Euro 2016 Official Thread

[Baseball Furies]

2nd time lucky as earlier thread "accidentally" deleted

Group A
Albania
France
Romania
Switzerland

Group B
England
Russia
Slovakia
Wales

Group C
Germany
Northern Ireland
Poland
Ukraine

Group D
Croatia
Czech Republic
Spain
Turkey

Group E
Belgium
Italy
Republic of Ireland
Sweden

Group F
Austria
Hungary
Iceland
Portugal

Favourites - France 3-1
Germany - 4-1
Spain - 11-2 (juicy)
England - 9-1
Belgium - 11-1
Italy - 16-1
Portugal - 20-1
Croatia - 25-1

Squad lists (all 552 players) here:
http://www.football365.com/news/euro-2016-squads-all-552-players-selected-for-the-finals

I like the look of Croatia as true smokeys, Modric and Rakitic will be awesome to watch in a very strong midfield.

Spain look super-strong - Diego Costa couldn't make the team, says something about their forward strength.

England - Quarters.

Excited!

 

[Wahesh]

My tips to advance from each group (no doubt there will be some shock surprises)

Group A
Albania
France
Romania
Switzerland

Group B
England
Russia
Slovakia
Wales

Group C
Germany
Northern Island
Poland
Ukraine

Group D
Croatia
Czech Republic
Spain
Turkey

Group E
Belgium
Italy
Republic of Ireland
Sweden

Group F
Austria
Hungary
Ireland
Portugal

 

[Wahesh]

2nd time lucky as earlier thread "accidentally" deleted

Group C
Germany
Northern Island
Poland
Ukraine

Group E
Belgium
Italy
Republic of Ireland
Sweden

Group F
Austria
Hungary
Ireland
Portugal

3 Irelands?

 

[Baseball Furies]

Yikes - shocker.

Iceland - Group F - aargghhh...

Corrected!

 

[Baseball Furies]

Your tips look pretty spot-on.

Group D looks like the "Group of Death" and wouldn't surprise me if Sweden went through.

Portugal (like Belgium) have quality everywhere and these two going deep in the tournament would not surprise.

 

[Baseball Furies]

My hard earned has gone in a number of ways - always spread
Winner
France
Spain
Croatia

Top Goal Scorer
Olivier Giroud
Thomas Muller
Romelu Lukaku

Final
France/Belgium

 

[Baseball Furies]

My hard earned has gone in a number of ways - always spread
Winner
France
Spain
Croatia

Top Goal Scorer
Olivier Giroud
Thomas Muller
Romelu Lukaku

Final
France/Belgium

Ps. If you go the opposite to me, you'll probably clean up!

Luck has deserted me of late...

 

[LFC Bulldogs]

France to beat Romania 2-0 in the opening match with Griezmann to get a goal .

 

[S4Sonny]

ffs where's Australia?

So we get an invitation to EuroVision but not to Euro 2016, that's pretty bullshit

 

[chris_e_fresh]

France played well first game

England coach is useless he cost them the game this morning

Best 45 mins of football by a national team I've seen in ages and I'm been watching heaps of Copa America

Rooney shouldn't of come off
Kane was tired should of been replaced with vardy 65 min
Sterling is useless as a a bill with tits

I'm going to try and get up for the Germany game tomorrow

 

[Baseball Furies]

France played well first game

England coach is useless he cost them the game this morning

Best 45 mins of football by a national team I've seen in ages and I'm been watching heaps of Copa America

Rooney shouldn't of come off
Kane was tired should of been replaced with vardy 65 min
Sterling is useless as a a bill with tits

I'm going to try and get up for the Germany game tomorrow

I actually thought France were disappointing, Pogba was very ordinary (and I've backed them to win it!), I'm sure they'll improve, they had half their star midfield on the bench for the first half...

Agree on the game this morning, Russia were strong and it was entertainment +

Sterling, what do you do with him, guy is super-talented but a little lost.

 

[chris_e_fresh]

Bench him lol

And France's defence is suspect that's the issue

 

[chris_e_fresh]

Getting up for the Germany game

 

[LFC Bulldogs]

Not many goals scored in the tournament so far. Infact I would say the hooliganism has overshadowed everything else. Some of the fights of the streets have been brutal. The Russians must have come with speznaz disguised as football fans.
So much for French security, they can't even contain drunk hooligans, what chance do they have with terrorists.

 

[Baseball Furies]

Not many goals scored in the tournament so far. Infact I would say the hooliganism has overshadowed everything else. Some of the fights of the streets have been brutal. The Russians must have come with speznaz disguised as football fans.
So much for French security, they can't even contain drunk hooligans, what chance do they have with terrorists.

Russian "ultras" - dudes seem like absolute psychos - dressed (disguised) in English team kits...

It's hard not to see some gnarly stuff coming up, you'd be thinking a few old school UK hooligans will come "out of retirement"...

 

[LFC Bulldogs]

I was reading that 150 Russians of them went to France without a ticket for the urprose of getting into fights with the English.
You're right though, if some of the old school English hooligans do decide to come out of retirement it will get very very nasty.

As for the on field stuff, Belgium have been talked up again and will underachieve again it seems. 2-0 loss to Italy this morning.

As for Spain, I watched them last night, they are like Barcelona only up front Ye have Morata , Silva and Nolito instead of Neymar , Suarez and Messi.

 

[pupmichelle]

Romania were very lucky not to get the draw, they played very well.

Germany strong as always and never leave out the Italians!

Spain was disappointing but they will improve.

England will do nothing like always.

So far Croatia has been the most impressive, should have scored 5-6 against Turkey.

This Euros is very hard to pick or predict a winner, though my mix to take it out will be between Germany, Croatia, Italy and France

 

[ThePedigree]

Italia looking the goods in game 1 against Belgium. Not the best team they have ever fielded that's for sure, but if they can keep up the never say die attitude and stay united they will go far. Conte is a freak of a coach. Changed formation 3 times during the game and did great things tactically.

 

[chris_e_fresh]

how come the russians hate the english?

read some articles they were very organised - putting stickers on street posts so they knew where to run

 

[Baseball Furies]

how come the russians hate the english?

read some articles they were very organised - putting stickers on street posts so they knew where to run

My understanding (albeit basic) is that there has always been a perception that the English Hooligans are number 1 and over time have been the most violent and intimidating - think Milwall/West Ham/Chelsea and the Russian Ultras/Hooligans are out to be number one and wanted to show this at the Euros.

I think it has stemmed from a lot of violence at Russian games where the Spartak games have had a lot of violence and they've decided to "come together" to ambush the English hooligans and become the most feared.

Some of the fights have been intense and these just aren't drunk blokes turning up for a bit of a rumble, this is organised and as violent as it gets. Not sure if you've seen the pic of the English bloke who got hit with the iron bar on the ground - but it's pretty fucked up.

Thank god that shit doesn't go on here...