TrentVilla Posted May 31, 2012 Moderator Posted May 31, 2012 Group A Czech Republic Greece Poland Russia Fixtures Friday 8th - Poland v Greece - BBC 1 4.15 Russia v Czech R - ITV 7.45 Tuesday 12th - Greece v Czech R - ITV - 5.00 Poland v Russia - ITV - 7.45 Saturday 16th - Czech Rep v Poland - BBC 1 7.45 Greece v Russia - BBC 3 7.45
AVFC_Hitz Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 Yeah, but not that easily. Poland are on home turf and have some good young players. I'm expecting: Russia,Poland,Czechs and then the Greeks.
Zatman Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 Russia and Poland to go through and Lewandowski or Kerzhakov for top scorer. Along with Ireland, Greece will probably be most dull team to watch
Demitri_C Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 you are aware greece have changed manager since? not as negative these days but our squad is poor so i expect us finishing bottom
VillaGoMarching Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 dreadful group, i think Poland could be a dark horse for this tournament though.
Zatman Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 you are aware greece have changed manager since? not as negative these days still only scored 14 in qualifying in a pretty simple group
villa4europe Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 players i want to see - Błaszczykowski, Lewandowski, Papadopoulos, Ninis, Dzagoev its a set of games that outside of a tournament hardly any of us would watch, hopefully not a set of poor games but doesnt set the world alight either does it? russia to piss the group, poland to use home advantage to scrape 2nd
Czechlad Posted June 1, 2012 Posted June 1, 2012 The Czechs have a fine young team with a shit manager. We play very attractive football but we can't score unless Rosicky is playing. Defense is a little suspect at times but we have a good squad. Most important match is Czech vs Russia. That'll decide the group. It seems a lot of people have written us off solely because we failed to qualify for the last world cup. That was largely due to terrible managers not knowing how to incorporate the youth into the squad. Bilek isn't a good manager but he has the Czechs playing decent football once again. I like how we are underrated this time around. We will surprise some.
TrentVilla Posted June 1, 2012 Author Moderator Posted June 1, 2012 you are aware greece have changed manager since? not as negative these days but our squad is poor so i expect us finishing bottom Bloody Eurozone crises :winkold:
gilbertoAVFC Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 I think this could be the most interesting group personally - at least in terms of spawning an underdog to battle the latter stages. All the games will be lower on quality yes, but they will all be extremely tense.
BOF Posted June 6, 2012 Moderator Posted June 6, 2012 The trouble is that anyone coming out of this group goes straight up against the group of death qualifiers in the next phase. /tournament
Voinjama Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 In 2008 Russia come out of an easyish group and came up against a team who had just topped the group of death in holland. A holland team who beat italy and france by 3 goal margins. Russia won 3-1 and now they are stronger. If there is to be a shock semi finalist, it will be russia.
villaajax Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 In 2008 Russia come out of an easyish group and came up against a team who had just topped the group of death in holland. A holland team who beat italy and france by 3 goal margins. Russia won 3-1 and now they are stronger. If there is to be a shock semi finalist, it will be russia. Were Russia really that great in 2008? Or was it that the Dutch players had their mind on bigger matters? Boulahrouz's baby died the day before the game, you could tell the playes weren't thinking about the match.
HolteEndRob Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 I'm surprised to see a few people writing off the Czech's! Russia and Czech Republic will be the ones going through.
Zatman Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 watched czech vs Scotland last year and were really poor and if i remember Scots were robbed of a win. put me off tipping them
Voinjama Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 In 2008 Russia come out of an easyish group and came up against a team who had just topped the group of death in holland. A holland team who beat italy and france by 3 goal margins. Russia won 3-1 and now they are stronger. If there is to be a shock semi finalist, it will be russia. Were Russia really that great in 2008? Or was it that the Dutch players had their mind on bigger matters? Boulahrouz's baby died the day before the game, you could tell the playes weren't thinking about the match. I wasnt aware of that. I just thought russia beat holland because they were a better team.
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