Euro 2020/21 Soccer

[Welshy]

Just after the graphic coming up showing 18 shots to 0 to Denmark, Finland score. Typical.

Schmeichel poor there.

 

[Welshy]

Belgium have taken the lead against Russia. Lukaku with the goal.

 

[Welshy]

Cancelo out of the tournament after testing positive for covid. Replaced by Dalot.

Big loss for Portugal.

 

[Boot Cleaner]

Gareth Southgate includes Kieran Trippier, Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden and Mason Mount in his starting XI as England get under way against Croatia at Euro 2020.

That means there's no place for Marcus Rashford, Jack Grealish and Luke Shaw, while Tyrone Mings and John Stones start in central defence.

Luka Modric, Ivan Perisic and Ante Rebic all feature as Croatia boss Zlatko Dalic names six of the side that started the 2018 World Cup final in Russia.

England team: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Mings, Trippier; Phillips, Rice; Sterling, Mount, Foden; Kane.

Croatia team: Livakovic; Vrsaljko, Caleta-Car, Vida, Gvardiol; Modric, Brozovic, Kovacic; Perisic, Rebic, Kramaric.

 

[Son Of Jack]

Austria have scored against North Macedonia. Nice goal.

Some hefty challenges going in so far, this could turn nasty before the end.

 

[Tom]

Teams for the evening game:

Netherlands XI: Stekelenberg; Timber, de Vrij, Blind; Dumfries, de Roon, Wijanldum, de Jong, van Aanholt; Weghorst, Depay.

Ukraine XI: Bushcan; Karavayev, Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Mykolenko; Malinovskiy, Sydorchuk, Zinchenko; Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Zubkov.

Excited for this one. Pleased to see Depay and Weghorst start. Both coming off strong seasons. Defence looks questionable, though.

Looking forward to seeing how Ukraine fare. Malinovskiy had a super season with Atalanta. Heard a lot of good things about their striker Yaremchuk too. Zinchenko is usually quite important for them.

I'll go for the Dutch to edge it.

 

[Crabtree]

Kieran Tierney missing for Scotland, big loss.

Scotland XI: Marshall; Hanley, Cooper, Hendry; O'Donnell, Armstrong, McGinn, McTominay, Robertson; Dykes, Christie.

Czech Republic XI: Vaclik; Coufal, Celustka, Kalas, Boril; Soucek, Kral; Masopust, Darida, Jankto; Schick.

Hope we get off to a good start. It has been a long time coming but Scotland are finally back on the big stage at a major tournament.

 

[Boot Cleaner]

Kieran Tierney missing for Scotland, big loss.

He gets injured an awful lot.

Absolutely buzzing for this match but a lot of nervous energy too.

 

[Crabtree]

Poland XI: Szczesny; Bereszynski, Glik, Bednarek; Jozwiak, Krychowiak, Linetty, Rybus; Klich, Zielinski; Lewandowski.

Slovakia XI: Dubravka; Pekarik, Satka, Skriniar, Hubocan; Kucka, Hromada; Haraslin, Hamsik, Mak; Duda

Lewandowski up against Skriniar will be a fun contest. I'll go for 1-1.

 

[Tom]

Spain are without midfielder Sergio Busquets following his recent positive Covid-19 test. Leeds defender Diego Llorente, who recorded a false positive and has since rejoined the group is on the bench.

Luis Enrique's big call comes in attack, where he has ignored the case of Gerard Moreno, who scored 30 goals for Villarreal last season. Dani Olmo starts.

Sweden may be without Zlatan Ibrahimovic this tournament, but they do still have some serious talent up top in the shape of striker Alexander Isak. Marcus Berg partners him.

Manchester United centre-back Victor Lindelof starts in a side captained by former Arsenal, Birmingham, Hull and Sunderland midfielder Sebastian Larsson.

Spain: Simon, Marcos Llorente, Laporte, Pau Torres, Jordi Alba, Koke, Rodri, Gonzalez, Ferran Torres, Morata, Olmo.

Sweden: Olsen, Lustig, Danielson, Lindelof, Augustinsson, Sebastian Larsson, Ekdal, Olsson, Forsberg, Berg, Isak.