I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
I definitely enjoyed the first 6 days since I was off of work and able to watch most of the matches from home, that always helps. Plus, as I've previously admitted, I am biased towards the European leagues/competitions. Lastly, I was pretty much just posting that to be a dlck since everyone was complaining earlier the week/last week.
If I were Iceland, start practicing those penalty kicks!!
I definitely enjoyed the first 6 days since I was off of work and able to watch most of the matches from home, that always helps. Plus, as I've previously admitted, I am biased towards the European leagues/competitions. Lastly, I was pretty much just posting that to be a dlck since everyone was complaining earlier the week/last week.
If I were Iceland, start practicing those penalty kicks!!
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
It's not a perfect format, but I don't mind it. If you go back to 16 teams, then you potentially miss out on a lot of the cool storylines, Albania scoring/winning, Iceland, Northern Ireland. But if you go to 32 teams, then qualifying becomes less important/meaningful, plus quality of competition takes a hit with some really poor teams getting in.
Hard to judge the system based on just one year, so we'll see what happens in four years and if it plays out any differently.
Agreed though, ready for the knockout stages and we should have some fun match ups and exciting games.
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
It's not a perfect format, but I don't mind it. If you go back to 16 teams, then you potentially miss out on a lot of the cool storylines, Albania scoring/winning, Iceland, Northern Ireland. But if you go to 32 teams, then qualifying becomes less important/meaningful, plus quality of competition takes a hit with some really poor teams getting in.
Hard to judge the system based on just one year, so we'll see what happens in four years and if it plays out any differently.
Agreed though, ready for the knockout stages and we should have some fun match ups and exciting games.
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
I absolutely LOVE the beautiful game when its played that way. But this new format of Euro, whereby a 3rd place team can advance and play tomorrow, has taken away from the " Play To Win " intent. So many teams are parking the bus with 11 men and accepting a 1 - 0 loss as a good result.
My 2 cents That said......Its time to get it on in the knockout rounds. Cant wait.
P.S. I have enjoyed Copa more then Euro so far. The hot Latino babes in the crowd have helped
I think one could make the argument that the awesome story lines have made up for the lack of "excitement/style" or whatever you want to call it in these early rounds. I mean it was pretty cool to see Iceland move on today.
I think one could make the argument that the awesome story lines have made up for the lack of "excitement/style" or whatever you want to call it in these early rounds. I mean it was pretty cool to see Iceland move on today.
LET'S NOT FORGET THAT MANY OF THESE GAMES WERE NOT DECIDED UNTIL AFTER THE 80TH MINUTE.THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD BE OK WITH A 0-0 FROM ITALY/IRELAND TODAY AS I AM ON THE DRAW!
LET'S NOT FORGET THAT MANY OF THESE GAMES WERE NOT DECIDED UNTIL AFTER THE 80TH MINUTE.THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD BE OK WITH A 0-0 FROM ITALY/IRELAND TODAY AS I AM ON THE DRAW!
I do agree that expanding the 1st round to 32 teams works. I like the fact that some fringe teams like Iceland and N. Ireland get a chance to compete at this level. I mean, how can you not love the cinderella story of Iceland ? 300,000 people to the country and 10% have traveled to watch their team. 30, 000 of the population are in France to support their boys. BRILLIANT stuff.
But LETS GET IT ON...........Now is what its all about. ONE GAME....Do or Die.
I do agree that expanding the 1st round to 32 teams works. I like the fact that some fringe teams like Iceland and N. Ireland get a chance to compete at this level. I mean, how can you not love the cinderella story of Iceland ? 300,000 people to the country and 10% have traveled to watch their team. 30, 000 of the population are in France to support their boys. BRILLIANT stuff.
But LETS GET IT ON...........Now is what its all about. ONE GAME....Do or Die.
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