Euro: Group E: Romania vs. Ukraine
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Jussi
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The official Ukrainian shirt for this game. Slight problem: that's not Romania's flag...
Big "good evening Budapest" energy haha
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robertmac43
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Good, some far right morons in some ultras groups were stopped from coming. They don't usually fight or anything like that, they're just stupid.
However even without them it feels like a home game for Romania.
Not receiving a refund for purchased tickets? I'd sueNot that there isn't still some potential, but bigger hooligan incidents at Euros have usually involved Russians so maybe we'll see a more peaceful tournament this time in terms of that.
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IIRC Ukrainian hooligans were more or less pretty similar to Russian hooligans. I mean really all of the former Eastern bloc had pretty similar hooligan scenes. (But FWIW I suspect a significant % of the Ukrainian hooligan scene is somewhere in a ditch in Eastern Ukraine currently).
FWIW Fubo.TV has an overlay now for score and time which is a great improvement on the first broadcast. I will say I think it's quite curious that the abbreviation for Romania is 'ROU' which to me sounds like it can only be based on French..but I don't think I've seen any other country so far with a French-based abbreviation. I know in the old days the French-based abbreviations were standard in the Olympics but that hasn't been done in at least 30 years either.
FWIW Fubo.TV has an overlay now for score and time which is a great improvement on the first broadcast. I will say I think it's quite curious that the abbreviation for Romania is 'ROU' which to me sounds like it can only be based on French..but I don't think I've seen any other country so far with a French-based abbreviation. I know in the old days the French-based abbreviations were standard in the Olympics but that hasn't been done in at least 30 years either.
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robertmac43
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And he almost scored a better one a couple minutes later. Stanciu is sooo good on his day, too bad he always went for the easy money, China and now Saudi. Old school number 10
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The Romanian defending is pretty good. You can tell they're used to playing on the backfoot. While with a team like Germany you often get the sense the defense slightly panics when there's an opponent running in the box (because it doesn't happen much and usually is the result of a big mistake), the Romanians just deal with it with full awareness that possession in the box means nothing if you can't find a shooting lane or pass.
Wee Baby Seamus
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I don't see any bus parking.. In fact they seem incredibly well drilled in the build up , a real plan with the ball.
I am suitably impressed. See what the second half brings.
Defensively we're a good match to Ukraine and there's no surprise we were able to keep them to 0 shots on net that first half. Dubvyk is the top scorer in La Liga, but he plays a physical game and that's Dragusin's bread and butter, and Ratiu (even though he lost Mudryk once) is one of the few players to have completely annihilated Vinicius this year. We're weak at left back, as we are basically playing an ultra offensive LWB there, but even Bancu did a good job against Tsygankov.
This is a team that couldn't score in two games against Bulgaria and Liechtenstein in friendlies getting ready for this, but now we have spaces and making them count, arguably we've had the three biggest chances this half. Let's hope we keep the high press up and let Ukraine have all the empty possession in the second half as well.
This is a team that couldn't score in two games against Bulgaria and Liechtenstein in friendlies getting ready for this, but now we have spaces and making them count, arguably we've had the three biggest chances this half. Let's hope we keep the high press up and let Ukraine have all the empty possession in the second half as well.
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The hooligan culture as a whole is what it is, but there haven't really been any incidents of significance with Ukrainians around the national team though. Before 2012 we had Sol Campbell telling how Ukraine is too dangerous for England fans to travel to, but pretty much the only incident on that side of the border were a few German idiots displaying Nazi symbols and throwing trash on the pitch. Meanwhile in Poland there were several major fights involving Russian hooligans (and one Croats against the police).
Politically linked too. The Russian ultras making a mess out of euro 2016 undoubtedly had some links to the Kremlin.
Likewise much of the 'enforcement' during the Maidan revolution came from Ukrainian football firms. They were also the genesis of those nasty territorial defense battalions circa 2014.
It's a weird dynamic.
