Czech Republic u21 0 - 0 England u21
Euro 2007 u21 group stage · 2007-06-11 Referee: Zsolt Szabo

Warning

Control

I will keep myself to the list you see to the right of this. Szabo was not really in control. Players were angry, yelled at him and commited a lot of fouls.

Calls

Yeah, well, if a player commits a foul in front of the referee, he whistles, but that doesn't make him a good referee. Szabo missed an elbow by Lita and completely missed a fight between Routlidge and Pudil.

Neutrality

Not good, Szabo favored the English players often.

Style

7 yellow cards in a match between youngsters, who is to blame for that? Not only Szabo of course. But Szabo let bad things happen unpunished and stopped the match many times for nothing, when nothing was going on.
And what a boring game it was, are these the finals? Is this England's future? If it is we can now understand why they need so many foreigners in their teams. They are going to need to do some more shopping.

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