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Originally Posted by horses4courses
I've been thinking Spain would step up and show their class.
Nothing doing. They look pretty ordinary.
Belgium and England have impressed so far, albeit against weak opponents.
They will have a pretty meaningless game against each other soon.
Hard to judge, at this point, who has what it takes to lift the trophy.
Being impressive in your group means very little.
They start playing for keeps soon.
If someone put a gun to my head to pick the winner, though,
I'd take a guess and say Belgium. Loads of talent there.
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I don't think the England / Belgium game is meaningless to be honest. I know both teams are through anyway but the result will dictate who wins the group and who comes second, that then dictates which half of the draw they go in. Ironically the winners will go in the half which looks much more difficult so it will be fascinating to see how the two teams approach the game as losing could potentially be better. England's manager has already said though they will be going out to win as they want to keep up the momentum. Belgium on the other hand are reported as thinking about making ten changes to their team and fielding a weakened side so it looks like they are not worried about winning and wanting to go in the bottom half of the draw.
Today was fantastic with the big news Germany are out, the first time in 80 years they have failed to get past the first round. Watched the game and Germany were awful, this is the worst German team I have seen and they deserved to go out. The Germany - England rivalry in football is one of the biggest in the world so we were almost as happy to see Germany out as we are to see England go through. This is the first time since 1966 that England have got further than Germany and we won the tournament that year beating them in the final so hopefully that could be an omen. I still think we will struggle to get past the last eight even if we win in the next round and some of our weaknesses will be exposed against the better teams but we have to have hope.
