Euro 2016 - Round of 16 - Switzerland vs Poland, 2 pm, RTE, BBC

Harry Palmr

I really cannot believe how conservative the Poland coach has been. Madness running his midfield into the ground

martyos121

If Poland have three good subs to make here in extra time, they could blow the tired Swiss away. Could end up being a bit of tactical genius to wait this long.

Or sheer stupidity.

DerekDGoldfish

check_six wrote: »

There's been a number of terrific goals so far in this tournament (Payet's against Romania, etc.), but that finish from Shaqiri has to be one of the best of its type ever. Rivaldo scored a cracker of a bicycle kick for Barcelona from a similar range also, but I'm struggling to think of any other contenders (Pele's equaliser in Escape to Victory, anyone??).

Terrible defending for that goal, I hope the Nazi's defense was shot for that error.

Stevecw

martyos121 wrote: »

If Poland have three good subs to make here in extra time, they could blow the tired Swiss away. Could end up being a bit of tactical genius to wait this long.

Or sheer stupidity.

Might be waiting to bring on 3rd choice keeper for the penos Van Gaal style!

smileyj1987

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Lewandowski is a really bad passer of the ball

Seems to be more of proper out and out striker he scores goals and that's all you really get from him

BoJack Horseman

I'd be all for ET being reduced to 2 x 10min periods.

Harry Palmr

I'd bring back the golden goal or go straight to penalties

smileyj1987

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'd bring back the golden goal or go straight to penalties

Golden goal would be the better option but then you could have teams being sucker punched against the run of play

DarraghF197

You'd really lose all respect for Lewandowski when he continues to dive on the ground despite how good a player he is.

martyos121

Some save that.

Bobby Baccala

Have a feeling Fabianski will have a stormer if this goes to penos.

smileyj1987

martyos121 wrote: »

Some save that.

Really thought that was gonna be a goal to win it for the swiss

RobertKK

My TV signal is gone, problem with satellite signal... :mad:

sligeach

Switzerland deserve to win this. Fabianski has made some great saves to keep Poland in it.

DarraghF197

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Have a feeling Fabianski will have a stormer if this goes to penos.

He's made some fantastic saves already. Would be a great battle between the two goalkeepers if it goes to penalties.

martyos121

Don't see the fuss about Embolo at all, very overrated by the looks of it. Give me Origi any day over him.

smileyj1987

RobertKK wrote: »

My TV signal is gone, problem with satellite signal... :mad:

Are on you sky mine has been acting the fool so switched to the normal coverage off the aerial

RobertKK

Have signal on BBC, looks like this might be penalties.

siblers

Gone for me on RTE 2 too

RobertKK

smileyj1987 wrote: »

Are on you sky mine has been acting the fool so switched to the normal coverage off the aerial

My Sky Q box deciding to be temperamental. RTE2 is back now

sligeach

Djourou you muppet!

martyos121

Really Jonathan Pearce, Lewandowski has had a good tournament?? Some spoofer he is.

PeterTheEighth

smileyj1987 wrote: »

Golden goal would be the better option but then you could have teams being sucker punched against the run of play

Ah, it's the same as being suckered punched when the other team parks the bus and beats you on penalties. I've always thought they should take 11 penalties during the warm up, and if it was still a draw after extra time then the team who won on penalties would go through.

This would do two things:
1) make sure that at least one of the teams had to play offensively throughout the game.
2) take away the absolute heart break for the unlucky player who missed the penalty. Thinking of JuanFran for example :-(

But the other thing of course is penalties are the most enthralling part of football, particularly in international football where the games are generally pretty dull.

R00ster

If they had a sub left Switzerland could bring on this chap:

smileyj1987

RobertKK wrote: »

My Sky Q box deciding to be temperamental. RTE2 is back now

If it keeps up the BBC have it on 141 on sky

Harry Palmr

PENOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sligeach

Though Switzerland deserve the win, I think Poland will win on penalties. Fabianski being crucial.

smileyj1987

Woo penalties ! While we wait more shots of the crowd please

Mr.Nice Guy

We have penalties. What I'm wondering: will Milik take one?

vidor

RobertKK wrote: »

Have signal on BBC, looks like this might be penalties.

Good shout.

Paully D

In before the "penalties are a lottery" rubbish.

sonic85

Extra time is such a waste in my opinion. What's the point in running players into the ground for an extra half an hour. If the game finishes level just go straight to penalties. The players would have to be drained after that. It would surely have an effect on the next game for the winners.

PeterTheEighth

Dont agree with Sadlier there. Luck has a lot to do with penalties. You could slip (like John Terry) on the run up. You could take a good penalty but the keeper could guess right way (like Aldridge vs Wimbledon FA Cup 1988). You might hit a terrible penalty but the keeper dives the wrong way and saves your bacon.

dfx-

the BBC are itching to get on with the Wales/NI pre-prepared montages, side-pitch interviews and graphics, the penalties are getting in the way:pac:

Paully D

Switzerland kicking first, meaning that they statistically have a 61% chance of winning the shootout.

Silly from Lewandowski to allow the Swiss to kick first.

Toobz

Sommer a very good goalkeeper too, fancy the swiss

Kobe248

Fabianski laughing over not being let come of the line

Goalie banter

Stevecw

Jeeze I love penalties

Paully D

Watch for a lot of these takers to kick across their bodies.

shar01

Really want Poland to win purely because of that banner Switzerland unfurled in Dublin "14000 in Cyprus, 0 in 2008 Euros" or something to that effect.

PeterTheEighth

Sadlier thinks there is no luck involved?? 9/10 keepers would have saved that, Swiss player won the lottery there.

smileyj1987

That was a shocking miss

Agent Coulson

Worst pen ever

Harry Palmr

The headline writes itself

Mr.Nice Guy

Xhaka misses.

I genuinely could have done better than that.

Toobz

Arsenal new signing will fit right in with the bottlers

sligeach

"Young man going to Arsenal". Miss coming up so. And does.

Bobby Baccala

BBC commentator just said OMG. Back to Rte it is...

Mr.Nice Guy

Milik scores.

Toobz

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The headline writes itself

Xhaka khant?