Matchday Two of the European Championships finished today with two expected results and one unexpected one. The drama came courtesy of Georgia, who threw caution (and probability) to the wind and held on against Czechia to secure its first-ever international tournament point. We've been hyping up Georgia's underdog narrative for a while in these parts, and we have to say: watching it succeed feels great.
But the less said about MLS star Saba Lobzhanidze's last-minute miss, the better. Georgia have picked up their first ever point at the Euros! pic.twitter.
com/fLx8rM1sZp We left Georgia's first-point party to see Turkey and Portugal, Group F's winning teams, battle it out for first place in the group. What could have been a knuckles-out fist fight for the top spot devolved into a Portugal power display, though, after Turkey's Samet Akaydin drilled home the single most embarrassing own goal we've seen in years. Was it depressing to see aggressive, inspiring Turkey fall apart in that fashion? Yes.
But was that own goal funny all the same? Also yes. That Turkey own goal in an image ♂️ pic.twitter.
com/Irrk8fFSqi Finally, we headed up to Cologne to watch browbeaten Belgium recover from its opening day loss by beating Romania 2-0. You may remember that Belgium put the ball in the back of the net multiple times in its opening-day loss only to have every goal chalked off for offside; that trend continued against Romania. Poor old Romelu Lukaku found himself offside by the width.
