Group A Discussion - Poland, Greece, Russia, Czech Republic

[Scaly piscine]

Not a bad penalty?!?

A ****ing awful one perhaps? He telegraphed the sidefoot and it's an easy save.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Put some money on Poland half-time lead into a draw before the game. Rather happy about that penalty save.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Realise as I'm an Englishman I open to charges of stones and glasshouses, but yuk. Standard of football has been pretty excremental.

 

[GIMH]

What I've seen has been like a championship relegation scrap

 

[Scaly piscine]

What I've seen has been like a championship relegation scrap

When I went over to Warsaw for the World Scrabble Championships in October last year I remember watching two teams in a near empty small stadium on TV. I thought it was a relegation clash in Poland's top club division, turned out to be a friendly between Poland and Belarus.

 

[sledger]

Haha, maybe it's my vested interest in this game that made it more fun for me, but whilst that wasn't exactly a footballing purist's dream, I don't think the game was that bad.

Poland are nothing to get excited about, but I thought once Greece got it together they looked like a tidy and well drilled side. Thought Kyriakos Papadopoulos looked very impressive individually as well tbh.

 

[GIMH]

Looking forwards to the next game tbh

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

First half was very entertaining honestly, compared to openers in most tournaments. Second obviously wasn't that great, but meh. Memorable game.

 

[grecian]

Looking forwards to the next game tbh

Yeah me too, following matches on Twitter are better than watching it, IMHO.

 

[wpdavid]

Realise as I'm an Englishman I open to charges of stones and glasshouses, but yuk. Standard of football has been pretty excremental.

Dangerous post mate. I was thinking along similar lines until I realised that they both passed it better than we'll probably manage.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Dangerous post mate. I was thinking along similar lines until I realised that they both passed it better than we'll probably manage.

Yeah, it's not that I think we're any good or anything, but one of the real joys of 2008 was that it was free of leaden footed Anglo Saxons & Celts and one could slaver over the sublime tekkers on display. I don't expect anything else from us.

If the Poles and Greeks are any guide the standard won't live up this time around.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Premiership keepers not being too flash today.

 

[GIMH]

Doh. Wanted a Czech win here.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Czech defence lacks both pace and positional sense. It's a winning combination.

 

[GIMH]

Thoughts of the Arsenal contingent on Arshavin's performance?

 

[GIMH]

Now that's a cracking goal.

 

[GIMH]

Bloody hell. Awful miss.

 

[GIMH]

There's the game then. Cracking finish.

Talking to myself here. About time this forum recognise the one voice worth listening to.

 

[Neil Pickup]

This group's a non-contest, isn't it?

 

[Cevno]

Russia looking strong ....

Expected this to be a boring game, but been decent. Dzagoev WAG!