland be competitive.
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Good Times.

Post whatever Euro Tournament stuff you want.
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Bar_Down
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Id be pretty pumped if Croatia makes it through over Italy
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YoungQuinton
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im at a loss...can somebody explain to me why Greece advanced over Russia? I thought the defining factor of a tie in the group stages was goal difference but Russia's goal difference is 2 while Greece's is 0. How does that work?
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Laurent.
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I think Spain will beat Croatia and italy will beat ireland.


That said, finally found a .gif of Van der Vaart's goal:


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Besides Stekelenburg he was the only other good player yesterday.
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1337
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this was a piece of beauty. I almost cried sweet tears of joy when I watched it several times in slow mo.
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Bar_Down
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To the guy wondering why Greece advanced, the tiebreaker isnt determined by goal differential, it goes head to head first, so even though theyre tied in points, greece beat russia so they advance
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YoungQuinton
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thanks, another question though. How does it go after groups, is it like bracket head to head style or what?
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Bar_Down
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Ya its bracket head to head, 1 game only. If it's tied after 90 min they go to extra time then shootout if its still tied
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J.D.
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Haha love hockey terminology in Euro - extra time is golden goal I believe, then penalties. Anyone confirm that it's golden goal? I know it's not silver goal anymore.
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1337
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after playing loads of fifa 11, I am with you that golden goal is the next round after a 90 minute tie
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EmperorKuzco
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I think they do the golden goal extra time like 15 minute halfs then shootout.
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will-g
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its not golden goal overtime, its two 15 minute halfs and if that doessnt decide a winner then they do a pk shootout best of 5 shooters.
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Bar_Down
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ya theres no way its golden goal
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Bar_Down
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And they're called penalty shootouts so I wasn't really using hockey terminology
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feihlination
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it was golden goal from 96 on. in 04, it already was silver goal, because greece advanced via a silver goal against the czech republic if i remember correctly.

nowadays its 100% back to the old stuff. so if its tied after 90 minutes:

2 times 15 minutes extra time

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if its still tied
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each team gets 5 penalties

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if its still tied
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sudden death penalties

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Bar_Down
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Omg Casillas, dat save.
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Fun_dip
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fuck spain.
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Laurent.
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Not hard to predict but I was right.

Gif's of Balotelli's goal:

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Different angle + slow mo:

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Random Italian girl in the crowd:

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And Spain, stay classy, that was a clear penalty.

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*kF_pauLo-
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I hope France will win over Sweden tomorrow, then we'd meet Italy later on :) We need a revenge from 2006 World cup final
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*kF_pauLo-
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And for the OP, god you have great fans, it's amazing. I was rooting for Ireland against Italy. Although I know you hated us for Thierry Henry's hand some years ago... which we all frenchies thought was unfair. But we paid the price with a terrible world cup. Many teams would probably wish to have your fans
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feihlination
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spain got lucky. croations got two clear penalties denied (you could also give spain one, but that one wasnt as clear). and rakitic had the best scoring possibility of the whole game.

ok, they are through and everything, but refs and fucking goddess of luck have to stop sucking spains dicks.


if they pass the ball around 40 times its called "cool", "experienced" and "they control the ball and the game". but if ANY other team does it, they have no clue what to do.



i am kinda mad. germany is my favourite and they also didnt play too well. but right now, there is no other team that looks unstoppable. as weird as it might sound, but i would say that england and france could do more damage than most people think right now.


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Fun_dip
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haha not too big of a problem for me since France has always been my number 2 team. Revenge would be sweet.
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Jane6
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spain-croatia: 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back, most boring game so far.
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Laurent.
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Should have watched Italy vs Ireland.

At least things happened on both sides of the pitch because Italy sometimes acts ridiculously casual and sloppy.

Also those Irish supporters are great.
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PJS.
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must have been posted already, but its worth it to repost.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrjfbx_the-fields-of-athenry_sport
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Jane6
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@Lawrence yeah wanted to, but shitty swedish tv decided to show that game on a channel you have to pay extra for. and my friend is a mega spain fan, so we were kind of forced to haha.
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Squaw6
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I'd like to leave a good old fashioned: "I told you so," to everyone in here who laughed when I said Croatia would give Spain a really tough game.
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Squaw6
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And this should have been a penalty:




Fuck Spain
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=nick=
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agreed with most people here, fuck spain.

plus their goal was clearly offsides
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fitzcarraldo
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Its gonna be tough for England/France/Ukraine coming out of group D knowing that Spain and Italy are sat there waiting for you in the next round.

I fell good about Portugal at the moment as they have had three matches against quality opponents and made it out of the groups, I just hope they don't take the Czechs for granted and get sloppy. There's every chance of a Germany re-match in the final.

Who does everyone reckon is gonna get out of group D...? is France & England a done deal, just in what order?
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stoned_sorcerer
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Well right now it's France and then England. I think France may have a better chance at scoring more goals since Swedens focus is on attacking.
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Bar_Down
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Allez les Bleus
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eldridge
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i dont understand why all of you hate Italy...
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Laurent.
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My predictions for tonight:

England VS Ukraine: 2-1

Ukraine has home turf advantage but England has the way better team. And Shrek look-a-like Rooney is playing again for England. Shevchenko is Ukraine sole hope of a victory or equalizing.

Sweden VS France: 1-2

Sweden has nothing to really play for apart from entertaining their crowd. But let's not forget they have Zlatan Ibrahimovich who can singlehandedly win a match for the team for which he is playing, and he has been excellent in controlling the Match vs England.
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Bar_Down
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^^well for me personally, I just hate how they play because they usually dive a lot more than most players, and also I'm a France fan so I'm still a little bitter from 2006 lol
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PacificRimJob
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If England lose today, this tournament will be pretty boring the rest of the way for me...
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Fun_dip
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As much as I hate Spain and wish you were right, their goal was on side. During the replay I couldn't believe it, but they were no offside.

England 3-1 France 2-0
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PlaygroundRapist
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SO pure and unspoiled, naturally sweet and nice.

I'm in love.
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maximiliaan
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holy shit that national anthem from ukraine... dayum
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DERS.
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holy hell. beaytiful goal from sweeden.
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a_pla5tic_bag
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dmsnajkbfddkfghjsalvfhaslvbao ENGLAND HOW THE HELL DID THEY STOP THAT. although it might have went in
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Rosstafarian
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Holy fuck Ibra's goal was sick. Also Ukraine just got robbed.
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theBearJew
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it DID go in. You could tell in real time that it crossed the line.
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Hoppy
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woops! :p

At least John Terry has done something for his team this time
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a_pla5tic_bag
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yeah that was in. they just showed a top down view
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Laurent.
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Damn my predictions.

.Gif of Zlatan's amazing goal:

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stoned_sorcerer
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COME ON! The ukraine player (sorry, idk the name) who passed the ball before the goal assist was obviously offside. It all happened so fast, the ref couldn't whistle it but he was offside.
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stoned_sorcerer
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Sorry, i know how it sounds, but i swear he was offside when he passed to the guy who assisted the goal.
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Hoppy
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Yeah, the shite commentators on ITV said they reviewed it and was offside. So at least if we win, it should be fair
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shibby
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more boring than Spain and they have a hair of blatantly cheating. feel sorry for
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shibby
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damn mobile. feel sorry for Ukraine and that zlatan goal was top class.England look like Chelsea in white butte they have Andy instead of Drogba and Parker instead of lampard hah
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