Some early predictions for Euro 2024 in which we place our head firmly on the block and reveal the finalists, semi-finalists and more.
Euro 2024 in a bit, isn’t it? Snuck up fast, hasn’t it? Club season only just finished. Still, you can’t beat summer tournament football. So we’re going to spoil it by telling you in often quite excruciating detail exactly what’s going to happen this summer so you don’t have to bother with it.. Especially the bit about Turkey – who would go on to lose all three group games – reaching the quarter-finals. Read this one instead, because it’s not technically wrong yet.
And England have a very plausible path to a semi-final against France that involves absolutely no top-tier opponent before the grisly formalities of another agonising defeat against that first top-tier opponent. It’s most likely that quarter-final opponent is going to be Italy or Croatia from Group B, with either of those sides favoured against any of the potential runners-up from a weaker-looking Group A. Now both Italy and Croatia have relatively recent pedigree in the breaking-England’s-hearts-as-first-decent-team-they’ve-met stakes, but England have also gained a fair measure of revenge since against both those sides. And neither are as strong now as when they got the better of England.
But it’s also near impossible to clamber out of this rabbithole once you start digging. So having studied the assorted permutations and come up with Germany and France in the final and England as one of the losing semi-finalists it would be remiss not to try and identify the other team to reach the last four.
Now the Netherlands are probably a better team than Portugal, but when it comes to housing your way through to the latter stages of a major tournament we’d take the Portuguese every single time. So there it is. We’ve basically saved everyone an awful lot of time and effort here. Barely worth playing the actual tournament now.And we’ll stick with Portugal for this next shout.
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