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Group E (Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Ireland)

Pepe LeFrits

Ricky1985 wrote:
Belgium's much hyped attacking midfielders turned out to be no better, and maybe worse, than Candreva and Giacherrini, whilst Buffon, Bonucci, Chiellini and Barzagli were in another League to Belgium's overhyped and overrated goalkeeper and defenders.

How was Buffon in a different league to Courtois last night?

Biggus

Tony Montana wrote:
goon wrote:
Love the passion of the Italians at the win. Cue all the boring farts questioning why they're celebrating like they've won the thing.

So there was no criticism.

But can you imagine if England did that? People would laugh and claim they celebrated as if they'd won the thing.

Err well they did win the game as opposed to ~~Spurs~~ England who bottled it.

Segway

Ricky1985 wrote:
Belgium's much hyped attacking midfielders turned out to be no better, and maybe worse, than Candreva and Giacherrini, whilst Buffon, Bonucci, Chiellini and Barzagli were in another League to Belgium's overhyped and overrated goalkeeper and defenders.

Nah they're just playing in a shit system.

Gurgen

De Bruyne looked knackered. Season seems to have taken its toll. Still, any decent manager would get more out of this group of players.

Ricky1985

Pepe LeFrits wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
Belgium's much hyped attacking midfielders turned out to be no better, and maybe worse, than Candreva and Giacherrini, whilst Buffon, Bonucci, Chiellini and Barzagli were in another League to Belgium's overhyped and overrated goalkeeper and defenders.

How was Buffon in a different league to Courtois last night?

Was talking more about the defenders, but Courtois did make a couple of bad mistakes whereas Buffon had a solid game.

Clrnc

What mistakes did Courtois make? Must have missed it.

Irishgunner

There was one major communication fuckup between Courtois and Fellaini. Courtois called for the ball to claim it and then never came out, lead to Pelle getting a brilliant chance.

Klaus

Italy are 2.02 on Unibet to win against Sweden. That's crazy good.

On one hand you shouldn't underrate the Italian tendency to settle for a draw if they don't have to win, but Sweden are the worst team in the tournament by far. They couldn't defend if their lives depended on it. Meanwhile every single Italian player is ready to die for Conte on the field. He's hands down the best man manager in the world. I think he wants to make a statement of intent today.

Irishgunner

Florenzi in, Darmian out. Only Italian change.

Klaus

Found two great additional bets:

Italy-Sweden
Italy win & Less than 2.5 Goals: 3.40

Total Shots on Goal, Sweden
Less than 3.5: 1.72

jones

You really don't rate Sweden much do you Klaus 😆

However it's somewhat understandable, I googled the source for the second bet and found this

According to statistics from UEFA, Sweden is actually the worst team in the tournament judging by two metrics: Shots on goal and total distance covered by the team.

Sweden and Northern Ireland both had zero shots on goal in their respective games. Portugal tops this list with ten shots on goal.

The Swedish team only ran 101.5 kilometers in total. Italy tops this list with 119.7 kilometers.

One would think you'd at least put in some work if you're already shit at football, not even 10km per player is a dreadful effort tbh.

Klaus

That's because they're old and useless. Källström probably moved about two inches during the full 90 against Ireland.

Clrnc

Darmian dropped finally. Going to put my money on Italy winning now even though these 2 teams are capable of conjuring up a bore draw.

Klaus

If things aren't going well El Shaarawy and Insigne will probably be on early in the second half.

Clrnc

One of the worst freekicks ever 😆

Clrnc

Sweden looked well up for this. Damn it.

jones

Why is Sweden's best CB playing RB?

And while Olsson is one of Sweden's better players Oscar Wendt is easily better than him and he's not even in the squad

jones

This lady commentator is beyond clueless Jesus Christ

jones

"Bonucci is a very experienced defender, different type to the younger generation like Boateng"

literally every other player she tries to name she gets wrong

Irishgunner

You watching espn? They had a female.commentator yesterday who was a complete moron.

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