Then you should've said Denmark was far better in the first half, because a full game consists of two halves and they told a different story.
Not for one second do I believe we will dominate and smash the Italians. But I do believe we have a chance to win the tournament yes. Why should I not? Italy needed ET against an average side. France couldn't get past Hungary, drew against the team we just eliminated. Spain didn't look convincing, Germany almost lost to Hungary, England look far from convicing. Belgium are not the best team in the world but no country has looked almighty in this tournament so far. Far stranger things have happened than Belgium going all the way. It's unlikely and the road to the final is tough but it's not as impossible or set in stone as you make it out to be. There's a reason we're a top 3 favorite at the booking too I'd guess (France 5.00, Italy 5.80 and Belgium 6.10 as far as I can tell right now).
You could've won it on another night yesterday, both our teams are not far apart imo. Alas.
Ok. Don’t want to monopolise the topic because after all this should be about Italy and not what ifs yesterday or next Friday.
Situation is this, and I am damn serious about that and I am trying to forget the result or what could have happened.
Reality is I expected much more from Belgium, seriously. I know there are some reasons for that, Witsel lack of rhythm, Hazard last 18 months have been terrible, even De Bruyne recovering and then having to leave at the halftime.
Then you have a advantage the temptation is let’s defend that, the problem is with 5 minutes of play if Jota hadn’t done a terrible Euro we probably would have been leading, add to that a few on the second half against a anarchyc offensive structure, believe me, nothing of that was trained previously, we finished the competition with a different midfield than the one who started, if you had that difficulty against a anarchic team, unable to press with more days off rest, how do you believe against a much better worked team regarding their offensive dynamic the things will flow?
If De Bruyne doesn’t recover? I would say to you, if we had won yesterday for me Italy was favourite, we rely on the instinct of individual players to solve problems, not saying that happens with Belgium, but clearly a lot of things simply didn’t looked ok.
Maybe only Vermaelen or Vertonghen defending on a low block were the positive notes yesterday, but the problem is collectively the italians are less predictable than us when they attack. And they press better and higher.
But ok, things can change and if I am wrong I will be the first to admit it and won’t make provocative quotes if I am right. After all there’s a poster here, guess it’s
@Leeuw who supports the same club who has a connection with both countries. It’s nothing personal, and probably I am taking wrong conclusions based in 1 match…