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Weiss scores, a draw or secondly a Slovakia win is best for England, as long as Russia don't win. 

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Russia really aren't very good. How did we not beat them?

We played the last 20 minutes with one striker who was knackered and a 5 man midfield whilst Sturidge,rashford and vardy all sat playing with their willies on the bench.

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If you look back through the comments on this thread, doubt you'd find any team gettin worse abuse than Albania in the first games. They were pants.

 

If France, with their apparent squad depth and home nation advantage can't easily beat em, they are shit!

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If you look back through the comments on this thread, doubt you'd find any team gettin worse abuse than Albania in the first games. They were pants.

 

If France, with their apparent squad depth and home nation advantage can't easily beat em, they are shit!

Albania were excellent second half against the Swiss.Should have won even when down to 10.

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My recollection of it was they were like a Sunday team against the Swiss. Might have been based on first 45 though.

 

Fucking winning two nil after all that. England would have lost that.

 

And I had a fiver on 3-0, the frog eating bastards!

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My recollection of it was they were like a Sunday team against the Swiss. Might have been based on first 45 though.

 

Fucking winning two nil after all that. England would have lost that.

 

And I had a fiver on 3-0, the frog eating bastards!

Yeah Albania had a nervous start to the tournament, but really were good in the second half against the Swiss.

 

There's a high standard being played in this tournament, even among the less fancied teams.

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Aye. In the predictor at work, as it has gone to 24 teams from 16 I have it down that one team would get panned from each group.

 

That hasn't happened. It's been entertaining, apart from in group B.

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It has been entertaining, im not convinced at all about increasing to 24 teams doing much for the actual quality of football but it's great to see some of the fans of these sides just happy to be there.

 

One thing for me though, much was made pre tournament about how poor defences are these days, its the forward play thats been disappointing. Been some terrible finishing.

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I blame the structure, with hardly any teams going out, the poorer teams are playing for a point, a win and a draw, maybe three draws, will see you through.

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I blame the structure, with hardly any teams going out, the poorer teams are playing for a point, a win and a draw, maybe three draws, will see you through.

 

Given England's slow starts, I'd say it suits us better than most.

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It has been entertaining, im not convinced at all about increasing to 24 teams doing much for the actual quality of football but it's great to see some of the fans of these sides just happy to be there.

 

One thing for me though, much was made pre tournament about how poor defences are these days, its the forward play thats been disappointing. Been some terrible finishing.

 

One thing that increasing the numbers has done is to virtually eliminate dead rubbers.

 

I agree

 

The groups are dead rubbers

 

Last 16 is when it will start meaning something, be nice to see some more goals though

 

Not for the first time, you are wrong.

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