I know it's being unfair but by gawd this current Spain team are not a patch on their side of 10 years ago (even 5). Loads of possession, which you'd expect, but toothless up front. So far...
ffffs then se9 and sillybilly come on here and i feel bad cos they're good lads and their team lost , fcuk off conscience it's football and morals are out the window
We have Germany and France tomorrow but so far I think Italy are by far the strongest side we have seen.
They’ve only played a Turkey side and stuffed them. Doesn’t mean they are the strongest side we’ve seen.
England for the first 20 minutes yesterday looked the strongest side.
I think England had the strongest opposition so far of all the ‘top’ sides have had. Belgium looked pretty tasty but then they were only playing a Russian side that looked like they didn’t give a shit.
I've quite critical of the new Euros format in the past, felt too many games would be tight, ultra defensive affairs, yet in truth we've only seen a handful of them so far.
As a result its setting up a remarkable next round of games in the Group Stages
Apart from Italy | Belgium | England at the moment, you could argue that the rest of the places in the Second Round are wide open, and whilst you'd expect one second and third place team to be one of France | Portugal | Germany, I wouldnt like to predict the rest at the moment.
Turkey and Scotland are the only two that look strugglers
Even thats potentially harsh on the latter given the opportunities they had
This is the very moment Marshall awoke from his dream, you can just make out the ball on the right, the other side of the centre circle. Marshall turned and ran like hell, he took approximately 25 giant strides before hitting the back of the net ... arriving some time after the ball.
Tiki-Taka works great when you have to half a dozen of the best players in the world like Spain did in 2008 - 2012 but, while they have talented players, Spain don’t have that kind of quality so this threading the eye of a needle stuff is so low percentage. They might actually do better against a team that doesn’t sit deep against them like Sweden have. Keeper has made a couple of great saves though.
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Those two met @ Euro 2016 and ended up drawing 3-3
Italy v Switzerland will be a better benchmark (Wednesday), probably as close a match up in their Group to our game yesterday.
Famous last words I know
But this isnt the Spain of the last decade and we dont need to be afraid of a "name"
As a result its setting up a remarkable next round of games in the Group Stages
Apart from Italy | Belgium | England at the moment, you could argue that the rest of the places in the Second Round are wide open, and whilst you'd expect one second and third place team to be one of France | Portugal | Germany, I wouldnt like to predict the rest at the moment.
Turkey and Scotland are the only two that look strugglers
Even thats potentially harsh on the latter given the opportunities they had
This is the very moment Marshall awoke from his dream, you can just make out the ball on the right, the other side of the centre circle. Marshall turned and ran like hell, he took approximately 25 giant strides before hitting the back of the net ... arriving some time after the ball.
Maybe not the same sort of hype but they look a team that will struggle to break sides down and score the goals needed to go far