Euro 2012 Group B (Group of death?)

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Will be very interested to see how Denmark play against Germany, they could risk playing for a draw, which Germany would be happy with as well, but if Portugal were to avoid defeat then they would be going out. I still fancy the Dutch to go through, and Portugal to finish bottom, it'll be a very interesting Sunday, I presume RTE will be showing the Dutch game.

Jax Teller

Just saw this

Mario Gomez (#GER) was in possession for only 18 seconds in the game v #NED, yet still scored 2 goals

Impressive

inforfun

That is more than the entire Ireland team yesterday vs Spain...

swoody

Drunk Dutch fans cannot stop interrupting blonde Ukrainian TV reporter

inforfun

If you want to know the reason why i stopped going to matches of the national team...

There you have it.

Mother of all cringes here.

klose

Can't believe Holland will more then likely be going home after tonight some shocker!
They really need to start the 2 forwards and have vdv starting in the middle too if they've any chance

ollie1

swoody wrote: »

Drunk Dutch fans cannot stop interrupting blonde Ukrainian TV reporter

The guy in the wheelchair :pac:

Jax Teller

Any early team news for tonight ?

Jax Teller

That's tomorrow gk keep up duff with his 100th cap I think ?

Jimmy Iovine

For everyone who is confused about which teams go through depending on results then here's a table to help ye. It's invaluable really.

swoody

Coletrickle88 wrote: »

Any early team news for tonight ?

Portugal v Netherlands

Portugal will be unchanged and Netherlands will play with the team that finished the match against Germany, so Huntelaar and VDV will start in place of Afellay and De Jong or Van Bommel

Denmark v Germany

The Danes will be without Dennis Rommedahl, injured against Portugal, and he will be replaced by Tobias Mikkelsen. Niki Zimling faces a race to recover from a muscle injury so might be replaced by Jakob Poulsen. The Germans will be without suspended right back Jerome Boateng with Lars Bender replacing him, leaving Philipp Lahm on the left.

Jax Teller

Germany XI: Neuer, Lars Bender, Hummels, Badstuber, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Muller, Ozil, Podolski, Gomez” 

Denmark XI: Andersen, Jacobsen, Kjær, Agger, S.Poulsen, Kvist, Zimling, Mikkelsen, Eriksen, Krohn-Dehli, Bendtner” 

Jax Teller

Holland starting XI v Portugal: Stekelenburg; Vd Wiel, Vlaar, Mathijsen, Willems; De Jong, vd Vaart; Robben, Van Persie, Sneijder; Huntelaar” 

Portugal starting XI v Holland: Rui Patricio; Pereira, Alves, Pepe, Coentrao; Meireles, Moutinho; Nani, Varela, Postiga, Ronaldo” 

steelcityblues

As long as Germany and one of Denmark/Portugal go through, I will be happy.

G.K.

Why won't he play Schmelzer

Shocked to see Veloso drop out.

Moneymaker

I for one am eagerly awaiting a Holland blowup tonight. Will be quite entertaining.

Jimmy Iovine

Podolski starting means that he's the youngest European player to ever reach 100 caps for their country. Considering that he just turned 27 a few weeks ago it's an incredible achievement.

swoody

hopefully we have the same drama as yesterday...... imagine the netherlands doing a greece

kitakyushu

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Podolski starting means that he's the youngest European player to ever reach 100 caps for their country. Considering that he just turned 27 a few weeks ago it's an incredible achievement.

Great achievement. Helped in no small part that Germany has done so well 2006-2012 and therefore he's had a possible 23 finals games so far to date.

ArmaniJeanss

ITV4 is coming up 'programme not available in ROI' at 7.15 for Germany/Denmark.
Thats fair enough for say the FACup when Setanta also have the Irish rights.

But in this case no other TV station is showing the game so why is it blanked?

Jimmy Iovine

kitakyushu wrote: »

Great achievement. Helped in no small part that Germany has done so well 2006-2012 and therefore he's had a possible 23 finals games so far to date.

Coupled with the fact that he seems to have steered clear of suspensions and injuries. If Rooney had the same luck and didn't find himself injured/suspended/knocked out of tournaments early the whole time then he'd have broken the record a while back at a much younger age.

Even if Podolski only plays sporadically over the next 6/7 years he should come close to Lothar Matthaus's record of 150.

Ronaldo is only a few caps off 100. He's a few months older than Podolski though. If he'd been a bit luckier in some tournaments then he'd have gotten the record as well.

ollie1

Is no channel showing the Denmark v Germany match? I wanted to watch that match

Jax Teller

ollie1 wrote: »

Is no channel showing the Denmark v Germany match? I wanted to watch that match

Itv4

ollie1

Coletrickle88 wrote: »

Itv4

Its coming up programme not available in Republic of Ireland.

adox

ollie1 wrote: »

Its coming up programme not available in Republic of Ireland.

Working fine for me.

flyswatter

ollie1 wrote: »

Its coming up programme not available in Republic of Ireland.

Working for me.

ollie1

You guys Sky? I am on UPC

Jax Teller

Working fine for me too .

Paco Rodriguez

Im on upc also says channel not available.

F.R.

RTE are showing it as web only.

ollie1

F.R. wrote: »

RTE are showing it as web only.

Have you got link? can't find it.

swoody

ollie1 wrote: »

Have you got link? can't find it.

http://www.rte.ie/live/

mike65

UPC? Of all the options they are surely the worst. (unless you like fast broadband)

ArmaniJeanss

So ITV4 must have the rights to show it in Ireland as it available on that station via Sky.

But some fcukwit imbecile in UPC has pressed the 'blank it' button, possibly thinking its like that FACup thing where Setanta had preferential Irish rights.

UPC clowns.

ollie1

swoody wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/live/

Thanks swoody

El Inho

Loyve

kitakyushu

Anyone make sense of Denmarks team? The line-up has Eriksen at RW no obvious replacement among the playing CM's for his usual position?

BorneTobyWilde

There should only be 2 groups of eight,
plays 7 games each, first two in group to play semi, then final,

This thing of play 2 games and your out is crap, 7 games over 3 weeks,
then semi and final in last week,

plus its far to easy for spain to win tournament,

steelcityblues

Van Marwjik has the cojones to change his personnel, got to respect that!

G.K.

kitakyushu wrote: »

Anyone make sense of Denmarks team? The line-up has Eriksen at RW no obvious replacement among the playing CM's for his usual position?

Mikkelsen is playing RW no?

keith16

Dutch anthem is regal but light weight. Not a good start for them.

keith16

A nice quick tempo to Portugal's anthem and good to sing along to....Portugal to win 2-0 on that basis alone.

Professional Griefer

Don't know who I want to win/go through.

kitakyushu

G.K. wrote: »

Mikkelsen is playing RW no?

I dunno. I'm going by the wiki line-up (which is usually correct)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2012_Group_B#Denmark_vs_Germany

Darkglasses

Anyone know why Cristiano was facing a different direction to anyone else during that anthem?

keith16

Darkglasses wrote: »

Anyone know why Cristiano was facing a different direction to anyone else during that anthem?

Cos he's Ronaldo!

BorneTobyWilde

Darkglasses wrote: »

Anyone know why Cristiano was facing a different direction to anyone else during that anthem?

coz he sets trends doesn't follow them

G.K.

kitakyushu wrote: »

I dunno. I'm going by the wiki line-up (which is usually correct)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2012_Group_B#Denmark_vs_Germany

whoever posted them on here got them wrong then...

dastardly00

Seriously attacking Dutch starting XI.

Paco Rodriguez

Why do the Dutch have to win by two goals? I thought it goes to head to head result before goal difference?