Euro 2016 - N.I. vs Germany & Ukraine vs Poland - RTE, TV3, BBC, 5 pm

Mr.Nice Guy

Teams:

Northern Ireland (4-5-1): McGovern; Hughes, McAuley, Cathcart, J Evans; Ward, C Evans, Davis, Norwood, Dallas; Washington.

Germany (4-2-3-1): Neuer; Kimmich, Boateng, Hummels, Hector; Khedira, Kroos; Ozil, Muller, Gotze; Gomez.


Gomez comes in to the starting XI for the Germans which is interesting.

I'll go for a German win but I don't anticipate a thrashing.

Nalz

A German win knocks N Ireland out and guarentees us a best third place if we beat Italy and Sweden fail to beat Belgium.

Correct?

SantryRed

Nalz wrote: »

A German win knocks N Ireland out and guarentees us a best third place if we beat Italy and Sweden fail to beat Belgium.

Correct?

German win and us win guarantees us third regardless of Sweden-Belgium.

scouttio

Nalz wrote: »

A German win knocks N Ireland out and guarentees us a best third place if we beat Italy and Sweden fail to beat Belgium.

Correct?

A win against Italy guarantees at least 3rd place for us.
If Sweden dont beat Belgium we would have 4 points and Sweden would have either 1 or 2 points.
If Sweden beat Belgium, we would have 4 points and Belgium would finish bottom on 3 points

RedemptionZ

NI are knocked out if Germany beat them correct? I'm German for the day so.

awec

RedemptionZ wrote: »

NI are knocked out if Germany beat them correct? I'm German for the day so.

No. Only way we are out tonight for certain is if we're beaten by 4 clear goals, otherwise we'll be waiting until tomorrow night to find out.

RedemptionZ

awec wrote: »

No. Only way we are out tonight for certain is if we're beaten by 4 clear goals, otherwise we'll be waiting until tomorrow night to find out.

Ah jaysus, great campaign for you so! Can't see the Germans scoring more than 2.

Mr.Nice Guy

Didi Hamann was saying he gets the sense that the Germans want to win the game but not go for a huge win.

Team news for Ukraine vs Poland, for anyone interested:

Ukraine: Pyatov, Fedetskiy, Khacheridi, Kucher, Butko, Rotan, Stepanenko, Yarmolenko, Zinchenko, Konoplyanka, Zozulya.

Poland: Fabianski, Cionek, Glik, Pazdan, Jedrzejczyk, Zielinski, Jodlowiec, Krychowiak, Kapustka, Milik, Lewandowski.

awec

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Ah jaysus, great campaign for you so! Can't see the Germans scoring more than 2.

Basically a win (:pac:) guarantees us through. A draw (4 points) pretty much guarantees us through, a team with 4 points not making it would have to be incredibly unfortunate.

Any sort of loss it comes down to goal difference, except if we're beaten by 4 in which case we'd drop below Albania and be out.

If we lose 1-0 tonight and Turkey beat Czech Republic by less than 4 goals (or draw) then we're through.

Elmer Blooker

Do the Germans even have to win this one? They know they will face Switzerland if they finish second in the group which will hardly cause them to lose any sleep. A draw not out of the question.

awec

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Do the Germans even have to win this one? They know they will face Switzerland if they finish second in the group which will hardly cause them to lose any sleep. A draw not out of the question.

They just have to not lose, but I suspect they'll want to top the group.

mansize

Come on Norn Iron!

DubDani

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Do the Germans even have to win this one? They know they will face Switzerland if they finish second in the group which will hardly cause them to lose any sleep. A draw not out of the question.

They want to win the group, to avoid Spain in the quarters (assuming Spain tops their group). First in this group will most likely Slovakia in the next round and Italy in Quarters. Second in the group will face the Swiss in next round, and most likely Spain in the quarters.

Brian017

awec wrote: »

Basically a win (:pac:) guarantees us through. A draw (4 points) pretty much guarantees us through, a team with 4 points not making it would have to be incredibly unfortunate.

Any sort of loss it comes down to goal difference, except if we're beaten by 4 in which case we'd drop below Albania and be out.

If we lose 1-0 tonight and Turkey beat Czech Republic by less than 4 goals (or draw) then we're through.

A draw will be enough for you as it will see you topping the 3rd place table with just 3 groups to be completed, guaranteeing you at least 4th place in that table

Harry Palmr

In case anyone is wondering where the Poland/Ukraine game is on the BBC - it on the red button/Ch 981 freesat

Harry Palmr

Lewandowski is having a 'mare!

Boskowski

Great touch from Özil! Gotta be a goal really.

Boskowski

And he's got to score here himself.

Brian017

Going to be a long evening for the North I fear

Boskowski

Should be 3 at this point. Some laugh if NI scored now.

Mr.Nice Guy

Wasting good chances.

Come on, Germany.

SantryRed

Referee is outrageously bias to Germany for me. Giving the niggly ones against NI but never giving them for.

Mr.Nice Guy

Not happened for Müller in this tournament. Still time though.

Nalz

SantryRed wrote: »

Referee is outrageously bias to Germany for me. Giving the niggly ones against NI but never giving them for.

Ireland had that vs Belgium...not that it would have prevented them losing though!

AllGunsBlazing

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Not happened for Müller in this tournament. Still time though.

Could watch him all day. Easily my favourite player.

Mantis Toboggan

Get in

awec

Been coming for ages.

Mr.Nice Guy

Gooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllll

Gomez.

RobertKK

Commentators curse from George Hamilton, he praised NI and then they concede.

Mantis Toboggan

You'd have to fancy the gomez hattrick now

Bret Hart

Come on Germany,hopefully that means the floodgates will open now.

Mr.Nice Guy

That was harsh on McGovern. He's done well and didn't get any luck there with the deflection.

A Dub in Glasgo

The NI defender took his keeper out of the game for that goal

briany

Yep. That was coming, alright.

monkey9

Good stuff Germany. Keep it going!

briany

Will Germany sit back, now?

dfx-

1-0 or even 2-0 doesn't matter so much for NI. A thumping is what is needed for them to be in trouble.

It should be 5-0 or so already, but most importantly, it isn't.

Mantis Toboggan

That's what happens when you try to play football against the better teams, they will carve you open.

Skylinehead

http://www.tomnash.eu/gomez-button.html

AllGunsBlazing

Tyson Fury wrote: »

That's what happens when you try to play football against the better teams, they will carve you open.

Words. There are none.....

Mr.Nice Guy

Müller can't score at the moment!

Mantis Toboggan

Amazing it's still only 1 nil

dfx-

if NI keep like this, they will be in danger though. Another Poland repeat this where they've set out defensive, conceding chances and stuck with it.

Muller could've been top scorer from this 36 minutes alone.

LuckyGent88

Wtf!! Germany should be 6 goals up. So wasteful

Kobe248

Germany will easily win this

NI are terrible

RTE keep bigging them up aswell which is hilarious

Bret Hart

Germany are so bloody wasteful.

Strong Life in Dublin

It's disturbing how a top team like Germany can miss so many shots

Mr.Nice Guy

Brazilians be like, 'Oh NOW you forget how to finish.'

mfceiling

Kobe248 wrote: »

Germany will easily win this

NI are terrible

RTE keep bigging them up aswell which is hilarious

Easy to look terrible when Germany are so good...

Iused2likebusts

This is so one sided . The north could get through despite only playing well in 1 game and getting the run around in the other 2.

Mr.Nice Guy

The assistant gets winded. :pac: