Round of 16 | Switzerland vs Italy | Germany vs Denmark

[hellhunter]

He's not better than Nagelsmann ffs

 

[Klopper76]

Feels like Switzerland are finding it really easy to play their way up to the Italian goal.

 

[hellhunter]

Feels like Switzerland are finding it really easy to play their way up to the Italian goal.

Yeah but they don't exactly seem threatening in the final third

 

[FrankDrebin]

Italian football has really hit the skids.

 

[PoTMS]

Embolo normally looks good for Suisse but he's having a mare today.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Feels like Switzerland are finding it really easy to play their way up to the Italian goal.

Italy is allowing it. They're happy to soak up pressure.

 

[FireballXL5]

T20 final has to be a better watch than this.

 

[ManUtd1999]

The R16 picked up where the Group stage left off. No good passes and no good shots.

 

[BaguetteBoy]

Italy looks shite but can’t really put it past them to go through.

 

[giorno]

He at least has the excuse of not having the quality players unlike Southgate. But yes it’s a poor look apart from defensive line

Nah this is way worse. We're playing scared. Nobody's making a half sensible choice even by mistake. And Scamacca needs to come the feck off asap. Di Lorenzo too honestly, but Spalletti is never taking him off so...

 

[sidsutton]

Feels like Switzerland are finding it really easy to play their way up to the Italian goal.

But a lot of bad decisions when they get there.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

We need a Xhaka worldie to get this game going.

 

[calodo2003]

Terrible by the neutrals there.

 

[hellhunter]

Absolutely deserved

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Switzerland score.

 

[ha_rooney]

Deserved

 

[Kirk lazarus]

Good goal

 

[The Firestarter]

Logical. Good goal

 

[thisisnottaken1]

There we go. Switzerland 1-0 up. Deserved lead. Scored by number 8.

 

[DJ_21]

Lovely from the Swiss

 

[Irwin99]

deserved , maybe this will wake Italy up

 

[Doracle]

Nice goal that and well deserved.

 

[Oranges038]

It's about time something happened.

 

[sidsutton]

Lovely goal

 

[CloneMC16]

Switzerland have completely dominated this. Deserved lead.

 

[top1whoisman]

Not scared by Suisse. Half of their players play in Serie A, I know their value and they are not that good..

In a combined XI Italy would be present with almost all their players:

Donnarumma > Sommer
Di Lorenzo > Stergiou
Mancini < Akanji
Bastoni > Rodriguez
Darmian > Schar
Barella > Xhaka
Cristante < Freuler
Fagioli > Aebischer
El Shaarawy > Rieder
Chiesa > Ndoye
Scamacca > Embolo

+ we have Spalletti who is a top coach.

I expect to win honestly.

Haven’t seen any evidence of this so far.

 

[Florida Man]

Goddammit. But it was bound to happen

 

[BaguetteBoy]

Lovely

 

[RedDevilCanuck]

What a goal. That was coming

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Great finish. Well in Swiss.

 

[Bole Top]

no other way to make Italy play

 

[Fortitude]

Italy try to open up, they’ll get absolutely murdered.

 

[thisisnottaken1]

Italy need to wake up. They’ve been very poor.

 

[Revan]

This Italy team is very bad. Not only tactically bad, but the quality of players is really bad.

To be fair, the team that won the last Euros didn't have that many quality players, but still had some old veterans in their last legs, and Jorginho for a summer became the best midfielder in the world, and somehow everything clicked. But this team, is really the worst Italy ever. No star at all, and full of mediocre players. Probably Donnaruma and Chiesa are the only players who actually are decent.

 

[Daydreamer]

Still surprises me that once Xhaka actually started to get good, Arsenal let him go

It haunts me still.

 

[Rojofiam]

Predicted Switzerland to go through based on both sides' group stage performances but Italy have somehow still been worse than I expected

 

[thisisnottaken1]

This Italy team is very bad. Not only tactically bad, but the quality of players is really bad.

To be fair, the team that won the last Euros didn't have that many quality players, but still had some old veterans in their last legs, and Jorginho for a summer became the best midfielder in the world, and somehow everything clicked. But this team, is really the worst Italy ever. No star at all, and full of mediocre players.

Indeed. They’re a lot worse than they were three years ago. Rather mediocre.

 

[Zen]

Nice deep run for the Swiss and let's get that Ballon d'Or in Xhaka's hands.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Nicely done

 

[calodo2003]

Swiss have terrible shorts like we will have next year.

Good goal there.