Originally posted by: spherrod
No, I think that's the only group where there were 3 teams on a reasonably equal level (on paper). Germany have one of their poorest teams ever and Latvia would always struggle so as far as I'm concerned Holland and Czech Republic were in an easy group, it certainly wasn't the toughest
Germany is a typical Tournament team, they're always good for a surprise and there's a History between Germany and Holland so...[/quote]
Agreed, but it's about time that Germany got found out as a poor team. The rivalry with Holland obviously gave them an edge in the first game before Van Nistlerooy got the Dutch out of jail (great finisher BTW) but I was never in any doubts that they'd struggle against Latvia and the Czechs (I would love to have seen the Czech first team play the Germans!)
Still - great tournament so far, I really hope the Danes can pull out a result tonight.....[/quote]
True, they're not having such a great team anymore but did you see the game against the Czechs? They could've easily scored a couple goals(if they had better players to begin with), they had some good chances.
But yeah, the tournament is awesome so far and it will be even better when the Dutch won it