EURO 2020(1?) Football forum average draft - Group F

[GunmaN1905]

                             SouthCoastRed                                                                  Marius_R                                                                   Darius1998

 

 

Three matches in the group, please vote for the winner of each match.
Winner of each group advances to last 16 automatically.
Two second place teams with worst total vote difference are eliminated, so please vote carefully because every vote will count.

Polls are active for ~24h, give or take.

Everyone is welcome to vote, not just players participating in the draft!
Would also be nice if you could write a sentence or two to explain why you voted the way you did.

To avoid shambles, participants of the group can't vote. If you do, your votes don't count.

Since we have Marius-Darius matchup, please don't bottle the voting.

@Darius1998@Barry Cartman@Jorg@bestbrother@Baptista_8@Hazzaj@grff@Marius_R@PaulHartman71@Kawee@The Golden boy@Butts@Haguey@Citizen Kane@Yuko @sjg11@adhikapp@managerdude_66@SRL88@Sano@trueblue.85@SouthCoastRed@MaxeyN17@Harryseaess@Scott1892@Crispypaul@XuluBak

[XuluBak]

Marius just takes it for me. 

[Sano]

I think Darius has a cracking midfield so he edges it over Marius for me. 

I can't forgive SCR putting Nico Van Kerkhoven, a pure left back/wing back at right back.

[Butts]

Fan of Marius team he'd win this group imo.

[Hazzaj]

Too much silliness in SouthCoastRed's team for me, Van Kerkhoven at right back, Keane on the right wing, the perennially overrated Kasper Schmeichel... Niko Kranjčar... even N'Golo Kanté can't plaster over all those cracks!

The tough decision is with the two rhyming opponents; Dejan Stanković is a pet favourite player of mine; great workrate and technique, and a big fan of a goal from absurdly long ranges. beyond him you've basically got a textbook attack for international football, pace, dribbling, guile, striking instincts, headers... all bases covered really - biggest weakness in Marius' team is the two centre backs probably, neither the most technically gifted, and Šimić more suited to right back than in the middle.

For Darius, you've got the best centre forward going at the moment in Lewandowski, and again he's proven to be a manager who's taken functionality into consideration when constructing his midfield; van Bommel in there allows you to carry a relative luxury like Prosinečki for example. I think his defence just about edges out Marius' but I'll hand the tie to the Inter fan just based on the added ability to play a more modern brand of football, though really I'd like to give this one a draw!

[SouthCoastRed]

1 hour ago, Sano said:

I think Darius has a cracking midfield so he edges it over Marius for me. 

I can't forgive SCR putting Nico Van Kerkhoven, a pure left back/wing back at right back.

I couldn’t find a right back starting with K in a nation I hadn’t already used 

 

[SouthCoastRed]

48 minutes ago, Hazzaj said:

Too much silliness in SouthCoastRed's team for me

I think you missed the point 

[Butts]

3 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

I think you missed the point 

Think you've done alright considering, I didn't vote for you mind

[SouthCoastRed]

5 minutes ago, Butts said:

Think you've done alright considering, I didn't vote for you mind

That’s ok, I wouldn’t have either 

[Hazzaj]

9 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

I think you missed the point 

well, if you tie your shoelaces together before a 100m, you're still racing with your shoelaces tied together, even if that's what you've told everyone you're going to do!

[Yuko]

9 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:

I couldn’t find a right back starting with K in a nation I hadn’t already used 

 

Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek from 1980. Versatile player, was a pretty solid right back. European Cup semi-finalist in 1985. 

[Baptista_8]

Just now, Hazzaj said:

well, if you tie your shoelaces together before a 100m, you're still racing with your shoelaces tied together, even if that's what you've told everyone you're going to do!

Hahaha I like this

[SouthCoastRed]

4 minutes ago, Yuko said:

Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek from 1980. Versatile player, was a pretty solid right back. European Cup semi-finalist in 1985. 

You looked harder than I did 

[SouthCoastRed]

6 minutes ago, Hazzaj said:

well, if you tie your shoelaces together before a 100m, you're still racing with your shoelaces tied together, even if that's what you've told everyone you're going to do!

Awesome 

Consider myself pwned 

[PaulHartman71]

Think of all the teams I’ve seen Marius has the one I like the most 

[Haguey]

Poor SCR...

Match 1: Kasper, Koeman and Kante is an incredible spine of SCR's team - unfortunately Kallstrom and Kranjcar are underwhelming and Keane is on the right - as is Van Kerckhoven for some reason  It's a much better team than the meme team he went for but Marius wins this by a couple of goals.

Match 2: Not much to say about this one, Darius has one of the best teams in the competition, best lists of players, deployed sensibly and I can't really see a weakness. Darius wins this comfortably by 3 goals.

Match 3: The Clash of the Titans. This could easily be a final imo. Both teams have areas where they would have a field day. Robson and Tigana could go forward at will and simply brush Marius' midfield aside, while at the same time Darius only has two wide wing backs protecting his flanks (one of whom is a flake) - exactly what you don't want against players as good as Pires and Robben. De Rossi is an incredible player, but I don't think even he could hold off Darius combo of Robson-Tigana and Prosinecki, while his two CB's and goalie would simply be stretched too much to cope with strikers as good as Kirsten and Lewa. Marius would score a couple, but I think Darius wins this, 4-2.

All three teams really unlucky to be in this group together. SCR would likely have come at least 2nd in other groups and Marius wins most of the rest too 

[Marius_R]

Dario Simic will ultimately be my downfall. 

[GunmaN1905]

SCR has a decent team, but other two are some of the better teams in the draft, easy choices.

As for Marius-Darius matchup, Darius has exponentially better defense and it's not even close.

Mihajlović shouldn't be the LB and Alba is better, but we all know what Mihajlović provides. Set-pieces that are probably the best of all-time.

Different formations, it's close in midfield and attack, could go either way, but I have to give it to Darius because of defense and GK.

[Yuko]

There's no other wide players, Sinissa was far more capable of attacking from the left than Chivu. Defensively Chivu is better, both as a full back and a center back. 

[GunmaN1905]

SouthCoastRed-Marius_R 6-21

SouthCoastRed-Darius1998 6-21

Marius_R-Darius1998 15-12

@Marius_R wins the group with 36-18. Advances to the knockouts.

@Darius1998 is second with 33-21.

@SouthCoastRed is eliminated with 12-24. Thanks for participating in the draft!

[SouthCoastRed]

Very happy with that, not last \o/

[Marius_R]

Expected to be close between Darius and me, and it could've gone either way. Voting between us was really close. 

[Darius1998]

Yeah, pretty great matchup.

Ultimately, having just two wide players might be a bit of a struggle anyway if the opposition has two attacking full backs such as in this case.