Boring game…
It’s getting a bit better. But the accuracy on both sides is abysmal. And France is seeing quite evidently that building a team around one player hurts when that player is not there!
UK commentators criticising that offside call, but I think it was right. You can’t have someone standing right next to the keeper but not interfering with play in some way.
you can argue that maignan is never getting there, but that’s then giving the ref the duty to assess a subjective thing like whether he thinks the GK has the ability to save it, which would become a disaster really quickly.
Objectively Dumfries physically prevents Maignan from diving for the ball, and thus it’s offside and the correct call, whether Maignan “could/would/should” have saved it is irrelevant.
Exactly.
1 minute in and there’s almost a goal!
Fair call, but the keeper would have never saved it
Unless he had been on the ball’s trajectory in the first place, which he couldn’t because Dumfries was there.
I don’t think it would have mattered honestly, but it obviously has to be called for offside regardless.
England and France were apparently joint favourites and yet they’ve both been dreadful so far.
France haven’t even scored a goal in their first two matches!
I never thought England were favorites, on paper? sure. but with Southgate? no way.
I told my friend before it started that Germany was winning it, last tournament for Kroos and likely Muller, host nation, redemption and fuck you bayern arc for Nagelsmann. it’s lazy script writing, but compelling.
England is always favourites in the eyes of British media though…
France is lacking the player they’ve built a team around so I wouldn’t be too harsh on them today, it’s not like they had to win.
hope the 2nd half will be like the beginning.
Hoping the Netherlands can win.
France really was struggling to match the Dutch at the end of that first half. If they don’t wake up, they’ll take a goal eventually.
