6pm Uk time this eve
England in Pot 1
England in Pot 1
Other European Euro 2020 finals draw
- Thread starter Sarge
- Start date
Thomas/Brock/Jones
Level: Steve Basham
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How confusing is this draw !! Good to have Croatia at home so far
really confusing IMO
it's on for hour and a half ?
Thomas/Brock/Jones
Level: Steve Basham
(189 Apps, 51 Gls)
And playing sides from group ! Czech Rep ok though ..looking decent for us
Group D England, Croatia, Czech Republic plus one from :-Norway, Serbia, Scotland , Israel
Wales in group A along with Italy, Switzerland, Turkey
group f looks tough
Group D could be tight too
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nah we'll probably do the same as usual. get through group stage then blow itGroup D could be tight too
We avoided the group of death possibility 
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That group looks very hard!
.That group looks very hard!
The new Euro qualifying method, with the Nations league wrapped in, makes the draw fiendishly complex. As a proper football statto - I love it!
What Sarge's graphic doesn't show is that if Romania qualify, they actually end up playing in Group C (because they're one of the hosts of that group), and the poor Nations League group D minnows (Kosovo/Macedonia/Belarus/Georgia) get flipped to Group F and will get the pleasure of facing Germany, France & Portugal in the group stage!
One final comment - when we were previously discussing the odd structure of the tourney - I said this - However whichever poor sods end up Runners Up in Group A, will have a 'fun' combo of having to play in Rome & Baku in the Groups Stages, followed by Amsterdam, followed by heading back to Baku!
Well, turns out - if all goes well for them - that could be Wales!
What Sarge's graphic doesn't show is that if Romania qualify, they actually end up playing in Group C (because they're one of the hosts of that group), and the poor Nations League group D minnows (Kosovo/Macedonia/Belarus/Georgia) get flipped to Group F and will get the pleasure of facing Germany, France & Portugal in the group stage!
One final comment - when we were previously discussing the odd structure of the tourney - I said this - However whichever poor sods end up Runners Up in Group A, will have a 'fun' combo of having to play in Rome & Baku in the Groups Stages, followed by Amsterdam, followed by heading back to Baku!
Well, turns out - if all goes well for them - that could be Wales!
I dunno, given the slim chance of surviving any Euro group anyway wouldn't you absolutely love taking on Germany, France and Portugal with anything a bonus?
It's not that slim, though.
Top two plus four best losers going through means that one group stage win may be enough (it was for Northern Ireland in 2016 - meanwhile Portugal didn't win a single group game.....three draws....and ended up winning the fricking tournament!)
A team like Kosovo, on a really good day, could beat an opponent like Austria, and maybe get a point against the Ukraine (two of the potential Group C opponents). Do that and then could reach the knockouts, and then they really could go home heroes.
As another aside - although these things obviously never go to form.....if they did, England have a bloody difficult route through the knockouts if they win their group! First up - second place team in Group F i.e. one of Portugal/Germany/France. Then winners of Group E in the quarters (likely Spain).
RyanioBirdio
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
Postponed until June 11, 2021.
At least Kane might be fit now...
- Year of First Game
- 1980
Is it behind closed doors, or is the expected massive crowd going to be allowed in?
Marked Ox
Level: Mickey Lewis
(351 Apps, 7 Gls)
Still a bigger game than Scotland vs Israel.
Obviously the tournament was moved 12 months into 2021 but in light of increased cases of COVID in France, Spain and here which shows how easy it is to get complacent and let the virus manifest itself, surely the whacky, multi-country format of the Euros must be in doubt now?
A double down to hosting it in one country and parking the idea of the multi-country format for next time? A fan-less/limited number of fans allowed into stadiums? Cancelled entirely?
UEFA will have their work cut out.
A double down to hosting it in one country and parking the idea of the multi-country format for next time? A fan-less/limited number of fans allowed into stadiums? Cancelled entirely?
UEFA will have their work cut out.
