England should have a reasonable chance against any of those sides, I know they havent sparkled so far but they should improve
Day 12 | England v Slovenia + Denmark v Serbia | France v Poland + Netherlands v Austria
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Ingerlund - pass the Dutchies will be a good game.
Well, that's barely a sport so no.
It wouldn't have been unreasonable for England to have drawn against Serbia and lost against Denmark, given the performances. It's been the worst group showing under Southgate, and dramatic improvement is going to be needed to beat whoever it is we face in the next round.
Without improvement, I'd expect both Netherlands and Belgium to beat us in normal time, and extra-time and/or penalties against either Romania or Ukraine, which could go either way, given how leggy we've looked.
France plays Group E 2nd next round.
Southgate is shite, and the system doesn't help, but the players aren't doing themselves justice either. Declan Rice looks like a nervous wreck in his own half. Harry Kane is getting so few touches of the ball when he does get onto it, he's making the wrong choice by blasting a pointless shot. Foden and Bellingham are running into each others spaces making it so easy to nullify either.Rather than England Southgate is pathetic.
Southgate being atrocious doesn't justify the players suddenly losing all basic instincts of football.
Did you see how Denmark finished second?
Harsh on 2nd in group E then
East Euro countries have little in common in terms of football heritage. They have their ups and downs independent from each other.
Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania are solid sides that could give problems to anyone on their day. Slovenia is having its best team ever. Hungary is still FAR better than it used to be in the 1990s and the 2000s. Albania is also better than ever.
It's only Croatia, Serbia and Poland that are underperforming, each for their own very specific reasons that are unrelated to each other. And of course Bulgaria which can't even qualify.
But overall I'd say most East Euro teams are better than they used to be 20 years ago.
Haha I’d like to see you play it.
That's more because France was shit than Austria doing anything exceptional. Beating Poland 3-1 and Netherlands 3-2 while losing a hard fought game to France was pretty par for the course.
France just was crap the whole group stages and Austria benefitted greatly!
I'd like to see you move a fridge up a flight of stairs.
France were crap at finishing. Just that specifically, they were pretty great at everything else
We'll scrape through to the quarters with a very dull win, I reckon. And then, it's arrivederci (or possibly, tschüss)