Euro 2012 Poland- Ukraine

[aussiepride]

group a: russia and czech rep to progress

group b: group of death, but germany will top it, with holland to progress as well. portugal are just not playing well enough to get points in this tough group

group c: spain to top the group, croatia to progess. croats always put in a good show, and italy was just sliced apart easily by russia 3-0, so expect the lack of harmony to test them again

group d: cant pick it. i hope england gets through, but they will be without rooney for first 2 games. france are a dark horse, they have a backbone of great youngsters that won the euro championships in 2004 as un -17yrs. expect benzema and nasri to be stars of the tournament if france has a chance.

if germany and spain top their groups, they will not meet until the final, and england will pray they top their group to avoid spain in qtrs, although if russia or czech meets spain the the semis they both have a good chance against them.
spain is def favs, but they always have trouble scoring goals a lot of goals. they recently played china, and although dominated the match, only won 1-0. against germany russia and netherlands, the spanyards luck mite finally run out (unless of course torres starts scoring).

Semis tips:
spain v netherlans
germany v croatia

having said all this this is why i love football.
i think euro is better to watch than wc
and winners like greece and denmark means all your tips mean crap once the tournament kicks off. cant wait!

Originally Posted by aussiepride

group d: cant pick it. i hope england gets through, but they will be without rooney for first 2 games.

That wont be a bad thing. He does work hard, but he's not as quick as he used to be. He is an imposing presence but Oxblade-Chamberlin, Defore and Welbeck are in good form. Rooney may find himself on the bench for some time should England progress.

[ila]

It's only the second day of playing and there have been a couple of surprises for me.

I expected Poland to easily beat Greece, but Greece played very well and certainly showed that they aren't to be taken lightly.

I just watched the Holland - Denmark game. I never expected Denmark to win, but they sure did and with ease too. The Dutch performance was very lacklustre. It looked to me like Holland treated this as a warm-up game in which they didn't have to bother giving their full effort.

It's now become a more interesting competition.

There's been a bit of surprise about the Denmark game - not entirely sure why as they topped their qualifing group ahead of Portugal and they have some very good players. Having said that, I thought the Dutch were poor and as they've got to play Germany next I think they may not even qualify now.

I expect Engand are going to play in a very similar fashion to Denmark when they play France on Monday - at least from the evidence of their two warm-up games going into this tournament.

[wertyu]

I think that spain is the best team technical
but Germany is always a very tough team
surely these two teams will go into semi-finals

Spain looked very comfortable in disposing of an admittedly pretty underwhelming Repulic of Ireland side last night. So far, I can't see anybody else apart from them or the Germans winning this.

Still, England are playing Sweden tonight, so hopefully they'll win that one...

[Naked Freedom]

I think Germany or Spain will win this years Championship.