Euro: Group A: Wales vs. Switzerland, 6/12/2021

[Evilo]

Absolutely. If Arsenal got Kante (who’s agent was begging us to sign him) instead of Mustafi in the summer of 2016 like Wenger wanted I wonder what could have been.

Nope it was Kante or Xhaka IIRC.

 

[cgf]

I am enjoying how surprised these announcers are about Mbabu. He's been good for a while for Wolfsburg since that stint at Newcastle years ago

A big part of why Baku has spent so much time playing RW for them...on top of just wanting to put him in more attacking positions to utilize his creativity...has been wanting to get both of them into the side.

 

[Evilo]

Why Arsene Wenger Was Right to Sign Granit Xhaka Instead of N'Golo Kante

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

That should be 1-0. What a let off

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Surprised by just how much the Swiss dominate this match. Would have thought Wales would give this more of a go.

 

[AB13]

Nope it was Kante or Xhaka IIRC.

Well, in that case I wonder what would have happened with Kante instead of Xhaka. A midfield of Kante, Cazorla, Özil and Ramsey with Sanchez up top would have won us the league.

 

[cgf]

Surprised by just how much the Swiss dominate this match. Would have thought Wales would give this more of a go.

The swiss attackers are unreliable/streaky, but they have a good team.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Surprised by just how much the Swiss dominate this match. Would have thought Wales would give this more of a go.

Big time it’s been one way traffic. They were very positive early bet for that 2nd place

 

[robertmac43]

That should be 1-0. What a let off

Seferovic ain't scoring.

 

[AB13]

Switzerland are a great team, I don’t know why people are surprised. They reached the nations league semis in 2019, and took points of both Spain and Germany last fall. Well coached with a strong midfield and good ball playing defenders in the build up

 

[GKJ]

Embolo was getting mugged in the box and Swiss still almost scored

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Embolo was getting mugged in the box and Swiss still almost scored

More reason why players go down. Although I didn’t think it was a penalty

 

[cgf]

Seferovic ain't scoring.

He'll score, but it'll be the dumbest goal you can imagine.

Like Embolo botching sitters only to hammer in a screamer; some things that don't make any sense, make all of the sense.

 

[cgf]

More reason why players go down. Although I didn’t think it was a penalty

Bingo. If you don't force the ref to make a decision, they won't.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Switzerland are a great team, I don’t know why people are surprised. They reached the nations league semis in 2019, and took points of both Spain and Germany last fall. Well coached with a strong midfield and good ball playing defenders in the build up

Wales are also not aggressive at all against the ball. That allows Switzerland to play the way they like to with deliberate methodical build-up. It's one thing for Wales to approach this as a counter-attacking team, but you need to do a bit of pressing to win the ball to get those chances in transition and Wales aren't trying to do much of anything. It looks like they're happy to trust that the Swiss forwards live up to their reputation of ineffectiveness.

 

[AB13]

Wales are also not aggressive at all against the ball. That allows Switzerland to play the way they like to with deliberate methodical build-up. It's one thing for Wales to approach this as a counter-attacking team, but you need to do a bit of pressing to win the ball to get those chances in transition and Wales aren't trying to do much of anything. It looks like they're happy to trust that the Swiss forwards live up to their reputation of ineffectiveness.

They need to be more aggressive to launch counter attacks, sure. Bale, James and Ramsey are ideal counter attacking outlets. Playing low block football against this Swiss team isn’t stupid though, but I would go for more of a mid block.

 

[Venkman]

Welsh defence is heading everything. Swiss could try some lower crosses.

 

[robertmac43]

Great turn and move from Embolo

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Finallly I was just going to say if they don’t cash soon it will be bad. Wales look very bad

 

[cgf]

Wales are also not aggressive at all against the ball. That allows Switzerland to play the way they like to with deliberate methodical build-up. It's one thing for Wales to approach this as a counter-attacking team, but you need to do a bit of pressing to win the ball to get those chances in transition and Wales aren't trying to do much of anything. It looks like they're happy to trust that the Swiss forwards live up to their reputation of ineffectiveness.

Eh, the swiss just have good ball playing defenders & allow Xhaka to the time/space that he needs...while Wales just isn't very good. Pressing more aggressively could easily just exhaust the welsh while opening things up for the swiss.

 

[TP]

Terrible defending.

 

[cgf]

And there we have good Embolo doing good Embolo things, great job winning that corner; he really deserved to get that opener.

 

[robertmac43]

Would be cool to see Ramsey do literally anything this game lol

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Eh, the swiss just have good ball playing defenders & allow Xhaka to the time/space that he needs...while Wales just isn't very good. Pressing more aggressively could easily just exhaust the welsh while opening things up for the swiss.

Wales players all ply their trade in England, so you'd think running hard and pressing relentlessly would be one thing they'd be reasonable at.

 

[cgf]

The Welsh are looking better going forward in this half, swiss can't get sloppy and need to put some distance between themselves & Wales.