Holland may play a "weekend team" as it leaves France and Italy totally f*cked and kicked off from Euro- and then the Dutch may not worry about the chanses of meeting either one of those two teams in semis (to be honest, group D doesn't impress me much- Russians and Greeks look weak and out of place- Greeks are a joke of an European champion, so it's totally possible- France may pull off WC'06 when they barely qualified from their group and then beat Spain (who pwned anyone in their group before that) in quarterfinals).
Anyways, France looks like the weakest version since '02, so if they qualify- it would be a miracle.
Domenech is a pussy- officially.
Offensively Holland was great again last night, defensively however we're just not good enough. Against a team like Spain, who actually finish off their chances, we will get in trouble. Also, Mathijssen should never get the chance to play for the national team again. Unbelievable how Van Basten keeps letting him start the game while he has Heitinga and Bouma on the bench.
Originally posted by T.M
It's not possible for Spain to play Netherlands in the final.. probably be the semis because of the stupid way they have done the draw this year.
Yep just noticed the daft system. Its possible that the semi final will both have team who have already played each other, how daft. Should have done a group A v C, B v D so we see different games.
What the hell was Greece´s goalkeeper doing last night when that goal was scored, what an odd thing to do. Glad Greece are out, they are well crap.
Think I've been watching a different Croatia to everyone else. Died after 20 minutes against Austria, the shittest team in the competition that they beat due to an early *pearolled* penalty, and beat Germany on a terrible day for them with a fortuitous goal.
Spain look good on the attack, shit in defence. Seriously bad. Holland are better on the attack, and actually look a bit more solid than usual at the back.
France are dead- Domenech is one of the worst managers I've seen in a long time. If Italy somehow get through, I could see them winning it.
Portugal are consistent but not that great.
I'm sticking with Germany for one side of the draw and Holland for the other, unless Italy go through.
Portugal played thier "B" team, and even they would have been trying to avoid injury for the remaining competition. If the game would have meant something Switerland would have gotten thumped.
Lets face it If they weren´t host´s Switzerland or Austria wouldn´t have taken part in this tournament.
I´d like a pint of what Turkey were drinking in the half time break. coming back from 2 goals down scoring 3 goals in lst 15 minutes and playing like thier life depended on it. A very eventuful game.
I wonder how their goaly managed to push Jan koller over for that red card at the end, Hés a big lad Koller🙂
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
He waited 'til the ball was out, cos otherwise the Czechs would have had a penalty and it probably would have gone to pens.-AC
Personally I think that if a player is stupid enough to do that then the other team should have had a penalty.. A red card isn't enough what advantage did the Czechs have from that.
Should have been at least a free kick if not a penalty in my opinion.