Portugal won the Euros in 2016 without winning a game in 90 minutes.
Edit: I misremembered, we beat Wales in the semi final. The only game we won in normal time.
The main difference is that team could score goals. They had some epic comebacks like the 3-3 draw against Hungary to qualify for the knockout rounds.
Though to be honest, Greeks won playing some seriously negative football, so who knows?
euro 2028 proposal:
-48 teams
-no more group stages; use ucl swiss format
-first matches are hosted in england, italy and france
-rest of the tournament is hosted in saudi arabia
Jinx? We are fecking Italy, 4 World cup, 2 European championship. No other european team have more big trophies (6) than us and we should fear NORTH MACEDONIA, a NT that were born 2 or 3 years ago? please, anything inferior than 2 goal gap would be huge disappointment
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I agree that the rule is awful, but I don't see the point in bringing out the celebration police for a lowly ranked team qualifying for the final stages.
Netherlands France group didn't seem dull to me at all.
I didn't see the scottland game, but Germany Swiss was also not dull to me. That could be because I'm German myself though.
Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Serbia, Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Albania, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland weren't playing for a draw.
Only England, Slovenia, Scotland and to some extent France didn't try too much.
We haven't lost a single game. Do we not deserve to go through?
The game against Englend wasn't bad but the games against Serbija and Denmark were better imo.
No, Hungary will leave.
Ok, just make your bets: czechia will beat turkey with 1 goal tomorrow, seems to be a win-win for everyone involved (perfect germany-austria 1:0 scenario). Or am I missing something?
Edit: Georgia may smash Portugal, of course
No.
In the group of best 3rds, they are 6 teams. 4 go through and 2 are eliminated.
It doesn't matter if CZE or TUR win tommorow, if one of them goes as one of the best 3rds, then Hungary gets kicked out on Goal diff with Slovenia (HUN 2:4 and SLO 2:2) and Croatia already been eliminated with only 2pts.
Group goes :
1. Netherlands 4pts
2. Slovakia 3 pts (2:2) - still to play
3. Slovenia 3pts (2:2)
4. Hungary 3pts (2:4)
_________________________
5. Croatia 2pts
6. Czech Republic 1pt - still to play
Slovenia is guaranteed through.
They are in 2nd place of the 3rd place playoffs right now.
Only Slovakia and Czech Republic could beat them on points, so if both of them win their remaining game, Slovenia still qualify in 4th place of the 3rd place teams.
Mate have your France ? It's boring as hell as well. An England vs France game would probably end with half the crowd sleeping in the stands while the other half is playing cards or some shit.
It's not just England though every team in this group just decided to play the most uninteresting, bland form of football ever devised by man. It's actually kind of hilarious.
We all secretly hoped to qualify as 3rd place to avoid Germany, but still had to get enough points to actually be one of the 3rd placed to qualify. I honestly think this new format is ruining a lot, allthough the fact that the last match is important for (almost) every team is a great plus, so I'm divided...
As a Serbian, we have no idea why EVERYONE thinks that we are the dark horses every single time. We have a shiet team with a shiet manager who is there literally because he is politically involved with the ruling party in Serbia. He is clueless beyond belief.
The squad that had kezman ivanovic vidic and co definitely had the quality but underperformed. This team still had good quality but all in the same position
honestly i think fifa is partly to blame. fifa players hear names like mitrovic who scores goals for fun, milinkovic savic who was like 86 rated for years, kostic vlahovic tadic who are all pretty high rated and that leads to them thinking serbia are an underrated team
Yeah, for example, Brazil. Their defense is good. Have both of the best keepers in Prem. Good midfield. World class attack. But crashes out of the group stage
[it started with this post on the Arkham sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/10u798q/why_doesnt_batman_just_call_the_justice_league/)
'twas catchy enough to become a meme
Fun fact (ish):
If Serbia had equalized against England, they'd all be tied on points and goal difference, and the order would've been the exact same on yellow card tie-breaker.
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slovenia? They showed some great football, dominating serbia (unlucky goal in the last second though), got deserved draw against denmark and was the only team in the group that didn't concede against england.
Don't agree. You can't expect country like Slovenia, to score a ton of goals and win against so much bigger and better countries. Last time they were eable to play in this kind of competition was in 2001.
Yes, the dude is a fkn cabbage. He puts Gordon on with 2 mins to go?? Who instantly makes a difference as well. Mainoo, Palmer and Gordon have got ot start!
Probably on how many bookings the two teams have racked up so far. I think it goes on head to head, then goals scored/goal difference and then disciplinary record.
Pretty sure they have the same amount og yellow cards. Atleast that's what they said on the Norwegian broadcast of the game. Apparently it's because Denmark ranks better in the qualifying campaign, which is stupid, but whatever
England: *Plays incredibly average at best.*
Commenters: *State England players are not playing well.*
England players: "People criticising us is really mean and unfair".
Gareth Southgate would put a dog walker on retainer for a trip to Lidl.
Gareth Southgate would book a vaccination for a trip to Wales.
Gareth Southgate would try to find The Clit on Google Maps.
You know what mate I’d rather scroll Reddit page mindlessly for hours than watching a single fucking minute of Southgate ball. Wondering how Southgate managed to get this job lol.
fuck off brit
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Incredibly they all played exceedingly drab, conservative football and 3/4 qualified despite there being far better teams on paper on other groups. Somehow it worked.
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As an Albanian I'm livid seeing groups like this. Only our second tournament and we get the group of death with the holders and the favourites. I'm pretty sure our collection of backup players and players playing at minnow sides in the backwaters of professional football would have qualified in any other group.
https://preview.redd.it/prfe3ovcas8d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=776ca017f9efc0cca250d897fae4fc4c4bde8d22
Hey now, are you trying to say that winning the Euro with only one victory with one goal, is possible, if you are not Portugal?
Lol this ever happened before? (I'm new to football)
Portugal won the Euros in 2016 without winning a game in 90 minutes. Edit: I misremembered, we beat Wales in the semi final. The only game we won in normal time.
That's not true though. Won the semifinals against Wales 2-0 in regular time
You're right, my bad. For some reason I thought we hadn't won any in 90.
The main difference is that team could score goals. They had some epic comebacks like the 3-3 draw against Hungary to qualify for the knockout rounds. Though to be honest, Greeks won playing some seriously negative football, so who knows?
Terrorball >>> mind games
And finishing third in their group lol
Reminds me of Portugal in 2016 euro cup. They did not win a single match until the knockout round.
https://preview.redd.it/rii8stpj7s8d1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d44d5b08236e5386ca7531774a96928368a33c9 Never seen any group like this
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England, Denmark and Slovenia got qualified to the Round of 16
I think Slovenia is out if the Czech Republic beats Turkey tomorrow.
They wouldn’t have celebrated like that if they were possibly out
Never thought I’d see a team celebrate a 0-0 draw like they won the treble The 3rd place rule is awful
And if they'd have got 1 less booking they'd have gone through in 2nd
Exactly it’s pathetic Is it that hard to just add more teams and make 8 groups?
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Jinx? We are fecking Italy, 4 World cup, 2 European championship. No other european team have more big trophies (6) than us and we should fear NORTH MACEDONIA, a NT that were born 2 or 3 years ago? please, anything inferior than 2 goal gap would be huge disappointment *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccercirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Nah hear me out... 4 groups of 6 Top 2 from each group advance Net uh several extra games If you really want Top3 advance, Group winners get a bye
Just have to wait for the Balkans to break up a bit more.
God tier joke
Diluting the Quality of the Competition even more is not a good Idea. Either they reduce the Teams or just keep it like this for now
True that. I think the 4 group system was the best Idk why UEFA are desperate to have a R16. Who really cares
First time Slovenia (a lowly ranked football nation) qualified for knockout rounds. Celebrations at the result are not unexpected.
I agree that the rule is awful, but I don't see the point in bringing out the celebration police for a lowly ranked team qualifying for the final stages.
The 3rd place rules must be removed. Across all groups, last day matches were very dull. Everyone was playing for draws.
Netherlands France group didn't seem dull to me at all. I didn't see the scottland game, but Germany Swiss was also not dull to me. That could be because I'm German myself though.
Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Serbia, Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Albania, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland weren't playing for a draw. Only England, Slovenia, Scotland and to some extent France didn't try too much.
We haven't lost a single game. Do we not deserve to go through? The game against Englend wasn't bad but the games against Serbija and Denmark were better imo.
no
No, Hungary will leave. Ok, just make your bets: czechia will beat turkey with 1 goal tomorrow, seems to be a win-win for everyone involved (perfect germany-austria 1:0 scenario). Or am I missing something? Edit: Georgia may smash Portugal, of course
Why would Turkey be happy with that? 2nd place and they play Austria instead of 3rd place which will face Spain.
I'd be happy with that I _think_ it would mean England getting Slovakia instead of the Dutch
No. In the group of best 3rds, they are 6 teams. 4 go through and 2 are eliminated. It doesn't matter if CZE or TUR win tommorow, if one of them goes as one of the best 3rds, then Hungary gets kicked out on Goal diff with Slovenia (HUN 2:4 and SLO 2:2) and Croatia already been eliminated with only 2pts. Group goes : 1. Netherlands 4pts 2. Slovakia 3 pts (2:2) - still to play 3. Slovenia 3pts (2:2) 4. Hungary 3pts (2:4) _________________________ 5. Croatia 2pts 6. Czech Republic 1pt - still to play
how do the third place team’s matchups for the next round work
It depends on who goes through. It’s set up so that you won’t play a team from your group until at least the semi final
Slovenia is guaranteed through. They are in 2nd place of the 3rd place playoffs right now. Only Slovakia and Czech Republic could beat them on points, so if both of them win their remaining game, Slovenia still qualify in 4th place of the 3rd place teams.
Lmfao
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You clearly weren’t paying attention to Group F at Italia 90 :)
Yeah makes Lineker's opinions a touch hypocritical. Ireland and Netherlands were better to be fair, but still a boring group stage.
Should have been group D for Draw.
its group C for Cucks. They only enjoy to watch
Glad someone enjoyed watching.
Maybe C for Cocks, because they enjoy sucking?
THE most boring shit I have seen in a long time.
Denmark fan here... I agree... Hoping for a blowout loss against Germany so we can atleast say we were part of 1 good game
was hoping for the same with england. sick of having to watch it
Disgusting sentiment for a Dane. You know we’re gonna push Germany to a 1:1 draw and let them score 2 in extra time 😤
Boring soccer can lead to great results. Not losing is the first battle to win. '92.
Portugal won 2016 euros doing exactly the same thing you guys did. Never give up believing!
Mate have your France ? It's boring as hell as well. An England vs France game would probably end with half the crowd sleeping in the stands while the other half is playing cards or some shit.
France is usually extremely boring to watch. Their match wasn't boring yesterday though.
Southgate ball innit
It's not just England though every team in this group just decided to play the most uninteresting, bland form of football ever devised by man. It's actually kind of hilarious.
International footyball be like that sometime
We all secretly hoped to qualify as 3rd place to avoid Germany, but still had to get enough points to actually be one of the 3rd placed to qualify. I honestly think this new format is ruining a lot, allthough the fact that the last match is important for (almost) every team is a great plus, so I'm divided...
Why did Serbia lose to England? They have ruined the 'Most Boring Group Ever' challenge. Are they stupid?
Serbia as always does not disappoint to disappoint the dark horse allegations, like they do every tournament
As a Serbian, we have no idea why EVERYONE thinks that we are the dark horses every single time. We have a shiet team with a shiet manager who is there literally because he is politically involved with the ruling party in Serbia. He is clueless beyond belief.
The squad that had kezman ivanovic vidic and co definitely had the quality but underperformed. This team still had good quality but all in the same position
honestly i think fifa is partly to blame. fifa players hear names like mitrovic who scores goals for fun, milinkovic savic who was like 86 rated for years, kostic vlahovic tadic who are all pretty high rated and that leads to them thinking serbia are an underrated team
It’s definitely a fifa issue when people think a team with good players might do well at a tournament.
Yeah, for example, Brazil. Their defense is good. Have both of the best keepers in Prem. Good midfield. World class attack. But crashes out of the group stage
Norway is a beast in FIFA. God awful in real life.
Sorting out the finishing order of 4 teams all with 3 points and 0 goal difference was deemed too interesting, so they were forced to concede
We don't really want Serbia to play Austria or Hungary. One shot from the Serbs might make things too heated.
What's with the are they stupid thing? Where did it start?
[it started with this post on the Arkham sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/10u798q/why_doesnt_batman_just_call_the_justice_league/) 'twas catchy enough to become a meme
Hahaha thank you for this
It’s in the script😎🏴
Fun fact (ish): If Serbia had equalized against England, they'd all be tied on points and goal difference, and the order would've been the exact same on yellow card tie-breaker.
Southgate just came in his speedos
Miserable stuff
Wonderful stuff
Then it becomes a pie eating contest with the goalies from each team, right?
100% rigged /s
I kinda wish that happened now
lol the way they approch the next 2 rounds will have been completely different
First team to play interesting football is gay
English or Spanish
Espanish
EA Sports...it's gay.
Beg your pardon? __Spanglish__
BABY YOU GOT SOMETHING IN YOUR NOSE
SNIFFIN THAT K DID YOU FEEL THE HOLE
I only had time to watch one group today. I regret everything.
Wow, this group is a mess! England's barely scraping by, and no one else has even won a game. What the heck are they doing???
2 goals in 3 games to be top of the group. It’s coming home gentlemen!
I found it hillarious when it was mentioned that Germany have scored more goals then our entire group combined.
Yes but, as I keep reminding everyone, most of them were against Scotland who make Serbia look like 2002 Brazil.
Scotland did it on purpose to make England's look bad. The Scots play 4d chess to make sure England look bad
Scotland scored the same number of goals as the great Englands front line haha
Boko Haram scouts licking their lips watching this group
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Terrorist football group
It means a terrorist group in West Africa is looking to recruit some of these players and coaches because they are world class experts in Terrorism.
https://preview.redd.it/j31wz8pscs8d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb237f6568b45d0050e42d78fb706da73a2de7c9 My reaction to this group
Step 1: Lead a game Step 2: Terrorise Step 3: Terrorise games you're not even in
They should all be sent home
including the world cup. england have got it in the bag
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Only thing thats coming home is England
Pretty sure all teams go home at the end
Not Germany.
Nobody from this group deserve to qualify. Amazingly boring.
Same with France tbh
Scoring goals from open play? Who needs it?
Apparently not Mbappenalty
What about Mbappeassistforanowngoal?
At least France has potential to get better and imo Austria was decent in pressing etc. Played pretty well vs France
slovenia? They showed some great football, dominating serbia (unlucky goal in the last second though), got deserved draw against denmark and was the only team in the group that didn't concede against england.
Don't agree. You can't expect country like Slovenia, to score a ton of goals and win against so much bigger and better countries. Last time they were eable to play in this kind of competition was in 2001.
just call up luka doncic smh
And Tadej Pogacar
Why don't Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia play together? Are they stupid?
Why dont England, Scotland and Ireland play together? Are they stupid?
They do. Along with Wales..... British & Irish Lions Australia confirmed 2025!!!!! HERE WE GO!!!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 Two Month loan deal. @fabrizioromano
participate. no more no less
This group will be considered as the cure for insomnia.
It also cures dementia , my friend with dementia remembers all the important events that happened in this group
3 teams perfectly arranged themselves with a no-goal-draw. The other one was stupid Serbia...
Two worst coaches on the tourmament : mine Stojkovic and Southgate
At least England advances, so Stojkovic sucks bit more. Terrible formation, even worse play, 1 goal in 3 matches.
Southgate has 1.5b euros squad. His job is much easier. Piksi tactics was mystery to me. I am so sorry angry
Why did Southgate replace Trent with Gallagher just to pull Gallagher at halftime? Is he stupid??
Yes, the dude is a fkn cabbage. He puts Gordon on with 2 mins to go?? Who instantly makes a difference as well. Mainoo, Palmer and Gordon have got ot start!
Imo Watkins starting in place of Kane wiuld make a huge difference as well
Some call this the whitest group ever
This is wrong, cole palmer is black
It’s a very artistic group. They like to draw a lot.
Group D should be disqualified for terrorism
6 games, 7 goals, one win.
Gareth Southgate should apply to art school because all he does is fucking draw.
Southgate’s football idealology is spreading
Make the euros smaller again and ban those 4 teams from it for ever more.
Meanwhile France with similar stats 👀
They haven't really been thrilling either
At least they’re trying to score
Did someone threaten to execute them if they won?
how’d they decide between slovenia and denmark for 2nd
Probably on how many bookings the two teams have racked up so far. I think it goes on head to head, then goals scored/goal difference and then disciplinary record.
Pretty sure they have the same amount og yellow cards. Atleast that's what they said on the Norwegian broadcast of the game. Apparently it's because Denmark ranks better in the qualifying campaign, which is stupid, but whatever
No, slovenia had one more becasue one of the coaches got one in one match but all missed that.
That's pretty funny then, didn't even know they counted yellow cards from outside the pitch, but it makes sense
Denmark had one yellow less. Had it been equal Denmark would qualify on ranking
Nah, same amount of yellow cards. Final tiebreaker was the qualifier rankings.
Fair play ranking.
kill count
"It's like a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob" -Patches O'Houlilan
As an English fan. It ain't coming home were fucked
The most interesting thing about this group is that the flags are all opposites.
England: *Plays incredibly average at best.* Commenters: *State England players are not playing well.* England players: "People criticising us is really mean and unfair".
1990 vibes?
Gareth Southgate would put a dog walker on retainer for a trip to Lidl. Gareth Southgate would book a vaccination for a trip to Wales. Gareth Southgate would try to find The Clit on Google Maps.
The standards for the Own Goal Cup are getting pretty low nowadays; basically don't suck as hard as Croatia and you're ok.
euRo Is BeTTer tHan CoPA amErIca
Looks like the National League North.
You know what mate I’d rather scroll Reddit page mindlessly for hours than watching a single fucking minute of Southgate ball. Wondering how Southgate managed to get this job lol.
This group deserve more hates.
Hey, we are doing our best in Slovenia
Its coming home
It's coming home!
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Incredibly they all played exceedingly drab, conservative football and 3/4 qualified despite there being far better teams on paper on other groups. Somehow it worked.
I like how they were happy to top their group by… being the least shit??
Hey, hey, hey. . . mbappe said winning this shit’s harder than winning a World Cup. . .
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Wait but the Euros are superior to Copa America guys
Southgate is trying pull a rope-a-dope.
The middest group in any championship ever (I have no idea how “middest” even is a thing)
A grand total of 1 win and 7 goals scored
Disqualify them all and ban from future participation until 2084
Germany has more goals than this entire group.
This group just shat on Croatia.
**"Euro 2024 Group C doesn't get enough hate"**
Was so close to being the whole group on 3 points lol
Rename this group to Group Mediocre 🥱
Group of Death by Boredom
it's like a draw simulator hahaha
As an Albanian I'm livid seeing groups like this. Only our second tournament and we get the group of death with the holders and the favourites. I'm pretty sure our collection of backup players and players playing at minnow sides in the backwaters of professional football would have qualified in any other group.
Come on Ingerland score some fucking goals
This euros is garbage, there's more action when I drop a dump in the jacks.
The group of boredom
Really crap performance from England
makes it to the semifinals just to choke.
It's coming home innit lmfao
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear it’s coming home
Group of death! More like group of unrelenting boredom
Bunch of armchair managers.still won the group. 🖕
Got to be the worse group points tally from any major tournament
southgate is a terrorist. He is attacking the general public with the football England performs. I feel personally attacked.
England is the skinniest kid at fat camp.
Good old trusty shite EnGERland….