Euro 2016 Semi-Final Germany vs France, Thursday 7th July 20:00, RTE2

Boskowski

I noticed this before. There's a new kick off rule in place now?

Dirty Dingus McGee

caviardreams wrote: »

It was evra actually - not Pogba

Fair enough.

Thought he'd gone on onw of his insane "nothing player" rants again.

Emre could be the weak link for Germany
France pressing him already

Great strength from Pogba

Pogba is class
Matuidi is class
Greizmann is class

Billy86

What a f***ing goal that would have been! Tame shot, but my lord the build up...

Mars Bar

That was a lovely passage of play from France

mansize

Griezeman on fire

Lackey

France running circles around Germany

Mr.Nice Guy

Sexy football from France.

ASOT

Should have scored there.

Awful ball

RobertKK

Two awful crosses over to Kimmich, giving him no chance.

GLaDOS

Entertaining opening 10 minutes

Nice move. Unlucky

Big chance

Muller isn't playing well at all this tournament

Manutd_4life

Muller should do better. Great move though

RobertKK

Up to tonight.
Muller 10 goals in 13 World cup games.
Muller 0 goals in 10 Euro games.

Lackey

Germans controlling the pace now with good results

Super save

mansize

Muller off the boil

Western Pomise

Good pace to the game,French defence looking shaky as they have all tournament.

Western Pomise

Good pace to the game,French defence looking shaky as they have all tournament.

RobertKK

This game is fascinating, can't call it.

Mr.Nice Guy

Germany attacking down the left quite a lot. Must have identified Sagna as a weak link.

Alonso77

The great George Hamilton keeps mixing up Draxler and Can.

Andersonisgod

Germany purring, Kimmich is so darn good and Germany finding plenty of space in behind Matuidi and Pogba who, despite being a double pivot, don't defend space well.

Vicxas

German blitzkrieg kicking into gear now.

Harry Palmr

Good game this. Shocker.

Could have been a peno
Hard call

Kobe248

First Deschamps brings Sissoko

Now he starts him :pac:

Come on Didier are you trying to win the hard way

German midfield doing well. French defence is so dodgy

DDC1990

M!Ck^ wrote:

Could have been a peno Hard call

Was definitely a foul but did he get him outside the area?

RobertKK

France will need to bring Kante on. Germany are all over this game now.

Andersonisgod

I'm not one for bigging up Real Madrid players but it's been a Kroos masterclass for 22 minutes in a 4-3-3 too.

Rayne Wooney

Kimmich looks very good, not heard much about him

Kobe248

Andersonisgod wrote: »

I can't hide my disappointment with the lack of Weigl. Hummels is a huge miss too defensively both also for Germany's build up play. Not sure how Can will do in this game, especially as Germany are likely to dictate possession. That being said I've got a lot of faith in this generation of German players.

France opt to keep Pogba in a midfield 2 which Deschamps was reluctant to do at the start of the tournament. It does facilitate Griezmann playing behind the striker though which is where he is best used in this team. I'm not sold on Matuidi, and Pogba particularly, being able to protect the space between lines which no side is as adept at finding in international football as Germany.

Prediction: Germany to win it all.

The reason for this is Didier bows to public pressure

If Pogba doesnt have a wonder game the press go mad

France has a super biased towards white people press

Pogba gets 90% of the hate

Didier is a terrible coach who cares to much of public perception

If it was a proper coach in the ilk of Pep/Jose/Fergie/Conte

Hed never have been dropped

Andersonisgod

Andersonisgod wrote: »

I'm not one for bigging up Real Madrid players but it's been a Kroos masterclass for 22 minutes in a 4-3-3 too.

Bossing it

syngindub

schweinsteiger will be found out for pace

sReq | uTeK

France have been poor. How is Sissoko getting game time? Mental stuff.

Rayne Wooney

How do you come to the decision not to play Kante?

Lackey

German keeper earning his wages

Tbf to Can

He is doing well in attack

sReq | uTeK

Class so far from sweini

DDC1990

Germany are a joy to watch.

Goal coming soon.

Mr.Nice Guy

Schweinsteiger is rolling back the years here.

Boskowski

I like what I'm seeing. Did well to calm things down and now starting to play a bit.

Germany playing lovely football

Andersonisgod

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

How do you come to the decision not to play Kante?

You think that players playing well in a double pivot vs Iceland makes you capable of doing that job against a proper top level team. It doesn't and the 2 lads are struggling.

Vicxas

Don't think Can will be third choice if this display continues.

sReq | uTeK

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Class so far from sweini

If only we could keep him fit!!