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All nations of Group of Death Euro 2012 lost their respective matches on Saturday. Except Portugal...?

Switzerland 5 x 3 Germany

Denmark 1 x 3 Brazil (olympic team)

Netherlands 1 x 2 Bulgaria

Portugal 0 x 0 Macedonia

Group B (also known as Death Group) of Euro 2012 consists of Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark. They're really strong teams but ended up been defeated by relatively weak teams this Saturday.

Denmark was defeated by Brazilian national team which isn't actually weak. However, Brazil was playing with an U-23 squad.

Portugal didn't lost its match but could have got better result once it was playing at home against the 98th placed team on FIFA Ranking.

So, what could we really expect about these teams. Will they have a disappointing performance on Euro 2012 or they just had a bad day.

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  • 9 years ago
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    You're right, its surprising. But Germany's defeat was NOT surprise at all.

    The German national team, and its key players are from Bayern Munich. All Bayern players are still resting from the CL finale, and taking a break until Monday. So the German team had to use a lot of reserve or substitute players. Also, Ter Stegen made his goalie debut. It was his first match, and he's only 20. And the problem was, Joachim Loew (Germany's Coach) wanted to EXPERIMENT and TEST some of the players who are new, and some of them (Gundogan, Draxler and Reus) never played much and are inexperienced. So of course they were not gonna play as well as they usually do. Also, they played a different formation. He wanted to try a 4-1-4-1 because they usually play a 4-2-3-1.

    And lastly, Germany has had the worst friendly record out of all national teams for years and years. They are known to lose friendlies, because they are a tournament team. It was smart to test these inexperienced players, without almost all the key players. Germany is a tournament team anyway. They lost many matches before WC2010 or Euro 2008. And still made it far. The Germany you will see this summer, will not be this one. Its gonna consist of many Bayern players, and Manule Neuer (Goalie) will be back to take the spot.

    Just imagine Spains national team playing a friendly, without any of the Barca players ?... They'd surely screw up without a doubt, as these players make up the heart of the national team, just as Bayern players do.

  • 4 years ago

    it relatively is a team of loss of life.....even a draw has extreme outcomes, no longer to point a loss. I assume the communities Germany and Netherlands to bypass by way of. yet while the two team has a loss then we see different communities get in. BQ - a million. Germany 2-a million 2. Netherlands 3-a million 3. Germany 3-a million

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