Euro 2020 (err 2021 now)

FIFA rankings never make sense. How can Belgium be #1 when they’ve won fuck all?
Does make you wonder. Can’t be because Belgium pays the most in bribes to FIFA because Qatar would be #1 if that was the case.
 
Really sucks for Italy and Roma. I knew right away it was an Achilles. Feel bad for the guy. Worst injury possible. Out for 12 months minimum. You could see him crying on the stretcher and you knew it was bad then.

 
FIFA rankings never make sense. How can Belgium be #1 when they’ve won fuck all?
How are they ahead of France? I was thinking some Nationals League results but Netherlands and Portugal won those. Maybe Euro qualifiers? I know France lost to Turkey. Who knows.
 
De Bruyne injured too. Now at least he can get some rest but EPL starts 8/12. Not far off.

 
I guess we route for denmark because of the feel good factor?
 
Really sucks for Italy and Roma. I knew right away it was an Achilles. Feel bad for the guy. Worst injury possible. Out for 12 months minimum. You could see him crying on the stretcher and you knew it was bad then.

Yeah. It’s always hard to tell when an Italy player is actually injured and not full of shit. That one wasn’t hard to tell.
 
How are they ahead of France? I was thinking some Nationals League results but Netherlands and Portugal won those. Maybe Euro qualifiers? I know France lost to Turkey. Who knows.
Let’s face it….the logic behind top FIFA rankings has always been murky at best. Part of that always had some nefarious reasons to it, but I’ll just be optimistic that most of that is past these days (yeah, that’s possible).

I think another part that makes these rankings odd is they seem to not fully base this on the past results of a country, but also on expected future results. That’s…..not now you do such a rankings. They aren’t meant to prognosticate, at least not as much as they seem to.

I think they had expectation on Belgium to be a beast that could finally start to put a big tournament together. And not tripping (like France did against Turkey maybe) just solidified that.

Or maybe it’s as if always was and there was some…..reason that the Belgium federation got their team up to 1.

But that all has to be over now.
 
How are they ahead of France? I was thinking some Nationals League results but Netherlands and Portugal won those. Maybe Euro qualifiers? I know France lost to Turkey. Who knows.
Yeah, France should've been #1 going into this tournament as defending world champs. I'd say whichever team wins Euro, with Brazil in the mix if they win Copa America, should be 1-3 with France in there somewhere.
 
Holy shit, Sancho is actually starting!!
 
Great run by the Czechs. Denmark winning it all would be dope AF. Let’s see if England falls flat on their face, but I’d expect Kane to bag a goal and they advance.
 
Quite a run for Denmark. I am rooting for them now for sure.

England is going to route Ukraine. Ukraine had some injuries in the last game. Let's see how fit they are today.
 
Quite a run for Denmark. I am rooting for them now for sure.

England is going to route Ukraine. Ukraine had some injuries in the last game. Let's see how fit they are today.
England should win easily But if anyone could shit the bed it is England
 
Yeah, France should've been #1 going into this tournament as defending world champs. I'd say whichever team wins Euro, with Brazil in the mix if they win Copa America, should be 1-3 with France in there somewhere.
Italy wins Euro, they are number 1. I think they are at 32 consecutive games without a loss. Brazil wins Copa, number 2. England wins Euro, could be number 1 too but they have not looked as good as Italy and don't have that streak. If Argentina wins Copa, they could move up alot. I think they around 16 or so games without a loss. Messi could win Balon D' Or with Copa victory too. He had 30 goals in La Liga, 9 in UCL, and not sure how many in Copa or WC qualifying. Messi negative is South America big dropoff after Brazil / Argentina. Not saying Euro teams have drop off either though with group games against San Marino, Farro Islands, etc.
 
England on the board in the 4th minute
 
England on the board in the 4th minute
That was fast and out of nowhere. Sterling dances and loses the control but uses his speed to get back and just on the ball. The pass into Kane was amazing. Threading a needle
 
I don’t know if Ukraine has the legs after last game and the warm Rome night. I get #4 going down after tweaking his knee. But when they kicked it out to get him help 1-2 other yellow shirts just hit the grass. They look dog tired already.
 
I don’t know if Ukraine has the legs after last game and the warm Rome night. I get #4 going down after tweaking his knee. But when they kicked it out to get him help 1-2 other yellow shirts just hit the grass. They look dog tired already.
Actually Ukraine creating chances late in half. England looked more at end there like they were in quicksand.
 
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