Euro 2008, The ball is round and the game has 90 minutes! Options

[stargelman]

Ok I don't usually like to single out a team as a potential champion, but after today I'm pretty sure the Dutch will win this year.

What do you people think?

[stargelman]

I doubt it.


I am less than convinced. Today's showing imho was catastrophic. It might sound harsh but I've seen much better from the Romanians in their game against Italy. At least not half of their passes ended nowhere, and they seemed to have an overall plan of what they wanted to accomplish - not so the German team. Not today, and not in the game against Croatia. And this time we can't excuse their poor performance by a strong opponent side. What the Austrians have shown today was third rate at best, they just happened to play a team in compassionate constitution and so over some time looked like equals. But what they did when they got close to the German goal was just pittyful in most cases.

So yeah, "we" won, but it won't mean a thing when it's quarter final time. Right now, I have no doubt the Portugese will wipe their boots with our team.

And Poland? Good god. I wanted them to get at least one goal against Croatia, which played with their B-team (10 new players!) but noooo... not even against that could they find a way, in fact most of the time the game was dominated by the Croatians who ended up getting their well deserved goal. Poland came close once, but all in all it was a very weak showing.