Football(Soccer)

A bit sarcastic there, are we? But i think germany has a good chance of turning this around. They will beat hungary easily and to be honest Portugal did not look too impressive. I think Germany has good chances against them.

Parking the bus as you call it has always been part of football. It isn't pretty or fun to watch (rather the opposite) and really strong teams, like Spain, France, and so on must be able to handle it. It can be done. Sweden, in the qualifiers, met many teams that played like that because they know it was their best chance of getting a point. Noone with sense is gonna meet teams like that and give them a lot of place to play in. Then you lose. As a team, especially in championships, you must be able to handle all kind of defences, low defences (Parking the bus), high defences, pressplay and so on. Then we, in the process, lost our passing play in this game which usually is much better. That made it look even worse i guess but that should have helped Spain to score. As i i said that they failed is on them, not us. Group play in championships is about securing enough points to survive to the next round, not playing the beautiful game. The big nations, Spain, France, Germany and so on, has never had to play to survive because they have always had teams among the worlds greatest and their leagues is full of the worlds greatest players so i guess its not common there either. I dont think this would have worked against say france because they have world class strikers which Spain lack. Spain is very good at passing but they dont do it fast and on onetouch which allows another team to always be in position. France or Germany passes not better but quicker which would open up holes in such a defence. Spain failed to do it. Didn't even try. A good team must be able to penetrate low defences which are a part of Football, always will be. 

I thought Italy was very impressive. Except for the first 10 minutes they dictated the game and won deservedly with 3-0. Wales/Turkey was not really good. Wales won not because they were good but because Turkey was really bad. It is strange that they play so bad. They did a very good Qualifier but seem to have forgotten both how to attack and how to defend.

True. Italy hasn't really been tested. But they have showed that they can play in various ways. They can pass the quick ball to be very dangerous in the counterattack, and they can attack from the sides with their wingbacks and they have players that make these hard passes through the middefence. Their main attacker, Immobile, is a weak spot though. He needs too many chances to score. So far he has got many chances but against better teams he will not get that many chances. Will he still score? Remains to be seen. Spains failure to score against us was because they tried the same slow possession game all the time. No quick passes, no changing of the pace and no tries to go forward quickly when they had the chance. Italy can attack in many ways, much harder to defend against.