Group B: Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Russia

[Blue ROI]

Ronnie Whelan on RTE criticising the minutes applause.

 

"No real need for it, get on with the Football"

[urban.spaceman]

Just now, Blue ROI said:

Ronnie Whelan on RTE criticising the minutes applause.

 

"No real need for it, get on with the Football"

Read the room Ronnie.

[PhillippaT]

Just now, Blue ROI said:

Ronnie Whelan on RTE criticising the minutes applause.

 

"No real need for it, get on with the Football"

[lcfcsnow]

Tielemans looks spent

[shen]

There's supposed to be 25.300 in the stadium today, so not quite the 38.000 capacity. But they sound great.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Gwon Denmark! Can't not be the neutrals choice today! Even despite Youri God Tielemans, Praet and broken Timmy C playing for the other side. They deserve 3 points to make up for the 3 they likely lost out vs Finland in that farce.

[HybridFox]

2 minutes ago, lcfcsnow said:

Tielemans looks spent

Good  

[foxes_rule1978]

4 minutes ago, lcfcsnow said:

Tielemans looks spent

Rodgers never gave the guy a rest, we don’t care how he performs for Belgium just us 

[Kingleicester]

The difference in commentary from Clive to Martin Tyler is so refreshing 

[promised land]

2 minutes ago, TK95 said:

Good  

Yeah Souness was bigging him up pre match, I thought ‘don’t put Youri in the shop window please’.

[Kingleicester]

Wish our ground had great character like this 

[shen]

Damsgaard, Mæhle and Højbjerg all look electric. Even fooking Wass, who usually underperforms, is a duracell bunny tonight.

[Guest ttfn]

It’s so easy to forget that teams have home advantage. On paper you see Denmark v Belgium in a tournament game and you think Belgium are reasonably comfortable favourites. With a crowd in it makes the game more of a coin toss. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Youri can't really get into the game.

[PhillippaT]

3 minutes ago, Kingleicester said:

Wish our ground had great character like this 

If only every ground, for every match, could be like this!

[stripeyfox]

6 minutes ago, Kingleicester said:

Wish our ground had great character like this 

It's a great stadium. If I was designing a ground from scratch, I reckon it would look something like this

 

[shen]

1 minute ago, ttfn said:

It’s so easy to forget that teams have home advantage. On paper you see Denmark v Belgium in a tournament game and you think Belgium are reasonably comfortable favourites. With a crowd in it makes the game more of a coin toss. 

The circumstances are also a big part here. They're easily playing 10-20% above their normal performance level

Edited 17 June 2021 by shen

[foxes_rule1978]

1 minute ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

Youri can't really get into the game.

No Belgium player has been in this game, they have been pretty awful..  can’t pass and slow to everything 

[Kingleicester]

1 minute ago, PhillippaT said:

If only every ground, for every match, could be like this!

Oh for sure 

[trabuch]

Just now, foxes_rule1978 said:

No Belgium player has been in this game, they have been pretty awful..  can’t pass and slow to everything 

So many passes going behind the target.

[Kingleicester]

1 minute ago, stripeyfox said:

It's a great stadium. If I was designing a ground from scratch, I reckon it would look something like this

 

Massive fan of 4 separated stands 

[Dahnsouff]

Belgiums ancient CBs were always going to get exposed with the right tactics.

[Blue ROI]

2 minutes ago, Kingleicester said:

Massive fan of 4 separated stands 

Reminds me a lot of England Argentina in France 98

[VinceNoir]

Damsgaard looks class. gerrimin!

[shen]

It's a huge IF, but should this result sticks, it's going to open up a whole lot of crazy permutations for the final round.