Euro 2012 - Official Discussion Thread

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

People aren't jealous of annoying graddies, that are just things we have to bear with, they can make a lot of noise and tricky things but in the end it doesn't have much consequences most of the time, it's like something which is part of the landscape...

[Gustaf]

If we lose today it's over. I think we might tie this game and then lose to France though.

[Keystone Phil]

People aren't jealous of annoying graddies, that are just things we have to bear with, they can make a lot of noise and tricky things but in the end it doesn't have much consequences most of the time, it's like something which is part of the landscape...

Typical jealous French

[minionofmidas]

Eliminating Italy from the tournament is all in Ireland's hands now, and as we all know, Trapattoni has some experience when it comes to knocking Italy out of tournaments.

Spain's and Croatia's. But I guess they will no more miss the situation than Denmark and Sweden did eight(?) years ago. 2-2 draw and Italy are out.

Oh, and by my count a 4-3 (or 5-4 etc) for Denmark would see Denmark and Germany progress no matter what the Portuguese do. Can't they just abolish the damn stupid direct comparison rule already? It's not working.

[Lief 🗽]

MATCH SUSPENDED due to weather, the COWARDS.

[Keystone Phil]

I'm watching on the ESPN app as I'm en route to NYC. I noticed that the picture was very fuzzy then saw "SHAKHTAR" spelled out in the seats. I'm thinking, "Wow, Ukraine really couldn't get anyone to buy tickets?" Immediately after that, it was suspended.

[minionofmidas]

Nice rain.

[GMantis]

MATCH SUSPENDED due to weather, the COWARDS.

I don't think that not wanting to get hit by lightning is cowardly.

[Lief 🗽]

Let's enjoy these adorable Ribery/Tymoschuk gifs while we wait:

[minionofmidas]

LOL, Jogi Löw is the best

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[minionofmidas]

Game to be reopened "not before 8pm" (local time; 7 here, 6 in England, 1 in NY.)

[GMantis]

Eliminating Italy from the tournament is all in Ireland's hands now, and as we all know, Trapattoni has some experience when it comes to knocking Italy out of tournaments.

Spain's and Croatia's. But I guess they will no more miss the situation than Denmark and Sweden did eight(?) years ago. 2-2 draw and Italy are out.

Oh, and by my count a 4-3 (or 5-4 etc) for Denmark would see Denmark and Germany progress no matter what the Portuguese do. Can't they just abolish the damn stupid direct comparison rule already? It's not working.

But it makes for such bizarre scenarios
And in fact only 3-2 is needed

[Antonio the Sixth]

Here it starts.

[minionofmidas]

Eliminating Italy from the tournament is all in Ireland's hands now, and as we all know, Trapattoni has some experience when it comes to knocking Italy out of tournaments.

Spain's and Croatia's. But I guess they will no more miss the situation than Denmark and Sweden did eight(?) years ago. 2-2 draw and Italy are out.

Oh, and by my count a 4-3 (or 5-4 etc) for Denmark would see Denmark and Germany progress no matter what the Portuguese do. Can't they just abolish the damn stupid direct comparison rule already? It's not working.

But it makes for such bizarre scenarios
And in fact only 3-2 is needed

In case of 3-2, the German and Portuguese result against the Netherlands would be compared as the de facto tiebreaker. There's no further direct comparison of just Germany and Portugal. (Not according to a literal reading of the official rule text, anyways.)

[Keystone Phil]

Ok, bottom line: the current tiebreaker rules suck.

[Franzl]

Ok, bottom line: the current tiebreaker rules suck.

Yes. What's wrong with just looking at goal difference?

[Antonio the Sixth]

A pretty balanced first half. Hard to see how it will end up, as both teams had their moments.

[Antonio the Sixth]

2-0, it's over. Good job from France.

[GMantis]

Eliminating Italy from the tournament is all in Ireland's hands now, and as we all know, Trapattoni has some experience when it comes to knocking Italy out of tournaments.

Spain's and Croatia's. But I guess they will no more miss the situation than Denmark and Sweden did eight(?) years ago. 2-2 draw and Italy are out.

Oh, and by my count a 4-3 (or 5-4 etc) for Denmark would see Denmark and Germany progress no matter what the Portuguese do. Can't they just abolish the damn stupid direct comparison rule already? It's not working.

But it makes for such bizarre scenarios
And in fact only 3-2 is needed

In case of 3-2, the German and Portuguese result against the Netherlands would be compared as the de facto tiebreaker. There's no further direct comparison of just Germany and Portugal. (Not according to a literal reading of the official rule text, anyways.)

That's not how the rules are interpreted. Otherwise there would not be the danger of Italy being eliminated regardless of their result against Ireland in a case of a 2-2 draw between Spain and Croatia.

[Lief 🗽]

Until the Swedish find a way to play Zlatan at every position they're never going to win anything.

[Keystone Phil]

Beautiful header.

[Tender Branson]

Lief, do you already have a gif from the scene in which the referee got the ball kicked into his balls ?

[bore]

Hahahahahahahahaha

[argentarius]

An Irish TV pundit said at halftime that we can turn off the tv because there won't be any more goals in this game. Lol.

[bore]

This is beautiful.