[Closed] EURO 2012 **SPOILERS**

I can't see where an england goal will come from.

So have got Evra and the French goalie in the fantasy team.

Brave management from the Italians to try something new against the Champions. That, and the way they played, deserved more than the draw they got.
Spain's system didn't help themselves. No goal threat. Fabregas is no Messi.
Llorente could be the missing link.

So have got Evra and the French goalie in the fantasy team

What game are you playing? I'm in the McDonalds one, and have Debuchy, Benzema, and Lescott in today's game.

I've got Hart, Evra, Lescott, Ben Arfa and Parker in my FF team for this evenings game

Might put a couple of quid on Lescott as first scorer too. He used to score loads for Everton, and Roy's teams depend a lot on set pieces. Two good keepers playing so 1-0 either way for me.

Called me Claude...

I've added Benzema

just been on marca.com seems that both arragones and mourinho and the spanish fans think that spain need to play with a striker.

be interesting to see what del bosque does

ive just been handed spain in the work sweepstake, which is nice

A lot to do for the boys tonight!! Would love to see us turn the French over in style!!!

Whatever we do, it isn't going to be done 'in style'. More's the pity. I expect to have my head in my hands by the second half as they lump another hopelessly over-optimistic long ball up to Andy Carrol, causing not a flicker of worry in the French defence

Actually.... do I even want to watch this tonight

A lot to do for the boys tonight!! Would love to see us turn the French over in style!!!

A win? Perhaps.

In style? Erm...

you have to define style, really

i just want to see something that allows a glimmer of hope, even a loss where we play with a bit of grit and/or passion.

i'm intrigued to see how hodgson lines us up. if he plays his usual banks of four it's hard not to see gerrard and parker being overrun.

I expect to have my head in my hands by the second half as they lump another hopelessly over-optimistic long ball up to Andy Carrol

all the pundits seem to think that if there is a chink in the french armour, it's at the centre of their defence. it wouldn't surprise me if at some stage we are hitting carrol from 40 yards as it might well be the best way to get at them. to be honest, and i'd love to be proved wrong but i can't see much joy coming from young and wellbeck trying to play around them.

who cares. Half an hour till coverage starts, 90 mins till kick off, time to stop worrying about who may or may not play and just get behind the boys!

Woy hodgsons wed and white awmy!

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to start.

roy goes all positive on us 😀

Blimey! There's hope yet!

holy crap, our injury list knows no end. even ray clemence has just snapped his achilles warming the goalies up 😯

Tell me you had that lescott bet!!!!!!!!!

Stadium looks very empty? Radio said there were only a few hundred tickets left, looks more like a few thousand?

OMG WE'RE AMAZING!! WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE BLOODY TOURNAMENT!!!!!! ENGERRRLAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!

Stadium looks very empty? Radio said there were only a few hundred tickets left, looks more like a few thousand?

OMG WE'RE AMAZING!! WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE BLOODY TOURNAMENT!!!!!! ENGERRRLAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!

SACK HODGSON NOW!!!!

That was Parker's fault.

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OMG WE'RE AMAZING!! WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE BLOODY TOURNAMENT!!!!!! ENGERRRLAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!
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That's it we've lost.

Cracking shot by Nasri.

Oh, actually England are rubbish after all, as you were.

SACK HODGSON NOW!!!!

SACKINGS TOO GOOD FOR HIM. NEEDS LOCKING UP. 😡 😡 😡

nice goal from the french.

think we've looked ok at times, just need young to show a bit more when we manage to break them up.

good call whoever mentioned lescott to score.

Loum - did you put that bet on lescott? What odds?

🙂 yup.

did lescott at 40-1, the 1-0 score at 7-1, and combined at 175-1.
I'm not nasri's greatest fan now, but its given me a bit to play with for the rest of the tournament. 🙂

Nail em up
Nail some sense into em

Too many wasteful and predictable passes in our own half. Likely to be our downfall I fear.

That looked nasty! 😯

French commentary is interesting. They say the English are good on the counter attack but aren't really putting on pressure. "Saving energy" is how one of them put it.

Ribery is lying on the ground after being stood on the commentator dismisses it as him being tired?? Jeez.

Which way is it going to go then? Could see either side winning it tbh

Christ this is boring!!! 🙁

excellent result.

i thought we did exactly what we had to. big test now is to see if we've got any teeth in games that we have to win rather than draw.

oh, and that ref ❓ how many fouls did cabaye commit ?

Looked pretty solid at the back there! That's a result!!! It doesn't have to be pretty, just get out of the group! It'll be interesting to see how this next game goes

Cabaye (and Ribery) lucky not to be booked for sure!

Ok, so we were solid, but pretty boring. Why do we only ever look like scoring from set pieces? Bloody dull to watch. At least it wasn't just hoof it to Carrol, so that was a blessing.

what site is everyone using for fantasy league?

if any of you are using the uefa/mcdonalds one then we should make our own league?

let me know what you think

I'll join a uefa/mcdonalds league. it's free 🙂
Just got Yarmolenko left to play in this round in my fantasy team.

Quietly impressed. Disciplined, looked threatening at times on the counter, always going to be dangerous at set pieces and if we don't concede many that's going to make us competitive.

Downsides - we had to work bloody hard, and can they recover from that effort to do it again on Friday, and then Tuesday, (and then.....) We have to keep the ball better, and it's not a reflection on the player on the ball but the players off the ball making angles. Time and again we got the ball to AOC or Welbeck and they then had no outlets. It's hard work being an England midfielder or wingback in that system, but the whole game plan is built on keeping the workrate up.

Lastly, and I've said it many times before, but it's great to see it happening now. We should forget about trying to win the Euro's if we have WC aspirations in the future. The competition is as hard - if not harder - than the WC; the groups have no patsies at all whereas in the WC with 24 sides and a proportion of the qualifications going to the 'lesser' continents, getting out of the group is nowhere near as hard. Use the Euro's to bring on the likes of AOC, and Welbeck, and a few other youngsters too. If we do well, it's a bonus, but it should be a 4 year cycle with the Euro's being for experience and the WC for keeps.

As much as it pains me I thought jt looked very solid! Johnson worries me, he doesn't mind pushing up but always seems lacklustre when tracking back. Aoc looks like he could be very useful in that position, some lovely little touches. As above we do give the ball away too much, solve that and we could have every chance of progressing from the group. Well done England!

made a league there quickly

the code is - 374444-106390
and name is STW Euro Comp

theotherlonv +1

good to see Hodgson having faith in the youngsters, and they didn't let him down. lets use this a building block to the WC.

Anyone doing the betfred fantasy footy?