Bad Prediciton Baby!

I'm blaming that damn baby. He made me think negative thoughts and what I expected to be a yawn fest, was actually a great opening 2 games!

The standard of football in the Poland v Greece game wasn't up to much but they both excelled in parallel halves. Poland looked strong during the first half although Greece took the crown in the second half as Poland started to flag. It was Poland's Borussia Dortmund trio who really helped push Poland forward, as was expected and Lewandowski who netted the first goal after a goalkeeping error. Salpinigidis proved to be a super sub for Greece after he scored their equaliser and earned them a sub after Szcezney stuck a leg out in the box and got himself sent off, meaning he will miss Poland's next game. Luckily for him, Karagounis failed to send the ball into newly instated Tyton's goal. With what seemed to be quite a sensible ref to start going all card happy on us, resulting in 2 sending offs (one fair, one absolutely appaling for 2 soft tackles) it all made for a very interesting 90 mintues. If Greece hadn't scored, then my prediciton would have been spot on! So, yeah...close counts.

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Onto the Russia v Czech Republic 4-1 bonanza. Thank you again to Russia for ruining all of my pre-Euro's predicitons. In fact, you picked them up, chewed them up and shooted them out through your nose to produce a green tinted vodka like substance. Although, if you half the amount of goals they scored, then my prediciton was correct! This is how we are working it today people. One thing I did predict correctly was how good Dzagoev was going to be, bagging himself a brace. Arshavin proved once again to be a cracking player for Russia and Shirokov looked pretty tasty too. In a 'sweet football, dude' way not a 'I'm going to eat you with a glass of chianti' way. Kerzhakov seemed to be a bit of an achilles heel for Russia having an abundance of shots on goal, just not on target and was the man bought off for 'chenko, who scored a wonderful goal. The Czech Republic, to nobody's real suprise were poor but it doesn't take away from Russia's rampant performance. If they are able to tighten up a bit defensively, they really could go on to be the suprise winners of 2012.