Thursday, June 12, 2008

Day 3,4,5 Round up

Day 3
Romania(0) Vs France(0)
A dull and boring game where France played absolutely terrible.Credit to Romania who played some excellent holding football
Key Players
Franck Ribery-Played some great passes and made some awesome forward runs that caused Romania alot of trouble.
Team Romania-The dark horses of the group kept frustrating France all the way and it will be interesting to see them in their next few games.

Netherlands(3) Vs Italy(0)
Hands down the best game of the tournament so far with Holland playing some wonderful short pass counter attacking football.An old and tired Italian side could not cope with youthfulness and hunger of the Dutch.
Key Players
Wesley Sneijder-Scored a wonder goal and played some magnificent football all around.
Alessandro Del Piero-Came on late and had some good chances.Should get a start in the next game hopefully.

Day 4
Spain(4) Vs Russia(1)
Spain totally dominated the game and demolished Russia.The Russians do deserve credit for their passion and determination to fight.We will definitely see Spain in the latter stages of the competition.
Key Players
David Villa-Hat-trick Hero Villa showed his first class finishing and will be a big contender for the Golden Boot.
Roman Pavlyuchenko-Russia's goal scorer was a livewire the entire match and got his reward with a great goal in the 86th minute..

Sweden(2) Vs Greece(0)
The holders Greece were soundly beaten by an old and experienced Sweden side.Greece played some horrible football and its time they change their tactics that mainly consists of passing the ball around in defense for atleast 3-5 minutes before shooting off a high ball to a striker which always seems to miss the pass.
Key Players
Henrik Larsson-The iconic Swede was recalled to the squad for the tournament and was an integral part of the team.
Fredrik Ljungberg-Former Arsenal winger and my favorite player had a great match proving that he still has the pace creativity to do wonders
Zlatan Ibrahimovic-Scored a wonderful goal and had some good attempts throughout the game.Oh yes and his goal was his first in 3 years....suprising!!!

Day 5
Portugal(3) Vs Czech Republic(1)
Portugal qualified for the second round after finishing off Czech Republic.
Key Players
Cristiano Ronaldo-Scored a goal and then set up two more.Had a great match yesterday and will have many more to come in the next round.


Switzerland(1) Vs Turkey(2)
Hosts Switzerland are out of the tournament after their side lost to Turkey who got a late winner from Arda Turan.

Tonight Croatia take on Germany and hosts Austria play Poland.

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