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Euro2020 Knock Out Rounds

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Anyone remembers this match?
Czechia were soo good back then, with Koller, Rosicky and Baros. Hopefully they can put their heart out there and beat this BS people's team Denmark. Always liked Czechs me.

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davek said:
Wilmots 64% win rate
Martinez 77% win rate

Wilmots best tournanet result a QF spot at the Euros
Martinez best tournament result 3rd place at the World Cup
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Win percentages in international football without a pot to show for it is meaningless. If the team are good enough to win most games but then fail as soon as they meet a decent side in a pressure game, then this is a collective failure. That includes the manager for the tactics used and not instilling the belief and calmness required and/or putting the correct subs on to get something from those games.

He has had two major tournaments and a nations league to get something of note and he hasn't even made a final.
 
Drico said:
Oh, I'm definitely an old fart. And happy about it. For every extra kilo of weight you add and strand of hair you lose as you get older, the compensation is the "context" of experience. It means that when people say Belgium has its greatest-ever group of players, you smile to yourself. Nah, they're not. That side in the 1980s was consistently, pound-for-pound, one of the great overachievers in international football that decade, and one of the truly great counter-attacking sides. Thys was a master. The 1982 World Cup qualifiers saw that Belgian side top a savage group that contained Platini's France, Krol's Holland, and Brady's Ireland. There was a sliver between all four of those sides, but the Belgians got the job done as they so often did in that era. Jean-Marie Pfaff was a brilliant personality goalkeeper and Eric Gerets the best full-back in the world at the time. Enzo Scifo was only a kid when he played for that side, but was a lovely player. Frankie Vercauteren was a fox and Jan Ceulemans was the cleverest, hard-working striker in the game. They were mentally hard as nails and could be relied on to show up on the big occasion (when they weren't involving themselves in domestic match fixing scandals). Still, you can't have everything.
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You're forgetting Frankie Van Der Elst.
 


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