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Day 7 | Slovenia vs Serbia | Denmark vs England | Spain vs Italy
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
You guys suck. What does the Italian press say about all this, being a football country and with your curriculum.
I'm not so impressed with Spain. Nico misses a lot and Lamal is pretty much missing. The advantage is that Rodri is incredibly dominant
I don't know if this Spain team will win anything, but at least they're not boring any more.
It’s amazing what a team with two competent wingers can look like. Every time a Spanish midfielder has the ball and looks up there’s a palpable sense of danger
Do you mean technician like someone to fix the AC on the bus?
What a difference from the shit show we had before.
Why is the referee wearing just shorts?
Sensational defending there
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.
True.
I fecking love the instant yellows for talking to the ref.