OT - UEFA Euro 2008

8O · Post by 8O » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:04 pm

Czech Rep v Portugal 1-3
Switzerland v Turkey 1-2

So how did we do with them there predictions...?

8O wrote:Czech Republic v Portugal
Switzerland v Turkey
(I reckon 0:2 and 0:1, respectively)

smartass303 wrote:Czech Rep v Portugal 1-3
Switzerland v Turkey 2-1

mdk wrote:Czech Rep v Portugal 1-1
Switzerland v Turkey 1-2

Well, I got the winners right, but you folks got one score perfect each.

That last match was surprisingly entertaining. Shame to see the first of the hosts out!

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:46 pm

Yay! We didn't play very well, but we won!

8O · Post by 8O » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:46 am

So... tonight...

Croatia v Germany
Austria v Poland

I reckon:

Croatia v Germany 1-2
Austria v Poland 0-2

Your predictions?

(edit: Tone Deft: sorry for hijacking your thread somewhat, but hope you finally get to see some games live on TV

)

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:35 am

Croatia 1 - Germany 3
Austria 1 - Poland 2

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:43 am

im going for

Croatia 2 - Germany 2
Austria 1 - Poland 0

I think croatia will step it up tonight as although they won the first game they were poor (and Kranjcar in particular looked tired), i reckon they'll really go for it, and pletikosa looks pretty good.

Dont know why i think Austria will beat Poland because Poland looked pretty good, but I think they'll get a scrappy goal near the end.

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:26 pm

Rgarding watching the matches, do you know about this site... http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/ ?

Not amazing quality but helps me avoid having to buy Sky Sports for the Prem League! They appear to have all Euro 2008 games too, but these are all shown on BBC and ITV terrestrial anyway here, but people overseas might benefit from the streams.

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:36 pm

i use that a lot during the season, mainly for cup games (carling / fa) because they show the premiership here on tv, but there's no way they'll show a midweek carling cup game with coventry playing

also you can use a proxy to watch the games on the bbc site :

http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-GB.htm

and all the other content the bbc has that you cant normally see if youre not in the UK.

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:11 pm

I'll predict Croatia 1 Germany 1

I'd like to see Croatia 5 Germany 0 though...!!!

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:43 pm

ThrowAway wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:I'm a 35 year old American and grew up playing soccer, started at like 7 years old at soccer camps, the beautiful game is not unknown here at all. we invented the term 'soccer mom' FFS.

I catch whatever I can, I get Fox Soccer Network which shows the German league, South American leagues, European leagues, EPL, all that.

...and to those who say the US can't play futbol - the US women have won the World Cup TWO of the five times it's been played. suck eggs Eurotrash, learn the sport!

you beat me to it. Its only a matter of time before the mens usa team starts winning as much as any of the other power teams, theyll still have cricket and rugby though.

Well, bear in mind that the tragic English team beat the US easily, and the English team are worse than everyone at the Euro2008 championships.

http://www.soccerisfutbol.com/2008/05/u ... nd-review/

The US has a few half-decent players, but there is a world of difference between having a few half-decent players and having a competitive team.
Example: England.

Teska Tehnika · Post by **Teska Tehnika** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:37 pm

go Croatia!!!

monkey magic · Post by **monkey magic** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:00 pm

Ronaldo viva Ronaldo viva Ronaldo viva Ronaldo

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:01 pm

Wow! It's about to start!

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:25 pm

GOAL!!!!

Croatia 1 Germany 0

Totally different look from Croatia for this match!!

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:21 pm

Goal!!!!

Croatia 2 Germany 0

This is getting out of hand!!!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:35 pm

sorry, can't get into comments on today's matches until I get home tonight to watch them, even with spoilers the games are great. yesterday Ronaldo was fun to watch.

Angstrom wrote:Well, bear in mind that the tragic English team beat the US easily, and the English team are worse than everyone at the Euro2008 championships.

http://www.soccerisfutbol.com/2008/05/u ... nd-review/

The US has a few half-decent players, but there is a world of difference between having a few half-decent players and having a competitive team.
Example: England.

having a competitive team? hells no, you didn't even make Euro 2008!

you can't really compare teams from years apart, our team from the last world cup was worse than the previous cup, the coach was a FAIL as well. I'm just glad we qualified.

I never wrote that the US had a good team, sure, we can get into the cup, that's pretty cool. I only put out there that our women's team has won the cup twice, AFAIK your women have never even qualified, KTHXBYE.

EPL is the best league in the world, but it's mostly imported talent, go figure. England's mens team has only won the cup once, 50+ years ago, you have no reason to cop attitude, unless you want to pay a poster from another country to do your trolling for you, then I might listen.

aaaaaanyway, the beautiful game, love it!!

OT - UEFA Euro 2008

who do you favor to win?