At this point taking off your runners up medal has become such an established thing that not doing so is probably going to lead to you getting stick from some people who decide it must mean you're fine settling for second place. Or say you're the sixth player in line and the five players in front of you have all taken off theirs are you really going to be the first one to keep yours on and be accused of not caring about having lost?
I remember there was some banter surrounding Fred for not taking his off when United lost to Villareal in the Europa final. He looked over the moon, haha.
I'm a United fan as well. So the image of the United players doing the same a couple months ago was flashing before my eyes too.
The stuttered run up has become a common penalty tactic in recent years. The idea is you delay committing to a direction so that you can make the keeper commit first. You look like a dick when it doesn't work but it's not just done for show.
And, to be fair, it did work. He went the wrong way.
Top post and on point!
He got the ball.
Yes, that's true. As I said, the follow through wasn't great and I have seen similar challenges in the past where a yellow has been changed to a red solely based on the fact it was dangerous play. It's a moot point now of course, but was just surprised VAR didn't even look at it.
LOL. For a team that got one shot on net (it scored though) and got dominated by Italy most of the match, I'd give most of their players a 0. The goalie, goal scorer and whomever passed the ball to Shaw deserved a better score.Italy 1-1 England: Player ratings from Euro 2020 final
Assessing how the players performed at Wembley in England and Italys Euro 2020 final clash as Bukayo Saka becomes the fall guy for stepping up when more experienced England players should have stepped inwww.skysports.com
- Jordan Pickford - 8----- Gianluigi Donnarumma - 7
- Kyle Walker - 6----- Giovanni Di Lorenzo - 6
- John Stones - 8----- Leonardo Bonucci - 6 <<< HAHAHAHA, Bonucci a 6, Stones an 8?
- Harry Maguire - 8----- Giorgio Chiellini - 7 <<< HAHAHAHA, Chiellini a 7, Maguire an 8?
- Kieran Trippier - 6----- Emerson Palmieri - 4
- Luke Shaw - 6----- Nicolo Barella - 4
- Declan Rice - 6----- Jorginho – 7
- Kalvin Phillips - 6----- Marco Veratti - 7
- Mason Mount - 4----- Federico Chiesa - 8
- Raheem Sterling - 6----- Ciro Immobile - 5
- Harry Kane – 5----- Lorenzo Insigne - 6
- Bukayo Saka - 10----- Bryan Cristante - 6
- Jack Grealish - 5----- Dominico Berardi - 6
- Jordan Henderson - 5----- Federico Bernardeschi - 5
- Marcus Rashford - N/A----- Andrea Belotti - 5
- Jadon Sancho - N/A----- Manuel Locatelli - 5
The memes write themselves.
Giving most of the players 0/10 is even more ridiculous. You don't go to a penalty shootout if most of your players are playing at a 0/10 level.
How does a team get ratings of 5 or more for every player except one guy with a 4, when the team got dominated, one shot on goal, missed 3 out of 5 penalty kicks, and the Italian team who controlled play and won got worse player ratings?
lol do you even sports bro?
They should just Olympic kind of tournaments gold medal only.
My point was that giving most players on the team a 0/10 is ridiculous and hyperbolic. England didn't get dominated. Italy scored 1 goal in 120 minutes.
Just a misunderstanding of soccer ratings. It's a 1-10 scale, 10 being like insanely good, scored a hattrick or something. Getting a rating under a 4 is pretty poor and requires like several boneheaded mistakes leading to like a 5-0 loss. Yes, they lost. Yes, they didn't have a lot of possession or shots but with one shot the scored was tied in the end. That shot 1 led to a 1-1 draw in regulation.
Just out of interest I looked up player ratings for the 7-1 Germany/Brazil game, one where a team actually got dominated, and found the ones given by The Guardian. No Brazilian, player got worse than a 3. For that matter, no German player managed to get a 10.
If soccer ratings are trying to skew to video games where no game (no matter how bad) gets a 0-3 player ratings (and even 4s and 5s are rare), then so be it. Its a skewed ratings system.
It's incredibly rare for elite level performers to put in a 0-3/10 performance. It happens but it's rare. None of those England players put in a 0/10 performance.
It's a showing of solidarity. Saying look at the balls on this kid for stepping up to the plate at 19 years of age and taking the potential game deciding kick. Nobody can blame him for what went down.
Speak for yourself. I'm an embarrassment to no one.
No one is saying that other white people are responsible for the racist people. They are just saying that you have to be
I probably would have scored it if all I did day in day out is play football. Actually, I would probably have it scored it without that.
At least with the Europa final, 10 Utd players scored their penalties.I'm a United fan as well. So the image of the United players doing the same a couple months ago was flashing before my eyes too.
Wanted to say hi from Italy to my friendBo_Hazem and all the other England supporters.
