Euro 2012 Thread

[thestaggy]

I support Italy even tho they got hammered... now we have people saying they didn't deserve to be in the final and it should have been Germany...

Italy was depleted once they reached the finals... Marchisio, Pirlo, Bonnuci, Barzagli, Balzaretti and Montolivo ran 6 matches in 3 weeks

Playing in a completely different style of football they used to.

I think you will find the Spanish players were under the same duress . . .

That change in style didn't seem to be a problem when the cast Germany aside.

Italy got dismantled by arguably the greatest football team in history. There are no ''ifs'' and ''buts''.

And I don't even like Spain.

 

[fishfly]

I think you will find the Spanish players were under the same duress . . .

That change in style didn't seem to be a problem when the cast Germany aside.

Italy got dismantled by arguably the greatest football team in history. There are no ''ifs'' and ''buts''.

And I don't even like Spain.

Italy played 120 minutes against England - then faced off against Germany and dismantled them convincingly

Against Spain they looked depleted - no I'm not making any excuses because they played their socks off and knocked the tournament favourites off their perch on their way to the finals

 

[Greylor]

It all doesn't matter. I watched the match at a pub in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, Spain. If Italy won it would have been awesome but my passport would probably have dissapeared. Spain won, so the place went absolutely bonkers. Win/win scenario was win/win!!!

As for the match, it was a straight up thorough beating. Well played to Spain...they deserved it. They shut down Pirlo, completely took Super Mario out of the game, and ran circles around us in the passing game. Whenever Italy got the ball they would try some kind of long pass forward that would inevitably hand possession back to Spain. When Italy was on the attack they looked like they were hoping for a mistake...when Spain were on the attack the waited FOR the mistake. It was total dominance and they deserved to win.

2nd place in the Euro is nothing to scoff at, so kudos to both teams...it was the best 2 teams of the tournament in the final and the better of the two on the day won.

Now, back to the holiday

 

[JungleBoy]

last 16 and QF is very realistic

getting pass that is whats needed



before messi started winning trophies for barca ...no one knew that barca existed

thats the bandwagon

Really, I would have thought that most people started taking notice of Barcelona again during Frank Rijkaard's tenure.
Messi wasn't even a big factor then. The likes of Ronaldinho, Deco, Samuel Eto'o, Rafael Márquez, Ludovic Giuly, etc and the current crop of Spanish players today (Víctor Valdes, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Iniesta) were promoted to the Barca first team during Rijkaard's reign.

 

[I.am.Sam]

Really, I would have thought that most people started taking notice of Barcelona again during Frank Rijkaard's tenure.
Messi wasn't even a big factor then. The likes of Ronaldinho, Deco, Samuel Eto'o, Rafael Márquez, Ludovic Giuly, etc and the current crop of Spanish players today (Víctor Valdes, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Iniesta) were promoted to the Barca first team during Rijkaard's reign.

messi played under rijkaard

the barca i enjoyed and watched way before the likes of ronaldinho and co was the dutch stars ..de boer bros, overmars , cocu , riiziger, kluivert and they had spanish players but yeah

oh and rivaldo and figos time as well

they werent as good as the current but that was nice to watch