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[Get Real!]

Italy has a near perfect defense; the best in this year’s tournament, and given that England did not prove to be much going forward against shitty Denmark, my prediction for the final is...

England 0 – 2 Italy

Btw, this is a technical prediction, not a premonition!

[Paphitis]

Italy has a near perfect defense; the best in this year’s tournament, and given that England did not prove to be much going forward against shitty Denmark, my prediction for the final is...

England 0 – 2 Italy

Btw, this is a technical prediction, not a premonition!

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Ita;lians are good at parking the bus in front of goal.

[Londonrake]

I am going to buck the trend here and support Italy to win against England, despite being British.

Last night England played well to win the game on merit, but instead, the game was won by deceit by receiving an unwarranted penalty on three fronts. One that Sterling took a dive, second that the referee gave a penalty he was not sure on and third, that VAR did not reverse the bad penalty call. The game commentator were accepting this injustice by using justifications that England had been wronged in the past by bad calls so that they were OK with this bad call in essence. This is why soccer is a corrupt game that financially England vs. Italy is more enticing to the advertisers and viewers than had Italy faced Denmark.

Go Italy!

If you were upset by Sterling’s antics I suspect - where the Italians are concerned - you ain’t seen nothing yet.

[Get Real!]

Italy has a near perfect defense; the best in this year’s tournament, and given that England did not prove to be much going forward against shitty Denmark, my prediction for the final is...

England 0 – 2 Italy

Btw, this is a technical prediction, not a premonition!

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Ita;lians are good at parking the bus in front of goal.

Err, no Paphitis… Italy is a much respected national side and I’m pretty sure the bookmakers will have them as favorites for the final.

A near perfect defense isn't parking the bus... we're talking exceptional stoppers.

[Londonrake]

This morning Bet365 we’re giving:

England 4/5

Italy 1/1.

[Londonrake]

If you fancy going.

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[Kikapu]

I am going to buck the trend here and support Italy to win against England, despite being British.

Last night England played well to win the game on merit, but instead, the game was won by deceit by receiving an unwarranted penalty on three fronts. One that Sterling took a dive, second that the referee gave a penalty he was not sure on and third, that VAR did not reverse the bad penalty call. The game commentator were accepting this injustice by using justifications that England had been wronged in the past by bad calls so that they were OK with this bad call in essence. This is why soccer is a corrupt game that financially England vs. Italy is more enticing to the advertisers and viewers than had Italy faced Denmark.

Go Italy!

If you were upset by Sterling’s antics I suspect - where the Italians are concerned - you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Look, every team tries to cheat. It is a well established standard of the game, hence soccer being a corrupted sport. My beef with last nights game was, that despite England playing well, they couldn’t really score based on talent because England does not have players who are clinical goal scorers. It is mostly goals produced accidentally, luck or cheating. Today, seldom England has players of yesteryears’ caliber of goal scorers.

In any case, Italy has been the best team throughout this tournament. There has been about half dozen other teams that were/are distant second best and the rest have been there to bring up the rear. The best game of the tournament so far has been the Spain-Italy game few days ago. England will not be able to match or even catch up to the pace at which the Italians play at. My money will be on the Italians to win.

[erolz66]

England 3 Italy 1

did you see the England Ukraine game Kikapu ? Hard to watch that and say England can not score based on talent imo.

For me sport and particularly football is the only time blind nationalism divorced from all reality is acceptable. I could never contemplate not sup[porting England 100% and 'analysis' is irrelevant to me. Kind feels a lot of the time that is opposite to most people. In sport they are all cold analysis and double guessing England in everything else they are blind nationalist where by definition England / UK is always best at everything just because its England or UK.

[Lordo]

England is said to be good at scoring from set pieces. What that means is get to the byline put a ball accros and hope it finds sombody's head. Otherwise known as school football. However one playerthat stood out yesterday and stood out every game he has played was Saka. He got the ball half way into the oppostion half at least 5 yards infront of the defence and he was 5 yards behind them moment later. First goal was by him really as it was the last England player to touch the ball. And what does he get for his efforts, he gets substituted every game. I mean just how stupid is Southgate.

He does have one good quality though, he seems to have got them playing for each other which is a big plus. I get a feeling Mancini will make mincemeat out of him.

[Get Real!]

England 3 Italy 1

England couldn’t put one past shitty Denmark over 95 minutes last night, and you expect them to net three against this year’s best defense?

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but on paper it doesn’t make sense.

did you see the England Ukraine game Kikapu ? Hard to watch that and say England can not score based on talent imo.

But that's a different level of football! Ukraine is like 2nd division in Europe, and I'd place Cyprus in 4th or 5th.