The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Scisca said:

Augen said:
Incredible match and felt for Australia as they absolutely gave their all. Netherlands have such quality hard to contain, why I picked them to win it all.

I still think it's way too early to bet on the Dutch. We just saw that even Austrialia can take them on. They have started tournaments like crazy beasts only to completely lose steam and get eliminated ridiculously early way too many times to really get excited about them. Let's wait and see. This is a tournament, it's still almost a month. I'm gonna repeat - the team that wins a tournament is the one that grows the most during the tournament, not the one that gets out of the gates first.

This. At the Euro 2008, we beat Italy (World Champion) 3-0, France (Runner-up) 4-1 and Romania (they beat us in the qualification) 2-0. Then in the quarter finals we went out against Russia 3-1 after extra time.