I hope the Czechs will beat the Germans, but I think they better see Germany in the next round than Holland. So I don’t think they will play at their top.
From what I've heard, Czech players Grygera and Tomas Galasek assured some Dutch player that they would do everything to get Holland in the quarter finals. It seems like the Czechs don't like the Germans that much
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Sonja
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yeah kick the Germans out!
Czech played a fantastic match on Saturday.
I'm more concerned what England's gonna do tonight. Croatia is quite strong, too...
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The Mir@cle
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I tipped France and Croatia as 1 and 2 before the tournament, and I still support my prediction. I think it will become a hard match for England.
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Mr. Scully
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Miracle, I don't think the Dutch deserved to win on Saturday. A tie would be appropriate. But I agree that the substitutions on our side were more reasonable than those on Dutch side (Robben deserved to play the whole match and that was maybe the reason for your loss). But the first two goals in our net were caused by serious mistakes by Grygera whom our coach substituted just a while after the second goal. I think our defence improved after that - and our offence was something I was proud of. It was certainly the best match of the championship.
We are not friends with Germany so I'm sure our boys will do their best to win. On the other hand, some of our key players (Nedved, Galasek, maybe Rosicky) will have a rest so everything is possible...
"Martin, I hope Italy can get to the 2nd round...if so, maybe we'll play against your czech republic"
Yes, in fact it's very likely (unless SWE-DEN play like 2:2) and I'm not looking forward to it, Italy has a strong team :-(
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The Mir@cle
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Come on Fox Mulder, euh Mister Scully. Holland was stronger the first sixty minutes. And we deserved a penalty instead of a red card. But your right, looking to the last minutes a draw was reasonable.
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Mr. Scully
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Yes, that's true, the penalty could have been and we wouldn't have said a word against it.
Take it as a small revenge... the Dutch penalty on Euro 2000 in the last minute against us was quite strict and it meant end of our chances at the tournament... :-)
After 20 minutes I thought "where the hell is our defense? unbelievable"... but after the game Eurosport (and many newspaper) marked it as one of the best games in the history of the tournament :-)
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Fenderek
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God I have to say- that was an amazing game!!! First half could have ended like 4:1 for Dutch, but later... Czechs impressed me so much!!! Nedved and Baros were brilliant!!! It was one of the best games I've ever seen, and I've been football fan for like... 15 years...!
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How about Spain going home, heh...? Pretty cool, considering the anti-football they showed against Portugal... Wanted 0:0, got tickets home... For football's sake now Italy should go home as well... Sorry all Italian fans, but I hate teams who winning 1:0 go to total defence, taking off good players and replacing them with lumberjacks...
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Doeas anyone else think that Ibrhimovic is a real star of this tournament...?
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Mr. Scully
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I agree that Spain didn't deserve to advance at all, it was a shame what they played.
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Mr Coolest Cat
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Well Spain are out and good riddance to them, for a team full of superstars they were very dull, the tournement will be better without them, well done to Greece for qualifying for the quarter-finals.England v Croatia tonight, so Croatia will be going home tomorrow.
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-fatty- 2850
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I will be shouting for Croatia this evening and to show my support I plan to kill a Serbian at half time.
fatty.
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Sonja
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Rooney's the man!
What a game. Well done.
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I won't talk until Italy - Bulgaria and Sweden - Denmark are over.. Though I really should reply to some comments from people who only played cricket or softball in their lives and can't really understand what football is...
let's hope i can back here in joy.
cheeeeeeeeers!
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Lawyeris
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I feel Italy doesnt deserve to qualify further, at least less than scandinavians, sorry pall :-(
Unless they'll beat Bulgaria 6-0:)
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Lawyeris
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fatty wrote:
I will be shouting for Croatia this evening and to show my support I plan to kill a Serbian at half time.
fatty.
I suppose that Serbian is still alive (maybe he even killed you?) and you didnt shout very well...
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Lawyeris
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The Mir@cle wrote:
My country played well Saturday and deserved to win. But I said it three times before in this topic, our greatest opponent is our coach. He made some really weird decisions and that's why we lost control in the match.
Lithuanian press also is calling Dick Advokaad as loser in the end, the main reason why Duch arent playing at their best, sorry director of playing:):):)
