In the Summertime, When the Weather is Fine | UEFA Euro 2012 | Poland/Ukraine

Lol, we are now talking about Spain having no service for Torres. Sadly it is all too accurate in this game.

 

Busquets should have conceded a penalty there. Like Barca, you have to have one of your players shot or stabbed to get penalty called against them.

 

Leave it to Spain to provide the first goalless draw of the tournament.

Of course, as soon as I type that all out, Navas scores.

And makes me look amateurish for criticizing the substitution.

 

When all you do is pass laterally, what service are you going to get? He made a great run behind the defense and Iniesta completely missed the pass. When Spain play like this they are very dependent on midfielders scoring because a lone striker (and the only player in the box) is going to draw all the attention. They're not doing that.

 

Andrews sees red for Ireland.

 

And the diving starts.

 

Wow.

Italy scores through Balotelli. Bonucci immediately puts his hand over Mario's mouth so he can't say anything.

Silently silencing his critics, haha.

Hilarious.

 

Not for a while mate. All part of FIFA/UEFA's 'improvements' in the offside rule

 

Just caught the last half hour, I thought Modric looked superb. He deserves to be playing against that calibre of opponent as often as possible.

 

It's been that way for ages though. I remember people (including me) making the same argument for RvN's second goal against the Czechs in the 2004 Euros!

 

It was on-side. Navas was offside but passive. By the time he got the ball, he was back onside.

 

No argument from me mate, but...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/mar/23/football.comment3

And third, is the player 'gaining an advantage'? This last point is specific, and is not what Match of the Day seem to think it is. It applies only to an offside player playing a ball that rebounds to him from an opponent, the post or the crossbar. If he does not play the ball from the rebound, then he is not penalised for being in that offside position. Nothing else counts as 'gaining'.

... and ...

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/12/15/offside-goal/

To sum up, 'gaining' doesn't mean 'gaining' as far as these dipshits are concerned.

As the late, great Bill Nicholson once said, 'If he's not trying to gain an advantage, what's he doing on the pitch'.

It was all part of the 'clarification', (AKA, totally changing), of the rules some years back.

 

Not only was Navas obviously offside (and active... he was running into a scoring position in the box ffs) but I think the player who supplied to goal (Xavi or Iniesta?) was also barely offside.

I think it was Corluka who had a free header from a corner around the 80th minute that ended up coming off his shoulder. He was clearly fouled by the Spanish player, who was dragging him away from the ball by the shirt.

For the love of all things holy, please let someone knock Spain down a peg.

 

I think in that situation it would have been 3 teams tied on the same number of points, and you go to goals scored head to head (i.e. excluding the games against Ireland).

 

Yes, this was how it was explained to me as well and I think that is bullshit...all 3 matches should count toward the goal difference.

 

I'm generally not a fan of using head-to-head period. There have been numerous times during this tournament where the analysts didn't even really know who would advance in certain scenarios.