Euro 2016 Group C, Germany v Poland, 8PM RTE 2 & ITV

paulie21

World champions Germany come into this after a 2-0 win over Ukraine while Poland beat Northern Ireland 1-0. The teams were in the same qualifying group with each side enjoying one win each

Germany: Neuer; Höwedes, Boateng, Hummels, Hector; Kroos, Khedira; Müller, Özil, Draxler, Götze

Poland: Fabiański; Piszczek, Glik, Pazdan, Jędrzejczyk; Krychowiak, Maczyński; Błaszczykowski, Grosicki; Milik, Lewandowsk

Mr.Nice Guy

Teams in now:

Germany: Neuer; Hector, Hummels, Boateng, Höwedes; Kroos, Khedira; Müller, Ozil, Draxler; Götze

Poland: Fabianksi; Piscczek, Glik, Pazdan, Jedrzejczyk; Blaszczykowski, Krychowiak, Maczynski, Grosicki; Milik, Lewandowski

GreNoLi

German team needs to be tweaked if they're to win the tournament.

GreNoLi

GreNoLi wrote: »

German team needs to be tweaked if they're to win the tournament.

I think Loew's hands are too full for that.

Agent Coulson

For Bilic alone it's worth watching ITV.

Mec27

I'm a bit footballed out by this stage tbh

Boskowski

wtf is Giles on about? Neuer is an absolute giant and has been fantastic in the first match.

Amirani

What's Giles on about saying Neuer's not the keeper he used to be?

Boskowski

lol

vidor

Safe to say the man doesn't know what he's talking about. Been that way for as long as I can remember.

vidor

Obligatory pre-match traffic update from RTE.

Boskowski

Come on Germany

Dempsey

Its gas that all their analysis of european players is only from matches that RTE has rights to, nothing else.

No doubt, he's sharpening the knives hoping that Neuer makes a mistake.

PeterTheEighth

A national anthem that we have all become familiar with because of Germany's sporting success foreign policy. :pac:

murpho999

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

A national anthem that we have all become familiar with because of Germany's sporting success foreign policy. :pac:

Why? Where you around during the war?

GreNoLi

Look forward to seeing Kroos again.

jester77

Khedira will do well to last the game with the way he has started

GreNoLi

Germany clicking.

PeterTheEighth

jester77 wrote: »

Khedira will do well to last the game with the way he has started

Even James McCarthy is looking at the screen and saying "what the hell is he doing he's gonna get sent off"

Bobby Baccala

Muller is a joy to watch

Skylinehead

No Ger, they don't call Neuer a "keeper sweeper".

AllGunsBlazing

Skylinehead wrote: »

No Ger, they don't call Neuer a "keeper sweeper".

Well they do now. Ger has spoken!

PeterTheEighth

I dont know what it is about co commentators, but they all annoy me. Houghton and Whelan really annoy me... they always know better. He should have done this, he should have done that. Houghton missed more one on ones in front of goals than any player I can remember!

Grandeeod

Poland really enjoy playing against Germany. Could go either way IMO.

GreNoLi

Gotze hasn't progressed.

murpho999

Germany certainly not at the level of 2 years ago.

I wonder if they will improve as the tournament goes on.

DJIMI TRARORE

Bit of a damp squid this game,nothing happening. A draw puts both teams through

AllGunsBlazing

Jogi sniffing his fingers again?

murpho999

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Bit of a damp squid this game,nothing happening. A draw puts both teams through

Don't think that's the reason as you want to finish as high in the group as possible for a better chance in next round.

GreNoLi

Muller is a thoughtful instinctualist.

DJIMI TRARORE

murpho999 wrote: »

Don't think that's the reason as you want to finish as high in the group as possible for a better chance in next round.

Boyh will fancy winning their last match GER V NI .POL V UKR

monkey9

Ukraine will be the first team confirmed as out of the competition at the group stage if this ends in a draw.

~Rebel~

Atmosphere sounds unreal!

namloc1980

Bit of a nothing half of football. Hopefully 2nd half is better.

murpho999

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Boyh will fancy winning their last match GER V NI .POL V UKR

Yes, so a win here should get you top of the group which is important.

keith16

monkey9 wrote: »

Ukraine will be the first team confirmed as out of the competition at the group stage if this ends in a draw.

Albania already gone, no? If not, then Ukraine certainly deserve that distinction. Absolute poison today.

Mec27

Nobody knows what I mean when I said it but I'll say it again, all the matches seem the exact same. This tournament isn't going to come alive till last 16.

namloc1980

keith16 wrote: »

Albania already gone, no? If not, then Ukraine certainly deserve that distinction. Absolute poison today.

No. If they beat Romania they'll finish 3rd in their group and have a (very slim) chance of going through.

Harry Palmr

That was a load of balls.

Grandeeod

Yes. Yes it was.

DubDani

Only 10 of 34 goals have so far been scored in the first half. Maybe they should start straight with the second half in the group games.

Harry Palmr

I hadn't checked the odds on under 1.5 goals/0 or 1 in first half market but it must be profitable.

PeterTheEighth

No, wait lads, that German keeper is an accident waiting to happen... apparently.

Poor game. No passion out there. Ozil doesnt seem to give a damn about the game judging by his expression. I would have hauled him to the sideline before half time.

DubDani

I would have expected the polish to be a bit more positive. Not really trying to bring much to the game.

ERG89

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Poor game. No passion out there.

Neither side needs to go for it. Problem with this format is that its not hard to qualify from the group. First half's have been boring as fúck today

Rayne Wooney

Hard to pin down what exactly Gotze does for a football team

jester77

What a miss

El Chapo

Milik crosses the ball to himself, apparently.

Ger Canning should stick to get GAA players' names wrong.

murpho999

ERG89 wrote: »

Neither side needs to go for it. Problem with this format is that its not hard to qualify from the group. First half's have been boring as fúck today

The second halves have been good though and this one has started better.

Strumms

Miss of the tournament so far.. thought Sterling's was bad earlier but jesus...

R00ster

Miss of the tournament sewn up already.