Euro 2004 predictions - knock-out phase

[MikeH]

Sweden Holland 1-2
Denmark Czech 0-3

[Micha]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I couldn't decide what team to support, so I decided to support both teams. It was a great evening!
And a great match.

In the end I'm happy portugal won.

Same goes for me

The goal was invalid, if you start to stretch up that rule it will end no-where and the goal-keepers will never be able to do their job anymore.

The referee had a very good match. I wish we would have had him against the czechs.

Hehe, so at least our referees are good

[TheArsenal]

Deserved to win, and should have won, are two different things. England didn’t deserve a victory, Portugal owned them in the second half, and it was only a matter of time before Portugal scored the second goal. But England did have a perfectly good goal disallowed meaning they should have clearly won the match. I watched the game on TiVo and replayed it in slow motion a good 10 times. Atrocious, atrocious, decision.

But a very entertaining game for us neutrals nevertheless.

[Footie Mad]

France - Greece 2-0

[Drogue]

May I change:

Originally posted by Drogue on Whaleboy's computer
France - Greece 1-0

to:
France - Greece 2-0

and

Originally posted by Drogue on Whaleboy's computer
Sweden - Holland to come.

Sweden - Holland 1-2

[DeathByTheSword]

now it is chech or we that are going to be Euro2004 winners...with France out of it all the 'old' major players (except kinda the netherlands) are taking out.......what a strange compitition

[Paul]

France - Greece 0-1

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[Locutus]

Congrats, CoT

[alexman]

[Robert]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
now it is chech or we that are going to be Euro2004 winners...with France out of it all the 'old' major players (except kinda the netherlands) are taking out.......what a strange compitition

Don't forget Portugal!

[Spiffor]

It's not really supsrising, IMHO, that the "senior" teams are out. In this kind of competitions, many "small" teams concentreate on it, while big teams expect to win thanks to the individual talent of their players. In short, small teams have everything to win (there is little expectations on them), while big teams have everything to lose (there are huge expectations on them).

We saw this in the last World Cup, where small teams PWNed everyone else but Germany and Brazil. I wouldn't be suprised if the finals in the Euro Chmapionship was Portugal-Brazil or Greece-Czech Those are teams who go there because they have a winner attitude :

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Portugal-Brazil

As final of Euro2004? Now that would definitely be the surprise of the tournament...

Greece-Czech

Not gonna happen, that's already the semi (assuming the Czechs defeat Denmark).


I think the real final will be the semi between Sweden/the Netherlands and Portugal. Whoever wins that wins the tourny if you ask me.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Locutus
As final of Euro2004? Now that would definitely be the surprise of the tournament...

I meants Portugal-Sweden of course

[Kropotkin]

Yeah, it's so damn easy to confuse Sweden with Brazil. The countries have sooo much in common, on and off the pitch.

[Wernazuma III]

Well, Larson in the yellow-blue dress certainly passes as Brazilian and isn't there a Brazilian Selecao player called Anderson?