MH wrote:
On 2024-07-07 20:47, FF wrote:
Most unsurprising semis possible. These are the 4 teams you'd have
most expected to make it this far. (Possibly Germany instead of
Holland, only because they were hosts.)
From what we've seen so far, Spain look indeed slight favorites,
followed closely by England (not so much based on what they've shown
here but we know they're strong so they might want to start actually showing it). But of course the other 2 teams are far from written
off.
If all the teams I kind of expected to win their groups had done so,
I would have expected the semi-finals to be
Germany or Spain vs. Portugal
France vs. England or Italy
Still, you've got 3 out of 4. And Holland instead of Portugal (or maybe Croatia, come think of it I expected a little bit more from them at the
start of the tournament, of course) is not really a surprise.
Nowadays it's not a good idea to expect anything from Italy. :)
As for Portugal, I tend not to expect very much from them, especially
now that their superstar has aged. But you're right that they were
favorites to win theor group, which they did, and then very unlucky to
have to face France. That's it, things happen. Still, over all very unsurprising semis.
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