The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[Barozi]

Scisca said:

Barozi said:

Just because I mentioned the obvious?
Iceland winning against Austria is considered a surprise, so obviously I'm mentioning that with half a sentence. You were disputing my comment so I had to elaborate what I meant with a bit more content.

Are you kidding? You must be kidding. Let me remind you what Iceland did in the qualifiers. They won the group with Netherlands, Czech Rep and Turkey. Theyare a very good team. Them defeating Austria is the expected score, they were my favourites to win this group, but then Hungary happened (can't complain! ). To me, they have very realistic chances to eliminate England and I'm happy to see other people seeing this as well. Also, today Austria actually showed that they know how to play football, but waking up in the last game proved to be too late even on this tournament.

Well since Iceland never qualified for anything before and Austria can be a decent team sometimes, I would still consider it a surprise. Austria topped their group as well and you can only judge the strength of the other teams once the tournament has started. Looking at both Turkey and Czech Republic, they didn't play a good tournament either.

Shows how bad the Netherlands were during the qualification.