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Post subject: Re: Euro 2024

too bad for georgia...not too surprised they scored. done in by 2 fantastic turkish individual goals. the 2nd turkish goal, georgia had possession and naively gave the ball right back for the goal. 1st goal was a screaming volley from a headed georgian clearance.

going to press my luck on another over, playing the over in portugal/czech. 2.5/-130. playing the over for $100, bankroll at +$135.

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an insipid portugal, inspired by their subs, steals one late. prima-donnas walking on the pitch. hargreaves telling us that he believes portugal to be the best team at the tournie. sure they are.

kudos to cr7. i thought he played fairly well at age 39. the czechs didn't want to venture into portugal's half, scored a nice excuse-me goal that woke up roberto martinez.

bankroll at +$235.

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Shut up and dribble.

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Il y a un poisson dans votre bibliothèque.

Show me a French footballer against immigration and you’ll show me a French football player that doesn’t want their national team to win anything.

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legal or illegal immigration? zidane, benzema, nasri...etc...the sons of legal immigrants, french nationals. mbappe, the same.

brigette bardot's famous line: 'I didn’t fight against French Algeria to accept an Algerian France'.

the issue in france is legal x illegal. le pen's party wants tighter reins on illegal immigration and to cut legal immigration. when poc footballers on the french NT tell french voters not to vote for the 'extreme' party of le pen, but ignore the extremes of the communists/greens...it plays right into the narrative of tribalistic/sectarian voting patterns that le pen and farage talk about that galvanize voters.

these footballers have benefitted from french coaching and france's football infrastructure. it's national academy, lafontaine, is world-renown.

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end of an era for croatia and modric. pulled themselves out of the grave, only to fall back in at the end. this group won't have a 3rd place team advance. i didn't play this match - because when the albanian supporters wear their white ottoman caps and the croatia supporters wear their croatia waterpolo swim caps, it's a wash. you always expect the albanians to embarrass themselves at this level and they rarely never do. they really play for their flag. they may have against a 2022 or 2020 croatia, not this weak version of croatia.

bankroll at +$235.

going to take a chance and play another over in germany x hungary. $100 on the over (2.5, -180). may squeak this out or 2-0 germany after 50 minutes and germany closes up shoppe and finishes 2-0.

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W_Z wrote:

hoping scotland can save face a little bit today by at least drawing with the swiss. wishful thinking...

yeah, i'd like to see them get at least a point today. the swiss are up and down, they may get the bad switzerland.

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play with fire, you get burned. germany, not very interested today and well, hungary. they had a chance or two. when it was 0-0, they had an opportunity to open up the germans, player on the ball decided to put his head down and pass the ball backwards. no intent, prayed for the 0-0 and hopefully, scotland deservedly erases them from the tournament in their next match.

not playing the swiss x scots, hoping for an open match. hopefully, scotland gets at least a point today - will buoy them in their last match with hungary.

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the wheels are very wobbly for scotland. the right wing-back has been singled out for poor play by fletcher - i suppose deservedly so, but the 3 scots CBs are terrible on the ball and i look for the swiss to punish them again after a poor back-pass/panicky pass/poor ball control. the fox crew fighting for a goal for mctominay. the goal was a definite own-goal, sommer had that shot going into his gut and schar kicked it in on his attempted block.

want to see scotland do well, just no quality. not sure if they can stand another 45 minutes. i hope they can, eventually the swiss will get desperate and open up if it's still 1-1 midway through the 2nd half. the scots need that space offensively, they can't create it organically.