International Football thread

[Aidan11]

No Blatter or Platini at the Euro 2016 draw.


Shame.

[Aidan11]

Play-off Draw -

Ukraine v Slovenia
Sweden v Denmark
Bosnia & Herzegovina v Republic of Ireland.
Norway v Hungary.

[budgetmeansbudget]

No Blatter or Platini at the Euro 2016 draw.


Shame.

Are there any officials left, most seem to have been banned!

[budgetmeansbudget]

Play-off Draw -

Ukraine v Slovenia
Sweden v Denmark
Bosnia & Herzegovina v Republic of Ireland.
Norway v Hungary.

Didn't Bosnia just beat Wales 2-0?

[Aidan11]

Play-off Draw -

Ukraine v Slovenia
Sweden v Denmark
Bosnia & Herzegovina v Republic of Ireland.
Norway v Hungary.

Didn't Bosnia just beat Wales 2-0?

Yep. I think they drew 0-0 at Wales.

[budgetmeansbudget]

A reasonable performance by our boys against Spain so far, just wish they would believe in themselves a bit more.

[dan08]

Switched on the Ireland game. There's so much fog that you can only see half the pitch.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Sterling is so bloody frustrating, a load of pace but takes too long to get control of a pass and then invariably makes the wrong decision in the final third.

[dan08]

Incredible goal!

[mikesiva]

Mario...wow.

[mikesiva]

Kane seems to have left his goal scoring boots at home. Cazorla didn't though.

[Alviro Patterson]

Mario...wow.

Liquid football, foot like a traction engine all rolled into one

[Aidan11]

Didn't see the game but not surprised by the result.


I see the France game still looks set to go ahead.

[Alviro Patterson]

Just as well the France is going ahead, can't let these cowards win.

[Durhamfootman]

A reasonable performance by our boys against Spain so far, just wish they would believe in themselves a bit more.

I watched the highlights and was quite pleased with England in the first half. They defended well and made some good counterattacking moves. they didn't panic at the back and tried to play the ball intelligently even when under pressure. They created a couple of chances that matched anything that Spain came up with.

Sadly, in the second half they reverted to type. Gave the ball away cheaply.....Sterling waited until his left back had bombed past him before giving the ball away and completely opening up the right for Spain to score the first of their two goals...... dithered on the ball, because they didn't know what to do with it, passed back to the keeper so that he could hand possession straight back to Spain (leading to their second goal), lumped the ball away when clearing their lines. In the end the 2-0 scoreline flattered England... they could easily have lost that 3 or 4 nil... probably should have done, in truth.

Then again, that was miles away from being England's first choice XI. One hopeless centre back with a modest makeweight midfielder partnering him. Of the starting XI, probably only Hart, Carrick, and Sterling would be guaranteed a berth under normal circumstances. It is at least heartening that Roy is prepared to give a lot of younger players the chance to stake a claim for next year.... he may have had little choice, of course. It will be interesting to see what happens next week (assuming the match goes ahead)