what the hell was that 3-0

Have to say it was deserved, the first goal was ridiculously offside to be fair to Italy but the other two goals were of the highest quality, two of the best counter attacking goals you will see in international football and over all the dutch deserved it. Makes the next match in the this group France vs Italy an all or nothing affair

Scott

The first goal wasn't offside. There was an italian player behind the goal line and that counts as if he was in play.

Right now it's very difficult to see past a Portugal v Germany semi-final from groups A & B as they both look a class above all the other teams in those two groups.

It's not that much of a shock that France couldn't score against Romania as Scotland played with a similar massed defence against France in the qualifiers and France couldn't break it down while Romania used the same tactics to get a win and a draw against Holland in the qualifiers. Domenech won't be around after this tournament, it's in the stars.

Great counter-attacking goals from Holland, especially as Italy came very close to scoring then Holland broke at speed to score. Italy also had a lot of good chances and have still got to feel confident about qualifying. The first goal was fine according to law 11:
"an opposing player cannot be offside when one of the last two defenders has left the field of play" which I learned about an hour ago.

Coaching Battle of the Bands: Slaven Bilic:

European Championship Group D - Greece 0 vs 2 Sweden - Full Time

Greece Starting XI
Antonis Nikopolidis
Giourkas Seitaridis
Vassilis Torosidis
Traianos Dellas (sub 70')
Sotiris Krygiakos
Paraskevas Antzas
Girogis Karagounis
Angelos Charisteas
Angelos Basinas (C)
Kostas Katsouranis
Fanis Gekas (sub 45')

Subs: Giorgos Samaras (sub 45'), Giannis Amanatidis (sub 70')

Sweden Starting XI
Andreas Isaksson
Niclas Alexandersson (sub 74')
Mikael Nilsson
Petter Hansson GOAL 72'
Olof Mellberg
Christian Wilhelmson (sub 78')
Fredrik Ljungberg (C)
Andres Svensson
Daniel Andersson
Zlatan Ibrahimovic GOAL 67' (sub 71')
Henrik Larsson

Subs: Johan Elmander (sub 71'), Fredrik Stoor (sub 74'), Markus Rosenberg (sub 78')

Brückner never announces starting 11 this soon. All he said was that victorious line-up does change.
We have a football saying here, which tells that victorious line-up doesn't change.

European Championship Group A - Czech Republic 1 vs 3 Portugal - Full Time

Czech Republic Starting XI
Petr Cech
Zdenek Grygera
Marek Jankulovski
David Rozehnal
Tomas Ujfalusi (C)
Tomas Galasek (sub 73')
Jan Polak
Marek Matejovsky (sub 68')
Libor Sionko GOAL 17'
Jaroslav Plasil (sub 85')
Milan Baros

Subs: Stanislav Vlcek (sub 68'), Jan Koller (sub 73'), David Jarolim (sub 85')

Portugal Starting XI
Ricardo Pereira
Jose Bosingwa
Paulo Ferreira
Ricardo Carvalho
Kepler Pepe
Armando Petit
Joao Moutinho (sub 75')
Cristiano Ronaldo GOAL 63'
Sabrosa Simao (sub 80')
Anderson Deco GOAL 8'
Nuno Gomes (C) (sub 79')

Subs: Fernando Meira (sub 75'), Hugo Almeida (sub 79'), Ricardo Quaresma (sub 80') GOAL 90'