okr on 25 June 2008
| Thatmax said: I can see Russia winning the tourney now, Germany wont be a hard opponent to them due to the strong and fast midfield if they play like they did today. |
They won't play like today on Sunday. Everyone expected they would have problems with Portugal after the games against Croatia and Austria and we know what happened. The German team is the most efficient team so far in this tournament and they need only few chances to score.
But the overall performance of the German team was not good at all today, that's true. I was surprised that the Turkish team didn't take advantage of their dominance at the beginning of the 2nd half. It seemed to me that in halftime the Turkish coach told his players to reduce their agressive game and to pace themselves. If so, this was the right decision at the wrong time. The Turkish team should've wrapped things up at the beginning of the 2nd half.
