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    Just seen Van Dijk's goal, great finish, he buried it like a centre forward.

    Best CB in the world by a distance for me
    Varane is pretty close to that standard. Cant of been far off the Golden Ball in World Cup imo.
  • Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.
  • Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
  • Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
  • Just seen Van Dijk's goal, great finish, he buried it like a centre forward.

    Best CB in the world by a distance for me
    Varane is pretty close to that standard. Cant of been far off the Golden Ball in World Cup imo.
    And Godin.
  • MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
  • https://wikitravel.org/en/Guimarães

    Sounds a nice place. 50km from Porto
  • Just seen Van Dijk's goal, great finish, he buried it like a centre forward.

    Amusing that their goal came from sending a big centre back forward, sometimes the old methods when you're desperate still work!
    Reminds me of the days when Curbs would be chasing a game and would send on big Jon Fortune to play up front for the last five minutes.

    I’m sure there’s more examples throughout our history but that’s the one that springs to mind for me.
  • Yeah it’s obvious that the Portugal semi final will be in Porto, with the other two sides playing in Guimaraes.
  • edited November 2018

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    Google Maps says 37 minutes in a car between Porto airport and the stadium in Guimaraes.
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  • MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
  • MrLargo said:

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
    Yeah seems as though they will be; UEFA just need to sort out the scheduling it seems
  • edited November 2018
    MrLargo said:

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
    yes i am mate, im on 27 caps so working off that any allocation of over 2157 ive got a ticket, currently there are 9588 travel club members which you have to be a part of to buy an official england away ticket, previous comps its 16% so;

    porto would be 8000 official tickets
    guimares would be 4800 offical tickets

    of course this wont have the interest major tournaments have had and cant imagine there will be as many corporates as previous more serious comps.

    what would be best for ticketing reasons would be get portugal in the semis as they would then host that game and surely the final should we beat them would have to be in porto.

    i will be waiting until 3rd december before booking anything as want to see who we get in the euro qaulifying group the draw is on 2nd dec.
  • Just seen Van Dijk's goal, great finish, he buried it like a centre forward.

    Best CB in the world by a distance for me
    From what i've seen of him, it won't be long before de Ligt surpasses him and the Dutch have the 2 best centre backs in the world.

    Any top club should pay whatever it costs to get him, he's going to be top level for the next 12-15 years.
  • Just seen Van Dijk's goal, great finish, he buried it like a centre forward.

    Best CB in the world by a distance for me
    From what i've seen of him, it won't be long before de Ligt surpasses him and the Dutch have the 2 best centre backs in the world.

    Any top club should pay whatever it costs to get him, he's going to be top level for the next 12-15 years.
    De Ligt and Frenkie de Jong both look very promising players from what I've seen.

    Godin is the best centre back in the world at he minute though, rather than Van Dijk, in my opinion.
  • edited November 2018

    MrLargo said:

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
    yes i am mate, im on 27 caps so working off that any allocation of over 2157 ive got a ticket, currently there are 9588 travel club members which you have to be a part of to buy an official england away ticket, previous comps its 16% so;

    porto would be 8000 official tickets
    guimares would be 4800 offical tickets

    of course this wont have the interest major tournaments have had and cant imagine there will be as many corporates as previous more serious comps.

    what would be best for ticketing reasons would be get portugal in the semis as they would then host that game and surely the final should we beat them would have to be in porto.

    i will be waiting until 3rd december before booking anything as want to see who we get in the euro qaulifying group the draw is on 2nd dec.
    Same as myself. I have missed all the cheap direct flights, so will shop around for a good alternative. Tbh, there are plenty of airports within 3/4 hours of Porto, which will attract plenty of supporters coach. Also, with 20 trains a day between Lisbon and Porto, there will be plenty going this route.

    I’ll judge who we have in the qualifiers to assess how much annual leave I can take for this one.
  • MrLargo said:

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
    yes i am mate, im on 27 caps so working off that any allocation of over 2157 ive got a ticket, currently there are 9588 travel club members which you have to be a part of to buy an official england away ticket, previous comps its 16% so;

    porto would be 8000 official tickets
    guimares would be 4800 offical tickets

    of course this wont have the interest major tournaments have had and cant imagine there will be as many corporates as previous more serious comps.

    what would be best for ticketing reasons would be get portugal in the semis as they would then host that game and surely the final should we beat them would have to be in porto.

    i will be waiting until 3rd december before booking anything as want to see who we get in the euro qaulifying group the draw is on 2nd dec.
    Same as myself. I have missed all the cheap direct flights, so will shop around for a good alternative. Tbh, there are plenty of airports within 3/4 hours of Porto, which will attract plenty of supporters coach. Also, with 20 trains a day between Lisbon and Porto, there will be plenty going this route.

    I’ll judge who we have in the qualifiers to assess how much annual leave I can take for this one.
    Am hoping for a home nations in qualifying group of course if we win nations league doesn’t that qualify us for the Euro’s?
  • edited November 2018

    MrLargo said:

    MrLargo said:

    Choice of Guimaraes as a venue is odd. The best supported team outside the big 3 TBF, but only 30k capacity. Porto fine, but both big Lisbon clubs could have fitted a lot more in.

    Yes. Never heard of Guimaraes before, I see it's quite near to Porto, I don't know if that was a factor
    Criteria was 2 stadiums each with a capacity of at least 30,000, in the same city or no more than 150km apart, so Benfica/Sporting and Porto/Guimaraes both meet that criteria but obviously the Lisbon option offers a much larger capacity.

    I suppose a Croatia vs Switzerland fixture would have possibly struggled to fill a 60k stadium, but I should think England and the Netherlands (and presumably Portugal as well) will sell as many tickets as we're given.

    Lisbon gets plenty of tourists anyway. For Guimaraes, and Porto to a lesser extent, 5 days of football supporters drinking the place dry is a nice pay day for the bars, restaurants and hotels.
    how far is guimaraes from porto?, considering flying out saturday morning back monday afternoon worse case would catch the 3/4 place final does anybody know what date this is uefa says same day as final the evening standard says 8th june.
    50km from Porto. I got the vague impression from the UEFA website that 3/4th place and final were on the same day, but wasn't clear at all. Easy to get back to Porto anyway, could even do it in a cab if there's a few of you to split the fare.

    @palarsehater are you in the England Travel Club? If so, any guesses as to what proportion of the capacity we might get? presume it will be a lot higher than World Cup/Euros.
    yes i am mate, im on 27 caps so working off that any allocation of over 2157 ive got a ticket, currently there are 9588 travel club members which you have to be a part of to buy an official england away ticket, previous comps its 16% so;

    porto would be 8000 official tickets
    guimares would be 4800 offical tickets

    of course this wont have the interest major tournaments have had and cant imagine there will be as many corporates as previous more serious comps.

    what would be best for ticketing reasons would be get portugal in the semis as they would then host that game and surely the final should we beat them would have to be in porto.

    i will be waiting until 3rd december before booking anything as want to see who we get in the euro qaulifying group the draw is on 2nd dec.
    Same as myself. I have missed all the cheap direct flights, so will shop around for a good alternative. Tbh, there are plenty of airports within 3/4 hours of Porto, which will attract plenty of supporters coach. Also, with 20 trains a day between Lisbon and Porto, there will be plenty going this route.

    I’ll judge who we have in the qualifiers to assess how much annual leave I can take for this one.
    Am hoping for a home nations in qualifying group of course if we win nations league doesn’t that qualify us for the Euro’s?
    It doesn’t unfortunately. The summer 2019 competition is only for a trophy and has no impact on Euro 2020 qualifying.

    If, by the end of 2019, we fail to finish top two in our Euro 2020 qualifying group then we will be entered into the March 2020 playoffs alongside three other non qualified League A Nations. Switzerland, Portugal and Netherlands get priority as group winners.

    If there’s less than four teams from League A that failed to qualify, they will start adding teams from League B to make up the numbers.
  • Scotland 0 Israel 1.

    Superb goal.
  • Always liked Israel
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  • edited November 2018
    Oh dear never mind! Scotland need two goals or another campaign in League C beckons.
  • edited November 2018
    Wrong thread lol
  • Oh dear never mind! Scotland need two goals or another campaign in League C beckons.

    Kiss of death that lol
  • Portugal 1-0 Poland HT

    Sweden 1-0 Russia HT

    Sweden getting promoted to League A at the expense of Russia if they hold on to the lead.
  • Oh dear never mind! Scotland need two goals or another campaign in League C beckons.

    Kiss of death that lol
    All jokes aside Scotland are probably better than League C, but can't see them staying in B
  • Scotland’s second goal was lovely. Look terrible at the back though so wouldn’t count our Israel scoring again.
  • se9addick said:

    Scotland’s second goal was lovely. Look terrible at the back though so wouldn’t count our Israel scoring again.

    Forrest has taken all his goals well (2 Saturday and 2 tonight). Cracking little player
  • Still fully expect Scotland to balls this up, it's what they do - won't qualify and also won't get the benefit of being relegated to a league lower next time.
  • se9addick said:

    Scotland’s second goal was lovely. Look terrible at the back though so wouldn’t count our Israel scoring again.

    Forrest has taken all his goals well (2 Saturday and 2 tonight). Cracking little player
    Can’t believe these have been his first goals at international level.
  • se9addick said:

    Scotland’s second goal was lovely. Look terrible at the back though so wouldn’t count our Israel scoring again.

    Forrest has taken all his goals well (2 Saturday and 2 tonight). Cracking little player
    Three tonight
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