I think the Czech Republic is underestimated : They may do something really good (They won their qualification's group, they've beaten France 2-0, and many Czech players are actually doing very good in European teams (Nedved, Koller and Rosicky, even Baros, Cech...) )
I hope England vs France will be a great game...
If France wins its group and Portugal ends up second of its ( or the contrary) : there will be a great revenge in Estadio da Luz... (Kes would be really happy 😇 )
Nonetheless I hope France will win cos we have a better team there than in 1998 and 2000...
I think France, the Czech Republic and Portugal will be in semi-finals...
Yes, maybe indeed...
But they seem to "get on" rather well on the field. To my mind, it will not be a wonderful EC, but there may be some good surprise.
The usual "big teams" (Italy, England or Germany) are quite tired or not at the peak of their power. Czech Republic, The Netherlands and France have currently the most talented players (induvidually speaking), so we'll see if they can play well and make great things together. Portugal has rather good players and a very good young generation, but they have still to prove that they can play well and regualrly against big teams (Playing at home will of course be very hepful). Last, Spain has pretty good individualities but that are totally unable to do something great together...
Originally posted by G.P
Yes, maybe indeed...
Portugal has rather good players and a very good young generation, but they have still to prove that they can play well and regualrly against big teams (Playing at home will of course be very hepful). ...
Portugal plays pbetter against big teams than against weak ones, but I am not very optimist about our presence in Euro2004.
I hope we don't play agaisnt France. I prefer to have your mentioned "vengeance" later. 😉
p.s.
I hope it will happen an earthquake in "Estadio da Luz" tha bring into ruins after the Euro. 😛
Originally posted by G.P
Last, Spain has pretty good individualities but that are totally unable to do something great together...
Yeap. Like portuguese player too. But I think that Spain plays better as a team than Portugal.
Our players are better palying alone without opponents. Sometimes they remind me the practise option of videogame. Without an opposite team or if football was an individual game, Portugal would be World Champiuon for sure. 🙄 Utopic 🤨
Have a look at those resulsts 😱
15.11.2003 - Czech Republic - Canada 5:1 (1:0) Friendly 2003
11.10.2003 - Austria - Czech Republic 2:3 (0:1) EURO 2004 Prel.
10.09.2003 - Czech Republic - Netherlands 3:1 (2:0) EURO 2004 Prel.
6.09.2003 - Belarus - Czech Republic 1:3 (1:1) EURO 2004 Prel.
11.06.2003 - Czech Republic - Moldova 5:0 (1:0) EURO 2004 Prel.
30.04.2003 - Czech Republic - Turkey 4:0 (4:0) Friendly 2003
2.04.2003 - Czech Republic - Austria 4:0 (2:0) EURO 2004 Prel.
29.03.2003 - Netherlands - Czech Republic 1:1 (1:0) EURO 2004 Prel.
12.02.2003 - France - Czech Republic 0:2 (0:1) Friendly 2003
20.11.2002 - Czech Republic - Sweden 3:3 (2:2) Friendly
16.10.2002 - Czech Republic - Belarus 2:0 (2:0) EURO 2004 > Prel.
12.10.2002 - Moldova - Czech Republic 0:2 (0:0) EURO 2004 > Prel.
6.09.2002 - Czech Republic - Yugoslavia 5:0 (2:0) Friendly
21.08.2002 - Czech Republic - Slovakia 4:1 (1:1) Friendly
18.05.2002 - Czech Republic - Italy 1:0 (1:0) Friendly
17.04.2002 - Greece - Czech Republic 0:0 Friendly
27.03.2002 - Wales - Czech Republic 0:0 Friendly
13.02.2002 - Cyprus - Czech Republic 3:4 (1:0) Friendly
12.02.2002 - Czech Republic - Hungary 2:0 (1:0) Friendly
19 games : 15 victories, 4 draws...