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That path D is looking really pathetic In the other paths there are some interesting teams and matches. Keeping my fingers crossed for Iceland, Ireland, Scotland and Kosovo. If Iceland fails to qualify, then I would like to see Romania or Hungary to advance, since there is matches played in Bucharest and Budapest and it's always good to have the "home teams" involved.

Oh what a good idea to open a discussion and betting thread tyKiwanuka. I am really excited for the EURO 2020 and it's nice that we can already start a little discussion. The current odds look pretty fair in my opinion. No clue why England got a 5.5, but I guess its because the semi-finals and the final are in London?

Overall I am very excited for the event and surely will place many bets. During the last major tournement I came out with a slight profit, let's see how it goes this year.


Do people even take football serious in Greece? Did you guys ever win a major trophy? Oh yea,.. wait the EURO 2004. Are you guys still loving Otto Rehhagel ?

Haha, nice video! Always nice to see such emotions. They did it, they took the once in a lifetime chance and won it!


Oh I didn't know that, looks like you got at least 2 1/2 years now to prepare the team for the next major tournement then. Maybe the new manager can form a good squad which is able to (at least) make it into the tournement. It can't get worse than it's now anyway. And you are right, Greece should be able to beat teams like Finland or Bosnia.

i hope that kosovo will qualify for the tournament for the first time.
just because rashica plays for werder bremen, i would like to see him in action at a big tournament like euro 2020

I think the new format look much like a Euro championship. EURO has always been exciting and the results mostly unpredictable. Most of the results has always surprised us.
England and France would surely be the favorites for the tournament. But with the current coronavirus scene, the highest probability is for the coronavirus to cancel the event.

The Italian newspaper "Tuttosport" reported, that the EURO 2020 might be postponed one year to 2021 due the Covid-19 pandemic. The German newspaper "Bild" is also reporting on the matter. Due to the massive cancellation of games in Italy and other countries, national league schedules continue to extend into the summer. According to Tuttosport, the period for the EURO 2020 is getting shorter and shorter.

Source: https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/corona-virus-em-2020-wird-die-em-um-ein-jahr-verschoben-druck-auf-uefa-boss-69307960.bild.html (German source, since I don't speak Italian very well).

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Horrible news for the European football, but in my opinion this might be necessary to prevent an even bigger Covid-19 outbreak in Europe. Millions of fans traveling through Europe are certainly not the best strategy to prevent a pandemic. Let's see how this case develops, maybe there is some hope, but I am pretty sure that things will get worse first, before they get better..

Crazy shit going on, hard times for us sports freaks but in the end, whats most important is preventing a pandemic and I agree that millions of fans travelling all over Europe would not seem the best idea these days.

Only 1 little merit for such a nice thread? Gotta change that...

The thread you mentioned is unfortunately not self-moderated and I don't like to scroll through 20 shitposts to find a valuable one So I will keep this thread (open) for more serious, non-spammy discussions by deleting all spam and everyone, who is interested in such conversations, can feel free to contribute here. I consider the other thread for those users you mentioned and if I am only talking to myself in here, so be it

This board needs some overhaul anyway, because the amount of shitposts is just unbearable. So I think it's fine to have two seperate threads for the same event - one for spam posts and one for more quality-oriented posts. Unless the mods decide to go a different route of course and only allow one thread per event If the good posters, and there is quite a lot of them in the gambling section, are able to discuss their passion in a non-spammy environment, that is already a win in my book. There is still hope for the gambling board to not have the same fate as the Altcoin boards.

Too bad, but not that bad. I think we will see the domestic leagues, CL and EL deep into June and the summer will be packed with all kind of other sports and the Olympics possibly. The best thing though is, getting rid of that stupid Nations League for the foreseeable future.

It's now just about surviving the next weeks without any sports. After that, good grief, we will have sports all around the clock.

Considering what is currently happening, especially in Italy, UEFA made the only logical thing. The EURO is not just about football. It's a celebration. It's about culture and about meeting people. Nobody feels like celebrating now. Almost 3.000 infected in Italy in the last 24 hours. Among them, Blaise Matuidi, French International from Juventus. Almost 350 died today.