06-19-2008, 01:49 PM
Quote:The standings as of today in case anyone not immersed in it wanted to know.
A POR - 6 | TUR - 6 | CZE - 3 | SUI - 3
B CRO - 9 | GER - 6 | AUT - 1 | POL - 1
C NED - 9 | ITA - 4 | ROU - 2 | FRA - 1
D ESP - 9 | RUS - 6 | SWE - 3 | GRE - 0
The Quarter finals will be Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Russia.
Today's match is Portugal vs Germany
Friday will be Croatia vs Turkey
Saturday will be Netherlands vs Russia
Sunday will be Spain vs Italy
Then the Semi-finals begin next Wednesday.
P.S. I'm still 5 for 8. Wrong on Poland, France, and Sweden.
Group A: Portugal Turkey
Group B: Germany <strike>Poland</strike>
Group C: Italy <strike>France</strike>
Group D: <strike>Sweden</strike> Spain
In my pre tournament prediction I was wrong about Poland (Croatia ) as well, in the ranking (eg I had Italy as groupwinners) I made some mistakes. Further in the tournament I didn't give russia and turkey much chance, but they made it.
The bookmakers have Holland as their favourite now.....but I see a big big problem with Italy...teams from the south of europe can in general not be trusted...they are too cunning and now how to play the referee.....one good thing that either spain or italy will be out, and portugal we can only meet in the finals.
A very sad thing happened today: the daughter of dutch defender Khalid Bouhlarouz, who was born yesterday after complications in the pregnancy, died today. Yesterday he was escorted from the training pitch to the hospital and this morning she died. Khalid has decided to stay with the national team and cotinue playing. The team at this moment is a group of friends and there were no problems between the players, I think this group will do everything they can to support him and his wife in this difficult time. It must be a very strange situation for everybody to play a quarter final on saturday with this that has happened.