[EURO 2020 Final] ITALIA vs England (July 11th 2021) (21 Viewers)

Ronn

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Give Southgate more credit than that. Ventura was a disastrous joke in every way. Southgate built a tactical defensive power unit that only conceded 2 set pieces and zero open play goals all season, grinded to a being a kick away from the title.


It was super conservative, boring, limited and at times cowardly approach (England have attacking qualities he didn't wanna use). But pk shootout swings other way and he would been hailed as a defensive masterclass coach.


Ventura got embarrassed by EVERYONE he faced.
He did many things right, but 1-did not play to his team’s strength with his boring approach, and 2-totally botched the PK shootout. Ventura probably would have done something similar or marginally worse if he had this England squad in disposal.
That shootout shit show is a fireable offense by itself.
P.s. I read somewhere it was Sako’s first ever senior penalty. If true it’s even worse than I thought.
 
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JuveJay

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I went to London just to watch the final there. Crazy atmosphere before the game, and they all thought they had already won.

My journey back home was filled with delicious English tears on public transport.
Congrats on the 'rona.

People were far too confident before the game, it was almost delirium.
 

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"Europameister" :D

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I went to London just to watch the final there. Crazy atmosphere before the game, and they all thought they had already won.

My journey back home was filled with delicious English tears on public transport.
Of course they did.

Here in Lisbon I was quite impressed by all the cheering and later honking for Italy's success and win in this match. There's a sizable Italian expat community here -- many younger people who found more opportunities here than back home. But I think half was also a lot of people who just detested England and, in particular, English football fans. So that was a little hard to tell apart sometimes. :angel:
 

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