EURO 2016 France - Group A

farfan wrote:

ES wrote:You watch BeIN MENA?

I've been living in the region since 2009 , so yeah .

That and ZDF / Das Erste on Astra .

Nice to see a fellow poster watching it on THE best network

S wrote:Albania have 3 pts with a -2 GD

Can they still make it

I'd say they have a decent chance. Need two of the following to happen:

- Czech Republic and Turkey tie
- Neither Sweden nor Ireland win
- Hungary beats Portugal

It's possible. Maybe not likely, but certainly possible.

I'm rooting for Albania. Great spirit on that team, great Italian style organization and decent skillful players.

If Albania do qualify, it could potentially be Alemannia-Albania in the Ro16

Switzerland were funny last night, played pretty well and got into decent positions in attack, but created no chances whatsoever. I don't remember Lloris making a save. Looks like their wing-play is strong, but no one in the middle can take advantage of it.

Hoping that someone else than Albania progress.

Last night was a bit of a farce...  France was resting players, the pitch was like a potato field and neither team wanted to risk losing so they were more than happy for a scoreless draw.

Waste of 2 hours watching a game where neither team had incentive to do anything... and they didn't.

France should have won though.  Hitting the post 3 times.  That Payet volley should have gone in.

On the good news side... the CB pairing of Kos-Rami is getting itself together and Pogba was fantastic. On the worrying side... Griezmann was mostly invisible. Need Antoine to play up to par in the elimination rounds.

Well, Switzerland could have won, too, if the two shirt-tugging incidents in the penalty box would have been given as penalties. Switzerland got just such a penalty against them in the Romania game when Lichtensteiner tugged a Romanian, but in the France match, the referee let the French players get away easily even though the ripped Swiss shirts showed that there was actually quite a bit of heavy tugging involved. ^^

Switzerland had no hope in hell to win yesterday's game. They are a terrible team offensively.

Agree. The worst thing a player like Embolo can do is join Man United with Mourinho managing at this moment in time.
He's nowhere near a finished top player and accordingly will get no playing time whatsoever.

Of course, that#s exactly what Ebolo will do.

I am tired of people saying Mourinho is bad at handling young players. I mean he has nurtured numerous young players throughout his career.

Spoiler:

S wrote:Switzerland had no hope in hell to win yesterday's game. They are a terrible team offensively.

Had better chances than Poland on thursday.

You must be joking Viva

I'll never tell.

VivaStPauli wrote:

S wrote:Switzerland had no hope in hell to win yesterday's game. They are a terrible team offensively.

Had better chances than Poland on thursday.

Yeah well Poland had no chances at all so that's a given.

I don't want to offend French supporters but have you noticed that the new format of Euro does advantage the host a lot ? They get more rest , much better chances to draw weak teams ... I think this gonna be the new trend .

Lucifer wrote: I am tired of people saying Mourinho is bad at handling young players. I mean he has nurtured numerous young players throughout his career.

Spoiler:

What an embarrassing reply. Raphael Varane, Kurt Zouma, Arjen Robben weren't nurtured by Mourinho ?

If Czech Republic vs. Turkey ends with a draw or Turkey winning with 1 goal difference.....

juvealbanian wrote:If Czech Republic vs. Turkey ends with a draw or Turkey winning with 1 goal difference.....

True, that's a good point actually.