Euro 2012 - Official Discussion Thread

[Franzl]

Toooooooooor!!

[Tender Branson]

I may just end this predicting football results stuff ...

[Lief 🗽]

YES YES YES YES YES

Beating the Dutch with beautiful football is the greatest thing in the world.

[Lief 🗽]

[bore]

The Germans are actually great (they remind me of Hibs), also this game is over.

[Lief 🗽]

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL GOAL

this is wonderful

[Tender Branson]

Bayern certainly helps.

[Franzl]

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL GOAL

this is wonderful

^^^^^^ !!!!!

[Lief 🗽]

I'm so glad that we're not just winning but playing really, really fun to watch football to go along with it.

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[Lief 🗽]

LOL, Jogi Löw is the best

[Keystone Phil]

Portugal's never won anything, Denmark's won a Euro Cup.

That's nice. My point still stands. They've been a force. Is Greece a traditional power because they won something once? No.

Denmark is as much if not more of a traditional power than Portugal. Portugal's never won an international tournament.

Portugal has always been more of a force, dude. Come on.

Before 2002, Portugal had only ever qualified for a world cup twice.

Same with Denmark so Portugal is still more of a power than the Danes.

[LastVoter]

Finally found this thread!

[Lief 🗽]

Portugal's never won anything, Denmark's won a Euro Cup.

That's nice. My point still stands. They've been a force. Is Greece a traditional power because they won something once? No.

In what respect are they a force? To be a force you need to actually win things. They're gotten to the semi-finals of the World Cup like twice. Big deal. They're not a force.

[Keystone Phil]

Portugal's never won anything, Denmark's won a Euro Cup.

That's nice. My point still stands. They've been a force. Is Greece a traditional power because they won something once? No.

In what respect are they a force? To be a force you need to actually win things. They're gotten to the semi-finals of the World Cup like twice. Big deal. They're not a force.

So Denmark is more of a force because they won something twenty years ago but Portugal - a team that made the Euro Semi finals in 2000, the Euro Final in 2004 and the World Cup Semi finals in 2006 - are not just because they haven't won? That makes no sense. To say that you can't be a force until you win it all is silly.

[Lief 🗽]

I don't think either team are a "force", but to act like Portugal is any more of a historical force than Denmark because they've been successful a few times in the last decade but have otherwise not won anything is silly.

Also I think the Dutch might be the worst team in the tournament.

[Keystone Phil]

Even if they didn't go deep into other tournaments (Euro 2008 and 2010 World Cup), they were still highly regarded. And their performances in the other three tournaments certainly made them a force.

[Keystone Phil]

And the Dutch just might rescue their campaign...

[argentarius]

I don't think either team are a "force", but to act like Portugal is any more of a historical force than Denmark because they've been successful a few times in the last decade but have otherwise not won anything is silly.

Also I think the Dutch might be the worst team in the tournament.

That'd be Ireland. Well, we'll see tomorrow.

[Franzl]

Jaaaa!

Not pretty towards the end, but good game, performance and result!

[Gustaf]

Let's remember one thing, folks. If Germany beats Denmark in the last game (which is obviously very likely) Holland only has to beat Portugal by 2 goals to go through. So they're not totally done  yet.

[Lief 🗽]

Shouldn't have let that goal in, but once it was 2-1 the concentration was back up again and the Dutch went back to being completely shut down. Good performance overall, hopefully we continue to improve.

[argentarius]

Let's remember one thing, folks. If Germany beats Denmark in the last game (which is obviously very likely) Holland only has to beat Portugal by 2 goals to go through. So they're not totally done  yet.

Imagine if Germany was leading by 1 against Denmark, and Holland was beating Portugal, and they let Denmark score just to keep Holland or Portugal out.

[Keystone Phil]

Let's remember one thing, folks. If Germany beats Denmark in the last game (which is obviously very likely) Holland only has to beat Portugal by 2 goals to go through. So they're not totally done  yet.

Which is what will happen.

[politicus]

Well, our good statistic against Portugal was broken. Now its 3-3 since 2006. Beat the bastards only 8 months ago, but defence sucked in crucial situations. The team hasn't played well and two key players are injured now.

Its actually the poorest Danish performance against the Portuguese in six years and yet they almost got a tie. Too bad they missed. It was the one match everybody here thought we actually had good odds at winning.  
 
One statistic that still stands is that Bendtner scores every time he plays against Portugal. Its the fourth time he does it. A fine tradition

What do you guys say. Will it be a quarter final without Scandinavians this time?

Who has the best (least horrible..) odds now - Denmark or Sweden?