Euro 16 gamethread

[Dummy Hoy]

Russia is missing their top 3 midfielders and has dudes playing out of position to fill those holes. I'm not surprised they've been bossed about.

 

[Time to Mo Vaughn]

So this match is a good case for Rooney to be out of the steering lineup, no?

 

[Kliq]

Sterling looks like he is ready for a sub.

 

[Dummy Hoy]

I'm not sure Raheem Sterling is good at football.

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Walker has been their best player.

 

[DJnVa]

Oh Rooney.

That ball shouldn't have been dummied through though.

 

[DJnVa]

Goal TOTTENHAM!!!!

Edit: Uh, England.

 

[teddykgb]

Nice kick from Dier. Another keeper rooted looking behind his wall

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Didn't think Dier had that in him!

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Looking at that again, nice job by Dier but poor goalkeeping.

 

[Cellar-Door]

Not bad, but definitely not that good, that should have been saved, he just put it right in the middle and the keeper misplayed it.

 

[teddykgb]

Rooney for an actual CM would be a sensible sub. Sterling hasn't offered anything for 30 minutes but I don't know if England have a better option if they intend to defend the lead

 

[SoxFanInCali]

What's the point of a wall if the keeper cheats towards it?

 

[Titans Bastard]

Nice work from Akinfeev in screening himself on that FK...

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Rooney ruined that beautiful run by Alli

 

[Cellar-Door]

What's the point of a wall if the keeper cheats towards it?

yeah it made no sense, he'd have had to get it up and down REALLY fast to beat that wall, keeper should have been going right the whole way and caught that easily.

 

[DJnVa]

Yeah, if the kick taker gets it up and down over that wall you just tip your cap. But Dier put it where he wasn't.

 

[teddykgb]

Someone start the clock on Wilshere's next injury

 

[coremiller]

I like bringing Wilshere on as the victory cigar, er, cigarette.

 

[Cellar-Door]

That's so Sterling. run and run, then bumble it away incompetently without ever looking up.

 

[Phil Plantier]

Russia looks worse than Albania. Wonder if Wales can upset England int he next match.

 

[OCST]

Shot of England fans thinking "how will we botch this?"

 

[DJnVa]

Oh England.

 

[Kliq]

Wow, disaster.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

oh, England...

 

[Titans Bastard]

Jesus, that noise. Just a flare...

 

[OCST]

THAT'S MY ENGLAND

 

[SoxFanInCali]

That's so Spursy.

 

[OCST]

Riots to follow.

 

[DJnVa]

Shot of England fans thinking "how will we botch this?"

On a weak corner.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Tremendous header, only place to put it.

 

[Philip Jeff Frye]

They really Englanded that

 

[teddykgb]

Daft of Russia's #8 to touch that ball in case he had been offside but he was actually onside anyway. What a silly goal. England gonna England

 

[Dummy Hoy]

Lol, that was hilarious

 

[coremiller]

They're following the Spurs template, and Spurs ran a lot of teams off the pitch last season. Which makes sense because what could be more England than a catastrophic second-half collapse?

Called it.

 

[OCST]

They really Englanded that

It's really stunning.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Outstanding Harvard/Yale 29-29 reference. Bob Ley, you're the best

 

[DJnVa]

Ley: "England loses to Russia 1-1."

 

[mikeford]

Fill your entire team with Sp*rs... act surprised when they bottle it

 

[Kliq]

I'll hand it to Russia; they were banged up but their defense worked hard for 90 minutes dealing with the speedy England attackers and capitalized in extra time on one of their only real chances of the game. That's a pretty gutty win.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Fill your entire team with Sp*rs... act surprised when they bottle it

Well, Smalling, Sterling, and second-half Rooney were the weakest links out there.

 

[OCST]

Your children don't know and would never believe it, but the adults talk in hushed tones about the dark, dark time when being a Red Sox fan felt like this

 

[DJnVa]

Fill your entire team with Sp*rs... act surprised when they bottle it

Yeah. You nailed that man. Burning hot take.

 

[mikeford]

Well, Smalling, Sterling, and second-half Rooney were the weakest links out there.

Sterling was preposterously bad. How can someone with such blazing speed seemingly offer so little?

Nevermind, I've watched 10 years of Theo Walcott

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Roy fucked that up. England sat back to play on the counter but he didn't put on anybody that could punish Russia, with both Sturridge and Vardy sitting on the bench. I can understand Wilshere for Rooney to get fresher legs in midfield. Milner for Sterling was just bizarre. Lallana and Milner as wingers, surrounding a gassed Kane, is just awful if you are playing on the counter.

 

[Soxfan in Fla]

Well, Smalling, Sterling, and second-half Rooney were the weakest links out there.

Sterling was poor in my opinion. Rooney is a poor choice at MF for more than about 50-55 minutes and the choice of Harry Kane kicking corners was flat out dumb.

 

[Cellar-Door]

I'm not saying that a team with Noble, Antonio and Carroll would have won.
I'm just saying......
#nohammersnocup

 

[The Price Is Wrong]

Your children don't know and would never believe it, but the adults talk in hushed tones about the dark, dark time when being a Red Sox fan felt like this

There but for the grace of Papi (and Pedro, and Theo, and Duquette, and and and) go we.

 

[Cellar-Door]

RUS18 might actually be a bigger disaster than QATAR2022. Probably depends on whether Putin decides to disappear the Ultras before the tournament or not.

 

[soxfan121]

RUS18 might actually be a bigger disaster than QATAR2022. Probably depends on whether Putin decides to disappear the Ultras before the tournament or not.

You make an excellent point. However, I think that Vladimir watches the news and saw the coverage of what the ultras did, and they'll all be on trains to Siberia by the end of 2017 at the latest.

It's appropriate that France 2016 is the site of the Frere Xhaka Derby.

Holy shit, if there's a tabloid cover in Albania, or Jim Belushi's house, this should be in 72 point font on its cover.

Bravo, sir.