Euro 2008

[beforehewentmad]

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[quote user="Faust"]Wow, Buffon, just wow... This one is a goalies' game.
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+ a million. I logged in just to comment on that save... absolutely stunning!

[Faust]

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the dutch are the awesome [87][<:o)]

[Divo]

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Not a big football fan, but it's amazing how the Dutch (my dutch[&lt;:o)]) rollercoaster steamed over the French!</P>


Those latest two goals by Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder were fucking amazing!</P>
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[theaddict]

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Man, the dutch just rocked the stadion![Y][&lt;:o)]</p>

Very aesthetic to watch...</p>

[dream]

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the dutch look like a team that is hungry. france and italy just aren't in it. i'm thinking portugal is going to take it, but it's still early so who know's?

[huskiesonice]

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I cannot believe how poor France have been, abject is the word.
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The tournament is Portugal's for the taking but traditionally, in these big international competitions, a team that starts slowly usually wins, not a team that looks fantastic in the first game or two. </p>

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[Diego]

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But at the moment we have to agree that Holland, Portugal and Croatia are pretty impressive.

[oliviervdroo]

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The Dutch are really impressive and I really hope my neighbours will take this one. Thing is though that I don't really see a strategy in their game. When a looked at France, I saw some excellent positioning. But, strange as it may sound, they just don't have the quality to keep up with that for 90 minutes. The Dutch were extremely effective and they have the best of the best playing in their squad.</p>

I think the next game against Romainia will still be critical to the Dutch. They couldn't win from them in the qualifiers, but they have to now (eventhough they already are the winner of their group). They have to keep on playing with their winner's mood. If not, their lack of strategy may get to them/</p>

The Portuguese don't have as many top players as the Dutch, but they've got a top coach who knows what it takes to win.
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[lowrey]

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great play from Holland.. France played well, but lacked in finishing. I feel bad for Henry, dude tried to dig them up a bitbut the defense screwed it up. amazing goals as well, pretty much every single one in the game!</P>

[beforehewentmad]

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no comments on the turkey finish against czech republic? absolutely insane...

[Faust]

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[quote user="beforehewentmad"]no comments on the turkey finish against czech republic? absolutely insane...
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[87] It was absolutely awesome! Turkey just willed itself into the game. I've never seen such determination. Well, and of course they have to buy Cech a Rolls Royce or something, just to thank him.
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[Faust]

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Au revoir to the French. Tomorrow, Russia beats Sweden! Yeah, right...

[klangspiel]

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one justifiably legit reason to bring back the guillotine</p>

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[huskiesonice]

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I reckon that's probably au revoir to Henry, Makelele, Thuram, Anelka, Boumsong, Vieira and...of course.... the buffoon supposedly in charge of the team. </p>

I wonder if he regrets not picking Flamini now!
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[jj.still]

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ZURICH, June 17 (Reuters) - A nightmare of a match, a 2-0
defeat by arch-rivals Italy and a group-stage exit from Euro
2008 did not prevent France coach Raymond Domenech from thinking
of romance on Tuesday.</p>

Asked whether the incident-ridden game might have been his
last in charge, Domenech said his only immediate plans were to
marry his partner, television journalist Estelle Denis.</p>

"My future? The only plan I have is to marry Estelle," said
Domenech, who faces a struggle to keep his job after a
calamitous tournament by the 2006 World Cup runners-up.

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"There are beautiful things in life," Domenech told
reporters. "In difficult moments, you want to tell people you
love them, you want to say the things that matter."</p>

There was no shortage of difficult moments on Tuesday in a
game where everything went wrong for Domenech's men.</p>

France, needing to beat the world champions to stand a
chance of reaching the quarter-finals, had their key player
Franck Ribery carried off on a stretcher with a suspected
twisted knee after less than 10 minutes.</p>

Defender Eric Abidal was then shown a red card for bringing
down Luca Toni in the area midway through the first half.</p>

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upd: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2151036/Euro-2008-France-football-manager-Raymond-Domenech-scores-own-goal.html</p>

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