Through Matchday One

Random observations through Match Day 1 of European Championship Group stage:

Good to see Syzygy Szczesny still playing for Poland

Watch the kids who come out with the players for the national anthems.  They are singing with more gusto than the players

In case you didn't see it, check out Christian Eriksen's goal here.  When you think about where he was three years ago, this is amazing.  I wiped away a tear watching it.

This is not your father's Belgian side.  They fell 0-1 to Slovakia in the biggest upset ever in European Championship history.  Hard luck Lukaku had two goals wiped out, correctly, by VAR.  

England and France were underwhelming enough in their 1-0 wins but they got their three points.

More Hardware for Sportif Allentown

Champions again; Dennis is sixth from right in back row

Dennis's over 30 team won their league again.  Dennis appears twice on the stat sheet, once for a goal and once for a yellow card.  You can see the goal here (it should start at about 1:46).  See the throw-in, then the pass back, then a ball into corner, a bouncing cross and that's Dennis outleaping the keeper for the header goal.  Just like I taught him.

Still Messy Without Lionel

Checked in occasionally on my phone to see how the match was progressing.  Great that they finally scored an even strength goal when at 3 minutes, Glesnes sprung Uhre with a great pass and Mikael made a great run and finish.  The lead made it through the half but not far into the second half.  Miami had a player sent off at 69 minutes so I was thinking we'll at least get a draw.  Not.  They gave up a goal in stoppage time for a 1-2 loss.  Only when I watched the highlights did I realize how bad this was.  Miami had another player sent off in the 88th minute so the game loser came with the Union up two men.  

Oh, and Carranza is leaving for Feyenoord in the summer and Wagner was the lastest player to call out management for lack of investing in the team.  Otherwise, things are going great.

Big match for Scotland today versus Switzerland at 3 pm.  Thursday has Denmark-England at 12 and Spain -Italy at 3.  Tough day to be traveling. Friday, another travel day, has France - Netherlands at 3 pm.  Belgium are pretty close to a must win situation against Romania on Saturday at 3.  Olympic Trials start Friday so not sure how much I'll get to see.