Italy will win cause they always win against Germany.
Reus has to stay in the first eleven, Schweinsteiger too. But he is injured and if he would be replaced by Kroos, Germany will lose.

Italy is a very pleaseant surprise, IMO, tied with Germany as the best teams of the tournament just one step above Spain.

What a poor performance by the English team. Italy was not that great, England just sucked.

i wouldnt be too sure about that.

Busquets, the lord of footy theather.

Spanish gonna be Spanish xD

To be honest, these kind of things worry me for the next match. Busquest and some other spanish players have already stated that if they have to go hard on Ronaldo to stop him, they will, and most likely it'll be portuguese players to see yellow or red cards instead. Nothing that we didn't see back at WC 2010.

Portugal did nothing at the WC 2010 game against Spain. They didn't lose because the referee, they lost because they played a really bad game and didn't deserve to win. Don't make excuses before the match.

Can't complain? You are satisfied with England constantly being a B-nation?

England is the motherland of football and the sport is huge. I bet all youngsters over there want to become a football pro, just like they want in all big football nations. England shoule be a top nation in football along with Spain, Germany, Italy and France. But for some strange reason they're not. They're clearly even below Holland and Portugal when they shouldn't be.

I believe the talent is there but the system is still wrong. I just don't get why England (both the Premiere League and the national team) doesn't reform the system and strategy into a philosophy of ball possession and skill instead of *insert name for the English style of play*.

Something is wrong when the split in ball possession is 40-60 in a match against Italy (famous for its defense).

There are so many around the world who want England to succeed (especially here in Scandinavia but from what I have learned England is popular in many places around the world) and we get disappointed every time. Just like the English people we have the same hype and (unrealistic) confidence in the English team before a big cup and then it always ends in disappointment.

Like I said, more reform is needed. The players are skilled and deserve a better strategy. Not Spain skilled but at least they could try to play like Holland (kinda bad timing to bring up Holland in this tournament lol but their philosophy and strategy is much better than England's).

This is all written in love, so if you're a team England fan please don't feel offended.