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The Official Euro 2016 Megathread

Well I've switched back to see how it goes.

Straight away he starts complaining that the having to go off the pitch when you've received treatment rule "needs to be changed".

Err it is being changed from next season Mark. You won't have to go off if the ref produces either card for the challenge that results in the injury. Not that you're paid to know anything about football or anything...
 
Pogba's range of passing is absolutely absurd.
 
Albania should be clear and coasting. Missed two or three great chances already.
 
The Romania keeper had a bit of a mare there. Ran out for the cross at the back post then got nowhere near it
 
Fucking ell, where have they got the footballs from for this tournament?, Sports Direct.
 
Sissoko sprinting for the first time since about 2013.
 
So they are on three points and a GD of -2.

Means if Northern Ireland can restrict Germany to no more than a two goal victory they'll be ahead of Albania in the pecking order for qualifying from 3rd place, with it being reasonably unlikely that neither Sweden nor the Republic of Ireland are going to get to three points in that group.
 
Actually even if NI lost 3-0 that would be ok as they've scored more goals than Albania already. Good news.
 
Been looking at which 3rd place team will play who in the next round and it's quite complicated! UEFA have made a table up of the possibilities based on which four groups they come from.


http://www.skysports.com/football/news/19693/10318322/third-place-qualifiers-at-euro-2016-explained


The four 3rd placed teams will be ranked in order of points/goal diff/goals scored/fair play. Current qualifying table is here:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016#Ranking_of_third-placed_teams


I thought the four 3rd place teams would be ranked in order, then play a certain one of the top four seeds based on their seeding or UEFA ranking or something,, etc i.e 1st place plays winner of D - 2nd plays winner of C, etc. I can't tell if that's what they've done or not. it doesn't look like it. I thought the top seeds (other than the hosts going in A) in each group were used in a specific order in the draw. i can't remember now.
 
Guardian reckon this is the team tomorrow:

-----------------------Hart--------------------------

Clyne---------Cahill-----------Smalling--------Bertrand

---------Henderson----Dier-----Wilshere--------------

---------Lallana-------Sturridge-------Vardy----------------
 
I think I'm right in saying if we win the Group we will now play Albania if they get one of the qualifying places from a 3rd place position. Then it falls to the Czech Group and if they also fail then N Ireland's.
 
Not necessarily. It all depends exactly which four groups qualify a 3rd place team.

Assuming we win the group then we play one of A3/C3/D3. If ALL of those groups have their 3rd placed team qualify, then in the table I posted above there are 3 combinations for ACD all qualifying - ABCD, ACDE, ACDF. All of those result in playing group D's team which is likely going to be Czech Republic because of Turkey's rubbish goal difference.

If Northern Ireland finish 3rd in group C, there's only one combination of groups that will see us playing them - BCEF

There are 7 combinations each for playing the team from group A or group D, and just the one for group C. So it's virtually 50/50 going to be Albania or Czech Republic.

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As an aside, looking at group D, if Czech Republic beat Turkey by 2 goals and Croatia lose to Spain, then Croatia would drop to 3rd, because the Czech v Croatia game was 2-2 so head to head record would be equal and it'd go down to overall goal difference in the group. Then as mentioned above, we'd have almost a 50/50 chance of getting them instead of Albania.

Crazily though, if Croatia lose 1-0 and Czech Republic win 1-0 then everything would be exactly level between them and there'd have to be a penalty shootout between the two to decide who finished 2nd and 3rd!
 
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