EURO 2012

De Jong and Afellay

when dinks go wrong

great ball

affaley + de jong xp

thanks xp

jesus what a pass from sneijder

sneijder's been on it today tbf

indeed

man what a pass

cool flop by the goalkeeper too

news just in: Robben is a bit selfish

ooh hand up for offside whilst slipping whilst intercepting

The 2 CMs for Denmark have done a rubbish job screening the defence but they've been v good in possession.

If the conditions are as energy sapping as the commentators think then England will be clapped out by 25 mins on Monday.

I thought sneijder was getting the hook there for a sec!!

BBC still talking disapprovingly about Holland's two defensive midfielders despite the fact that De Jong went off ages ago.

It's Dirk time!

Redknapp said the Dutch would struggle to get out of this group :o

Rommedahl's had a grand game, too. 34 and doing Willems for pace all the way.

Kjaer is seemingly great at international tournaments and useless the rest of time. Can't believe this is the same roma/wolfsburg player!

must have been years since kjaer was this good xp yeah

oooh that should have been a pen for holland right?

oh definite pen there

no rule against handball in this tournament, should get interesting when players pick up on it.

yup

Bye bye Holland

woah, nicely done denmark

Shit game. Expecting a lot more from Germany v Portugal.

It's not a penalty if your hand doesn't move towards the ball.

Well done Denmark.

Worried that this result means Holland have to beat Germany :/

It's not that much of a shock

I didn't know St Totteringham was the patron saint of Holland until now.

Wtf why are they predicting portugal to turn over Denmark?

they probably don't know that denmark handled them easily last time they played

Wouldn't count on Huntelaar getting a lot of playtime though. Also because Holland won't survive the group stage tbh.

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Best player in Europe vs some not very good players?

xxxp

Several of the best players in Europe just failed to turn over Denmark, this tournament could be a victory for dogged antifootball yet.

Not sure germany is the game where you take a defensive midfielder out of the side 'arry

rio too good to be in the squad, nice to know.

Roy's left them speechless here

Seedorf just completely blanked Lineker's request to detail his own personal history of inter-team racist abuse on national TV. Nicely done.

yeah i lolled

Is hummels starting? He better be.

All in the head, that game. Krohn-Dehli's not that great a player, Wigan-level perhaps, but he was so much more composed than the Dutch. They just seemed... it was like, one or two things started going against them, then their sense of injustice kicks in - constant gesticulation, yelling, sulking almost. Like they were waiting for the universe to even it up for them or something. Sneijder stayed classy all night, but Robben - god, he'd be such a great player if he wasn't such an utter bell-end.

Germany: Neuer, Boateng, Hummels, Badstuber, Lahm, Khedira, Schweinsteiger, Muller, Ozil, Podolski, Gomez. Subs: Wiese, Gundogan, Schmelzer, Howedes, Schurrle, Klose, Bender, Mertesacker, Kroos, Gotze, Reus, Zieler.

Portugal: Rui Patricio, Joao Pereira, Bruno Alves, Pepe, Fabio Coentrao, Meireles, Veloso, Joao Moutinho, Nani, Postiga, Ronaldo. Subs: Eduardo, Custodio, Almeida, Quaresma, Nelson Oliveira, Ricardo Costa, Rolando, Ruben Micael, Varela, Miguel Lopes, Hugo Viana, Beto.

Germany are going to destroy them

Picked a bad night to go for a meal with my wife. I shall record this and attempt a Likely Lads score avoidance strategy.

Is p much the Germany team I'd have said is their strongest.

It's our anniversary and going out never entered my head

HaHA Cabaye on SSN refuses to answer questions in English cos he's on international duty. Sky dude looks crestfallen.

It's my birthday tomorrow and I didn't want to miss those games. Tough choices.

xp

Postiga is still going to be Portugal CF come France 2016 isn't he? Probably Quatar 2022 as well.

Could we do a Problem Positions XI? Lampard & Gerrard in the central midfield berths.

I think LB would be 3/4 of the teams at the tournament.