The group stage of Euro 2008 has concluded. Holland,Spain and Croatia have been phenomenal. Specially Holland,which was grouped with Italy,France and Romania. They thrashed Italy and France , something which was least expected. Croatia too caused an upset when they defeated Germany. Spain as expected cleaned up all the teams in their group. Portugal also played well with Ronaldo,Deco and Simao in great form. Germany were scratchy but were lucky to be grouped with Austria and Poland. Italy may well have been out, but thanks to Buffon who saved a penalty by Mutu, they finished of their campaign defeating France 2-0 to qualify for the next round.Turkey came back strongly from 2 goals down, to win 3-2 against Czechs who were let down by a rare mistake from Peter Cech. Russia too came back after their ransacking by Spain to win last 2 games and reach the quarter finals.The worst performance was from France scoring just 1 goal and losing 2 games. They were expected to easily make the cut from their group. Switzerland,Sweden were outplayed by lesser known teams. Greece were just a shadow of the team which won the last Euro.Austria,Poland and Romania had nothing much to cheer about. They played their part as minnows very well.
David Villa has been the striker in form, scoring a hatrick in his first,and the winner in his second. Wesley Sneijder has been in great form scoring 2 spectacular goals. Podolski has shown why he is regarded as a very dangerous striker.
The quarter finals start today. Spain have the toughest game ahead,against Italy. This will their real test. Germany also face a tough opponent , Portugal.This would be really interesting. Holland play Russia and Croatia play Turkey,both could be as much tricky as it could be one sided. So lets wait and watch who will be crowned the Champions of Europe.
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