Sensational defending there
Day 7 | Slovenia vs Serbia | Denmark vs England | Spain vs Italy
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If Williams meant that, wow
You elitist. He seems pretty fecking good to me. Very solid in all his touches, body movement and on the ball.
What do I know though, only just watched him in two games.
Spain are a fun team to watch.
Don't really see what our game plan is tonight, Spain are playing through us constantly. Hope we can hold on for a late snatch and grab.
The Italian midfield has created next to nothing. I don’t blame their attackers. Spain is completely dominating the game. Italy would need to win the old way, if they can still do it. Be strong defensively and score a goal when you have that odd chance.
Williams looks quality
He doesn't look it in this match to be fair.
Italy always show up and defend brilliantly, even if their back line is short of household names. There’s something about Italian defenders, that when it matters, there’s no one better in the business.
So would you say their managers put a stamp on things? I’ve always remembered them being a pretty good possession based team. They’re quite lucky that they have wonderful players that are really good on the ball and can play that way.
Yamal is 16? I mean seriously 
Yep, he’s underwhelmed at PSG but then again, Enrique hasn’t set him up to succeed. Ruiz was a baller since his Napoli days.
A few clubs will definitely be in for Williams after this Euro’s.
Just saw this, absolutely mental take and should be a stackable offense.
Gun game but lacking quality
But also fair to say that 39 minutes isn’t a fair representation of any player.
He’s been sensational for about 5-7 years now.
Where was this Ruiz for PSG 
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?Did the ref forget his cards ?
Frattesi is fecking shite
I quite like this version of Spain.
Less afraid to go direct or shoot from range, rather than the other iterations we've seen for the last decade where they just try and fail to be the Xavi/Iniesta side while boring everybody to death in the process.
Less afraid to go direct or shoot from range, rather than the other iterations we've seen for the last decade where they just try and fail to be the Xavi/Iniesta side while boring everybody to death in the process.
I understand Le Normand and Laporte are both half french but we should stop to try to hit them all the time
The gold shirt on the ref is a bit tacky.
He isn't, he is a very good all rounder but he isn't elite from a technical standpoint. There is quite obviously several gaps between him and the likes of Totti, Verratti, Pirlo, Del Piero, Baggio, Cassano and many others.
They are entirely french.
I like people being able to keep the ball, but not just passing it about for the sake of it. You think about the fact we have Harry Kane who scores for fun at club level, Spain never seemed to have a prolific scorer, Villa and Torres. However they seemed to be able to get the results. Good coaching.
Yep Gordon and Saka if Kane plays. To be honest I think Gordon has to play, the left wing was tragic. Weird looking at who is available neither Rashford or Grealish are there.
With proper french names too
Chiesa any good these days?
Italy would gladly shake hands on a 0-0 right now .
They need to change something
They need to change something
Meh, those types of stats aren’t worth much for me.
As for what we have actually seen in this tournament so far: I feel like Spain is doing a lesser version of their high press, which Croatia and even Italy at times are able to play through. Because it isn’t as systemically good at what you’d see on a club level by certain teams. For NT tournament you can get away with it, but inevitably you’ll run into teams that will bypass that press and punish you. For me, Germany and to a lesser extent France are those teams. Also think the German defense with Rudiger and Tah should be able to handle the likes of Morata. Whereas the German attack patterns I think will overwhelm the Spain defense which hasn’t looked good so far (Croatia really sucked at finishing).
Certainly a match I’d like to see.
I fecking love the instant yellows for talking to the ref.
This game would be a lot better with a less weak ref.
Fair play on booking Rodri though, tbf.
Fair play on booking Rodri though, tbf.
Giving suspensions for 2 yellows is so stupid. No other sport does anything like it.
Rodri getting yellows two games in a row. It's over.
there's a good chance of this ending as the first 0-0 of the tournament.
It would be something if this ends up as 0-0
and Italy have white shorts. I’m pretty sure they could wear white shorts.
Dominant first half from Spain, but with nothing to show for so far.
Feels like a 0-0 kind of game
Neither team taking their chances.
Neither team taking their chances.