UEFA Nations League

journalists once more giving it the "this is totally a real competition that is more exciting than meaningless friendlies", PR budget for this must've been massive

imagining someone watching having been tricked into thinking this is an actively competitive match and going spare about how inept England are

I'm mostly surprised about the amounts of Dutch and esp English fans that went to Portugal for this

de Ligt is cancelled

Yup, ages too late.

opposition never knowingly underclownshoed of course

this England midfield is chronic

Took a while but it's a proper pace now

oh dear, ya boy stones

not that it matters as it's just a friendly but Stones with one of the absolute worst performances you'll ever see for England

LOL

4 goals, 4 horrible mistakes. I wonder what the level will be in the D finals (if those will ever take place)

beautiful stadium though :-)

i mean that is the booziest pair of anthems i have ever heard

going it like nfl

they wanted the physical limited Irish theyll get em

Decent start tho increasingly ragged since

gutsy

so there's a 3rd place play-off? lol this fucking tournament

turkey are killing these showpony fools

Norway 2-1 up with a superb Haaland goal after...six minutes.

His opposite number just signed for...us

Maguire should probably have been off for a straight red after five minutes. Two bizarre, completely unnecessary tackles.

Eran Zahavi scored a twenty-minute hat trick for Israel. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does for PSV, he has been one of the most ludicrously prolific strikers in the world for years.

Nations League, wonderful tournament.

I think Harry Maguire might be even less likeable than John Terry. Easy to write him off as just a dumb slab head cunt but I sense a sort of spiteful vindictiveness in there. In another life the lads from Mindhunter would be visiting him in prison talking about all the animals he used to drown.

I almost felt a bit sorry for the cunt as he shambled off, Martin Tyler going on about this being “a terrible time in his life” or whatever. It’s all relative of course but he certainly looks like he’s got some stuff going on atm and could do with a holiday.

are we just going to ignore the fact that a charlton player scored a winning goal for a home nation

I still don't really understand this thing (I speak as a Scottish person). For most countries, isn't it the case that while it would be nice to win your group, the minute that stops looking likely you'd be better off getting relegated, so then you should try to lose your games?

Eran Zahavi scored a twenty-minute hat trick for Israel. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does for PSV, he has been one of the most ludicrously prolific strikers in the world for years.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, October 14, 2020 10:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Same! And it wasn't even our most prolific signing, because we signed effing Mario Götze this window o_O Zahavi has made impact on arrival, by the looks of it, he's quite the personality and scored in his first match. I never knew about him tbf.

Nobody understands this tournament afaik, it's essentially just a more structured set of friendlies?

this should be fun

crazy good attempts from both teams already

deflected and in! wow

Filthy from Lukaku

Lloris beaten near post twice but not sure he had much chance either

ha, ya, man. i was at lunch, but saw it. i feel like france's offensive line tries to be too fancy

France deserved that. Benzema has been so good this season.

and just as i say that, france put one in

Pen for me

France come out serious this half, pretty irresistible

i think so. clumsy tbh

wow. this is getting good lol

Great peno, liked the confidence to have the ball set up and waiting too

Oh what football

Touch from lukaka in the buildup was dream stuff

Keeping an eye on the Euro Under 21 Qualifying score between Portugal and Liechtenstein, 9-0 at half time.

Which way

Given that there are only 15 people under 21 in Liechtenstein...

Theyll fade away in the second half so after the subs you're saying

Terrific break.

lukaku

Boom