It's the Euros 2020! Finals Match Thread: It’s gone to Rome…
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'O Zio
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I think in full speed he goes for the ball and is a bit late, then due to the fact that they're both sticking their feet in the same general direction, there's contact. In slow motion it looks a lot worse I admit.
As I said above though, I agree that a foul is a foul. But if the punishment is massively more severe then maybe the burden of proof needs to be higher, or there should be a middle ground kind of punishment to make it less harsh. It just seems odd to me that a genuine attempt to play the ball that doesn't affect the chance in the slightest is punished in the same way as someone cynically hacking someone down as they're about to shoot.
'O Zio
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Cos they're all either about 40, not Spanish, or not that good.
One thing i love to see in the euros is the match ups in terms of styles of play and philosophy.
Spain are great but poland work so hard and scrap it out its great to watch. There are better teams than poland that spain could probably brush aside because of their style of play.
If you take all the favourites for the euros they could all beat eachother yet some will match up better than others because there style of play exposes there weaknesses.
For example. Id say as an italian that id be much more confident of beating germany than spain because of nature of how spain play compared to the germans. Likewise id be confident of beating belgium but not france.
Yet all of those named teams are roughly of equal quality overall.
Spain are great but poland work so hard and scrap it out its great to watch. There are better teams than poland that spain could probably brush aside because of their style of play.
If you take all the favourites for the euros they could all beat eachother yet some will match up better than others because there style of play exposes there weaknesses.
For example. Id say as an italian that id be much more confident of beating germany than spain because of nature of how spain play compared to the germans. Likewise id be confident of beating belgium but not france.
Yet all of those named teams are roughly of equal quality overall.
Marty
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Isco, Asensio and Vasquez aren't anywhere near the squad, Carvajal I think is injured, and Ramos obviously not selected.
That's pretty much all Spaniards in the RM squad these days.
Amo
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Higher framerate cameras for a start. There's a ridiculously high margin for error.
13VanDerBale13
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Lot of poor performing “big countries” in this tournament.
'O Zio
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Don't be ridiculous. How do you expect them to keep their 80+% average possession with players like him on the pitch?
LSUY
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Don't be ridiculous. How do you expect them to keep their 80+% average possession with players like him on the pitch?
werty
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Asensio really hasn't lived up to his potential/hype.