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[Labadal]

Jordan Henderson MOTM.

Spoiler

Did he touch the ball?

 

[rinse82]

Sweet.

Definitely taking Friday off to watch ENG-SWE

 

[Lonely1]

England plays terrible football. The kind that doesn't lose to France but also fails to beat the USA and Algeria.

 

[MMaRsu]

Eh...not a great game

 

[Divius]

2nd half entirely ruined by the ref, what a joke.

And by shitty football.

Really expected/hoped France to win.

 

[Kiraly]

I liked the match.

 

[Phantast2k]

Benz was more A class than S class today.

/edit
lol @ everyone who said Germany-Portugal was boring

 

[Fry]

So, yeah......

Rooney's hair looks really good.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

hardest game on paper so a point is a pretty good result

oh and boring game

 

[Jubern]

FINALLY a shot.

And it's over. What a pathetic showing, it was definitely the worst game of the Euro so far.

I'm pretty sure we could have won it, if only they cared to try a little more, but I guess I'll have to content with that one point :/

 

[Kozak]

Great game. I didn't find it as boring as others haha. I quite enjoyed these two grinding out a point. France was pretty poor tbh, they relied more on England making mistakes than making things happen themselves.

Nasri's goal was a result of defensive mistake.

 

[Randdalf]

I am happy with that, very happy, I thought France were going to paste us.

 

[Arjen]

Jezus, what a snoozefest. Barely managed to stay awake

 

[DSN2K]

good point Woy...we might just stay up! oh wait...

 

[bjaelke]

England can be happy with getting 1 point. They were absolutely lost without Rooney up front. Will have to see how Ukraine and Sweden perform, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of those teams clinched second and France took first in the group.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Decent from England. That's the toughest game in the group and we got the draw. Not too many positives but the team looked organised which is good I guess.

We will have to play with more positivity and confidence against the other two sides though. England need Rooney back.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

England should take this point and run.

Totally unexpected against a team in better form at the moment. They should pick up the three points against both Sweden and Ukraine and look to be in good standing to get out of the group.

 

[Rad-]

About sums up the match.

"Man fuck that shit"

 

[Nemesis121]

Boring game....

 

[cashman]

Man that english dude is ugly as fuck.

 

[KingKong]

why wasn't Rooney playing?

 

[RaGe_pt]

I gave up around the 60 min... What a boring game.

 

[Arnie]

Happy with a point.

Referee was diabolical.

 

[squicken]

That was awful. I don't know if it's the crushing press they have, but England always plays so joylessly. It seemed like at 89:00 both sides would have been content if Hart would have just held the ball through stoppage time

 

[zomgbbqftw]

And by shitty football.

Really expected/hoped France to win.

To be fair every time England broke some French player would put in a cynical foul and the bastard ref didn't whistle. Add the Gerrard foul on the edge of the box and the ref did kind of ruin the second half.

why wasn't Rooney playing?

Suspended for two games, he kicked out in the last qualifier.

 

[British Monsoon]

And by shitty football.

The referee entirely set the tone, the shitty, conservative football followed.

 

[Mastadon]

why wasn't Rooney playing?

Suspended.

 

[Bento]

Good result for us, but on that performance we won't go far at all.

You have a good defence at least and with Rooney on the pitch you might get a better offense. So it's not all gloom for England and I think the upcoming two games will put the English team in better light, this was a tough game.

France looking strong but do they have any strikers? There's just no one there in the box :S

 

[rinse82]

why wasn't Rooney playing?

suspended for first two matches; straight red in final qualifying game.

 

[Jal]

I'll take that, barring any fuck ups in Sweden another point and then Rooney will single handedly destroy the Ukraine.

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Roy pulled a Capello. Nice.

 

[ektoll]

Now, let's see Sweden-Ukraine, they could get out of this group...

 

[Carbonox]

Poor game. France lacked that final ball. Should have stuck Giroud on.

 

[F#A#Oo]

Worst game of the championships...

 

[Cindres]

1. Ref was shite.
2. 1 was in no way the reason we didn't win however, really dull second half, will take the point fairly happily.

 

[Labadal]

Sweden up in less than one hour.

Heja Sverige!

 

[Broder Salsa]

Worst match I've seen in the euros so far. Both teams were happy with a draw and never really took any chances at all. Ref was great, fuck all those players who just throws themselves down and think it will give them a freekick, there was way too many of them on both teams.

 

[EvaristeG]

The next games are going to be harsh, this game was against the easiest team of the group :-(

 

[danwarb]

Jordan Henderson MOTM.

Spoiler

Did he touch the ball?

Touches really did = 0.

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/566052/LiveStatistics/International-EURO-Cup-2012-France-England

 

[kitch9]

lol, all the brits here being mad at the ref

To be fair the French could have carried pistols and just blown England's brains out when they got the ball and he wouldn't have "noticed."

 

[s7evn]

England needed more Walcott.

 

[rodvik]

Lol michael ballack on ESPN laying the smack down on Englands style. True Michael but we dont have your talented players. Shrug, waddaya want us to do, just play open and lose?

 

[rinse82]

SWE-UKR draw please!

 

[Celine]

To be fair every time England broke some French player would put in a cynical foul and the bastard ref didn't whistle. Add the Gerrard foul on the edge of the box and the ref did kind of ruin the second half.

More like Englad/France teams ruined the whole match.

 

[Regulus Tera]

We knew England was gonna play like this against the elite. It's gonna be interesting how they come out against Ukraine and Sweden.

 

[Bento]

The next games are going to be harsh, this game was against the easiest team of the group :-(

Lol? Ukraine and Sweden will be easier I assure you We'll see though, hoping for Sweden to pull off a fine championship but goddamn is our team rubbish on paper :S

 

[Jubern]

Great game. I didn't find it as boring as others haha. I quite enjoyed these two grinding out a point. France was pretty poor tbh, they relied more on England making mistakes than making things happen themselves.

Nasri's goal was a result of defensive mistake.

What? If anything, it was the complete opposite.

 

[spidye]

was there a reason why not even one french player tried to go inside the box? even benzema stayed outside.

 

[AstroLad]

What? If anything, it was the complete opposite.

hahah i was about to say the same thing

 

[s7evn]

Wait, Shevchenko is playing still? WTF