Euro 2008 Draw

[gr8-1]

well the draw for the Euro 2008 championships has been made....and what a tournament we are in for.

World champs Italy have France again (as they did in the world cup 06 final and the Euro 2008 qualifiers) in group C, but add to that Holland and Romania and we have ourselves the group of death.

so what happened to the hosts? Switzerland were drawn in group A alongside the czech republic and Portugal. Its certainly a difficult group and on top of that the group is finalised with Turkey, (who are certainly no turkeys)

The other hosts, Austria, who had their own fans petition to have them removed from euro 2008 to "save the country from embarrasing themselves", (Hell if the petition works, then hopefully England can sneak in:laugh: )

well either way Austria are in group B and incidentally enough they are joined by -england conquerors- Croatia, Germany and Poland.

so what of Group D? Well holders Greece start their unlikely defence of the crown against Sweden, -the ever inconsistent- Spain and last but not least Russia.

so what is the general consensus? me personally i cant wait to see how group C ends up with italy, france, romania and holland. (we've seen italy-france and holland-romania in qualifying). It is a shame though that 2 class teams will miss out. I'm hoping for italy and holland to make it through.

as for winners? well ive mentioned before that i consider croatia the dark horses, so they could win it. But im going for france or italy. Italy always seem to do enough in tournaments but they were disappointing in the last euro 2004. Czech republic are also possible winners and with the best keeper in the world anything is possible.

Group A- Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey
Group B- Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland
Group C- Holland, Italy, Romania, France
Group D- Greece, Sweden, Spain, Russia

[prly]

I think it won't be as exciting, just because it won't be much of a competition in the knockout stage because of this eveness in the groups.

as the winners of gropus C, i see France and Holland cuz Italy's usually bad at the begining of a competition, and they had an unlucky draw for that matter.

and the winners? i think Germany, perhaps Spain, or Italy if they make it to the later stages.

[gr8-1]

I think it won't be as exciting, just because it won't be much of a competition in the knockout stage because of this eveness in the groups.

so true, who knows we could end up with a final like poland vs switzerland and no offence to those teams but no one wants to see that final

[Rising]

stupid draw having holand france italy in the same group it sad one of them have to go outhis early in the group stages
i think winners will be germany,holland or portugal

[PompeY2J]

Yeah, gotta agree with Rising there. Last time around, Holland, Germany, and Czech Republic (all top ten in the world) were in the same pool.

Winners - Germany

[donttread22]

Yeah i'm gonna hav 2 go against legend sayin italy rn't gonna take home the crown as they havn't impressed me much...my winner picks r Portugal or France and Greece may even sneak in thar again.

[soccernation]

what about Spain guys? they are on fire!