Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 69. (Read 46364 times)

It seems like England are not very ready for this tournament. This score is not good enough for them. Switzerland almost beat them. It would not be right to say that Switzerland played badly, I even thought they would win the match.
England are having problems scoring goals, they could be eliminated from the tournament if they fell behind in the match. As a result of the penalty shootout, the expected happened and England won. Switzerland was very close to the semi-finals but it didn't happen

And we are through penalties... I really liked Switzerland in extra time. They got so close to scoring another goal. Especially that bold attempt by Shaqiri from that corner.    It could have been an iconic goal.

England have a really bad history with penalties in such competitions. I'm wondering if we will see another example of it. I really like Sommer as for penalties. He has been like a beast about penalty saving but we will see.

Switzerland can still win this but they are going to rely on their goalkeeper the most. Because England has many more quality players. If England lose, I don't think the board will wait much for sacking Southgate. 

One of the worst Eurocup i remember, i dont know what is really happen with the good teams, some says is because the players doesnt have the correct ammount of rest after a long season, but for me that is not suficient because that rest was equal for everyone, i mean even weak teams can be tired so you defend worst, but the low ammount of goals in some teams are alarming, France for example.

Throughout the match, both teams were able to play very impressively and attack each other, but if you compare the players quality,, of course england it is actually still far above that of Switzerland, but in fact England is having difficulty beating Switzerland at the match, In the first half, both teams were able to compete against each to troubled the opponent defense but in fact many opportunities were wasted, not only England but Switzerland were also able to threaten and continue to put pressure on England throughout the first half, but the change in Switzerland game actually occurred in the second half and it was seen that they started to dare to play more openly in each carried out an attack and finally the long-awaited goal came after Embolo was able to take advantage of the opportunity to score a goal, but it didn't take long for England to equalize the score at 1-1 after Saka fired from long distance and the Swiss goalkeeper failed to anticipate it.

The normal time match has ended and now the match has entered 2x15 minutes of extra time, but I see that the match is actually more stable without any increase in intensity from both teams in carrying out attacks, so far both teams are quite balanced in possession of the ball and also creating opportunities, so I think maybe We will see that today match will again be decided by penalty kicks, to be honest, even if England were to qualify for the semifinals today, I hope that England would need to reconsider Southgate status as England coach for the World Cup 2026 later.

 They are still struggling with the amount of armory they have in this tournament, to be honest with you I expected something more different from what we have been seeing from the England players. Now is the time Southgate needs to make some important chances to make the team more stronger because with the way the Switzerland are taking this game I think they are getting tired and this is the moment England have been waiting for since they can't get a win at full time. Today is not the day to hope on luck and I believe that if Switzerland get any opportunity that would be the end of it for the 3 Lions.

Switzerland scored the first goal of the match in the 75th minute. Bukayo Saka equalized the match after just 5 minutes. Saka scored a fantastic goal. Saka scored from Declan Rice's assist.

I didn't expect the England vs Switzerland match to be very competitive. Because I have not seen the England team play very well in the past matches. As usual, England's overall performance in today's match is quite slow. Bellingham and Harry Kane are not playing well. If this pair would have been able to perform well then England's attack would have become stronger.

The england goalkeeper is a very experienced goalkeeper and it will be very good for switzerland if they are able to win this game before penalty kick. Some of the players of england are the main penalty takers for their respective teams so they are very much experienced in taking penalty kicks then the players in switzerland.

Extra time games are usually the game where the team that wins is a team that wants to win the most and the team that have the energy and the resilience to fight for the winning until the last minute.

Spain beat Germany on extra time yesterday because they showed more energy and show that they really wanted to win the game. Switzerland can beat England if they go all out in this extra time and try to make sure that the game does not get to penalties.

It’s a little bit disappointing of them and how they’ve handled the tournament so far but, it’s how Southgate has designed has designed his team to play. It ain’t short of anything deliberate give how he reacted to the Embolo goal which pushed him to his bench for some substitute and 5 minutes after, Bukayo Saka produces a tournament specials goal.

The Switzerland team however have been able to perfect but having to defend and go forward quite well in this game. They look more dangerous around the England’s goalkeepers box than we can say of England when they are around the Swiss goalkeepers box.

Another draw for the quarter finals in the Euros, so much for missed 3+ odds in this road. It makes me wonder what the semi finals would hold. Are we going to be seeing this much draws?

England don't change. Even if they reach the semi finals I don't expect Southgate to make any changes. He is like Deschamps about that. He is also the same, preferring a boring football for France.  

Anyways, now we are in extra time. When Switzerland scored first I was like "What if Switzerland win unlike Slovakia in regular time?". But a short time after Saka scored a lovely goal. As of extra time England might come one step forward but let's see.

When it comes to Netherlands - Turkey, I agree. It is quite likely to see many goals. The last 2 head-to-heads ended by 6-7 goals. It shouldn't be surprising to see 3 or 4 goals in this one.

England team lacks a good decisive coach. The match formation wasn't anything to write home about. But, recently after the Switzerland goal, England made some meaningful changes which I think empowered Saka to equalize the game. The games are quite boring because of the expectations we have on England and the other teams like Portugal. These are strong teams, but their performances are below the expectation. Not that viewers placed a high expectance. Yet, I'd say that these teams are being matched with other competent teams of equal level of skill which don't allow one party to perform extremely well as expected. I still wonder why the England coach have not been sanctioned for his blunders.

Saka magic moment was on the 80th minutes which put them back to the game. The goal was the first shot on target telling how bad the match has being for England today. England won their last match that entended to 30 minutes extra time, will this match be the same for them.

After 30 minutes, if non of them are able to score, it will be a penalty shootout but I am seeing Switzerland trying to see how they can win the match without playing penalties.

England starts playing again only when something needs to be corrected, they were able to equalize the score and after that they play much more actively, trying not to bring the game to additional extra periods. After all, so far all the quarterfinal matches have been continued with additional halfs, and this match seems not to be an exception. At the end of the match, everything changed and now Switzerland plays more carefully, mainly in defense, perhaps relying on Sommer.

England's game is the same as before there is no significant change, so far the match has not been scored but England does not have an on shot target the English players are always not in the right position when they are in front of the opponent's goal.

We expect this match to be 0-0 until Full Time plus possible extra time.

edit: Switzerland 1-0 England

Netherlands vs Turkey is probably going to be an interesting match, usually there are always goals for Netherlands - Turkey matches rather than Switzerland vs England which is a bit boring but we have to watch this until the end.

If I may say so, this match was really boring. I thought yesterday's match between Portugal and France was the most boring match but today we saw another boring match.
The ball was mostly in the middle of the pitch, both teams were short on chances and even the on target chances were really poor.

For Switzerland this might be a normal situation because they will definitely be a bit defensive, but for England they should be better than this because after all they are a champion candidate even compared to other national teams in the quarter-finals this time they are the team that has the greatest probability of winning. But with the game they had it really doesn't reflect a team that has a strong probability of winning the Europa this time.

England are currently trying hard to score and Switzerland are also attacking a lot to give England goals. A very exciting game between the two teams with both teams battling hard but neither successfully scored a goal so far. However, the attacking situation is likely to be more exciting for the England team and there are plenty of chances to score. Although England have strong stars in their squad, they have not been able to mount a successful attack against Switzerland so far. However today's game will be penalty shootout if no goal is scored till the last minute and in penalty shootout each team can win depending on luck. In that case, if England's luck is good in today's match, they can win and if Switzerland's luck is good, they can enter the semi-finals.

The second half started more interesting, Switzerland had already made several shots on target, but the score still remained 0-0. England today does not give as much space to the Swiss national team as Italy did and we see a completely different game. In the first half I liked England more, they played more confidently, but probably this was not enough to beat Switzerland. Switzerland started the second half better and Southgate seemed fully focused on defence. The match is still boring, but England play like this in almost all matches at this Euro, and I expected more attacking football from Switzerland, it looks like they are starting to wake up in the second half...

England vs Switzerland match looks very boring to me. I expected to see a competitive match. But the overall performance of both the teams is very poor. England and Switzerland played very slow in the first half. Although 15 minutes of the second half are over, their performance is still very slow. Neither team's players are trying to attack too much.

England's squad is not weak. Talented players like Harry Kane, Bellingham, Saka are in their squad. However, England's performance is poor. The chemistry between the players is not good. But I think the match will be a draw. And the result will be decided by penalty shootout.

I don’t know how anyhow would see France to have been good in this tournament. Perhaps you would want to categorize them for a team that seats back and hold the game, waiting for there opponents to score the goal for them or perhaps gift them a penalty because, that’s all that could be said about France in this tournament. Talking about a team that is gifted with so many talents in its rank and some of the best qualities football could find, they haven’t been able to score a single on field goal. I had hoped Portugal gets to advance tomorrow, for the two elite players on CR7 and Pepe to advance but, the bar saw J. Felix’s penalty kick out and Diogo Costa couldn’t come up with any incredible saves from the spot penalty spot kick. He was great through the game but, not this time against a more formidable foe.

Something to note however,
We’ve all managed to be losing on a chance to get a first half bet result in the quarter finals of this Euro. It’s been a win market across all played games so far in the Euro 2024. You’ll find the old for first half draw to be about 2 odds on almost all bookies.

Ordinarily, you would expect this odd to be higher but, given the likelihood of the possible outcome, it’s dropped. At the moment, Stake.com has placed the first half market odd for a draw between Netherlands vs Türkiye to be 2.42, Duelbits.com has it at 2.41, Fortunejack.com has it at 2.32. You can reference a couple of gambling site you play at for the odds.

England vs Switzerland already delivered a first half draw market result. At this stage of the competition, no team wants to make any mistakes. It’s all playing safe while hoping to capitalize on any chances as it’s provided but, no team have done a great job at it.

England vs Switzerland, first half 0-0.

With both team not been able to have a shot on target on this game it's so much to wait for tonthe second half. Although England had a lot of possession on the game but where no where with it. There was an up leveled confidence with England on this one with their performance despite not with any goal, compared to their previous games.

Switzerland on the other hand, has been without any significant opportunity so far with their persistent overloading crosses.

Let's see what could make up of the second half.

France were opportune to qualify after a tough fight against Portugal, both the teams were very good in the match and they were all cautious by avoiding coinciding unnecessary goals which they both achieved that, but Penalty Shootout decides their faith.

England Vs Switzerland match is still going on, the match is still goalless at half time, and the England team looks serious today even though they are finding it difficult to score a goal.

I am in support of England in this game, because I feel like if they qualify, they will make the competition more tough.