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Hungary 1 - 3 Switzerland 

Game 2 in the bag and a surprise win (to many) for Switzerland. They've come a long way from the soporific teams from the 00's and 10's. Truly they used to be the toughest fixtures to comtemplate as I settled in for any major tourney, but they are much pacier and free-er now and this result has presented a massive problem for Scotland's hopes. Hungary rallied in the second half, which only further jeopardises Scotland's plight. Definitely some fun fixtures to come in Group A.

My favourite moment of the game was seeing Martin Ádám come onto the pitch. An absolute barrel of a man. He literally looked like a present day Rooney would look coming onto the pitch. Amazing. Some basic research reveals that he is an absolute goal machine, scoring 230+ goals from his 290ish career appearances. He is currently tearing it up with Ulsan of the K-League.

Other points of note were Hungary's manager frighteningly resembling Jeffrey Dahmer and Breel Embolo coming on and scoring for the Swiss after a season long ACL outage (giving me hope for Mings, Buendia and Kamara who have all suffered the same fate this season).

Now, whilst I smash together a slow-cook curry, I'm readying up for the first BIG game of the tourney. Spain v Croatia. I'm very much looking forward to seeing hypothetical (if PSR/FFP didn't exist) Villa target Nico Williams playing. Still perplexed as to why Pau Torres isn't gracing this stage, and wondering if it is even possible for Croatia to still function as a top team at this level, given the age of their major players. This afternoon, I fear, we will get an answer to the negative...