EURO 2016 | Day 9 | Belgium v Ireland | Iceland v Hungary | Portugal v Austria | 18th June

Belgium desperately need a win here. Lukaku should be given another chance after a poor showing against an Italian defence and @Prince Pathan is now going to like this post just because I have said that. Ireland will also be looking to secure 3pts here but before that they have to ensure they don't repeat the same mistakes they did against Sweden otherwise @Donal Cozzie will cry a bucket full of german brand beer here.

Iceland somehow and by hook or by crook managed a draw against Portugal but they will take this as their best opportunity to win and set one foot into the next round. @Passionate Pakistani will probably throw his younger brother at the tv if Iceland again brings a bus to be parked in their box. Super confident Hungary after their win over Austria last week won't even mind a draw here imo but they should continue playing the same fearless football and secure their berth in next round.

Expect a full Portugal attack in the last game. @Fireworks11 is already wearing his CR7 glasses and can't see Austria even as a football team now let alone defeating Portugal here. @London_Lahori is also upset about Dragovic's sent off for Austria but he's holding back his tears so its okay.

 

Brilliant.

 

Lets see if Belgians play as a team today

 

Ireland need to win this want if they want to progress to next round. Defeat here means almost all over as their last game is against Italians.

 

Belgium must be the most overhyped team in the world

 

Goal... Lukaku

 

Can't understand what exactly Irish are trying to do with their attack lol

 

Too easy for Belgians today. Another goal this time by Witsel

 

Lukaku with another one... Irish are totally dismantled today on the field.

 

@Prince Pathan over the moon now. Might as well do nanga dance after breaking his fast today.

 

Lukaku price tag will also go up now lol.

 

Lukaku is overrated

 

I do not have Lukaku lol but him up front with Giroud would be awesome. Two battering rams causing defenders problems

 

Lukaku will cost above 50m

I think wenger being wenger will only sign moussa dembele from fulham and that will be it for transfer window.

 

Lukaku with Giroud would be sad and tragic and even worse than currently

 

He cannot afford to. Around 10k fans refused to come to Emirates last few games lol and the fans coming is what makes Arsenal FC money.

I hope they continue protesting till they sign. They need to realize we pay so much money on merchandise and tickets. One jersey costs 75 euro man insane prices while cheapest ticket for premium game is always 75 pound
It is crazy money. They make millions every game

 

Lol, isn't there a few years waiting list on season tickets? I seriously doubt fans boycott can be effective

Those that didn't show up were also those who'd already paid so it didn't hurt the club financially lol

 

Giroud scored 24 goals and got 6 assists
Lukaku scored 24 goals and got 7 assists

I would take 48 goals and 13 assists from my strikers every day of the weak. If somebody other than Giroud and Alexis scores we would do very well

 

Mara I doubt he will sign world class striker..

Lewa, aguero, suarez, auba all staying.. seems like vardy is also staying .leaves us with lukaku and I doubt wenger will sign him.

Dont really rate morata tbh..would rather have giroud than signing morata.

Also Mkhitaryan wants to join United. . Arsenal are quite weak on right flank and micki would have been an ideal player but wenger is just being wenger...

 

Yeah but those who cannot go to matches put their tickets on ticket exchange which enables the rest of us to get a ticket. Yeha massive waiting list to be a gold member

 

If that happens there will be more protests and board will lose a lot of money. It will hurt them financially. He will have to sign world class players for his own good lol

 

Yeah, because if they play together, they'll get the same goals as they got individually, right? And where does Ozil fit in if we have two strikers?

We can't drop Ozil, the rest of our midfielders create zero chances.

 

Anyway, why spend 50 million on a striker of Giroud's level when Giroud's not good enough anyway?

 

Expected Iceland to take a lead in this game after the way they played against Portugal.

 

Bar Auba, Aguero, Suarez, Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar Higuain name somebody who is good enough?

If you say Benzema and Gameiro fair enough but if Benzema cannot cross 30 goals in La Liga while even Soldado could then he has no hope in a physical league like England

 

Lewandowski

 

Lol he is in the same bracket as the others we will never sign him

 

Err... any striker that can actually run, not keep tripping over himself in hopes of winning a penalty while never winning one, and score more than 1 in 20 attempts at goal, and not go 15 games without a goal.

Gameiro is one. Vardy is another, or are we worse than Leicester according to you? Hell, sign Hernandez or Morata and get rid of this useless lamppost donkey

 

Morata has 26 goals for Juve in 90 appearences. Vardy has less goals than Giroud in his entire career, same age and has played more games than Giroud. Gameiro was outscored by Giroud in France.

You need to come up with better examples man. If you think 82 goals and 34 assists in 4 seasons is worse than 24 goals then fair enough man I wont argue. Sadly Giroud is not the problem, Giroud being our only striker is the problem.

If you say Vardy has won a minnow a league title then so has Giroud for Montpellier by scoring the same amount of goals. PSG have dominated it since then and Giroud put them to the sword in France. Just saying

 

Giroud is not someone who'll win you the EPL. Neither is Lukaku who I think is incredibly overrated.

 

Giroud won it when PSG were crap. Vardy won it against good teams in THIS LEAGUE. Giroud has never got more than 20 league goals in a season. Vardy has.

Morata has played most of his career on the wing. He's better than Giroud, there's zero doubt of that.

 

How does @Wistful Reminisces know so much about football all of a sudden? I swear before your ban your football knowledge was 0 lol.

 

Come on, anyone can see Giroud is nowhere near good enough to win the league. He's totally static, Ozil probably hates him tbh

 

Ronaldo misses the target

 

What a poor finish by Ronaldo. Missed a sitter

 

Dodgy ref

 

lol how crap are Portugal

 

Is he static?
He covers more ground than Alexis Sanchez

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...al-players-how-do-they-rank-by-work-rate.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ing-to-the-side-so-why-is-he-called-lazy.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ing-running-NINE-London-Marathons-season.html

He was the hardest working player in 2014, I love putting peoples theories to the sword especially when there are stats to back it up. Please tell me how a guy who covers more ground than the electric Alexis Sanchez is static

The year Zidane won a ballon d'or he scored 3 goals playing as a number 10 and I can assure you if twitter was around or major social media he would have been mocked for not scoring or assisting enough

 

Oh great, he covers ground, that doesn't mean he's got any pace or movement. It means he covers ground.

 

Btw, lol @ comparing Sanchez to Giroud. One is world class, one is holding the club back and is booed by France fans for being crap