Seven days ago, the Euro 2004 started with a big surprise on the opening day when Greece defeated the host Portugal. Nobody ever thought that Portugal, one of the favourites to win the cup, would show up with such weak performance. The Brazilian coach Luiz Philippi Scolari was blamed for keeping good players like Deco and Christiano Ronaldo out while oldies like Rui Costa were doing nothing on the pitch. When the coach finally waked up, it was almost over and Ronaldo's late goal couldn't save the local team.
On the second day, the long awaited clash between England and France was really worth waiting. The English fans were so happy to see their team taking the lead by Frank Lampard header from the free kick assist by the captain David Beckham. In the middle of the second half, England got a penalty kick and the English fans started singing because they thought that's it but the French keeper Fabian Barthez saved Beckham's shot and gave his team-mates a new hope. Even though, the French couldn't make any real chances on David James. The match was on the way to end when France got a free kick in the loss time. Zinedine Zidane swings it and... Goal. A minute later, France got a penalty because of Steven Gerrard's wrong pass and Zidane scores again. The match ended 2-1, which looked like a nightmare to England fans like me who couldn't believe what happened in the last unbelievable minutes.
There were no big surprises on the rest of matches. Italy kept the result scoreless against Denmark which played so much better than Trappatoni's boys, while Sweden shocked Bulgaria 5-0 thanks to Henrick Larsson and co. Germany's boring style helped them to keep their one goal lead against Holland until minute 80 when Man Utd striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, aka Rudi, equalized for the orange team. We still have no idea why their coach Dick Adovcat still insisting on playing with one forward only while he got plenty good attackers like Makaay and other players.
In the second round, Russian were the first team to kiss the tournament good-bye after they lost to Portugal 0-2. Greece proved they didn't come only to enjoy sunshine and made a difficult draw 1-1 with Spain. The day after, the English lions roars high and beat Switzerland 3-0 by Rooney and Gerrard, while France were lucky again and the could sneak out with a 2-2 draw against Croatia.
In today's matches, Denmark made a reasonable 2-0 win over Bulgaria and Sweden's two coaches were smart enough to take advantage of the Italian coach mistakes to get their team a late equalizer by Zlatan Ibrahimovic preventing the Azuri from getting their first win in the championship. # »
On the second day, the long awaited clash between England and France was really worth waiting. The English fans were so happy to see their team taking the lead by Frank Lampard header from the free kick assist by the captain David Beckham. In the middle of the second half, England got a penalty kick and the English fans started singing because they thought that's it but the French keeper Fabian Barthez saved Beckham's shot and gave his team-mates a new hope. Even though, the French couldn't make any real chances on David James. The match was on the way to end when France got a free kick in the loss time. Zinedine Zidane swings it and... Goal. A minute later, France got a penalty because of Steven Gerrard's wrong pass and Zidane scores again. The match ended 2-1, which looked like a nightmare to England fans like me who couldn't believe what happened in the last unbelievable minutes.
There were no big surprises on the rest of matches. Italy kept the result scoreless against Denmark which played so much better than Trappatoni's boys, while Sweden shocked Bulgaria 5-0 thanks to Henrick Larsson and co. Germany's boring style helped them to keep their one goal lead against Holland until minute 80 when Man Utd striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, aka Rudi, equalized for the orange team. We still have no idea why their coach Dick Adovcat still insisting on playing with one forward only while he got plenty good attackers like Makaay and other players.
In the second round, Russian were the first team to kiss the tournament good-bye after they lost to Portugal 0-2. Greece proved they didn't come only to enjoy sunshine and made a difficult draw 1-1 with Spain. The day after, the English lions roars high and beat Switzerland 3-0 by Rooney and Gerrard, while France were lucky again and the could sneak out with a 2-2 draw against Croatia.
In today's matches, Denmark made a reasonable 2-0 win over Bulgaria and Sweden's two coaches were smart enough to take advantage of the Italian coach mistakes to get their team a late equalizer by Zlatan Ibrahimovic preventing the Azuri from getting their first win in the championship. # »
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