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What a nightmare for both teams.

Go Sweden, GO!

Aaaaaaawwwwwwww

Bloody ITV are showing the Italy-Bulgaria game. I'd far rather see the Scandinavian derby.

Good luck Sweden. But I hope Larsson (spelling?) doesn't score too many for my bet's sake.

I think this game has draw written all over it.

markfiend wrote:Bloody ITV are showing the Italy-Bulgaria game. I'd far rather see the Scandinavian derby.

Good luck Sweden. But I hope Larsson (spelling?) doesn't score too many for my bet's sake.

2-1 for Sweden will do. Actualy 0-0 will do, but I want to see some goals

It will end up 2-2. as predicted all over. Its on ITV2 btw

It did.

Probably the best match I've seen this tournament....

You gotta love the Scandinavians


IZ.

best quote of the tournament so far, just after the final whistle in the italy match, the itv commentator came out with this utter gibberish:

"the reds and the yellows are holding hands. its orange in scandonavia tonight. meanwhile the blues are out. the azures are grey tonight."

idiot

A great Nordic Victory!!

hope germany follow em tomorrow

Great result!!!!

Well done Sweden and Denmark!!!

What about that Danish goal!!!

Paddy.

Quiff Boy wrote:best quote of the tournament so far, just after the final whistle in the italy match, the itv commentator came out with this utter gibberish:

"the reds and the yellows are holding hands. its orange in scandonavia tonight. meanwhile the blues are out. the azures are grey tonight."

idiot

he's just too clever for you quiffy

red & yellow makes ... etc

f**king s**t! It was 2-2. Holy macarony.

Both Denmark and Sweden are going to quarter finals.

Fix! Blatantly!

Thomas Sorensen caught the ball then dropped it at the Swedish player's feet for the second equaliser!

Either it was "agreed", or he thought he was still playing for Sunderland

I'd like to say I was sorry to see the Italians go, but I'm not! Miserable, cynical, cheating whining gits. How can a nation produce so many flair players and still play such miserable football?

yuy maybe a fixx, but I don't buy it...they worked towards it, but without fix: otherwise it wuldn't have taken so long......
very glad with the results, and I laughed my ass out with the last italian goal

randdebiel² wrote:yuy maybe a fixx, but I don't buy it...they worked towards it, but without fix: otherwise it wuldn't have taken so long......
very glad with the results, and I laughed my ass out with the last italian goal

Me too! I had the Italians in my elaborate accumulator for the week, but didn't fancy seeing them qualify. The perfect ending.

I would have thought that a fix between Denmark and Sweden to put them both through is about as likely as a fix between England and Scotland would be?

The Danes would have been much better off winning the game, wich of course they were painfully aware of.

The swedes win the group despite poor performance for parts of all three games. I don't know why they look so shaky. Yesterday the swedes looked like they'd never played in rain before. It's like they only play a good solid game when the opponents allows them to.

All that said, with a team like this, scoring last minute goals, being outplayed one minute and dominating the next, it can go either way. Even all the way.

But there have been so many games which have gone to the wire: I was thinking about this today when I was debating whether to back the Czechs tonight (5/2, Germany are rubbish, but do the Czechs want it enough?). England - France, Latvia - Czech R, Holland - Czech R, Croatia - England, Bulgaria - Italy: all games where a team has come from behind to win. That's a lot, percentage-wise. Way above average.

Statistically speaking a lot of drawn games as well, but you tend to expect that at this level.

All in all, it makes betting a bugger. And as for picking an overall winner - fat chance!

andymackem wrote:All in all, it makes betting a bugger. And as for picking an overall winner - fat chance!

So true. But (and I hate to brag ) ...before the tournament I bet on the results of the three Sweden games and I had Swe-Bul 3-0, Swe-Ita 1-1, Swe-Dan 2-2. So that's two out of three, and the third being pretty close.

The Green Lantern wrote:The Danes would have been much better off winning the game, wich of course they were painfully aware of.

The swedes win the group despite poor performance for parts of all three games. I don't know why they look so shaky. Yesterday the swedes looked like they'd never played in rain before. It's like they only play a good solid game when the opponents allows them to.

All that said, with a team like this, scoring last minute goals, being outplayed one minute and dominating the next, it can go either way. Even all the way.

I might add that with Larsson and Ibrahimovic Sweden probably could go all the way

I don't think the game was fixed. Both teams did everything they could to score as many goals as they could.

But it' looks a bit funny when it turned out to be 2-2.

The Green Lantern wrote:

andymackem wrote:All in all, it makes betting a bugger. And as for picking an overall winner - fat chance!

So true. But (and I hate to brag ) ...before the tournament I bet on the results of the three Sweden games and I had Swe-Bul 3-0, Swe-Ita 1-1, Swe-Dan 2-2. So that's two out of three, and the third being pretty close.

I believe everything you say, except the bit about hating to brag

I take you won generous quantities of Kroner at your local turf accountant's, though?