NFT: Euro 2020 starts today!

with France, Hungary, Germany and Portugal is crazy!

A top team will get knocked out there.

In comment 15284485 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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with France, Hungary, Germany and Portugal is crazy! A top team will get knocked out there.

The two teams that come out have to be considered favorites to win it all.

will inevitably root for the little guy that makes it out of the Group. This year's Iceland or Greece

They have improved since the World Cup and if Stones plays like he did for Man City towards the end of the year, their back line should be much improved.

Their only real issue is Pickford.

think Italy may make a run, but I also like two teams in the same group - Belgium and Denmark - I don't know if both will get out.

I'd like to see Germany win just because everyone falls asleep on them and they still are a really tough team.

With some 3rd place teams qualifying.

I doubt Turkey has what it takes to beat Italy in Rome today. Mancini has them unbeaten for 27 straight games.

No Party!

I'm looking forward to seeing Scotland play this year.

Sicilian and Turkish, I will be rooting for Turkey to win. Don’t sleep on them, they have beat great teams recently. They always play to their competitions level.

Italy is a much more offensive squad than usual.

will be rooting hard for Spain, young team and probably 5th best squad, but hey ya never know.
England to me seems to be my favorite to win.

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will be rooting hard for Spain, young team and probably 5th best squad, but hey ya never know. England to me seems to be my favorite to win.

England is never favorite to win. They simply don't know how to play football at the international level regardless of what they do for their club teams.

In comment 15284595 giantBCP said:

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In comment 15284589 Sec 103 said: Quote: will be rooting hard for Spain, young team and probably 5th best squad, but hey ya never know. England to me seems to be my favorite to win. England is never favorite to win. They simply don't know how to play football at the international level regardless of what they do for their club teams.

While I agree, the same was said for Spain for the longest time.... Let me just say it would not surprise me in the least.

getting knocked out by teams like Iceland.

In comment 15284632 giantBCP said:

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getting knocked out by teams like Iceland.

Well yeah, lol... true

We have a very complete team with a lot of young talent, combined with the vets like Eriksen and Schmeichel.
Denmark will beat Finland tomorrow (3-1) and the get the X against Belgium. Then I hope we can beat Russia on the 21st.

Always cheer for Spain but wouldn’t mind Belgium winning.

This is probably the last chance for its current squad, and they played the best attacking style at the last World Cup.

Great to see the Dutch back in play.

In comment 15284595 giantBCP said:

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In comment 15284589 Sec 103 said: Quote: will be rooting hard for Spain, young team and probably 5th best squad, but hey ya never know. England to me seems to be my favorite to win. England is never favorite to win. They simply don't know how to play football at the international level regardless of what they do for their club teams.

They did take 4th in the WC and are probably more talented now. Southgate stinks though.

He seems to have put out the soap opera atmosphere that had plagued England seemingly forever.

In comment 15284485 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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with France, Hungary, Germany and Portugal is crazy! A top team will get knocked out there.

Not necessarily. The third place team out of this group could end up advancing.

One of these squads is not like the others, though!

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are being allowed in the stands?

In comment 15284748 RDJR said:

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I know that Croatia hasn’t been in the best form since they made the world cup final, but their heavy underdog status with the sports books seems strange to me.

Mancini and Vialli used to be the strikers, now one's the coach.

Not given.

match was a dud. Turkey looked like they wanted a 0-0 draw and then after they conceded, they looked like they wanted to be home.

I don't why but I was surprised to still old Chiellini on the pitch for Italy. Still doing his thing...

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horrible scenes in Copenhagen. He is leaving the pitch now on a stretcher. don't know if they will continue the game.

Like he was shot. Just terrible scene. Cpr for it seemed like forever. Praying for his recovery

In comment 15285297 Bobby Humphrey's Earpad said:

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horrible scenes in Copenhagen. He is leaving the pitch now on a stretcher. don't know if they will continue the game.

Match suspended. Prayers for Eriksen, his family, and Koldegaard, our Danish Giants fan. It was horrible. Fans and players were crying. Eriksen's wife was brought on the pitch, and it was reported that medics had to perform CPR

In comment 15285302 dpinzow said:

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In comment 15285297 Bobby Humphrey's Earpad said: Quote: horrible scenes in Copenhagen. He is leaving the pitch now on a stretcher. don't know if they will continue the game. Match suspended. Prayers for Eriksen, his family, and Koldegaard, our Danish Giants fan. It was horrible. Fans and players were crying. Eriksen's wife was brought on the pitch, and it was reported that medics had to perform CPR

Just saw it. Tragic.

Let's hope good news is on the way...

with Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers.

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Eriksen reportedly stabilized in hospital - ( New Window )

Came on to EUROs thread late, saw your post, immediately went to ESPN, been watching ~half hour. It seems clear that ESPN Production (or UEFA?) has made an executive decision thus far not to air the 90 seconds prior to Eriksen receiving the throw-in (no contact).

Thoughts on that decision? Respect and reverence for the player and his teammates and Finland team, yes. Does the decision not to air seem right to you?

He stumbled and collapsed face first and the players immediately called for medical support. I rewound the DVR and he was out. Nothing to be gained but to alarm people.

that Eriksen is at hospital, 'stabilized' and 'awake', there is a competing demand to understand the circumstances and the event. For me as a fan, and who has had a daughter collapse in seizure on the field (most horrifying day of my life) due to impact, I still want to know, want to see, it helps me connect better, more viscerally to the event--always liked and have had the greatest respect for and appreciation of Eriksen's play--than listening to these talking heads simply gain time on air. I get there are competing perspectives.

In comment 15285315 bw in dc said:

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with Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers.

And Fabrice Muamba, another soccer player who suffered a heart attack on the field, who was declared dead for 78 minutes, and miraculously resuscitated.

Definitely those two tragic situations came to mind as well

This is very surprising

I just watched it.

Good thing it didn’t happen in CONCACAF, certainly could have had a boy who cried wolf situation as precious moments to restabilize ticked away.

In comment 15285328 dpinzow said:

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In comment 15285315 bw in dc said: Quote: with Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers. And Fabrice Muamba, another soccer player who suffered a heart attack on the field, who was declared dead for 78 minutes, and miraculously resuscitated. Definitely those two tragic situations came to mind as well

Sounds like they completely bungled the declaration of death on that one. If it was accurate he would have been brain dead.

strike me as an arrogant little twerp?

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If it's played midway through 2021?

In comment 15285360 montanagiant said:

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If it's played midway through 2021?

Delayed a year bc of the Covids.

In comment 15285361 Bricktop said:

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In comment 15285360 montanagiant said: Quote: If it's played midway through 2021? Delayed a year bc of the Covids.

Ahh... makes sense. Thank you

having seen Finland's fans on one side of the Stadium in Copenhagen chanting 'Christiaan' in unison, answered by the Denmark fans on the other side 'Eriksen', over and over, his first and last names reverberating through the Stadium, when my wife came in (she was aware of his collapse) and I recited those moments, broke out in tears, sentimental schmuck that I am.

I thought Erfo (know I have the name wrong, a Nigerian who played in EPL with Sheffield United), on one of the endless panels commenting on whether UEFA should have suspended play until Sunday, should have canceled, should have left the decision to the FAs of Denmark and Finland, was very articulate. He said, about a somewhat analogous situation when a teammate went down and the decision was made to continue the game the following day, that it was worse for his team SUFC, completely flat, having gone home and having the gravity of the injury to their teammate, rendered them less ready to play after 24 hours.

Twellman did not strike me that way. He speaks quickly and pretty articulately, and he referred early on this afternoon, before Eriksen's condition was known to have stabilized, to his 'well known' concussion issues, hard not to be emotional about things like that.

Strikes me this AM as I was driving to pick up some fruit and veggies that Eriksen must have suffered a stroke of some kind. Have not been doing any reading on footie web sites or otherwise, but it would explain the appearance of sudden onset of lack of coordination and then complete loss of motor control. CPR and O2 delivery probably saved his life and, hopefully, him from serious CNS damage due to lack of oxygen.

Heart attack, I read. They were literally keeping him alive with the CPR on the field.

Netherlands-Ukraine with a well-played first half. Several good chances for the Dutch but the Ukrainian keeper is very good.

The match, there goes the first goal. Gift rebound.

In comment 15285819 glowrider said:

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The match, there goes the first goal. Gift rebound.

hah, yeah guess I jinxed him.

Dutch had one coming though.