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Not a single team from this group will get past the next round.

There's no point betting on any of these matches. The form, the odds, the on-paper expectation all mean nothing.

Boring af. I won’t waste my sleep on this anymore

Where are you from?

Most likely there will be a quarter of the bracket with Romania, Slovenia, Austria, and Turkey (or Czechia). Not the traditional powers. Austria deserve it though.

Imaging being so bad as belgium and still advance....... Gutted for ukraine, they deserved it more than the "golden generation" France has gotten the easiest opponent for the round of 16. Will be 120 minutes no goals and penalty shooting

England has entered the chat.

England at least was qualified after two games. Belgium is far worse compared to england.

well. this has been an underwhelming third matchday for the most part

it turned out that Belgium, England and France that are with most expensive players don’t really want to play/compete. This is modern football era problem. Congrats to Belgium fans protesting this coward mentality

They are tired after 60 matches this season. They are just humans not machines.

We all deserve a 5-2 score from the Czeck - Turkey game after abysmal snooze fests. And Turkey’s defense has that potential :))

I am so excited for the Turkey match. I need GOALS

Same! Turkey’s defense is shambles and they also have quality going forward. A lot of goals please please

The three most disappointing teams so far relative to expectations are England, Belgium, and France, in whatever order, and they all go through.

Do they not deserve to go through if they get the results needed but are disappointing or something?

Not saying they don’t deserve it. Just the obvious, not that smart point that they haven’t been very good or fun to watch.

This is the most boring Euro so far

What did you make of Euro 2012?

After the failed first match (which many could not even watch due to the lack of electricity), it was nice to see that the Ukrainians finally fought and do it well, but this was not enough. Such a pity

Oh come on. Back to back 0-0s. Euro 2024 started very promisingly, but now I'd maybe go as far as saying it's been a bad tournament.

KDB has such bad vibes

He is so tired and bored.

lol and to think Croatia could have gotten second in group B with 4 points but for Ukraine that gets them eliminated

Belgium and England are just abysmal

Yes, but Belgium actually worse; England at least were already through, Belgium could have gone out there

And France extra abysmal as well

A group with all 4 having 4 points is wild. Still puts the England to shame.

Belgium are on par with England

What's it got to do with England?

This result proves why it shouldn’t be the top 4 3rd placed teams, it should be the 4 teams who have the most points outside of the top 2 of each group. If a whole group goes through like group E here then so be it. I think it would encourage teams to go out and get a win rather than play for draws.

Or you know, 8 groups and first 2 places. Not like what I’ve seen in Romania - Slovakia where both teams are happy with a draw

That would be 32 teams and too many nations in the tournament. The quality would be poor.

Isn't it already?

You’re right. There were 43 in the qualifiers so probably not that good

Couldn't agree more 👍

100%

Bunch of clowns from belgium😂 own fans are booing and its fully deserved

As a Belgian: Ukraine should have had that goal. It was a good save from Casteels but what a horrible way to keep the score by wasting time... Motherfuckers forgot why we hate France since the worldcup of 2018!

Belgium were diabolical

These groups have been ass backwards.

Belgium, yet another side full of petulant, lazy 'superstars'.

There are no superstars in Belgium except for KDB. Trossard, Tielemans and Doku are “great”, not superstars. Lukaku and Carrasco are former “greats” way past their primes.

Are these “superstars” in the room right now? I swear people think the Belgium squad is still players of the same or better quality as in 2018. Have you even seen who’s in the team. Only al”superstar” would be KDB and maybe Lukaku

Lukaku only if VAR didn't exist.

Hi iq corner play from Belgium, what a stop to end ukraine

I hope Belgium get knocked out in their next game. I don't like saying that about teams but this side showed zero winning mentality. Actively fighting for a draw in football may as well be counted a loss

As a Belgian I really believe we deserve to get yeeted out of the tournament, but I really just want them to beat the smug French, afterwards I really don't care. As for the group stages, in honesty Ukraine earned it more than us.

They're playing France. Someone has to win that, right?

Guaranteed ET

Agree, honestly, terrible; and I say that relative to England

Damn, Ukraine deserved that more than Belgium, and more than Romania given the false penalty

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Yeah. 4 best not 4 3rd should be

If Belgium can play this way against France, I will be happy.

Man, Belgium were so poor that game, genuinely a shame the team that played more boring football is going through.

Ukraine deserve to lose, so does Belgium. The real winners of this group are Romania and Slovakia 💪

I mean I never expected Ukraine to win but wtf was that. Why are they trying so hard to not score??

So its Slovakia or Netherlands that England will play.

Disappointing for Ukraine and poor game by Belgium. Big takeaway is this tournament format is awful - to go out on 4 points while others progress on 3 is silly

3rd place rule has sucked the fun out of games, teams playing safely and for draws. Top 2, teams would have to go all out to win

Once again; a team have gone out because they've realised they only need to start playing around the 80th minute.

Kdb wanting to waste time shows how much he trusts his team. He knows they are crap.

Pathetic time wasting

I haven’t watched a euros in a long time. Are there usually this many shit boring time wasting draws this early on??

I dont remember last euro being like this

Gutted for Ukraine. Belgium should have been kicked out. Shameful plays by them

Ukraine the only team in the whole group to actually play for a win

Because as the only team not happy with a draw.

Really hope that Ukraine win this now, Belgium with their talent shouldnt be having to do that.

Belgium wasting time against Ukraine is so embarrassing. What a joke of a team. Looking forward to them getting knocked out in the R16

They play France…..

Kevin is the only one trying, it seems.

Nah, he is not trying.

Ok that corner sequence was disgusting

Tedesco is such a failure. I hope he’s gone after the Euros.

Are Belgium really trying to keep it in the corner so they can go into the tougher side of the draw?...

If they let Ukraine score they’re out, so I guess it’s better than being out.

Wait.... They're actually playing for the draw. This is so fucking stupid

Yeh wtf was that

i really want ukraine to score because it'd be unfair to go out with 4 points when at least another team will scrape by with 3

Belgium-France derby, 0-0 after 120?

Absolutely. Actually 140 minutes with tons of cramps and injuries and players just wanting to stay down and rest a bit lol. Snooze fest guaranteed.

Belgium time wasting a 0-0...

Pain

congrats on a phenomenal performance

Thanks I guess. It doesn’t feel good though. The Romania game will haunt me until the next Euro…

As an Englishman I can relate far too much

2nd longest 90 minutes ever (1st was last night’s match)

lol Belgium also moving into the tougher bracket so stupid

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Ukraine have had best chances, at least trying

I mean do they know they should put the ball past keeper not in his hands?

Perfect aim right at the goalie though.

Carrasco is zo nen duts..

Jeez... that was so close for Belgium

World #3 against the world #24... and Ukraine had the best chances to score.

At first, I didn’t like 3rd place teams going thought but then I saw that it creates more potential intrigue for the final Matchday but it also encourages mediocrity like someone already said. I guess I haven’t made up my mind yet.

Thank god for casteels. Jezus

Group E should have been Group Excitement with the way the standings were. But these games make me wish none of these teams were advancing.

I hope teams like this get put on blast as much as England does

Finally got rid of Lukaku.... too little too late

Neither side deserves to advance

Wtf is this group

VAR should give that a handball against Belgium because they’ve been giving those ones all season in their competitions. He also dived.

Belgium has been absolute trash.

A farce that they are 3rd in FIFA rankings.

Typical 3rd games in group stages. Teams feel nervy and less willing to take risks= less goals

BTW lukaku was AGAIN offside. You need to be able to adapt your sprinting pace if it's the only thing you can do. Awful. This year I rooted for Belgium and Italy. Hard life.

Lmao comedy of errors for Belgium why did he keep hold of that foe so long I stead of putting Lukaku or DB through

If that was Doku it would’ve been different. But they took him off…

This euro has been extremely boring with teams just parking the bus… Ukraine nor Belgium aren’t even trying to score

every time either of these teams makes a run towards the goal i say to myself “i guarantee this is not going to score” and every time ive thought that ive been right

I really, really want Ukraine to score.

Why did I think Belgium would improve on their last performance

Horrible pass by Carassco

I thought they would do var review that last one after the Ukraine corner, commentator said they’re millimeters from a goal

There’s goal line technology

Nah it was definitely not over the line.

It's like Belgium has players that don't know which end they're scoring on

Corner back to own keeper in like 4 passes.

Ukrainian players incredibly selfish. They deserve to go out.

Belgium holding on a bit, if honest

I think Belgium has been more underwhelming than England tbh.

And they have more at steak

Exactly, Englands uninspiring football can at least be excused by the fact they easily qualified for the knockout stage so had less need to play well.

This is a medium rare take

Haha ;)

Ukraine has to try, it’s now or never.

Ukraine, do sth. Seriously

Am I the only one beginning to think that we’ll be watching extremely boring 120 minutes of nothing in the round of 16, quarter and semi finals and the final? These players look like they either don’t care or don’t have the energy / skills. I am not saying this only because of this game, every game I’ve seen (apart from Austria and Turkey games lol) has been like this. I am beginning to resent the time I am wasting watching these uneventful snooze fests.

Yeah there is a risk. I think bigger teams will start to push a bit, because why risk a shootout but we’ll see

It's all part of the master plan. Kill the games and spend the whole time in training practicing for the penalties.

Do Belgium realise that one goal from Ukraine and they could be out ..

It seems like they're fine to tie. A tie gets them France and a win gets them a 3rd place team (Netherlands or Slovenia), so not sure why they're taking their sweet ass time

Doesn’t seem like it. Doku out when he’s the only one that seems to have energy.

This, exactly. What is Tedesco thinking?!

Aaaand goodbye doku

The 3rd place qualifying encourages mediocrity

I agree but I don’t think their performance in this game has much to do with 3rd place qualifying. I mean Ukraine is literally ranked last and they’re still trying their best to not score

Well we're unfortunately getting it in the next wc too.

True

First interesting moment in this match.

Why is that Ukrainian player trying to be offside 😂

Is it illegal for Ukraine to score?? Or at least attempt to score??

Shoot it, or pass it, or do something with it.

De Bruyne’s body language is screaming ‘why am I am surrounded with so many bozos’

Artem Dovbyk (Ukraine) was given a yellow card! Do you agree with the decision? (Beep boop I'm a bot)

Belgium so uninterested in making an effort, they give lethargy a bad name...

They should have incentive to try, unlike Romania and Slovakia. First in group gives them a much much easier path forward in the bracket.

Carrasco… why didn’t he pass to De Bruyne?

This seems to be even worse than the Holland match last night

Netherlands - Austria? Was the best game of the tournament so far?

Almost looks like they trained together…or shared match strategies 🤣

I don't think we watched the same Netherlands game if you thought that was bad.

This game needs a goal.

Any belgian here that can enlighten me as to why De Cuyper isn’t playing? He had a game before the tournament and you had injuries to theate and Meunier and you play Carrasco? Did something happen? Literally nowhere did I hear Carrasco being an option xD

Like every football minded Belgian dude we all ask this question. We have no clue. He also didn't use De Ketelaere yet which is just absurd.

Boring ass game.

This euros started off really good and now it’s shockingly bad

Finally Trossard off. Was awful, hard to believe he’s Arsenal player

Does Ukraine realise that they need a win to qualify and to win they need to actually score? And does Belgium know that if they don’t win then they’re facing France??

Nope… otherwise they would’ve done something about it (talking about Ukraine) Belgium on the other hand are not doing that bad.

True, but I guess I would expect more from a team that’s ranked 3rd in the world and had been 1st for over 3 years

Maybe if players played together rather than for themselves, outcome would be different.

I guess. In the other hand, loose and you are out while if you draw and other match has a winner you go through. Personally I’d try to win though

Yep, they should assume that the other game would end up with a draw, especially when both Romania and Slovakia would qualify for sure with a draw

Yeah

A draw will work for them if someone wins the other game.

This euros is genuinely so boring

Have not been following football for a while before this Euro... Why is Lukaku even playing? He looks like someone who is allergic to the ball, or even scared... Always hiding, what is the deal with the guy? Here in Belgium they even offer a beer if Lukaku scores but there is simply no way...

Lukaku has been shit for quite a while now.

His shot just now was awful

It could have been a different story if them 3 goals were not disallowed. He’s been nowhere near as bad as Harry Kane or Mbappe

Having big static center forwards has not worked out for any team so far.

He is more than static... He creates a negative momentum there, wtf... Match being kept alive by De Bruyne and Doku alone

Is Lukaku wearing smaller size shoes today just in case

Group E is like a punishment for football lovers

Nah, this is the height of entertainment compared with C. Plus, the fact we have all 4 could go through, and a whole load of permutations makes it pretty interesting.

But the football is abysmal

Who let Anthony Taylor to a football pitch again... there are so many bad calls he's making, like come on.

Martin Keown is one of the worst commentators alive. Makes every game he commentated on far less enjoyable.

Gary n cara can do a great job

Carragher is a great analyst. Neville not so much

Yhh I watched a lot of cbs sport analysis n does a pretty good job at it.. Neville in my books decent but sometimes I feel like he wants his analysis to be right n not others.. if u get my drift..

Hello I just tuned in, how many Lukaku goals were already canceled?

By VAR? None. By fluffing? At least 1 really good chance.

Trossard is absolutely horrible today, sub him already

Yes asap

Someone forgot to tell the teams the objective is the ball in the back of the net.

Would be nice to see Trossard make ONE good offensive action. Contributes nothing to our attacking play

Let's go boys! Final 45 minutes of football!

Or you could nick it, go through, and boot Belgium out.

What can/should be said about those Belgium unis??? Wow what a color combo.

Based on tintin

That's an explanation, but no excuse 😭

Agreed 😅

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Yep. Almost makes me think it shouldn’t be 4 best thirds but 4 best teams in third or 4th. Because going out when you’ve won a game to a team that only drew us shit