[Calderyon]

Discussion about Group E of the 2020 (2021) Football European Championships.

Schedule:

14.06.2021

5 PM Poland v Slovakia
8 PM Spain v Sweden

18.06.2021

2 PM Sweden v Slovakia

19.06.2021

8 PM Spain v Poland

23.06.2021

5 PM Sweden v Poland
5 PM Slovakia v Spain

[Calderyon]

Spain seems like the easiest pick to top the group, a strong team. Poland with Lewandowski reach 2nd.

Sweden either beats Slovakia or ties. Either way, I think Sweden will be 3rd and Slovakia 4th.

[Nicky91]

Spain's captain Sergio Busquets tests positive for covid-19


has left training camp immediately, all other players got tested negative

[Nicky91]

No Euro's for injured Arek Milik, bad news for Poland

a knee injury which he got last month at his club Olympique Marseille


manager Sousa hasn't called up a replacement for him, so this spot will be filled by the already 2nd and 3rd choice in the squad

[Nicky91]

Poland - Slovakia 0-1

own goal szczesny (18)

[Nicky91]

tonights match is more interesting i think, Spain (without any real madrid players for first time ever) vs Sweden

[Calderyon]

Poland v Slovakia 0-1 45'

18' 0-1 Szczesny OG

[Calderyon]

Poland v Slovakia 1-1 46'

46' 1-1 Linetti (Rybus)

[MTVN]

Come on you Slovaks!!

[Calderyon]

62' Krychowiak gets a red card for receiving a second yellow.

[Calderyon]

Poland v Slovakia 1-2 74'

69' 1-2 Skriniar

[Calderyon]

Poland v Slovakia 1-2 FT

[Shaun]

2nd upset of the tournament so far (after Finland), so this is shaping up nicely

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Shaun

2nd upset of the tournament so far (after Finland), so this is shaping up nicely

No major upsets though. I wonder if that might come tonight, Spain are looking dodgy.

[Calderyon]

Spain v Sweden 0-0 at 48'

[Calderyon]

Spain v Sweden 0-0 FT

[AnnieK]

That was probably the most boring game of rhe tournament so far

[Shaun]

Spain? Boring? Never...

[bots]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Spain? Boring? Never...

haha yeah, i always hated watching spain play and i'm glad i chose not to watch it

[Nicky91]

lol at that poland red card, for one of the experienced players in the whole tournament



Spain, well honestly they got a completely new team compared to their world cup, euro successes

and Sweden aren't that bad, i like a couple players of theirs, and they got a pretty neat youth system either, what i can know, since we've seen many swedes come into our eredivisie competition (usually to Groningen, Heerenveen, AZ they got a good scouting eye overall on scandinavian talent anyway)




Slovakia, well they are a decent team i guess, their most famous player in this squad is Marek Hamsik, whom has loads of Serie A experience, with Napoli i think where he used to play for quite some years

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

haha yeah, i always hated watching spain play and i'm glad i chose not to watch it

that run to winning the World Cup in 2010 by just winning every single game 1-0 (except one loss to, I think, Switzerland, in the groups?), with that suffocating, joyless tiki-taka football, was the most tedious World Cup of all time

[Calderyon]

I was hoping Spain would not win WC 2010. Hoped that they got knocked out after GS, but to no avail.

WC2010 Spain results: Group stages: v SWI 0-1, HON 2-0, CHI 2-1
Knock out: POR 1-0, Quarterfinal: PAR 1-0, Semifinal: GER 1-0, Final: NED 1-0.

[Nicky91]

Slovakia's Denis Vavro has been tested positive for covid-19, also a member of staff got tested positive, both are in self-isolation

ahead of the match against Sweden

[Nicky91]

Sweden - Slovakia now

audience total: 30.000

[Nicky91]

Sergio Busquets returns to Spain squad, he tested positive for covid on June 6th but is now virus free again


he has barely trained due to self isolation, so not a chance he'll play against Poland tomorrow