Euro 2016 thread

[George2Loose]

Have to agree. Watched the least amount of games I've ever watched for a summer tournament. Group format made it poor.

[DungBeetle]

This must have been the worst tournament in recent history. The excitement and quality of matches was poor, even when it went past the group stage. Pundits saying the new format isn't good and the matches was poor, they wasn't much better past the group stage.

Nothing will change for next time, none of the stars really turned up and the final was poor.

I think it will be even worse next time.  It's the one where there isn't a host nation and the games are dotted all over Europe, so you don't even get the sense of occasion where all the games are in one (or two) countries.  Platini's idea.  It's going to just feel like a load of random friendlies all over Europe.

[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

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[Teacake]

A tournament that got the winner it deserved.

24 is a bad number to work with and the tournament has become too big with too many games spread over 4 weeks which is too long. Logistically it's become too big to host for any country bar the biggest nations.

England should forget about trying to host a World Cup and go for the Euros in 2024, apparently only Turkey are showing an interest so far.

[AndrewT]

A tournament that got the winner it deserved.

24 is a bad number to work with and the tournament has become too big with too many games spread over 4 weeks which is too long. Logistically it's become too big to host for any country bar the biggest nations.

England should forget about trying to host a World Cup and go for the Euros in 2024, apparently only Turkey are showing an interest so far.

Euro 2020 semis and final will be at Wembley though.

[vegaslover]

Have to agree. Watched the least amount of games I've ever watched for a summer tournament. Group format made it poor.

Have to agree. The final just about summed up the whole tournie imo.

[david3103]

Did we expect a feast of attacking football and thrills galore?

When was the last time a major tournament delivered more than a couple of decent games?

2014 WC had, errrm, Germany v Brazil, but not much else.

At least this tourney gave us the feelgood stories of Wales, Iceland and Northern Ireland.

[George2Loose]

Did we expect a feast of attacking football and thrills galore?

When was the last time a major tournament delivered more than a couple of decent games?

2014 WC had, errrm, Germany v Brazil, but not much else.

At least this tourney gave us the feelgood stories of Wales, Iceland and Northern Ireland.

Brazil was a great tourney.

Worst tourney since SA FA cup finals

[Archer]

Did we expect a feast of attacking football and thrills galore?

When was the last time a major tournament delivered more than a couple of decent games?

2014 WC had, errrm, Germany v Brazil, but not much else.

At least this tourney gave us the feelgood stories of Wales, Iceland and Northern Ireland.

I'm with you on this and the supporters of so many teams have had an absolute blast. FWIW I enjoyed loads of games for a variety of reasons but accept there was no exceptional team and last night was a damp squib.

I think it is amusing we look back with dewy eye sentimentality at, say,  1996 yet the knock-out stages were awful. We loved England's progress but there were a distinct lack of goals - 6 in total from the 6 games in the quarters and semis and 4 of those games went to extra-time. By comparison, Euro 2016 delivered 19 goals from the equivalent number of games.

I loved the Brazil World Cup but again there was lots of rubbish.

[david3103]

Did we expect a feast of attacking football and thrills galore?

When was the last time a major tournament delivered more than a couple of decent games?

2014 WC had, errrm, Germany v Brazil, but not much else.

At least this tourney gave us the feelgood stories of Wales, Iceland and Northern Ireland.

I'm with you on this and the supporters of so many teams have had an absolute blast. FWIW I enjoyed loads of games for a variety of reasons but accept there was no exceptional team and last night was a damp squib.

I think it is amusing we look back with dewy eye sentimentality at, say,  1996 yet the knock-out stages were awful. We loved England's progress but there were a distinct lack of goals - 6 in total from the 6 games in the quarters and semis and 4 of those games went to extra-time. By comparison, Euro 2106 delivered 19 goals from the equivalent number of games.

I loved the Brazil World Cup but again there was lots of rubbish.

England 1 - 0 Argentina
Portugal 5 - 3 North Korea
W Germany 4 - 0 Uruguay
Soviet Union 2 - 1 Hungary
Both semi finals were won 2-1 and I make that 22 goals...

and the final had another six including a hat-trick

Will grant that the group games were dour at times but the tournament averaged >2.5 goals per game. Plus, North Korea

[arbboy]

Average goals been really low this year but plenty of games had bundles of chances.  Ronaldo could have easily locked up the golden boot in one game in the group stages.  Plus a lot of keepers had good events (excluding Hart obv).  Think it was as good as several previous events tbh.  Lot of the major teams didn't have great strikers this year either in all time great terms as well.

[david3103]

From the wiki page on EUFA Championships...


Tournament
Most goals scored in a tournament
108 goals, 2016
Fewest goals scored in a tournament
7 goals, 1968
Fewest goals scored in a tournament (since 1980)
27 goals, 1980
Most goals per match in a tournament
4.75 goals per match, 1976
Most goals per match in a tournament (since 1980)
2.74 goals per match, 2000
Fewest goals per match in a tournament
1.4 goals per match, 1968
Fewest goals per match in a tournament (since 1980)
1.93 goals per match, 1980
Most scorers in a tournament
76, 2016
Most players scoring at least two goals in a tournament
20, 2000
Most players scoring at least three goals in a tournament
8, 2004
Most players scoring at least four goals in a tournament
3, 2000 & 2004
Most players scoring at least five goals in a tournament
2, 2000


You need to choose your statistics

[George2Loose]

There were more games tho