The big match will be England-Germany, the Portugal-Belgium match is also very balanced
ROME. The thrilling finale of groups E and F has defined for the round of 16 of Euro 2020 a picture that comes from many surprises and leads to great matches between next Saturday and Tuesday. There Germany it went on only at the last breath, barely able to equalize in extremis with the crazy Hungary of the Italian coach Marco Rossi, who dreamed of an impossible third place until the last minute. Instead, Lowe’s men will challenge England in London on Tuesday night in the eighth final that promises to be more spectacular. He also struggled there France forced to a second draw in three European games since Portugal. In the round of 16 the transalpines will play on Monday in Bucharest Switzerland. While for Cristiano Ronaldo & C there will be the Belgium Sunday evening in Seville in the other key match of the second round, on the director of Italy for the quarters.
Out of surprise the Poland of the highly criticized Paulo Sousa, who launched the Sweden to an unexpected group win. There Spain with a goleada she avoided a sensational elimination, but she had to settle for second place, which will lead her to cross the Croatia, Monday in Copenhagen. Sweden moved on by two points more and will face off in Glasgow on Tuesday Ukraine, the last of the four teams that qualified as third best: just 3 points and -1 goal difference, only one goal more than Finland, which leaves Euro 2020 together with Slovakia (-5) as the worst third. Third and qualified, however, Portugal, the Switzerland, who reached the minimum goal of the round of 16, and the Czech Republicto which, semifinalist in 2004, he has already done better than 2016.
The path of theItaly, the first to qualify: Saturday night in London he will face theAustria, a historic, epic challenge in the 1930s between the semifinal of the 1934 World Cup in Rome and the final of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The intersection between the Welsh and the Danish national teams is instead unprecedented at the European and World Cup level: they will meet on Saturday at 6 pm in Amsterdam, where the fans will be able to arrive from Denmark but not those from Wales, because one country is on the Dutch government’s list of safe destinations and the other is not. Three hours later in Seville on Belgium, dominator of group B, will contend for a place in the quarter-finals at the Portugal, outgoing European champion. In 2016 the Lusitanians triumphed after having passed the group as third only thanks to the goal difference, Cr7 and teammates will now have to overcome Lukaku to continue chasing the encore.
TheNetherlands, which on Sunday in Budapest will challenge the Czech Republic, best of the group of third promoted. L’England, who won Group D with two wins and a draw at Wembley, will try again on Tuesday to assert the home factor in the big match of the round of 16, the one against a Germany appeared excited and insecure under the Munich flood against Hungary. The British hope this time to win by overturning history and to stay in London for the last phase of the tournament. Then it will be the turn of the quarters and they will all be great matches.