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·there are three eastern european team this summer to compete on euro 2000.
my assessment about the teams:
romania - extremely tough group. i predict victory against germany and draws with england and portugal. this could be engouh for the quater-finals where they would face to italy, sweden, turkey or host belgium. if they pass to 1-4 finals the draw is good so they can hope to 1-2 finals. but i think that romania IF reaches 1/4 that would be a great result and everything above that is fantastic for them.
the pros and cons
the brialiance of hagi who is simply the best eastern european in the last 20 years who is able to assist, score. his contribution to the team is priceless.
defense is stabile with popescu on the top of it but the weakest part of the squad is midfield. part from hagi i don't see some other players able to produce fluent performance throughout the whole match. attack is very strong with the magician "cobra" ilie, mutu and very dangerous moldovan.
prediction: 1-4 finals
turkey - watching galatasaray few weeks ago i was simply impressed by their performance. they played attacking football with extremely lot of running.
victory against sweden and belgium and loss against italy what would bring them 1/4 finals and there the story would be finished.
solid defense, very good midfield with tayfur havutcu and sergen yalcin and the attack is excellent with hakan sukur and arif.
prediction: 1/4 finals
yugoslavia:
not becasue i am serb but th e strongest eastern european team at the moment considering the players but the overall game is on the lowest level. we can win the euro but also go home after the first stage.
victories against slovenia and norway with draw against spain would provide us the first place in the group. in 1/4 finals we have a tough job against either france(hopefully) or holland but also chezchs have some prospects. if we mannage to pass this obstacle than nobody will stop us but lets be realistic. 1/4 final stage is more than realistic and for everything above that we will need to rise our level of performance which is quite low at the moment(games versus china and south korea). there are only two weeks before the euro and i am afraid that there is little time to change the whole conception of the team.
THE DREAM IS: to watch in semi-finals yugoslavia vs romania/turkey
my assessment about the teams:
romania - extremely tough group. i predict victory against germany and draws with england and portugal. this could be engouh for the quater-finals where they would face to italy, sweden, turkey or host belgium. if they pass to 1-4 finals the draw is good so they can hope to 1-2 finals. but i think that romania IF reaches 1/4 that would be a great result and everything above that is fantastic for them.
the pros and cons
the brialiance of hagi who is simply the best eastern european in the last 20 years who is able to assist, score. his contribution to the team is priceless.
defense is stabile with popescu on the top of it but the weakest part of the squad is midfield. part from hagi i don't see some other players able to produce fluent performance throughout the whole match. attack is very strong with the magician "cobra" ilie, mutu and very dangerous moldovan.
prediction: 1-4 finals
turkey - watching galatasaray few weeks ago i was simply impressed by their performance. they played attacking football with extremely lot of running.
victory against sweden and belgium and loss against italy what would bring them 1/4 finals and there the story would be finished.
solid defense, very good midfield with tayfur havutcu and sergen yalcin and the attack is excellent with hakan sukur and arif.
prediction: 1/4 finals
yugoslavia:
not becasue i am serb but th e strongest eastern european team at the moment considering the players but the overall game is on the lowest level. we can win the euro but also go home after the first stage.
victories against slovenia and norway with draw against spain would provide us the first place in the group. in 1/4 finals we have a tough job against either france(hopefully) or holland but also chezchs have some prospects. if we mannage to pass this obstacle than nobody will stop us but lets be realistic. 1/4 final stage is more than realistic and for everything above that we will need to rise our level of performance which is quite low at the moment(games versus china and south korea). there are only two weeks before the euro and i am afraid that there is little time to change the whole conception of the team.
THE DREAM IS: to watch in semi-finals yugoslavia vs romania/turkey