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UEFA Euro 2021 But Yet Somehow Still Euro 2020 Finals
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Czech Republic 1-2 Denmark
Ukraine 0-4 England.
Not much talk on here about the earlier game, I didn't see it because of work but Delaney and Dolberg put Denmark 0-2 up at half time before Schick got one back, but its Denmark who go through.
quite convincing night for England who largely dominated, Kane got the first after just four minutes and it was a mad few minutes early in the second half too with Maguire and Kane making it 0-3, Henderson came off the bench to get his first England goal just after the hour mark and England were pretty comfortable throughout, Ukraine did pretty well and had some good chances of their own and went out with some dignity, a rare stress free night in a major tournament for England who had the luxury to bring players off to rest them. Shaw was excellent with two assists and Sancho was really good too.
Denmark v England in the second semi final on Wednesday night.
Ukraine 0-4 England.
Not much talk on here about the earlier game, I didn't see it because of work but Delaney and Dolberg put Denmark 0-2 up at half time before Schick got one back, but its Denmark who go through.
quite convincing night for England who largely dominated, Kane got the first after just four minutes and it was a mad few minutes early in the second half too with Maguire and Kane making it 0-3, Henderson came off the bench to get his first England goal just after the hour mark and England were pretty comfortable throughout, Ukraine did pretty well and had some good chances of their own and went out with some dignity, a rare stress free night in a major tournament for England who had the luxury to bring players off to rest them. Shaw was excellent with two assists and Sancho was really good too.
Denmark v England in the second semi final on Wednesday night.
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The remaining matches summarised:
Semi finals
Spain vs Italy: Spain have been playing some good football, but lack the quality in front of goal to convert most of their chances. Spain could frustrate Italy, but that double extra time appearances will likely tell and give Italy the chances to put a goal or two in the back of the net. Prediction Italy win 2-0
Denmark vs England: The two surprise packages of the tournament. Denmark are everyone's favourites after Eriksen's collapse and capitalised on a relatively weak draw to get to the Semis. England have been wildly impressive both at controlling the game and defending - neither of which are English traits - and should be a step up in quality over Denmark. Prediction England 3-0.
Final (All permutations)
Spain vs Denmark: the final of surprise. Unless Spain get their scoring boots on as they did against Slovakia, this will be a dull match of missed opportunities until one of them gets lucky in the 80th minute and nicks the only goal of the game.
Italy vs Denmark: I can see Italy sweeping the Danes aside for a convincing win.
Spain vs England: England looked comfortable both in and out of possession. If Spain have the ball, they'll do what they can against the leanest defense of the tournament so far without much avail.
Italy vs England: the final we need between the two best sides of the Euros. One plays free flowing football with some great goals at the end, the other plays from the back turning from slow pace to fast in an instant. Different tactics with the same result. Could go either way, and it will come down to whether England's clean sheets have been due to poor opponents or genuine great defending (Pickford without a doubt has been a star). Literally could go either way and would be a great final. Would the home crowd be the difference for England?
Semi finals
Spain vs Italy: Spain have been playing some good football, but lack the quality in front of goal to convert most of their chances. Spain could frustrate Italy, but that double extra time appearances will likely tell and give Italy the chances to put a goal or two in the back of the net. Prediction Italy win 2-0
Denmark vs England: The two surprise packages of the tournament. Denmark are everyone's favourites after Eriksen's collapse and capitalised on a relatively weak draw to get to the Semis. England have been wildly impressive both at controlling the game and defending - neither of which are English traits - and should be a step up in quality over Denmark. Prediction England 3-0.
Final (All permutations)
Spain vs Denmark: the final of surprise. Unless Spain get their scoring boots on as they did against Slovakia, this will be a dull match of missed opportunities until one of them gets lucky in the 80th minute and nicks the only goal of the game.
Italy vs Denmark: I can see Italy sweeping the Danes aside for a convincing win.
Spain vs England: England looked comfortable both in and out of possession. If Spain have the ball, they'll do what they can against the leanest defense of the tournament so far without much avail.
Italy vs England: the final we need between the two best sides of the Euros. One plays free flowing football with some great goals at the end, the other plays from the back turning from slow pace to fast in an instant. Different tactics with the same result. Could go either way, and it will come down to whether England's clean sheets have been due to poor opponents or genuine great defending (Pickford without a doubt has been a star). Literally could go either way and would be a great final. Would the home crowd be the difference for England?
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England looked shaky at times against Ukraine in the first half. In the second half Ukraine looked like a different team, for the worse. From getting really close to equalize in the first half, to quickly concede 3 goals in the second, it's just bad. England will concede against a better attacking team eventually, maybe in the final. Funny how most people considered England's GK their weakest position, and yet he has been immaculate so far.
I don't see Spain beat Italy. They have been too inconsistent. The final will probably be Italy vs England, and that would be the real test for both. Now, it all depends on which Italy shows up, the one who played against Austria or the one who played against Belgium.
I don't see Spain beat Italy. They have been too inconsistent. The final will probably be Italy vs England, and that would be the real test for both. Now, it all depends on which Italy shows up, the one who played against Austria or the one who played against Belgium.
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England is a very good team and a prime candidate for the title but that doesn’t invalidate the fact that Ukraine is maybe the worst team in the KOs and that what was said about the left/right side of the bracket is being shown true. Winner of England/Germany would have had an easier route to the final.
On the left side it’s no surprise either that most of the hyped teams have been eliminated as that is how knockout matches work, only one team goes through. Portugal has been eliminated by potential candidate Belgium and Belgium has been eliminated by potential candidate Italy. Minimum margin scores. The only unnatural result was France dropping to Switzerland.
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So the top goalscorers has been mentioned here but the top assists and most clean sheets is quite interesting too.
Switzerland's Steven Zuber tops the assist chart with four but the Swiss are now out and the two players in joint second are still in and Luke Shaw and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg both have three, next in line who are still in the competition are Jack Grealish, Marco Verrati and Gerard Moreno who each have two assists.
As for the clean sheets its no surprise that Pickford is top on five, Donnarumma is next on three with Simon on two and Schmeichel only on one, looks like Pickford has won that one.
Also all the yellow cards have now bee wiped out for the remaining teams so they wont carry over on to the semi's or final, its so players wont get suspended for the final...unless they get sent off!
Switzerland's Steven Zuber tops the assist chart with four but the Swiss are now out and the two players in joint second are still in and Luke Shaw and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg both have three, next in line who are still in the competition are Jack Grealish, Marco Verrati and Gerard Moreno who each have two assists.
As for the clean sheets its no surprise that Pickford is top on five, Donnarumma is next on three with Simon on two and Schmeichel only on one, looks like Pickford has won that one.
Also all the yellow cards have now bee wiped out for the remaining teams so they wont carry over on to the semi's or final, its so players wont get suspended for the final...unless they get sent off!
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I don't know why I thought that would link to the Germany match.
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The current table if the tournament was a league, and taking results at 90 minutes (but counting all goals), and then split by tournament stage progress, so teams that got further in the competition are ranked ahead of those that didn't:
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Italy - P5 - W4 D1 L0 - +11 -2 GD+9 - 13pt
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England - P5 - W4 D1 L0 - +8 -0 GD+8 - 13pt
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Denmark - P5 - W3 D0 L2 - +10 -5 GD+5 - 9pt
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Spain - P5 - W1 D4 L0 - +12 -5 GD+7 - 7pt
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Belgium - P5 - W4 D0 L1 - +9 -3 GD+6 - 12pt
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Czech Republic - P5 - W2 D1 L2 - +6 -4 GD+2 - 7pt
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Switzerland - P5 - W1 D3 L1 - +8 -9 GD-2 - 6pt
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Ukraine - P5 - W1 D1 L3 - +5 -10 GD-5 - 4pt
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Netherlands - P4 - W3 D0 L1 - +8 -4 GD+4 - 9pt
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Sweden - P4 - W2 D2 L0 - +5 -4 GD+1 - 8pt
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Austria - P4 - W2 D1 L1 - +5 -5 GD0 - 7pt
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France - P4 - W1 D3 L0 - +7 -6 GD+1 - 6pt
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Croatia - P4 - W1 D2 L1 - +7 -8 GD-1 - 5pt
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Portugal - P4 - W1 D1 L2 - +7 -7 GD0 - 4pt
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Germany - P4 - W1 D1 L2 - +6 -7 GD-1 - 4pt
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Wales - P4 - W1 D1 L2 - +3 -5 GD-2 - 4pt
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Finland - P3 - W1 D0 L2 - +1 -3 GD-2 - 3pt
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Slovakia - P3 - W1 D0 L2 - +2 -7 GD-5 - 3pt
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Russia - P3 - W1 D0 L2 - +2 -7 GD-5 - 3pt
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Hungary - P3 - W0 D1 L2 - +3 -6 GD-3 - 2pt
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Poland - P3 - W0 D1 L2 - +4 -6 GD-2 - 1pt
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Scotland - P3 - W0 D1 L2 - +1 -5 GD-4 - 1pt
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North Macedonia - P3 - W0 D0 L3 - +2 -8 GD-6 - 0pt
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Turkey - P3 - W0 D0 L3 - +1 -8 GD-7 - 0pt
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England and Italy appear very clearly to be the form teams - but Spain is winning without winning...
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I can't hear or read the name Donnarumma without thinking of this...
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Superb finish from Chiesa... a classic.
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I've been saying all along, Morata is a natural born goalscorer..
Both teams have been very good tonight... Denmark will have their work cut out for them in the final.😋
Both teams have been very good tonight... Denmark will have their work cut out for them in the final.😋
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Extraordinary that Spain have only won once in six games in 90 minutes. Every knockout game has gone to extra time, so if they reach the final they'll have already played seven games' worth of minutes.I've been saying all along, Morata is a natural born goalscorer..
Both teams have been very good tonight... Denmark will have their work cut out for them in the final.😋
