euro2008
Sunday, December 02, 2007
The European Football Championships 2008 Austria & Switzerland, or just known as Euro 2008, group stages draw was done like around 15 minutes ago. And there were a few surprises too, its going to be a very interesting Euro 2008 next june! So these are the groups, if you're too lazy to go check out on the football news websites.:
Group A - Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey
Group B - Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland
Group C - Netherlands, Italy, Romania, France
Group D - Greece, Spain, Sweden, Russia
So
yeah... Can you spot the old cliche of the "Group Of Death"? Practically every tournament has a Group of Death... So its Group C that is for Euro 2008. Netherlands, led by Hamburg captain Rafael van der Vaart, will face Italy, spearheaded by Bayern forward Luca Toni, Romania, including Fiorentina ace Adrian Mutu, and finally, France, led by inspirational Barcelona forward Thierry Henry. Every team has a chance to go through, maybe not Romania, but they'd put up quite a fight. One of France and Italy almost missed out to Scotland, and one or both of them might miss out on the Quarter-Finals should the Netherlands be on top form.
In Group A, co-hosts Switzerland have a tough task to get out of their group. Czech Republic and Portugal are the favourites to get through. Turkey have an outside chance of getting through though, but they would have to scramble some points off the top favourites.
Spain, Sweden, Greece and Russia make up Group D. All have the chance of getting through, though Spain is the favourite. There's really nothing to choose between the three other countries, although I do see Sweden slipping up and Greece not producing the kind of form that led them to the Euro 2004 title. Russia might get through if master tactician Guus Hiddink get it right in the three group stages matches.
Finally, Group B consists of co-hosts Austria, Germany, Croatia and Poland. Germany are the favourites to get into the Quarter-Finals. Poland and Croatia look set to battle it out for second spot, whilst Austria do lack the quality to get through.
Teams' predicted to get through:
Czech Republic
Portugal
Germany
Croatia
Netherlands
Italy
Spain
Russia
Haha... I wasn't really confident on the Group C one, could go either way. So these are my thoughts and predictions for the Quarters-Finals of Euro 2008. Can't wait! Hope it'll be a very good tournament. No diving, please!
Bye~!
my thoughts at 8:14 pm