On June 27, Beijing time, the dust settled on the final ranking of the European Cup, and all the teams that advanced to the round of 16 were officially born.
With Georgia's 2-0 miraculous victory over Portugal and Turkey's 2-1 last-minute defeat of the Czech Republic, the final European Cup Group F promotion was announced, Portugal first, Turkey second, Georgia third, and the Czech Republic was eliminated.
After the round of 16 appeared, the happiest must be a traditional giant, the Dutch team, who was simply ecstatic and picked up a gift package from heaven. Because the Netherlands will face Romania, the first of Group E, and even if they win, their opponents will only be the winner between Austria and Turkey.
In addition to the Netherlands, there is also a team, and now it is very, very happy, although Italy is the second in the group, but it looks no different from the first place in the group, because their opponent is Switzerland, and Switzerland is not a strong team, and after qualifying, the quarterfinals will face England, in fact, the pressure is not too big, because England's form this year is really not good.
And if you look at Italy, if it weren't for the last-minute draw with Croatia, they would have gone home with Hungary, which was too thrilling. Without that equaliser, they would have only three points, ahead of Hungary on goal difference but behind Slovenia, and would have been eliminated if they had lost to Croatia on goal difference.
Although England played Slovakia in the first round, which can basically guarantee promotion, but the next face against Italy is likely to show its original form, and Italy in the knockout stage is indeed strong enough. It can only be said that the Netherlands is the happiest now, but Italy in the lower half is not so uncomfortable, because there are only three traditional powerhouses in this half, Italy, England and the Netherlands, and the rest are not here.
In the top half, there are five super teams, and the most uncomfortable ones are definitely France and Portugal. First of all, the French team faced Belgium directly in the first round of the knockout round, the opponent of the European Red Devils used to be the world's No. 1, as well as De Bruyne, Lukaku and other world-class superstars, France's form in the group stage this year is not good, a total of two goals in three games, one is not careful, and it may even leave directly in one round.
And the Portuguese team is also very painful, Ronaldo, who has scored 6 points in the first two rounds to lock up the first place in the group, found that this last game was played 0:2, and his goal record was ended. Although the first round played Slovenia, it was also difficult to play, this Slovenia just drew with the English team, he will put you on the bus, and there is nothing you can do.
And won the first place in the group, even if the first round was promoted, the winner between France and Belgium in the second round, who do you say is good to play? None of them are easy to play. This first place is almost the same as the third, who can stand this, you know that in this case they might as well take the second place in the group, go to the bottom half of the zone to replace Turkey's position, play Austria in the first round, and play the winner of the Netherlands and Romania in the second round, isn't this fragrant?
In addition, Spain and Germany are also very helpless, very speechless, they can only accept this reality, Spain played Georgia in the first round, Germany played Denmark in the first round is not a big problem, but the two sides are destined to collide in advance in the second round, the two biggest favorite teams, the quarterfinals have to go first.
And they are both destined to meet after winning the first place in the group, even if they enter the semi-finals, the winner of the three teams fighting between France and Portugal and Belgium in the first half is also very scary, although they are not as desperate as Portugal, but they are indeed more uncomfortable, only one of the top five teams can enter the finals, compared to the top three in the second half of the region, it must only be accepted.
Therefore, these seven super teams, the Netherlands is ecstatic to pick up the gift package, Italy will have a blessing if it does not die, England is a little happy and sad, happy too early, Spain and Germany have no choice but to accept their fate, France and Portugal are really desperate.