Good keeping.
Day 2: Wales vs Switzerland | Denmark vs Finland | Belgium vs Russia
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Lukaku looks sharp as feck. Was class in the friendly against Croatia, too.
Poulsen is so shit it's quite sad. Incredible what Nagelsmann gets out of players
Been impressed with Kamara, looks tidy on the ball. Their keeper is dodgy though, flapped at a couple of balls into the box now.
No difference in knocking the ball into a channel and running on to it, that’s offside imo.
I can see why that's not given. He is offside at the moment of the Belgian pass, but it's a poor one and nothing comes of it. Therefore, it's play on; you don't stop play for an offside free kick if the offside was irrelevant. The Russian player then messes up whatever he meant to do, and the ball hobbles to Lukaku anyway - who is now getting from a Russian and therefore can't be offside.
I know these are not two entirely unrelated moments from the game, but I imagine this is the thinking to ignore the original offside and it has its merits in my opinion.
Was it him who got in to trouble at Nice? To do with stealing something. I might be wrong be I'm sure it was.
Yeah and the whistle blows when the player touches the ball. The Russian made a attempt for the ball which resets the phase of play and Lukaku it then onside.
Think someone stole his watch from the dressing room.
Lukaku playing well.
Should be on the bench. Offers nothing against teams defending deep.
He was the victim
How could he not be active? He made the run for that pass, that run is what caused the defender to attempt a clearance, if no-one was behind him he’d have let it go through to the keeper.
Yeah I don't get these ones. If Lukaku isn't there then the defender doesn't need to touch the ball at all.
He has been really good for Denmark.And very good for Leipzig.
This is just not Denmark game, and they are missing Eriksen.
Lukaku didn't receive that pass and also didn't interfere with the defender (that's the refs interpretation) so no offside.
Seems dumb to me but I barely know what is handball or a foul nowadays.
Not again please.
I’m curious if the younger generation are the posters saying that it’s ONSIDE while the older generation says clearly that’s Offsides?
I’d love to see a breakdown of the age of poster and their opinion of the new offside interpretation, but I’ll just have to admit that I’ll never know
Lukaku looking great. Ole should be keeping tabs.
because they are all over the place, understandably. Stark contrast structurally between first and second half
The ball wouldn’t have gotten near Lukaku if the defender didn’t play it
And the defender made a mess of a clearance and got it to Lukaku. It's the defender's problem.
Yeah I'm not sure how the target of a pass can be deemed not active. The pass wouldn't have been played if Lukaku wasn't there in an offside position.
Ffs not what we need to see
My heart stops when I see someone down now.
again
He's obviously going to City or Chelsea and kill it.
This. 100% this.
This tournament ...
Between him and Braithwaite the quality really is lacking up front.
Sure, that’s easy to see from the footage. The defender wasn’t to know that though, given he was behind him. Lukaku took an action that directed that series of events. Seems a very limited definition of “active” to exclude moments like that.
They could of said no but they said yes. Hats off to the boys.
Finland were 12/1 this morning ffs!
Same here.
Nasty bang on the head
Two subs. Think no-one wants to take chances today.
I keep having to tell myself that it's fine and it's a just a regular collision every time someone goes down
Vestegaard causing so much carnage, should've put him on at CF sooner.
Disappointing defeat for Denmark but understandable in circumstances.
I think they can still get 4 points off Russia and Belgium if they can mentally get things together so all isn't lost just yet.
Disappointing defeat for Denmark but understandable in circumstances.
I think they can still get 4 points off Russia and Belgium if they can mentally get things together so all isn't lost just yet.
Yep. Our biggest issue. Really hoping Skov Olsen develops - would be our first proper wide player in years.
Nowhere near him? Seriously?