Euro: Group B: RUS vs. DEN, FIN vs. BEL, 6/21/2021

[hatterson]

Oh what a shot

 

[gary69]

Denmark nailing it, talking about winning the right game.

 

[misterchainsaw]

Denmark puts in another. Finland back in 3rd in the group with 3 points and a -1 GD (and only 1 goal scored). Better chance than Russia, but still in trouble I think.

 

[cgf]

Honestly?

There are a lot of dinosaurs in russian football who are resistant to scoring goals that aren't headers from big strong targetmen like Gomez/Dzyuba.

The club system also causes a lot of talented kids to move to rich clubs too early & stagnate; while the youth system is just a complete mess.

 

[Avs44]

Feel badly for Russia's keeper. He's had a really good game. Russia's defensive performance has been worthy of five against.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

This might well be the best finish in a tournament group I've ever seen.

 

[serp]

Yep the Russian are done now.

 

[Eisen]

Now it's a clobbering.

 

[robertmac43]

All I can say is I wish I was in the crowd for this!

 

[Canes]

Wow, Denmark isn't f***ing around.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Bananas why did Russia go ahead on 2-1? Head to head?

 

[Live in the Now]

And that's it!!!

 

[Random Oracle]

Definitely wouldn't mind seeing Denmark go through, especially with what happened to Eriksen.

 

[GKJ]

2-0 Belgium. Lukaku

 

[KrejciMVP]

floodgates open

 

[gary69]

3rd in this group won't advance.

 

[KlausJopling]

Denmark doing there job. Finland needs to get a point now.

Edit: too late in posting. Finland isn’t getting 2 goals.

 

[hatterson]

Belgium score a second and Denmark get a fourth.

Denmark clear through with a ton of room now

 

[Sol]

Wow some amazing collapse.

 

[Random Oracle]

Exciting finish in the group, that's for sure.

 

[Havre]

Højbjergs nickname at Spurs is Zizou so...

 

[Jussi]

Raitala is f***ing terrible.

 

[Mount Suribachi]

Wow, turned over to the Denmark game at just the right time!

 

[IceHockeyDude]

Well deserved win for Belgium.

 

[misterchainsaw]

Bananas why did Russia go ahead on 2-1? Head to head?

The three team tiebreaker only considers H2H games between the 3 teams. Since all 3 teams were 1-1 against the other two, it goes to goal differential, which at that point was also all tied at 0. So then it goes to total goals scored in the games concerning the 3 teams, which Russia and Denmark were tied at 2 to Finland's 1. That makes Denmark 2nd, then Russia beat Finland H2H to get 3rd.

But Denmark scoring again gave them a +1 GD against the other two and Russia a -1 against the other two, making Finland's 0 good regardless of how much more Belgium scores (although it will hurt their GD in terms of the 4 best 3rd place finishers)