The International Football Thread

[Unionjack 7,531]

Danish FA release entire national team squad in dispute over commercial deals

Andreas Christensen among those affected

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

A dispute over commercial rights between the Danish football association and players of the national team forced the former to dismiss the entire squad called up to play against Slovakia and Wales in the upcoming international break. Among those players sent home are Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen and Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen.

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2018/9/4/17814282/danish-fa-dismisses-andreas-christensen-christian-eriksen-call-up-in-dispute-over-commercial-deals

[Unionjack 7,531]

Zielinski and Lewandowskis having a good game

[Vesper 28,772]

 Switzerland 6 Iceland 0

What a pounding!!! Iceland looks to be done with the 2 year fairytale run.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45461587

https://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2018/09/08/switzerland-vs-iceland-highlights-full-match/#1

[Fulham Broadway 16,832]

Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland, -through to the semis.

Mucho gracias to Steve Hollands input.

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

1 hour ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Ingerland, Ingerland, Ingerland, -through to the semis.

Mucho gracias to Steve Hollands input.

congrats

[Fulham Broadway 16,832]

2 hours ago, Johnnyeye said:

congrats

Cheers Johnny. Not that much of an England fan but it was a good game that takes them to the semis in your Portugal.

The victory also guarantees England a place in the Euro 2020 play-offs, a fallback in the event they fail to qualify for that tournament through the traditional route.

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

8 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Cheers Johnny. Not that much of an England fan but it was a good game that takes them to the semis in your Portugal.

The victory also guarantees England a place in the Euro 2020 play-offs, a fallback in the event they fail to qualify for that tournament through the traditional route.

you guys deserve all the praise, you clinched top spot in a group containing Spain and Croatia, England are no longer pushovers and deserve to be respected by opponents, goodluck in the semis mate. Cheers

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

Belgium really fucked up didnt they? they only have themselves to blame, yet another 5 past big nose. Congrats to Switzerland for the comeback and reaching the semis.

[El P. 1,354]

Croatia is in total rebuilding mode. And we were playing with no fullbacks, even Kovačić got injured in same time as Rakitić. 

So I am pleased, regardless of League of Nation results. Congrats to England, man are they improving with every game! Kinda happy for them.

[Vesper 28,772]

Norway's Erling Braut Håland scores record 9 goals in a 12-0 U20 World Cup win over Honduras

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/norway/story/3865028/norways-haland-scores-record-9-in-u20-wc-win

Norway's Erling Braut Håland scored a record nine goals for his team in a runaway 12-0 victory over Honduras at the U20 World Cup in Poland on Thursday.

The 18-year-old RB Salzburg striker scored four times before the half and then added another five after to break the previous record for goals in a single game at the U20 World Cup of six.

The 12-0 win also represents the largest margin of victory for a team in U20 World Cup history, eclipsing the 10-0 thrashing Brazil handed Belgium in the 1997 edition.

"It annoys me a little bit that I didn't score with my last kick of the game. I'll have to sit down and think a little bit about it and maybe I'll work out what happened," he told the Norwegian Football Association's website.

Having lost their opening games to Uruguay and New Zealand, the win gives Norway a chance of advancing to the knockout stages of the 24-team tournament as one of the four best third-placed teams from the six groups.

The Hondurans finished the game with nine men after Everson Lopez was shown a straight red card and crashed out of the tournament with no points following three defeats and no goals scored.

Håland, the son of former Leeds United and Manchester City player Alf-Inge Håland, had scored just six goals in all competitions for both club and country since September 2018, before his record-setting outing on Thursday.

Prior to his move to Austria in January, Håland scored 14 times for Molde in Norway's top flight and netted his first goal for Salzburg in May in a win over Linz.

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That 'only' 6 goals at the end of the article is very misleading, as he is averaging a goal every 111 minutes for his club since he moved from Molde, and a lot of that was in the Europa League. He scored a goal in top flight A-Bundesliga too, and has only played in 2 sub appearances there due to a knock, less than 90 minutes total, and both those sub appearances were against 2 other top teams.

obviously Manure is sniffing around (OGS coached him at Molde)

[Vesper 28,772]

UEFA Nations League, Semifinals

Portugal v Switzerland HD Streams

http://www.sportnews.to/events/2019/nations-league-portugal-vs-zwitserland-s1/

https://www.ronaldo7.net/video/juventus-live/juventus-live-stream.html

https://www.vipleague.bz/portugal-vs-switzerland-streaming-link-1

 

[Vesper 28,772]

should be a great game!!!

João Félix international debut, starts with his idol, CR7

[Vesper 28,772]

1 nil Portugal, superb free kick, CR7

[Special Juan 27,424]

VAR fucking disgraceful again.....never a penalty but the one on Silva was.

[Vesper 28,772]

1 minute ago, Special Juan said:

VAR fucking disgraceful again.....never a penalty but the one on Silva was.

I am not sure

I think it was a pen, not a massive one, but his leg was impeded

Silvas deffo was

[Vesper 28,772]

Swiss have been the better team overall

[Special Juan 27,424]

Just now, Vesper said:

I am not sure

I think it was a pen, not a massive one, but his leg was impeded

Silvas deffo was

Semedo is only looking at the ball, nothing else, if this is what it's become it's fucking shambolic.

 

[Vesper 28,772]

far better game than the CL final, lolol