Jesus fucking christ is everyone scared of scoring? I thought literally everyone was supposed to have a shitty defence and then we get this garbage. Even most of the games with 3 goals or that end 2-0 have had massive stretches of bus parking followed by a last minute goal.
We're shit at finishing. I'm not sure what everyone else's excuse is.
Adam Murphy
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Nathan Reyes
This the first time you've watched a tournament with a group stage m8? Plus, with several third-place teams getting to advance the objective here is to play defense. Three draws would likely get you to the knock outs.
Gabriel Thompson
>Even most of the games with 3 goals or that end 2-0 have had massive stretches of bus parking followed by a last minute goal.
This is the key. 0-0s can be amazing if they're end to end but literally every single game in this euros has been cagey as fuck. I really can't remember one with a decent pace to it. Are all the players tired or something?
Isaiah Myers
WARNING
WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE A TEAM SCORE THREE (3) GOALS IN ONE MATCH
Jace Ortiz
We don't have strikers and Götze ist garbage
Michael Sanchez
Go and look at the group stage results for every major tournament prior to this year. Every single one has had several group stage games have a team score 3 and usually a standout end to end fixuture. It isn't just the lack of goals, it's how fucking boring the games have been in general.
Adrian Robinson
I don't think that the score its a equivalent of quality in football
Oliver Bennett
Not all the time, but it's definitely accurate for this tournament.
Wyatt Lewis
You want to see a high scoring game with shite defending? MlelS is for you my friend.
Easton Peterson
See It isn't just the lack of goals, almost every single game has had almost the entire thing be bus parking by one team, I think because of the expansion of the tournament to include shittier ones. Been pretty awful.
Chase Watson
>muh blowouts Just rewatch Rooney doing hat tricks against San Marino.
Parker Sanders
only one of the games was a comeback win too, and it involved brave english hearts
Gabriel Martinez
>massive stretches of bus parking
Care to explain what that means?
Brandon Moore
Götze is not a striker you fucking imbecile.
He's a false 9/secondary playmaker. In the right team he'll be GOAT.
Even if he never achieves anything else in his life he's still the guy that scored a WC winning goal. Every player from Messi to Ronaldo dreams of what Götze has achieved so they can all suck a dick.
Hudson Walker
One team defending with 10 men behind the ball and the other passing it around the penalty area trying to score. It just isn't fun to watch.
William Walker
the teams sometimes chose to park their busses close to the stadium so they can get out safely after bad games
if they park the busses far away from the stadium, they risk meeting angry hooligans
Justin Bailey
kek, Messi will be remembered in decades, Götze will be forgotten in 5 years when he plays at some midtable Bundesliga club
Mason Myers
>it's a premier league fan used to ADHD football where nobody knows how to defend has to watch what football is really like most of the time episode
Every time
Eli Rogers
KEK
Oliver Bennett
we are scoring 4 tonight don't worry
Mason Mitchell
It doesn't matter what the past was like, with third place teams getting to advance for the first time ever, good defense is the objective here. It's not fucking rocket science mate.
Pretty sure I've answered your question as to "Why are the Euros such shit lads?"
Ian Smith
teams in the copa america are noticeably better than those in the euro.
Jose Nguyen
This has been the best Euro Cup so far, stop being childish
>b-but m-muh goals american mentality is ruining football
Bentley Gonzalez
Euro 2012 and 2008 were both incredible, far better than this shite, and England wasn't even in one of them for me to support
Jackson Bell
Exactly, so that's a flaw in the tournament design, it promotes this shitty play that's putting everyone to sleep.
UEFA just couldn't leave well alone in the search for shekels, the Euros have been the best international tournament in the world for as long as I've been alive and now they've gone and fucked it.
Nathan Hernandez
Anyone who unironically thinks that the Euros have been more entertaining this year than Copa America is just an unreasonable homer.
Pretty much every country on Sup Forums that doesn't have a team in either tournament has been saying Copa America has been the funner of the two to watch.
Xavier Carter
Fuck off OP
BEST. EUROS. EVER.
Wyatt White
>you're Reddit if you want to see scoring
fuck off
Brayden Morris
Either quit saying mate or fuck off back to the UK.
Charles Fisher
Nobody is saying this in any way other than banter, would imagine barely any Europeans have even watched the copa to compare anyway since it's on so late. Literally the only international tournament I can remember being worse than this in my lifetime is 2010.
Having said that the Croatia game that just finished was pretty good, had a bit of everything.
Cooper Thomas
2010 WC was horrible, I think it was the worst cup I've ever watched, even failing miserably in 2014 we hosted one of the best and most exciting tournaments in soccer lately.
This ruined the world cup. You guys did 10 times better.
Jack Moore
>and England wasn't even in one of them for me to support I guess it is explained,isn't it ?
Adrian White
the fields are all wet for whatever reason, makes scoring very hard
Tyler Hall
Honestly at this point the only thing worth watching the Euro for is based Jamie Vardy(which I hope he starts next match)
Nicholas Richardson
>3-0 >The City of America
Luke Price
>The city of OP
Brayden Baker
At least this shit was memorable Nothing stands out about Euro 2016 on the other hand
Wyatt Sanders
political correctness don't hurt anyone, play mediocre
Joshua Smith
US scored arguably it's most famous goal ever in the 2010 World Cup when Donovan punched in a gamewinner against Algeria in the 90th + minute that meant the difference of winning the group outright, or going home.
Other than the US group though, I don't remember anything about that world cup.
Evan Wilson
The opposite actually. Messi never won a World Cup. That alone disqualifies him among the Greal GOATS. Good footballers come and go but only those that win titles are remembered. Götze is already immortal. Messi will be forgotten by 2030.
Kayden Russell
>political correctness Man I have had it up to here with UEFA's bullshit Everytime I see a commercial about "Respect" makes me wanna puke