Euro 2004 Football discussion

[Lichtenhart]

Yes they do. And I think they carry over to the next tournament as well.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

They way I see football is that it doesn't matter whether the team I'm rooting for wins or losses as long as they play well. I think Tallarn sees it the way that only points count. It's a classic clash of football philosophies

Woah! I'm a Spurs fan! I rate goals scored far, far higher than goals against.

However, when it comes to England I am uncaring if we win. Spurs I demand to play entertaining football, England I couldn't care less if we win our matches.

Rooney is quite clearly an incredible talent, and Owen looked much better yesterday as well. Scholes ended a three year England goal drought - watch out for him scoring again against the Portuguese!

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that England will win, despite not being very sure about it at all. Can the Portugal defence deal with our goal threat? After all, we nearly kept France out, and Portugal can't be any trickier than that! And if we don't conceed, but score...*dances in the street*

I'm going to be incredibly nervous, whatever.

Best wishes to all those teams being supported here in ENWorld! C'mon, let's have an ENworld final, THAT'LL give us something to really argue about!

 

[johnsemlak]

Wow, What an ending to group C.

Italy pull off a dramatic victory with a 94th min goal, and it's not enough!

AGGEMAM, got to admit, you were spot on, both on Italy not advancing, and the final score of the Sweden Denmark match.

 

[DarkMaster]

The conspiracy theory could be true after all.

 

[Asmo]

That was to good to be true, what an incredible game!!
I´m so happy that Sweden and Denmark is advancing to the quarterfinals.
This must be the end of Mr Trapattonis defensive style of play. I wonder who will replace him?

Asmo

 

[AGGEMAM]

AGGEMAM, got to admit, you were spot on, both on Italy not advancing, and the final score of the Sweden Denmark match.

Yeah, I predicted Denamrk and Sweden to go through already in the very first reply to this thread.

*big freaking smilie*

Yup, I got a good return on my investment there.

Anyone who saw the game, including Italian journalists, got to admit that there could be no possible talk about a conspiracy.

Grattis till alla svenska. See you in the final.

 

[Lichtenhart]

I changed my mind, I hope we leave these championships as soon as possible so we haven't got any more chances to embarass ourselves further.[snip]
We deserve to go home.

Well, it looks like we didn't leave soon enough and managed to embarass ourselves way further, though I thought it was difficult, with all the absurd talk about the conspiracy.

Last match for Trapattoni. Maybe there IS something to be happy about today.

Lippi will probably take his place, and I don't know what he would do, but do worse is nearly impossible.

I drink a virtual toast with my spanish fellows to a better future, and stick around to see what will happen. If I had to bet something, my money (and probably my heart) would be on England by now. But we'll see.

 

[johnsemlak]

Tonight Germany-Czech Republic and Netherlands-Latvia. Oh, the Netherlands are really hanging on a thread.

For some strange reason Russian TV is showing the Netherlands-Latvia game live and the other one on afterwards. Dont' think I'll stay up for both.

 

[reutbing0]

And the Netherlands advance to the next round! Solid 3-0 victory against Latvia. Too bad for the Germans though (lost 2-1 from Czech Republic).

 

[johnsemlak]

OK, who are people tipping for the title now, with 8 teams left?

With 3 solid wins, I'd say that the Czech Republic are on form and have a good chance. Still, I'd have to say that France's overall talent makes them a slight favorite among 8 quarterfinalists.

France are helped by having the easiest quarterfinal (with all due respect to the Greeks' enormously sucessful tournament).

France and the Czech republic appear to be headed to a semifinal clash, if the Danes don't foil the odds. That match might just be the one that decides the title.

All of this of course leaves out Portugal, the host nation, who certainly have a chance as well.

All that said the tournament is quite wide open and a surprise winner could easily happen.