Euro: Group E: Republic of Ireland vs. Sweden, 6/13/2016

[Live in the Now]

Republic of Ireland

Goalkeepers: Shay Given (Stoke), Darren Randolph (West Ham), Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday)

Defenders: Seamus Coleman (Everton), Cyrus Christie (Derby), Ciaran Clark (Aston Villa), Richard Keogh (Derby), John O'Shea (Sunderland), Shane Duffy (Blackburn), Stephen Ward (Burnley)

Midfielders: Robbie Brady (Norwich), Aiden McGeady (Everton), James McClean (West Brom), Glenn Whelan (Stoke), James McCarthy (Everton), Jeff Hendrick (Derby), David Meyler (Hull), Stephen Quinn (Reading), Wes Hoolahan (Norwich)

Forwards: Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy), Shane Long (Southampton), Jon Walters (Stoke), Daryl Murphy (Ipswich)


Sweden

Goalkeepers: Andreas Isaksson (Kasimpasa), Robin Olsen (Copenhagen), Patrik Carlgren (AIK)

Defenders: Ludwig Augustinsson (Copenhagen), Erik Johansson (Copenhagen), Pontus Jansson (Torino), Victor Lindelof (Benfica) Andreas Granqvist (Krasnodar), Mikael Lustig (Celtic), Martin Olsson (Norwich)

Midfielders: Jimmy Durmaz (Olympiakos), Albin Ekdal (Hamburg), Oscar Hiljemark (Palermo), Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland), Pontus Wernbloom (CSKA Moscow), Erkan Zengin (Trabzonspor), Oscar Lewicki (Malmo), Emil Forsberg (Leipzig), Kim Kallstrom (Grasshoppers)

Forwards: Marcus Berg (Panathinaikos), John Guidetti (Celta Vigo), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris), Emir Kujovic (Norrkoping)


Two pretty even teams here, but Zlatan against O'Shea sounds like a hilarious joke.

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[Subban signed e5]

1-0 Ireland, Shane Long with the last minute go ahead goal.

 

[Franck]

Heading to Paris in the morning, my excitement level is off the charts, doubt I'll be able to get any sleep at all tonight.

 

[JimboA]

delete

 

[Franck]

Hope everything goes well. Seems like a lot of people are stuck in Sweden.

I'm thankfully not flying with SAS.

 

[JimboA]

delete

 

[Franck]

Haha, alright then. Enjoy the game I will not even be able to watch it.

I will, thanks!

 

[ecemleafs]

in a match between ireland and sweden the only celtic player is swedish lol.

 

[nudie]

in a match between ireland and sweden the only celtic player is swedish lol.

Celtic is from Scotland, or did I miss the joke :p

anyway, we (sweden) need to win this game.

 

[Franck]

Pleased that Lindelöf will start. Not a lot of experience but he's our most talented centre half without a doubt.

 

[joe89]

Expected Swedish XI:

Andreas Isaksson
Mikael Lustig - Andreas Granqvist - Victor Nilsson Lindelöf - Martin Olsson
Sebastian Larsson - Oscar Lewicki - Kim Källström - Emil Forsberg
Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Marcus Berg

 

[East Coast Bias]

Coybig

 

[gary69]

in a match between ireland and sweden the only celtic player is swedish lol.

That's funny (= Lustig in English).

 

[HajdukSplit]

tipping this to be the first 0:0

 

[joe89]

tipping this to be the first 0:0

Would be surprised, don't remember the last time we played a competitive match 0-0. 3-4 years ago?

 

[cgf]

Pleased that Lindelöf will start. Not a lot of experience but he's our most talented centre half without a doubt.

He's the guy I was hoping BMG could snipe this summer to fortify their defense, instead of spending 12M on Vestegaard. Kid should be able to build on his breakthrough european campaign with Benfica. Will enjoy watching him & Forsberg at these euros; even though I'll likely miss today's matches as well.

 

[Theon]

I think Forsberg will have a good tournament.

2 - 1. Zlatan and Forsberg. Long for Ireland.

 

[East Coast Bias]

https://twitter.com/PaddyMcKenna/status/


Irish fans have found a local construction worker with a pickup and turned it into their parade float, with his tools and all. Classic.

Some great videos of Irish & Swedes singing ABBA and Henrik Larsson tribute songs floating around as well.

Nice change from the nonsense that's gone on.

 

[Ceremony]

The insufferable cult of personality of 'Zlatan' vs. the insufferable cult of personality of THE BOYS IN GREEN. I think I'll still take the big man scoring five, please.

Celtic is from Scotland, or did I miss the joke :p

Sadly, yes.

 

[Theon]

 

[ViD]

No Wernbloom? That's a shame

 

[joe89]

No Wernbloom? That's a shame

Wernbloom is only on the team to take a booking late in the game when we need to defend.

 

[Theon]

Hoping to not see Zengin in the pitch today.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

Källström awful!

 

[Prntscrn]

Sweden You never fail to disappoint me..