Euro 2016 - hype, anticipation and general excitement

Ronaldo you insufferable cunt

good chance of a penalty tonight

xxp to Ste - this Portugal side not in a position to pummel anyone, Wales are far more of a team, bizarrely they dont seem base their whole game round trying to find their superstar

not calling either way right now bcuz my predictions for this tournament have been awful since day 1 but really there's nothing more to this Portugal side than there was to Belgium. remains to be seen whether absence of Ramsey / Pepe&Carvalho will tell more

fuck it i'm calling this for Wales, i'm a glass half full kinda guy

Ronaldo bawling already

I guess ITV had difficulty finding a Welsh co-commentator

Ramsey already being missed between defense and attack. Bale is mostly picking up the ball now, which means he's not at the front.

ambitious corner there

not so much of a problem for Bale to be dropping deep if he can waltz through a permeable Portuguese defence whenever he chooses to put his foot down xp

I thought he was kind of isolated in the Belgium game. Didn't have much influence at all

i buy the michael cox line that bale was drifting to alternately terrorize the fullbacks and stop them pushing up

well ya but this isn't the Belgium game, twice in the last five minutes he's picked the ball up on the halfway line and rushed past defenders to get off a shot cross xp

shot OR cross that should be

I was agreeing with you

it might not be much to hang your hat on but Portugal aren't exactly big scorers so one goal could be enough, Pepe and Carvalho aren't there so Portugal are far more pregnable (lol is there such a word?) than usual, one spilled cross/shot by Rui Patricio and then we're really at the races

i am hoping rather than believing perhaps

xp lol sorry misread that

so what time does this start?

I think these kits have an enervating effect

Well that's that then

Fuck.

Imperious stuff from Cron though.

He should do a heart sign just to troll everyone.

he is definitely a guy who would enjoy wearing a cape

that hang-time was some air jordan shit

yeah, ridiculous

You're going home.

oh man

at least no pen tedium

Germany are gonna gobble this Portugal side right up

Or France

or not

Portugal the worst team in a final since Greece surely

Can't overrate muddling through - I mean isn't that what most of us do in lyfe huh?

but this is an insult to Greece.

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I'm mostly watching this in the hope that Ronaldo picks up an utterly undeserved second yellow and misses the final.

portugal are a huge void, an abyss which gazes into the opposition

particularly entropic sense of calm without pepe

Been optimistic all the way through, but this really is the worst Euros I've seen in my lifetime.

In fairness to Portugal they gave Wales nothing

And have given the watching millions nothing too.

Portugal are a little country too

lol, Keane praising Nani through gritted teeth

Well that was shit

portugal has 3x as many ppl as wales, tho

I'm aware of that

Yellows are wiped after the quarterfinals so there was no chance of Cron picking one up that would ban him.

he had already been booked in the game

Portugal the worst team in a final since Greece surely

this means they'll win...

if only Croatia etc.

Apparently Palace had more players in the semis than anyone else except Bayern?

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