Baptista_8 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Thoroughly enjoyed the tournament, no stand out games really but enjoyed watching 90% of the games. Your thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pukey Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I enjoyed it. Group stages were very entertaining, quarter finals a bit underwhelming, 1 meh semi and a 1 good semi, and a great final (until Italy went down to 10 men, anyway) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martplfc1 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Best international competition (world cup/euros) for ages. What Pukey said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPS Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 It was a decent tournament, never felt it was ever particularly gripping and their was almost an inevitability about the winners. The knockout stages lacked a real classic game in the mould of a Brazil vs. France '86, Holland vs. Argentina '98 or even Italy vs. Germany '06 (a much more enthralling semi final than this year's which many pundits have picked as game of the tournament) - heck, almost any game from Euro 2000 too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boltman Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Pretty nondescript. Won't rank anywhere in the 'Which were the best international tournaments?' questions when it gets asked any time in the future. Seen worse/more boring competitions for sure, but Euro 2012 was nothing special. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Pretty decent, but not up there with my favourite tournaments of 94, 96, 98 and 00. The group stages were good as they were fairly competitive but a lot of the knockout matches were uninspiring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanNUFC Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Great in the group stage, knock out matches were a bit disappointing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leppard Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 A pretty good tournament, especially considering how awful the World Cup was. Not a patch on Euro 2008, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggressive minor Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Enjoyed it, certainly better than the last WC for sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grff Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Pretty nondescript. Won't rank anywhere in the 'Which were the best international tournaments?' questions when it gets asked any time in the future. Seen worse/more boring competitions for sure, but Euro 2012 was nothing special. This Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1981 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Bit underwhelmed for the most part. The whole of the knockout stage was forgettable, apart from the Germany-Italy semi and the final itself. The group stage had some good individual games, and it was good in the sense that I think only Ireland and Sweden were out of it going into the final games. But then there wasn't a lot by way of real drama, and there weren't any teams coming through from behind in the third lot of matches. Shame Poland couldn't come through against the Czechs, would have made a great story and with home advantage maybe they could have got past Portugal as well. Better than WC10, but then you're not really comparing like with like. Probably would rank it bottom out of the five 16-team Euro tournaments we've had since 96. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen Sandman Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I didn't feel strongly, there was a huge divide in some games. France, Netherlands were very poor when it came to passion and chemistry. I feel 24 teams will dilute it even more, breeding more small teams playing with 11 men in their half. Don't get me wrong I respect organisation from a tactical perspective but this tournament had some people poor performances from the "2nd tier" teams let alone 3rd 4th with regards to cohesion and ambition Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 It won't get near the top of any 'the best ..' lists but it was solid. Group stages were good. What pleased me was that refs let a fair amount of physical contact go and players responded to this by just getting on with it. Imagine, eh? There was a lack of rolling about on the floor too, which was nice to see. I agree about it missing that 'classic' match particularly in a 1/4 finals but Italy/Germany was good and I enjoyed Spain/Portugal for all the criticism it got Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubenJ Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 thought it was a pretty great tournament. the final alone means it will be one of the tournaments best remembered Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 4/5 would watch again Only the Dutch performance put a heavy damper on things for me of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperclips Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Good tournament, miles better than South Africa. Think i liked the world cup 2002 & 2006 world cup more. Enjoyed Euro 2004, well until England got knocked out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Thought it was boring. People only thinking it's good because of how bad the ones before it have been. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackter Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 There was a lack of rolling about on the floor too, which was nice to see. That's because Portugal and the Netherlands used up all of the rolling about in their match in the group stages. There was none left for anyone else after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyh21 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Yes better in all areas than expected and the unexepcted events that occured England getting through group for a starters (let alone topped it) Russia beating czech 4-1 yet czech go through (and greece) and russians didnt. Hollands collapse despite for me being joint 2nd fav's going into it (with Germany) hence Spain top. Then Italy beating Germany in semi hence Ballotellis wonder game. To finish off seeing a final of possibly one of best ever team displays and proving doubters wrong (boring spain) that they can do anything/everything that the game of football is all about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Pretty nondescript. Won't rank anywhere in the 'Which were the best international tournaments?' questions when it gets asked any time in the future. Seen worse/more boring competitions for sure, but Euro 2012 was nothing special. Pretty decent, but not up there with my favourite tournaments of 94, 96, 98 and 00. The group stages were good as they were fairly competitive but a lot of the knockout matches were uninspiring. Completely agree with these two posts. To be honest, I thought it was a disappointing tournament as a whole. Very few stand out games or moments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Select_screen_name: Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Some ok group games, the knockout were rubbish/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 That's because Portugal and the Netherlands used up all of the rolling about in their match in the group stages. There was none left for anyone else after that. I think their game was nowhere near as bad as I expected it to be though, I expected about 100 times worse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didier Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Started well, knockouts very average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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