I don’t believe Argentina is going to win this Copa America, but if we do and Portugal wins the Euro… what a Finalissima!
I visited Lisbon 2 or 3 times for work and really liked the city/the people, so yeah, agreed.
That simulation call brought a tear to my eye. Sometimes there is justice!
A call we should see like 5x as often. Love it.
Goal for Portugal feels inevitable.
Discourse’s refusal to let me just post a series of exclamation points is really annoying.
“When you fail to convert in the enemy’s goal too many times, a goal in your own is inevitable”
Ancient Shaolin Proverb.
What the hell was the goalie doing? It was utter madness. Ho CHOSE to push it into the middle of his own congested six yard box.
Both favourites benefiting from own goals in their opening games. 
And now this was almost a second own goal…
And again, what was the defender doing? He just sort of dropped on the ball. Presumably he slipped at the most devastating moment.
The second Portugese goal would not have fallen had the referee seen the foul against the Cech player just 20 seconds before at the other end of the pitch, but that is football. VAR is not used for that, damned!
Favorites gonna favorite I guess.
It’s pretty obvious Canada is going to win the Copa America.
Well, it could happen.
Statistically.
England might win the Euro too. Statistical favourites. However the stats seem to fail to take into account how they tend to collapse. I’m gonna go with France. Unless they are like PSG, a rare example of how, with talent, one and one and one sometimes only adds to two.
So what is going on with the standings in Group B:
https://www.uefa.com/euro2024/standings/
Why is Italy showing as above Spain as they have scored 2 less goals? Everyone seems to be showing it that way (including the table they showed on Fox Sports during the Croatia Albania game)
E.g. The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/football/euro-2024/table
The only one that seems to be showing the (surely!) correct table is Wikipedia
Have Italy chucked a few euros at the relevant UEFA official? 
They are fixed after those Croatia goals, but they were broken for a while, I swear
Croatia-Albania (2-2) was another wild game that was thrilling until the last second, like Turkey-Georgia yesterday.
So Germany are through, after three disastrous group stages in the last tournaments. They perform better than I had expected, at least as I had expected a 3/4 year ago.
Better from Scotland, although that’s not a high bar. Aside from the tiny detail of gifting the Swiss a goal, we actually looked like a side that belonged in the tournament. A bit unlucky not to get another, a bit lucky not to concede another.
A win against Hungary and we might scrape through as third place finishers.
They look so much better, especially in breaking down that low block…Hungary was compact, and yet Musiala and Wirtz kept finding lanes through the middle, instead of endless wing play. So fun to watch.
Both Spain and Italy are looking good
Really? I thought Italy looked kind of terrible in possession, due to the pressure. And no real threats, by the end of the game the xG was 0.2.