Quote from: Sithara007 on January 25, 2023, 04:42:07 AM

Quote from: Daniel91 on January 21, 2023, 04:09:20 PM

I was not impressed by France and I don't see them as favorites in the European Championship, at least not as main favourites.
At the last European Championship, they were very bad and lost to Switzerland, and in the last edition of the League of Nations, they also played very badly and almost dropped out of the elite group.
At the world cup, they managed to reach the final, but they were not very convincing to me and they were also lucky.
It seems to me that the relations between individual players are not the best, especially between Mbappe and Benzema and this conflict probably affects the whole team.
I think that England, Holland and Italy will also have a great chance at the European Championship.

Will be interesting to watch Italy, after they failed to qualify for Qatar 2022. England and Netherlands disappointed their fans during Qatar 2022. England went down against France in the quarter-finals and during that match there was a lot of issues in co-ordination between the players. And before that, they performed poorly during Euro 2020 as well. Now coming to Netherlands, the thing that irritates me the most is that they always resort to rough play. The Dutch needs to realize that football is not like kickboxing or MMA. Remember the foul made by Frenkie de Jong against Cheikhou Kouyaté? De Jong intentionally crushed the private parts of Kouyaté and the latter had to be carried off the field in a stretcher. And the Dutch do this everytime. Battle of Nuremberg is still in everyone's memory.

the choice of the image though Cheesy

anywas, I'm going to expect a lot from teams that failed to perform good in the World Cup, or even didn't qualify like Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal...etc i have doubts on Germany though, i don't think playing in their home country will get them the trophy, they need more than that, i was not impressed at all with their world cup performance and i didn't see something in them that could make things different in Euro 2024.