The Euro 2024 Thread

[Alan]

Come on, England!

 

[Squeak]

Well, one thing we can say, they gave it their all..

 

[PuntsWolf]

Now that’s a bullshit call @Alan !

 

[Alan]

Fucking weak by Cucurella there, too.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Oh well. They were the better team all tournament, better team tonight. They have better players (or seem to). No real surprise

 

[Jack Regan]

Didn't deserve to win and the right result. Outplayed for the majority and completely surrendered the initiative after we equalised.

 

[Squeak]

Not going to knock them.... better team won but we gave it a go. Credit to the manager and the players. It's football. Well done Spain.

 

[Alan]

Sorry, guys.

 

[ROVERT47]

No complaints, best team won.

 

[BillyDee]

Best team won, but you can't play most of a final with only 10 men. Bye Gareth.

 

[The Bear]

Best team won.

If we had had the right team from the start we might have had a better chance.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Best team won. And they were the best team by a long way really.

 

[sycophantia]

By far the best team throughout and especially tonight, deserved winners.
Too safe from us all the way through.

 

[Tredman]

A decent manager and we win that. Proper Portuguese stuff playing Kane.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Better team won, best team in the tournament, could have been out of sight by 60 minutes.

It's part of a longer term pattern of Southgate though - that we were about to bring Trippier and fucking Gallagher on before the second goes in is damning. Right there and then he was declaring and hoping for penalties regardless of us *maybe* having an additional 30 minutes to play.

 

[Tony Towner]

Didn't deserve to win and the right result. Outplayed for the majority and completely surrendered the initiative after we equalised.

That's the thing for me, the Palmer for Mainoo sub was all about scoring a goal, we did, then hand the initiative back. It needed to be shit or bust from there, but we were Southgated again

 

[Alan]

A decent manager and we win that. Proper Portuguese stuff playing Kane.

It's pretty remarkable how well-drilled the Spanish look, given how much less time a manager gets to instill tactics in international football.

 

[ROVERT47]

Apart from the ability to take a pen and obviously being Captain I can’t get my head round how Kane was able to start every game.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Best team won, but you can't play most of a final with only 10 men. Bye Gareth.

We made no effort to or seemed incapable of threatening them in any way. Just sat back but offered zero on the counter either. There seemed no plan how to score a goal. Our goal came purely from winning a 50:50 and then the resulting overload with Cucurella out of position. Even then it’s a good strike rather than well worked.

 

[Deano]

They are a very good side and the best team by a mile won. England got the equaliser and sat back. I get that Spain will have more of the ball but we then stopped offering any threat on the break whatsoever again.