For this group, one thing is already known from the beginning, one of the favorites to win the championship would be the way. According to statistics, Denmark would have less chance of being successful and in fact ended with two losses.
But after all the team were satisfied by at least left their mark in this championship. After all, the Danish faced very well the German team, with a solid defense that unfortunately, in moments of weakness, Germany took advantage to score twice.
Denmark started the championship to counter expectations by beating the Netherlands, with a goal in the first half on 24 minutes by the foot of Michael Khron-Dehli. Despite being the only goal of the meeting, which was full of attempts, especially by the Dutch team, mainly from Arjen Robben, just after the goal of Denmark had one of the best times to tie the game. In the second part, despite the strong attack by the Dutch team, Denmark has maintained a robust defense that has adapted well to this extremely offensive strategy by the Netherlands.
And fortune would again be against Holland in the next two games, despite having scored, and have started to score in the game against Portugal. In fact, one of the teams considered favorites, had numerous opportunities over the three games that were not used. In the last game after the goal by Rafael van der Vaart, who gave some hope to the Dutch people, the Portuguese team was able to recover from the lethargy that seemed to affect it. Furthermore, the Netherlands seemed to lose all the vigor with which had started the game.
In another game, the chances of Denmark is ascertained were stronger, and in fact the game was much more fierce, even giving to Germany a lot more work than previous ones. The game came to be tied until the 80th minute, a goal by Lars Bender, the result of a pass from Mesut Ozil intended to Mario Gomez, ended with the Danish deram and secured Germany's leadership group.
Despite the no clearance is a bit contrived to Germany, it entered this game like the previous: restless and always looking to attack without leaving room for the opponent. And indeed, despite the goal to tie just five minutes later, thanks to the efforts of Nicklas Bendtner, Christian Eriksen and Drohn-Dehli, Denmark has always been smothered by Germany.
One of the figures who is one of the biggest responsible by all this exceptional journey of the German team is the player Mario Gomez, who scored three goals and was responsible for putting the Netherlands in danger of not passing in the second round of group games. In fact, although both the Netherlands and Denmark trying to adapt to the strong attack from Germany, after seeing what happened in the Portugal game, closing their lines of defense, the truth is that Germany has always been able to show why is considered one of the big favorites to win.
As to other qualified, Portugal, had a fierce passage in which, despite the first game with Germany in it completely dominated the game, in both victories Portugal suffered a lot and at risk the qualification of Portugal.
However, for Portugal to continue to be successful in this league can not continue to commit elementary errors which sometimes made so far, especially the control of the game that Portugal often almost delivers to the opposing team.
Not to mention some team spirit that has been lacking, although the situation has improved considerably, mainly thanks to the game against Denmark where the alleged poor performance of the captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, finally bring out other players, and show the importance of a united and cohesive team.
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