Quote:
Originally Posted by flip
well this leaves the Italians in a precarious position.
Lets say the Netherlands wins today and Italy beats France on Tuesday. Then all Holland has to do is intentionally lose to the Romanians and Italy and France are both eliminated. That is a scary scenario, but will require quite a few chips to fall into place.
A draw today btwn the Netherlands and France is probably Italy's best hope because then a victory against France on Tuesday and the Italians are in. (again assuming the Netherlands doesn't intentionaly throw the game against Romania, which they will,, I think if it can eliminate France and Italy)
|
I think everyone here likes the Dutch, myself included, and they're not the type of team who would throw games. Yes they may play a few reserve players to rest main players due to injury or yellow cards.
Plus they lost to Romania in qualifying so if they had any pride they would like some revenge.. At this stage of the tournament Romania looks better than France and Italy anyways so why knock them out on purpose?
EDIT: yeah what Locke said, although I'd argue with the Italian, Portugese part. The Swedes and Danes are the match-fixing experts!