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Originally Posted by Locke
Italy had 2 chances to beat Sweden and didnt score a single goal. Sounds to me like some mediocre teams have been omitted.  |
Not disagreeing there, you'll see I didn't list any of the European teams. Take Sweden for example, the beat Italy, France, and the Dutch to be here, they earned it.
The fact that you could have a group that has Sweden, Netherlands, & France in the same group, or Italy & Spain in the same group, while a group only has Serbia, Ireland, Wales, Austria etc in it is a different argument that speaks to the stupidity of the FIFA rankings (Romania was POT A and ranked 8th in the world, Wales too FFS) but we will save that for another day.
Just feel like upsets in other (non-UEFA) qualifying brackets have made this a less than impressive tournament.
I stand by the statement that the European championship is usually harder to win than the World Cup.