No, you haven’t got it right (quelle surprise!)
The path to the final is as follows:
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https://x.com/eurofootcom/status/1806089160048226767
The ref was just awful
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In response to the crowd booing them at FT, KdB rounded up the Belgian players to send them inside rather than acknowledging the fans.
Shit bag
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I love how he rebranded with his name the standard Euro 2024 image from UEFA.
To be fair to kdb, he is used to not playing in front of any fans so that is normal for him
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yes.
i have also watched Italy.
i have also watched enough tournements to know playing well pourly in the group stage doesnt mean you cant win the thing…happens quite often.
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They have been a delight to watch so far. The real surprise team for me.
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They’re a massive 18-1 to beat Spain in 90 minutes. That’s well worth a few quid, especially given Spain lack a reliable finisher.
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Scrap the whole 3rd place nonsense and knowing who you’re playing against after group stages (that one might be more difficult to do?).
Less calculations, more enjoyment and focus on the actual football on the pitch.
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I don’t gamble but that does sound stupid odds.
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Scrapping the third place nonsense would probably mean expanding to 32 teams, more matches, lower quality and a longer tournament.
Otherwise you’d have to contract to 16 teams which would be great, but UEFA is politically unlikely to do.
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There’s a job waiting for you at UEFA.
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The ref had better not go to Turkey on holiday!
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Not an art that England has ever seemed to master - but yeah, I look at that bracket and think Italy could win this thing.
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In fairness he should be welcomed with open arms there for not giving the Turkish player who elbowed his opponent early in the 2nd half his second yellow. Commentators said VAR was not allowed to report it to the ref but that was just gross injustice considering that he send off a Czech player in the 1st half after a two yellows, of which one was a kind of a joke.
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I’m not altogether sure I like the tournament format. The groups mean that you have an allowance for a misbobble, or in the case of England, a lot of poor and lackadaisical play, and you still have the latitude to stumble through.
If it is knockout from the off, it sharpens the focus and is nice and clear.
Personally I’d rather see a straightforward knockout Euros, with the teams seeded (there can always be upsets). Every game is do or die and the added jeopardy would add to the spectacle.
The extra games we have now is commercially good for UEFA and the various vested interests around it, so I don’t expect it to change.
The third place stuff just complicates an iffy format even further, and leads to unsatisfactory outcomes like Ukraine not making it, even on more points than others.
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But if a team and its fans have travelled half way across Europe, they don’t want to go straight home after 90 mins.
True about the ‘third placed stuff’, but the only way to avoid that is to have sixteen or thirty two teams.
Sixteen would be good, but there’s no way UEFA are going to reduce the numbers, and thirty two would be excruciating. So we’re left with the current unsatisfactory situation.
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