Best Group Ever!! 

england have such an incredible ability to play to the level of their opponents and no higher or lower

The entirety of Group C only managed to score one more goal than Austria

slovenia looked like the only team that actually fought and left their heart on the pitch. watching all group 3 games without any distraction should be classified as torture.

“You can’t just draw your way through the knockouts.” Portugal 2016: Hold our beer

UEFA clarified that they forgot to count managers' yellow cards which slovenia had more, so that's why Denmark got 2nd

Something I'm sure someone else in the comments has mentioned but slight correction: Denmark didn't win on qualifying record but actually because a yellow card received by the Slovenian assistant coach of all things tipped the disciplinary record in their favour. Personally I think that's an even crazier story than going to the qualifying records.

thank you for not abusing our small slovenia :).from our point of view,we had 3 very exiting games and our nervers were wrecked,all draws felt like wins and our team had best performances since 20 years.as us slovenian concernes,we have already won the euros :)

Southgate and 0:0? Wow, what a surprise, I really didn't expect that 😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣

England v Serbia had the least shots (11) in a Euros match since like 1980, 2nd least was another England game from the last Euros

We were ONE single goal away from all teams having the same points AND goal difference

Olimpija Ljubljana is a prtty deep rabbit hole xD : unpaid wages (aperently players were promised a huge bonus if they get into group stage of conference league, guess what they didnt get any money and also their payments get delayed alot) frequent managerial sackings and just a bad vibe overall, anyways loved the vid much love from Slovenia ❤

Just to confirm, Slovenia did actually finish third by disciplinary record, they had seven yellow cards to Denmar's 6. One of those cards was to a member of the coaching team though. It was misreported by quite a few outlets.

fun fact: the slovenian who plays for olympia ljubljana got released by derby county a few years ago, who just got promoted to the english second tier…. it’s coming home

"you cannot just draw your way through the knockouts" i think england took that as a challenge

This is the American coming out in you. We can't be having no score draws! No, I joke, it was terrible, you're right!

Germany shot more goals than the whole group in 6x games 😂😂😂

Dude never thought I’d hear the two-time brought up here lmao. Can’t believe he let us all down he was the GOAT streamer

„The Euros have been absolutely fantastic“ in such an enthusiastic voice 😂😂

As a Slovenian this was the best group ever!

I've never been able to watch one of these Zealandism videos just after they're uploaded. Because it's 2AM here. I'm going to bed. When I wake up, you've better gone for a run Zealand. (Love your videos man)

I go back to what I said when the squads were announced - the second that Southgate chose to have Luke Shaw, who has been injured since March, and is still injured now, as his ONLY option at Left Back, you knew England were fucked. It was obvious. We're all Football Manager players here, i'd imagine, and when we were all coming up with our own versions of what 26 players we'd take when the squad was announced I can't imagine that any of us would have chosen to take only ONE Left Back, never mind taking only one who has been injured since March. Honestly, for the next match he HAS to switch to a back 3... I know it sounds negative but hear me out. Pickford in goal, Guehi, Stones & Walker as the Back 3, TAA at Right Wing Back, SAKA at Left Wing Back, Rice, Bellingham and Mainoo in Central Midfield and Kane up front with Watkins. You get natural width with Saka and TAA (also give them complete license to play as "Brazilian" Wing Backs), Kane isn't isolated up front against 2 or 3 Centre Backs and they can press more effectively, with Rice, Bellingham and Mainoo you can get runners from midfield and press higher up the pitch, it frees up Stones as the Central Centre Back to step forward into midfield like he does for City ... It solves ALOT of our issues

Actual best group ever (as in, not sarcasm) - Group E. 4 points, 4 points, 4 points, and 4 points.

I still don't get how "Look at what he accomplished" is an argument. He had and still has embarrassingly easy paths at every tournament. And still England routinely made very hard work of cannon fodder and lost to *every* *single* actually good team they played. The *only* scalp of his career is a modest win over arguably the worst German side in half a century.

I genuinely think that Zealand could've coached England to a win in that game.

wtf I've just discovered this was not your main channel, I've only discovered you recently through this channel lol

Good video. My 2 cents, same as in FM, midfield is the key. Rice is playing a different role than he is good at playing, leaving all kinds of space for opponents to abuse. When this happens and the rest of the midfield doesn't know how to play off eachother, then there are just huge gaps and they can't find good passing alternatives, loosing the ball and forcing players like Foden and Kane to drop lower to get involved. Southgate is the root cause of the issue, as he is telling these players what to do, but the things they get told to do is either wrong or they just can't do it. If they can't do it, they should be replaced with other players. If they do what they are told, then Southgate should be replaced. Everyone can see this isn't working.

We have a Championship level manager, we play with a handicap every game.

Also, Big Up to Georgia! Congrats 🇬🇪

The titles and thumbnails never miss

Slovenia did well for themselves and Hjulmand scored a banger, the rest of the story of this group is a cure for insomnia Actually Serbias last minute comeback was also great, as futile as it ultimately ended up being

As a Man Utd fan, watching England really reminds me of how we play. No creativity or risk, and just hope for a star player to do the incredible to score. The only time they start trying is when they are 1 goal down or the last 5-10 mins

Bringing back the waistcoat. Gareth be still in Germany on the touchline scribbling.

Southgate bold strategy, reminiscent of Homer Simpson in the boxing ring. Just holding. Boring the opponent into a stupefied fug they can prod over with a set piece, penalty or tap in. Preferably against a concussed goal keeper.

England, in terms of all 22 players, have by far the best outfit at the euros, no other team can brag two top first teams. Southgates done, they're too easy to figure out, watched last night's game, it could have still been going on right now and it would still be 0-0.

I knew from the off Slovenia would draw all three games. They have Oblak, Sesko, and a whole bunch of nobodies. That’s a recipe for a draw against mid level teams like Denmark and Serbia, and teams that play like 11 loafs of stale bread like Southgate’s England

I Haven't Seen A Group This Bad Since Group D At AFCON 2015

Re "you can't draw your way to the finals". My quasi conspiracy theory is that managers like this don't even mind the game going to penalties. Easiest alibi for them. Which kinda makes sense for underdogs, but not of you're England. This sounds a bit dramatic and I don't think it's literally true, but you wonder sometimes.

At this point of the tournament the host ivory coast fires their coach after losing 2 games in the group stage, Tunisia, Algeria and ghana where knocked out😂😂

Banger video (I've seen 5s)

Group D should have been the later games. That group was so entertaining and good from start to finish. Austria winning that group was awesome. Had England had one of those teams in their group, I believe they don't win the group.

This group was quite similar to England's Italia 90 group in that from 6 group games only 1 match had a winner that being England beating Egypt 1-0. The other 5 games involving England, Egypt, Ireland and Netherlands were draws. It was pretty dull.

I think the tiebreaker that actually decided the placing of Slovenia and Denmark was the diciplinary record (which was not the same, Slovenia had one yellow card more). If the qualifying result is the same it gets decided by FIFA rankings i think. And I think that after that it should definetly be decided. If because of some unknown reason two countries have the same FIFA ranking (which is of course not possible) maybe they just do a coin toss

Group C is the Big Ten West (RIP)

Group E cooking as much as this group

Been saying it since Southgate was appointed, he's the worst manager at every tournament he's taken england to. He managed Middlesbrough, got relegated, got sacked . . Then england U21s, then england 1st team. He's tactically inept, has cowardly tactics and can NOT understand when the opposition tweaks something. We don't get knocked out when we come up agaisnt a good team, ots when we come up against a good manager. The players quality papers over the cracks.

Group E was tight as well

no wonder ben white doesn’t wanna play for england

Of course they can draw their way to the title! You bring up the prime example yourself: Portugal 2016. If you remember Portugal turning on the afterburners after they drew all three of their preliminary matches, you misremember. They beat Croatia 1-0 after extra time, Poland after penalties, Wales 2-0 (the only game in the entire tournament they won after 90 minutes), and France 1-0 after ET again. But in the end, it's UEFA's own fault that teams are more risk-averse overall at this tournament. With Almost all third-placed teams advancing to the round of 16, the biggest thing to avoid has become placing last, and you do that by not losing. Until 2012, you were able to tell who made it through and who didn't after the third game had been played. Now, with the early groups, you have to wait and see how many other teams manage to be a better third-placed team before you can say anything with confidence. "VAR is bad, because it delays the decisions and makes the game less spontaneous" has become the battle cry of everybody who is afraid of getting things right; but nobody seems to care that six-groups Euros do the same thing, only the delay is multiple days instead of a minute.

Actually Denmark got second on disciplinary record. With a draw they added the staff yellow cards. So an assistant coach for Slovenia getting a yellow meant they got third.

Can't wait for the group E video 😂

Will be very interesting as very likely England vs Netherlands. It will be which team starts to click or penalty lottery boredom.

denmark actually advanced on disciplinary iirc, but yes that was a fucking snooze fest that group

Olimpija's captain is a Slovenia starter #10 Timi Max Elsnik.

6:12 Im not quite sure at which point this is happening but at some point the comparisons (that matter) are running out so... ultimately a coin flip will decide such a thing lol

Respectfully disagree - the Denmark vs England game was end to end chaos by England standards, with the clear goal of the tournament so far, and the fact that it remained only 1-1 was crazy to me.

Least we saw a big improvement yesterday with mainoo playing and sorting out the midfield. Thought gordon looked great when he came on too and palmer had a decent 20 mins or so

Group E is wild every team ended with 4 points

Slovenia is about to win the Euros. Mark my word

People complained about Ben White not wanting to play for Southgate. The fact Southgate can’t see why is pretty telling… the guy has gone beyond “ignore the haters” to “I don’t know what’s going on” It appears none of the players want to play for him either

Let’s be real though England have had some lucky draws since wc2018 - 2018 - Tunisia, Panama, Belgium (lost), Colombia (p), Sweden, Croatia (lost) 2020 - Croatia, Czech, Scotland, Germany (best win), Ukraine, Denmark, Italy (lost) WC 2022 - USA, Iran and wales, Senegal, France (lost). Euro 2024 - Denmark, Serbia, Slovenia and if Czech Republic beat turkey then I do believe England will avoid the Netherlands!

Olimpija! 🐉🐸💚

Jude goal against Serbia lots of respect

Fun fact: Germany has 1 more goal than the entire group C combined

Get well soon

belgium are getting knocked out... you heard it here

At least Denmark can only surprise against Germany😂

not as intense as everyone in one group getting 4 points

England was only winners in that group I don’t know switching tactics

You really seem to know your football from all of your stuff that I've seen, really enjoy your channel btw, so I'm confused as to why you expected england to be anything but complete shite, the last 4 tournaments they've flattered to deceive, they'll never win anything

Kane’s legs have gone. No point being a great finisher if you can’t get to the ball in time.

As a Portuguese I find the line "you can`t just draw your way in to the next round" little culturally insensitive...

Denmark die not finish higher because of the qualification but because their coach did not get a yellow card apparently. Or espn lied

As a Dane we have actually warned anyone who cared to listen that we have the most boring team at the moment. It's like they refuse to play football. We desperately need a new manager.

I'm sad for Ukraine, they deserved more. And I don't totally agree with you, I think the overall quality has been really underwhelming, it is just so dumb that teams that had scored only a single goal could go through the next stage, having 4 out of 6 third places qualifying, damages the competitiveness

700+ passes 70+ possession 0 goals. Pep Guardiola play style without the good stuff.

I have no faith in England I honestly to god believe we get Knocked out Slovakia in the round of 16

The reward for lucking out first place in group C is getting the tournament side without France, Spain, Germany, Portugal. I don't know how you can get more lucky as Southgate, I really don't. Every tournamenet now they limp through non-favourites to semi final or something. Absolutely horrible for a neutral viewer.

Istg the top five most boring games I’ve ever watched at major international tournaments have all involved England… and it’s not just a Southgate thing… England vs Algeria 0-0 in World Cup 2010 was probably the most coma-inducing TV event I’ve ever had the misfortune of witnessing…

It started really well but it's been pretty boring recently tbf

As a slovenian i dont give a fuck how shit this group was im just happy we made it. I mean are we the best Balkan team EVER?!?!?!??!!?!?! I mean pound for pound defo. WE GOD DAMN QUALED IDEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND also fun fact in the Serbia game 1% of Slovenias pop was at that game 20 000 people like imagine if 1% of like england showed up thats like 500 000 like damn. Also the final tie braker is fuckin dumb really cause of the qualifyin look Im fine with it cause it means that we dont play Germany and I mean we did beat Portugal 2-0 soooo Slovenia to the Quarters

England fan here, it’s been infuriating to watch, they have been really poor so far, and it just feels like England isn’t able to click, and that the tactics and the way the players are told to play is so bad. I’d be surprised but 28 years of this I’m not anymore, this is just the norm now

Southgate complains about not having a Kelvin Phillip, but he is the one who didn't brought Eric dier.

How you can win a group playing that badly completely baffles me. England are probably going to play the Dutch next and get spanked out of the competition. Pathetic.

14 draw results in the tournament. Perhaps this is the most boring Euro

England is the most uninspiring 1st place team ive ever seen come through a group stage. 2 goals in 3 games is pathetic for a team of that quality.

I disagree. I think Denmarks games apart from Serbia was extremely fun to watch

Snoozefest of a tournament

England is the worst team in the competition. By a far margin. They are going home either next or second next match from now (because I don't know who unfairly they are going to get on their easy ass bracket this time).

Why do you care so much about England? You are not even an Englishman. Let underdogs win this time. That´s what wonderful stories are made of. Where is the video where you talk about Netherlands vs. Austria?

So you got a little bit of time, just admitted you were fine. And did nothing to improve your channel- this is….who is on this guy’s patreon. Like mfao, this guy makes the bio, dSTOP! This is where you know you’ve gone too far. This guy will only steal your money

Bro that wasn´t the Euros. Group C played the friendlies.

Foden should not be starting

Has to be one of the worst groups ever. Okay on paper but woeful when played out.

Southgate is arguably our second greatest manager, but this is a pathetic performance from the national team so far. To have all these players, these stars, and to score just two goals is laughable and just sad.

1 minute no views, dead channel

The crazy thing is, I think we are now realising what Harry Maguire actually brought to this England team - emergency goals and assists. In the past, if England desperately needed a goal, they’d send maguire up for set pieces or even outright playing as a second striker to win some headers … Southgate doesn’t have a plan B outside of Hit n Hope

I write this before waching the video, so I don't know whether you're going to say this (I'm sure you are), but it's crazy that this whole group combined scored fewer goals than Germany alone.

As a Slovenian, I'm very happy we're through!

As a slovenian, this group was awesome!!!

Group C. The group of bore to death