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Good to have the Euros back after a few days off, although I've just tuned in to a deeply needless dig at Swindon from the commentator after he confused Sweden and Swindon

Cheeky fucker!

I heard that....cheeky fuc*er!

He's not wrong tbf

No he isn't but could have been less smug about it😀

Wales are different to England they look to attack and don't pass the ball backwards!

Unfortunately also different to England in that they concede goals.

A good one, in this case.

Decent goal credit where it's due!

Denmark well on top in that first half.

so far so good

What did he say?

I thought it was funny.

Loved the early commentary gaffe that had Swindon beating Slovakia rather than Sweden, which was quickly corrected by commenting that it was unlikely that Swindon could beat anybody right now.

So did I😀

The Danes look excellent.

https://twitter.com/dan_w_johnson/status/1408818476068769793?s=21

Have to say I'm disappointed with Danish fans' constant whistling when Wales are in possession, after all the good will shown to Denmark in the last couple of week. No class.

Wales being taught a lesson by Denmark

Showing everybody what they are an average 1 man team

Fair play to him, hes not wrong.

All gone a bit wrong at once here for Wales.

What’s with all the jizzing overDenmark? They’ve beaten a dreadful Russian side and a very poor Wales tonight.

'it's not an excuse but...' getting a lot of mileage here.

To think, some Welsh fans were already saying they were looking forward to playing England later in the tournament

The Danes were good but against a Wales side that had reached IMHO as far as they were going to get it so I think it flattered them.

I’m Welsh living in Swindon.

Totally outclassed but to be fair, for a country of 3M Where football is our 2nd sport, we’re punching above our weight just getting here.

I hope England go on to win it - if nothing else to stick one up to the EU for allowing 20,000 Danish fans into Holland and banning any Welsh fans from travelling. Probably wouldn’t have changed the result but we were essentially playing Denmark away.

Wales has a 4.5m pop doesn't it?  ???

See the Italians have started to re roller the pitch  :)

3,247,165 At the 2021 Census.

Compare that to Scotland with 5.5M, is their no.1 sport and never qualified beyond a group stage.

interesting game this one.. Not the best, but while Italy are slightly better there wasn't that much in the first half

I thought the atmosphere would be better

Very similar to their opener v Turkey. Except this time they didn't control things quite as much. Austria are no mugs but I thing Italy will ultimately have too much as the game goes on.

Also, Immobile is anything but.

Wow unbelievable

Oh my

Offside I reckon

Goodness me.

Damn😂

Michael Stipe says: No goal

I'd love Austria to win this though, they're playing really well and giving Italy a game!

boooooo

Thought there had to be daylight? Level  :)

Great Scott!

JQ a tad premature there (it's difficult with VAR). Lifeline for Italy.
Was a great goal (that never was) though.

I'd be surprised if Austria kept this level up until the end

Italy on pens I reckon. Heartbreak for the Styrian dwellers. Also, didn't realise the Benjamin Button version of Jimmy Bullard plays for Austria!

#Schlager

Caught in the moment Boo too busy having a session with bottles of bud

Level again  :)

What you do with your empty bottles of Bud is entirely up to you  :eek:

I rinse them out with water then put them in the recycling bin :pint:

That was selfish from Berardi there. Should've headed it. Rewarded by being subbed.

Strange they took Immobile off though. Would infer that Italy are now going to wake up and go for it in the last 5mins or ET. If it does go to penalties, the Immobile move could be a key tactical error.

This has been a trickier tie than most expected, not least Italy. A little complacent maybe. Massive credit to Austria - regardless of the end result.

I pretty much only gamble on international tournaments, and every two years I get a good reminder of why. Think I'm about to go to two winning bets out of 15, and most of them weren't even long shots. Mugs game. Or at least, this gamer is a mug.

Just shows you, media wankfest over performances at the group stages means nothing

extra time.

I think Italy will win, but Austria really pushed them the second half

Plus they had home advantage in the three group games

Depends on what markets you bet on to be honest and what odds you want.

I tend to avoid betting on teams to win (even though I bet on Denmark to beat Wales at evens as the price was too high).

I tend to bet on the corners market. I made a mint betting on Swindon corners last season. As we were outsiders in most games you could get even money for Swindon to get 5 corners or more at home and 4 corners or more away. Swindon generally went behind in most games and had to go forward to press for equaliser.

Brighton were great for corners last season.

That was an absolutely fantastic defensive header from Lainer at the end there. Almost worthy of a goal in itself. It is a simple technique to flick on/away a header but at that particular moment, many would buckle.

I want Austria to win now, which means Italy will probably go and win it. Impressed with Austria though. Surely only fitness can be the main indicator now?  :hmmm:

And sure enough, four minutes after my bet curse is lifted, Italy have recovered the ability to play football and go ahead.

Bloody fireworks going off in town  ???

That’s what I heard just now in Peatmoor. Seemed very close.

Indeed. Feel the keeper could have at least got a hand to Chiesa's goal. Incidentally, Chiesa was brought on for Berardi and not Immobile. Inspired sub from Mancini or just the little bit of luck you need (on top of talent) in tournament footy?  :hmmm:


Either PdC is back in Town or Fratello's has started celebrations early or both?  :pint:

Takes me back to 1982 when they won the World Cup

Austrian's crumble (or strudel). Fitness was starting to show just a few mins ago with the late challenge from Hinteregger.

Difficult now for them but Italy have ramped it up. Maybe the result we expected in 90mins but Austria have certainly made them work for it. I expect this to be a rather relaxed 2nd half of ET. Can't see Austria offering too much now, not without exposing themselves more than the jovial tissue abandon of Matt Hancock MP. Which would end up with them getting an absolute routing from Italy!

Orlando Bloom's "Will Turner" absolutely shanks it for Austria!

It's a scalp for Austria!

Never thought I would say this but that was shocking defending from the Italians. This will either end 2-2 or 3-1.

Well done Austria. You're keeping this even more interesting!

Jumping the gun a little Boo😀

At what point do people looking at Wales as Minnows and put them as underdogs all the time. They have players from Madrid Juve Spurs Man Utd Liverpool etc in their squad now. They are hardly the championship league 1 team they used to be

I think Northern Ireland have a case to be called minnows with a population of approx 1.3 million less than Wales.

It's a fair point, but their talismen are aging so hopefully it's not too long before they return to the abyss :)

Talking of aging isn't their oldest talisman abit old for a bun😀

I don't think there is an age that you should consider a bun

I think it looks ridiculous on older men but hey each to their own

I thought that but he put in some great performances for spurs the second half of the season. Be great when they do return :-)

Having long hair tied up is definitely still acceptable at 36.

if you think it looks good on Bale then we're in disagreement!

How JQ?  :D

"Scalp" was a nod to the Austrian who assisted (Schaub) and it was shocking defending by the Italians at a corner - especially by their historical standards (even though they are now play more like Spain a few years ago). You wouldn't have seen that from the master, Maldini.

The 2-2 or 3-1 was based on Austria still "going for it" and snatching an equaliser or getting caught on the counter in trying to do so. Which they did for much longer than most thought they would (myself included). The usual tends to happen in FA Cup games when a smaller club "goes for it" and sometimes it works but they gamble is always flattering the opposition and losing heavily.

I said well done to Austria because of all of the above and they made the game far more interesting to watch; from a neutral perspective :)

Has Parker gone back to Fulham yet?  :hmmm: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

oh yeah. he's far from finished.

But he, Ramsay, Joe Allen, etc are into their 30s now. Not sure they have the replacements coming through.

we'll see

Your score predictions of 2-2 or 3-1 never happened irrespective of poor defending and sooner or later you will make a mistake whilst posting

I know HR-K is in his 30s but Wales missed his additional flair and longe range ability. As for youngsters, Tyler Roberts is pretty handy but only got 12mins and the former missed out due to breaching Covid protocols I think?

Crazy to think Wales had a Goal of the Tournament player from 2016 not at the tournament this time around. I'd have still taken him and probably Tom Lawrence too.

No the score didn't end that way, quite evidently. But I was posting "live" as the match unfolded so was commenting as such...have you never done such a thing during a match? It is something of a state of flux - meaning it is very changeable and generally constantly so.

However, Scott Parker never went to Bournemouth for a day trip just so he could become coach of the club he already manages. Again  ;)

Apologies though, I'll never make another comment regarding what "might" happen during a live match again...

Cast back you accused me of jumping the gun when I made comment on Austria scoring whilst watching live football before it was ruled offside........several seconds later!

That Austrian goal is one of the most incredible I've seen due to the sheer
"impossibility" of it. Gets more unbelievable every time I watch it

Ahh come off it man. I didn't say that so much. I even understood why as well (due to the VAR delay). I think most of us thought it was a goal, you just happened to jump first but there was a caveat inserted and very clearly as you can see below.

It's really all irrelevant now but no hard feelings. I was only ribbing you about Scott Parker you daft sod. Didn't think you'd take it that to heart but then again, I've no idea of your current circumstances, so apologies if what I said has ruffled you :)

Which one? The goal goal or the non-goal goal? Both were fairly exquisite. The one I think you mean though (the goal goal one) is a near post flick on wonder!

Welsh beaten deservedly by a good Denmark side. This tournament Gareth Bale has been shit. Absolutely dire. Keifer Moore on the other hand has been a surprise.

To me, Bale has been playing way too deep.
It’s almost like Bale/Page don’t trust the rest of the team enough to give Bale enough service in the final third so he drops deep to try and drive forward and create for others.

Ramsey is good enough in that midfield to create for Bale