It’s in the history books, Germany are the UEFA Under 21 European Championships In something of a surprise outcome Stefan Kuntz’s side win the title for only the second time as the 1996 European Champion masterminded a win over Albert Celades’ La Riojita What made it more impressive for Germany …
Read More »Germany vs Mexico a few quick thoughts
We now know the two teams that will be in the final of the FIFA Confederations Cup As Chile will go head to head with Germany Chile booked their place on Wednesday night with a shootout win over Portugal While Germany beat Mexico in emphatic fashion last night It was …
Read More »Europa League First Round Recap
A total of 100 teams began their UEFA Europa League adventure yesterday as the First Qualifying Round took place all over Europe. It was a very mixed bag of results for clubs in Britain and Ireland with representation from clubs in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic. Although Glasgow …
Read More »Portugal vs Chile a few quick thoughts
Bravo The maligned Chilean goalkeeper actually showed that he can be useful after a trio of shoot out saves last night against Portugal As good as the saves were the Portuguese do have to come in for some criticism however All three of the spot kicks were poor, Ricardo Quaresma, …
Read More »Spain vs Italy a few quick Under 21 thoughts
We now know the makeup of the UEFA Under 21 European Championships as Germany who disposed of England on penalties (surprise, surprise) will go head to head with Spain It was a case of ‘Better Call Saul’ as the Atletico Madrid midfielder was the decisive factor in last nights tie …
Read More »England vs Germany a few quick Under 21 thoughts
Well, well, well England vs Germany and who would have guessed what the outcome would be That’s right England bow out of a European Championship on penalties to Germany…..again 21 years ago Stefan Kuntz scored the equaliser in the Euro 96 Semi Final He also went on to score the …
Read More »FIFA Confederations Cup – Group B Quick Thoughts
We now know the make up of the FIFA Confederation Cup Semi Finals Portugal will be paired against Chile in what is arguably the pick of the bunch While an experimental Germany side go up against Group A runners-up Mexico For Chile it was something of a nervy afternoon yesterday …
Read More »Germany To Meet England After Italy Defeat
We now know the Semi Final lineup for this summers UEFA Under 21 European Championships with Group C coming to a close last night. With the competition expanded to 12 teams for the first time it meant that only the group winners were guaranteed entry to the next stage of …
Read More »FIFA Confederations Cup – Group A Quick Thoughts
Group A came to a conclusion last night and we now know which two nations will be progressing to the Semi Finals Portugal made easy work of New Zealand with a 4-0 victory yesterday afternoon and with that win they top the group The All Whites tactic of trying to …
Read More »Germany Draw With Denmark In Confederations Cup Warm Up
It may be quite a dormant summer for most of the majority of the European football nations but that is certainly not the case for Germany. By virtue of their World Cup victory in Brazil back in 2014 they are one of the eight teams taking part in this month’s …
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