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Could this result clinch Wales making the knockout rounds in their first two appearances of the EUROs?

goal.com | Bale is the first player to miss the goal frame entirely with a penalty (excluding shootouts) at the Euros since Raul for Spain against France at the 2000 tournament.

Turkey have been disappointing so far in this tournament. I expect they're going to start playing desperate and there's going to be alot of space on counter attacks. I doubt Bale is done.

61' PENALTY MISS! Bale loses his composure from 12 yards as he skies his effort well over the bar. He takes a stutter-step and seems to lose his foot before lifting his strike over the top. How costly could that be for Wales?

From goal.com (where I have to follow commentary-only while at work in the U.S. I can only see the 3pm EST games right now and it's why I have next week off) 42' GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!! RAMSEY SCORES AT LAST!!!!!! 1-0 WALES!!!!!! The midfielder atones for his earlier two misses as he latches on to a sublime ball from Bale before slotting a strike past Cakir from close range. The goal is all about Bale as he arcs a brilliant pass over the top of the Turkey defence for Ramsey's run in behind. The Juventus man controls it on his chest before using his second touch to guide it into the bottom-left corner.

VAR disallows an early Finnish goal.

Figured this might interest you guys: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsport...ocid=entnewsntp

Group Stage Round 2 of 3 Wednesday 16th June Finland 0-0 Russia 14:00 (B) Turkey 1-1 Wales 17:00 (A) Italy 3-1 Switzerland 20:00 (A) Thursday 17th June Ukraine 3-1 North Macedonia 14:00 © Denmark 1-2 Belgium 17:00 (B) Netherlands 2-1 Austria 20:00 © Friday 18th June Sweden 1-1 Slovakia 14:00 (E) Croatia 1-0 Czech Republic 17:00 (D) England 3-0 Scotland 20:00 (D) Saturday 19th June Hungary 1-3 France 14:00 (F) Portugal 0-1 Germany 17:00 (F) Spain 3-1 Poland 20:00 (E)

If this holds up, cue Ronaldo pissing and moaning about Hungary not "playing to win", "playing scared', etc. ala his comments after the draw with Iceland in 2016.

Remember Portugal and Hungary played to a 3-3 draw in EURO 2016, so we could be in for a wild one.

Sweden could've won, Berg had a bunny at the backpost and flubbed it!

Welp, that was fast. 2-1 to Slovakia. Škriniar scores it.

Yup Poland down to ten men.

Well that was a quick equalizer in the second half. Linetty makes 1-1 at the 46th minute.

If Scotland 'goes for it' against England, it'll be like 5-1 England. Marks my words. Or like when Panama 'went for it' against them in the World Cup and that was 6-1. When you're out-classed, it's unfortunately (for the viewers) best to pack it in and hope for counter-attacks. Iceland did that best against England and I don't know if anybody will ever be able to repeat it but you've got to try.

Christian Ericksen video called his teammates and probably spurred them on to resume play so this puts things into better context. Im sure UEFA officials left any decisions about restarting today in Danish Football Association hands which is all you can do. Cannot praise the medical staff enough who undoubtedly saved Ericksen's life. They didn't have any margin for delay. The tournament's allstars now no matter how the actual play on the field turns out.

ESPN chose the best EURO Starting XI going into the tournament and it looks like this: First Team: GK | Manuel Neuer (Germany) RB | Joao Cancelo (Portugal) CB | Antonio Rudiger (Germany) CB | Ruben Dias (Portugal) LB | Andy Robertson (Scotland) DMF | N'Golo Kante (France) AMF | Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) AMF | Luka Modric (Croatia) FW | Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) FW | Robert Lewandowski (Poland) FW | Kylian Mbappe (France) Others Considered: GK | Thibaut Courtois (Belgium), Rui Patricio (Portugal), Kasper Schmeichel (Denmark), Unai Simon (Spain), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy) RB | Kyle Walker (England), Reece James (England), Kieran Trippier (England), Benjamin Pavard (France), Joshua Kimmich (Germany) CB | Raphael Varane (France), Presnel Kimpembe (France), Matthijs de Ligt (Netherlands), Pau Torres (Spain), Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) LB | Lucas Hernandez (France), Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal), Luke Shaw (England), Ben Chilwell (England) DMF | None. AMF | Paul Pogba (France), Bruno Fernandes (Portugal), Toni Kroos (Germany), Bernando Silva (Portugal), Ilkay Gundogan (Germany), Phil Foden (England), Jack Grealish (England), Mason Mount (England) FW | Harry Kane (England), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Antoine Griezmann (France), Thomas Mueller (Germany), Marcus Rashford (England), Raheem Sterling (England), Jadon Sancho (Germany), Kai Havertz (Germany), Joao Feliz (Portugal), Karim Benzema (France)

Group Stage – Round 1 of 3 Friday 11th June Turkey 0:2 Italy 20:00 (A) Saturday 12th June Wales 0:1 Switzerland 14:00 (A) Denmark 2:0 Finland 17:00 (B) Belgium 4:0 Russia 20:00 (B) Sunday 13th June England 1:1 Croatia 14:00 (D) Austria 0:1 North Macedonia 17:00 [C] Netherlands 2:1 Ukraine 20:00 [C] Monday 14th June Scotland 3:0 Czech Republic 14:00 (D) Poland 0:0 Slovakia 17:00 (E) Spain 1:1 Sweden 20:00 (E) Tuesday 15th June Hungary 1:1 Portugal 17:00 (F) France 0:0 Germany 20:00 (F)

Could be worse than the World Cup finalist, Croatia.

Come on Italy or Spain.

Jade's all set.

I said Scotland was the strongest potential 4th-place finisher, but you'd have to put Hungary into that argument. In literally any other group, they contend for 2nd. It'd take a miracle for them to get results against all three or even two out of the other three, but they will be a pain in arse for everyone else in the group. The team(s) that doesn't get the full 3 against Hungary in a raucous Budapest atmosphere, unlikely to be Germany since their match is in Munich, could be in trouble. So I'm looking at Portugal. France Germany Portugal Hungary

Spain/Poland/Sweden will be a very interesting battle. Slovakia is a classic "congratulation for coming and providing 9 points to the others", however if Mak, Hamsik, Duda and crew come through against any of them, who knows? But just recently they had their share of troubles in Nations League and barely got here, so it doesn't look promising for them. Sweden had the heart-breaking news that Ibrahimovic won't be able to go, but it might be a blessing in-disguise as Sweden has learned to play together more since his retirement from the national team and one could argue they are scarier that way. However, Spain has so much young talent it's not even fair and the Lewandowski factor push the Swedes to third. Surely they become one of the 3rd-place teams to make the Round of 16 though. Spain Poland Sweden Slovakia

I feel like we're in for a surprise here and the surprise is the Czechs. I actually think any team that comes from this group could do damage in the knockouts rounds and Scotland is one of the strongest potential 4th-place finishers in the tournament. Poor them being put into this stacked group! England won't have an easy time with any of these squads, a stark contrast to them always seemingly getting the easiest qualifying groups lol. A rivalry match and those are always nervy, a World Cup semifinal re-match, and a team that is on the rise and beat them in qualifying recently? Yeah, this group won't be as elementary as some experts might lead you to believe. Czech Republic England Croatia Scotland

I don't really have much hope for any of these teams in the knockouts stages, but somebody has to make it there! North Macedonia could provide some shock results in a group like this as all three others are beatable. Still conventional wisdom says it will be the Dutch and the Ukrainians, with Austria potentially battling for it too. Austria, much like their neighbor Switzerland always strike me as overrated and the lights become too bright quickly. Plus their recent qualifying campaigns haven't been much to write home about really. We all saw what the Macedonians did to Germany, was that an anomaly or are they the new Iceland? We'll find out. Netherlands Ukraine Austria North Macedonia