Today two giants, Spain and Italy, clashed to see who would win.  At the end of regulation and extra time, niether could muster the strength to score a single goal on the other.

Spain and Italy: If a game had to be decided between two powers like these two, I would pick the penalty shoot out.  [...]

Totally unbelievable. A team that dominated its group competition in the group of death falls to Russia. My money was on Holland but it is not so. Igor Akinfeev played a good game only giving up one goal to the offensive happy Dutch who scored 4 goals on both Italy and France. [...]

Today, the Euro 2008 Quarter-Finals have started.

Germany beat Portugal today.  While the Portugese side did very well in taking the champions title for their group, Germany snapped up their hopes for 08.  The game got very exciting in the last minutes as Portugal scored a goal to make the final score 3-2.
Future Fixtures:
Tomorrow- Croatia vs. [...]

Group C closed today and it is Holland and Italy.  The two World Cup finalists will not move on hand and hand this time as the power of Holland was too much for both teams. 

 Italy: defeated France 2-0 today as they will be moving on as the runners up from Group C.  They will be [...]

I’m right! I’m right!  While my predictions are not solid for Group B, I still predicted that Germany and Croatia would pass.  Now they are passing, however in a different fashion.  Portugal will now play Germany and Croatia gets to play Turkey.  Both will be very good games and should not be the least bit [...]

Wow, I did not see this coming!  Today, Netherlands beat Italy 3-0 and Romania tied France 0-0.
Netherlands vs. Italy(3-0)
This is a complete shocker to me.  Not that I don’t respect the Netherlands’ side, as they have a lot of talent, I just thought that Italy would win.  This changes things and may even make my [...]