women's euros 2017

[aftershavedave]

really enjoying this tournament, watched a fair few matches.

one thing that surprises me is the quality (or lack of it) of the passing. too often even best teams put passes way off target.

from what i've seen, england have a very good chance, french struggling and only germany look a major threat....

 

[Me and my Monkey]

I'll be tuning in for England v Portugal tomorrow evening definitely. Women's football has really come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, and is now a very entertaining spectacle, not the rather slow and slightly embarrassing thing it once was. England up there with the best (funny it seems to be just the men's senior team failing to produce the goods at the moment). I'll try to get to as many Brighton Women's games as I can this season, I failed miserably to do so last season.

 

[Hugo Rune]

from what i've seen, england have a very good chance, french struggling and only germany look a major threat....

In which case, another opportunity to make some money at the bookies by betting on England getting knocked out by the Germans on penalties!

 

[aftershavedave]

in action tonight against portugal. should top the group and play against france who scraped through but will be without their stand-out player, big defender with wild hair. otherwise the french looked pretty rubbish and got lucky last night

 

[whitelion]

in action tonight against portugal. should top the group and play against france who scraped through but will be without their stand-out player, big defender with wild hair. otherwise the french looked pretty rubbish and got lucky last night

Sounds like Izzy Brown.

Apart from the defender bit.

 

[crodonilson]

I thought we were outclassed by the Spanish, can't see us winning it.

 

[middletoenail]

I thought we were outclassed by the Spanish, can't see us winning it.

The Spanish were easy on the eye (style of football!), but were toothless in attack. Reminded me of Poyets teams in the Championship, possession with no purpose.

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[GOM]

I thought we were outclassed by the Spanish, can't see us winning it.

Only outclassed with possesion. How many times do we see that in mens football, a team with 64% possession but didn't do anything with it. We scored 2 and had a 'good' goal disallowed.

 

[carlzeiss]

The Spanish were easy on the eye (style of football!), but were toothless in attack. Reminded me of Poyets teams in the Championship, possession with no purpose.

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Seem to recall Poyets team doing rather well in the Championship .

 

[ozzygull]

Only outclassed with possesion. How many times do we see that in mens football, a team with 64% possession but didn't do anything with it. We scored 2 and had a 'good' goal disallowed.

Yep! Think of Reading game last year, Reading piddled about passing back and forth, side to side until we nearly fell asleep, but we were kept awake by Brighton's 3 superb goals from three attacks. Reading had 99% (exaggerating a little) possession, it meant nothing.

 

[middletoenail]

Seem to recall Poyets team doing rather well in the Championship .

Clearly not well enough!

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[Jbanged]

What time is the game this evening?
I've managed to watch a couple of games and been impressed with the standard.

 

[Easy 10]

What time is the game this evening?
I've managed to watch a couple of games and been impressed with the standard.

7.45 ko.

I might mince along to the pub for a little squint. Bit of background innit.

 

[aftershavedave]

The Spanish were easy on the eye (style of football!), but were toothless in attack. Reminded me of Poyets teams in the Championship, possession with no purpose.

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agree with that. the spanish, like a good few teams here, but noticeably not england, looked like they could play for hours without scoring

 

[KZNSeagull]

Anyone see Jermaine Jenas get a mouthful of sprinkler just now!? Clare Balding seemed to think it was funny. No doubt someone will post it on Youtube shortly.

 

[Beach Hut]

Anyone see Jermaine Jenas get a mouthful of sprinkler just now!? Clare Balding seemed to think it was funny. No doubt someone will post it on Youtube shortly.

Yes and he got sprayed twice, thought he kept his composure well

 

[KZNSeagull]

Yes and he got sprayed twice, thought he kept his composure well

He did. The boy done well.

 

[Beach Hut]

1-0 England

 

[KZNSeagull]

1-0 to the Ingerlund!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'll be tuning in for England v Portugal tomorrow evening definitely. Women's football has really come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, and is now a very entertaining spectacle, not the rather slow and slightly embarrassing thing it once was. England up there with the best (funny it seems to be just the men's senior team failing to produce the goods at the moment). I'll try to get to as many Brighton Women's games as I can this season, I failed miserably to do so last season.

I said much the same on here about 10 years ago and was utterly flamed, including by @uncle speilburg who, paradoxically, has now had enough of the flaming and cockwombling on here. How times change