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Euro 2020 Round of 16 Open Thread: Italy v Austria

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  6. 6.

    otmar

    Well, the mood here in Austria is basically: we got what we hoped to achieve. Only the hard core optimists hope that we beat Italy.

    So what we’re actually hoping for is a good game. Give the Italians a hard time.

  8. 8.

    Tony Jay

    Italy have to be big favourites here, but since the teams are playing in old Arsenal and Everton strips from the early 2000s I’m going to have to suspect that Austria can nick this if (and it’s a Godzilla’s left bollock sized ‘if’) they can frustrate Italy and take one of their chances.

  10. 10.

    Tony Jay

    Austria 1-0 Italy
    Did I call it or did I call it

    ooooh, offside?

    yup, offside.

    There’s your warning Italy.

  11. 11.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Austria is playing Sweden’s game. Stay super organized defensively and let Italy hold the ball a lot but don’t give any real quality scoring chances, then counter attack with speed when the opportunity presents itself.

  12. 12.

    billcinsd

    Arnautovich finally gets a shot right but may have been offside and he has no Kosovars to abuse. It is ruled offside

  13. 13.

    WeimarGerman

    Seems this other Bundesliga team is doing much better than expected. Italy showing that 13 clean sheets vs mostly 2nd rate teams doesnt mean much.

  16. 16.

    Morzer

    After this game, Italy might want to consider making “Everyone will sleep” their unofficial theme song. Whatever happens in extra time, they’ve been tediously pedestrian today.

  18. 18.

    Tony Jay

    That’s the first time Austria have failed to block properly and Italy strike.

    1-0

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    @cope:

    If the brave new Italy somehow manage to go out at this stage, I for one am going to be greatly embarrassed that I started to think of them as the inevitable champions

    By which I of course now mean (goal!) that their victory was inevitable despite Austria’s scrappy little team delaying the march of the mighty, nay, venti, Italia to glory.

  21. 21.

    Morzer

    The hills are alive with the sound of
    “Fuck those pasta-gobbling, referee-purchasing scum!” and
    “Our goal was never offside!”

    Good goal though.

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    @Morzer:

    Italy can’t win the tournament. No one has ever managed a Eurovision Song Contest/European Championship Double before, it’s simply too big an ask.

  24. 24.

    Morzer

    Joking aside, the other teams in the tournament are going to look at this display by Italy and think that they are ripe for the taking.  Which is not something anyone thought before this game.

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    @Morzer:

    I’ll believe that if they turn up for the final in glam-rock fringed leather catsuits, six-inch stacks and full make-up.

    If they’re playing us in the Final they could probably do that and still win.

    ETA – Yeah, Austria deserve more out of this game but Italy have turned it on just in time. The Austrians needed to finish this in normal time, they didn’t, so it’s the 1860s all over again.

  29. 29.

    cope

    I generally pull for the underdog in games I don’t have an actual favorite in so today, Austria. Who knows, maybe down the road, Azure will be the underdog and I’ll be rooting them on.

  32. 32.

    Morzer

    @cope: I am secretly hoping for Ukraine to gallop to glory, largely because they are underdogs, but also because it would enrage Putin and Trump in all sorts of delicious ways.

  35. 35.

    Morzer

    Edelweiss! Edelweiss! The Habsburg Empire Strikes Back! Now those Mafia Ewoks will pay for their crimes!

    Or something like that.

  36. 36.

    Tony Jay

    @Morzer:

    No, the mirror-universe Corbyn was the one the British Press and half of the Parliamentary Labour Party presented to the public in order to clear Johnson’s path to electoral victory. We’re still paying for that monumental act of deceit and will be for a loooonnnng time.

    But let’s table that, because Austria just fucking scored!!!!

  37. 37.

    Morzer

    @Anyway: Blue is their traditional color. That’s why they are the Azzurri. Blue was the color of the old Italian royal family – the House of Savoy.

  40. 40.

    Tony Jay

    Well well well. That will give the Portuguese or the Belgians a lot to chew over. If Austria had taken their chances in the second half of extra-time this would have gone to penalties. Can’t see either of Italy’s next opponents being that defensively solid, but they’ve seen that Italy’s back line can be well and truly got at and both of them have goalscorers who can and will punish them.

    Roll on the Quarters.

  41. 41.

    Morzer

    Well, that’s that. A brave performance by Austria and Italy looked extremely unimpressive overall. Could be the air is leaking out of the blue balloon.

  42. 42.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    Just gotta say that last tweet from the UEFA folks is kind of an epic troll of a <koff koff a-HEM> certain kind of Austrian.

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