Euro 2008 FINALS: Spain vs Germany

[Basti]

Spain's been red hot in the tourney, and will be the favorites...

But history's BY FAR on the German side. IIRC Spain is only playing their first international tourney finals, while Germany's the team that won the most Euro trophies.

I get the feeling Germany's gonna win again.

Kinda like the Lakers vs Celtics finals series... Lakers were the more impressive team thru-out the playoffs and bookies all had em as clear favorites... but almost everybody forgot that Boston pwned em during the reg season...

didn't they play France in the EC final back in 1984?

[b-ball forever]

Ya, they did. I meant to say they never won.

EDIT : But now I looked it up and they actually did win once.. in 1964, rofl.

Germany still has way more silverware, and has been way more successfull in recent years tho

[Point forward]

Soon, I will be leaving for the public viewing. To the German team only 1 message:

HOLT EUCH DEN POTT!!!
(Get that trophy!!!)

[magik9113]

^ good luck.

I still don't think Germany's defense is strong enough. Spain should finally win something for once

[El Turco]

Good luck to Germans.

Hopefully we ll have a final matches to overall tournament excitement wise.

[El Turco]

great, great finish by Torres.

[magik9113]

ballack needs a card

and got one.

[meatball sub]

Ballack is a dirty player.

[snapcracklepape]

Ballack is a champ, and Torres just scored a world class goal.

[meatball sub]

Oh god, that had to hurt. BREATHE dude, BREATHE!

[meatball sub]

How is that a yellow for Torres?!??!

[El Turco]

Watching Rosetti brings back bad memories of Turkey-Croatia. He murders the flow of the game with his dumb foul calls and cards.

[magik9113]

and thats game

[El Turco]

My condolences German friends but even they ll agree that they didnt deserve to win this game and the tournament. frankly, i expected lot more from Germany.

Spain was the best team from start to finish and fully deserved this, congrats Spain.

[Pharmcat]

germany was lucky to get this far, looked averaged out there

[snapcracklepape]

Congrats to the best team of the whole tournament, Spain!

[Point forward]

Boy, what an embarrassment. We were lucky not to lose 0-5 or 0-6. We got owned so badly that I physically feel butthurt. Torros totally controlled Mertesacker, Senna made Schweinsteiger his b****, Ballack sucuumbed to the brilliance of Xavi and Casillas was unemployed.

I will be very sad for about a day, but then, I will be proud once again of our "Mannschaft". Silver is not bad at all. But first, let's have a consolation beer...

[oh_so_fly]

I'm amazed Germany got as far as they did with their ridiculous inconsistency, not to mention how terrible Mario Gomez was... but that scene by Joan Capdevila at the end to take away a German scoring chance (which surely would have been a goal since Mario Gomez was no where near the ball) was pretty disgraceful.

And it sure would have been nice to see a Turkey/Russia 3rd place match. Too bad...

[Point forward]

BTW congratz Spain, you were the best.

[Captain_Obvious]

Congrats Spain

Well deserved trophy

I think it was obvious that Ballack was injured and got beat up during the game. Hes the key and we missed his leadership badly. The game was over when Löw subbed in Kuranyi: If you sub a in a striker, its Gomez no matter how bad he played this tournament. Not only has he played before in this tourney, he has sth called talent that Kuranyi only dreams of at night. Im not sure it makes sense to have three strikers versus Spain but thats another issue.
Löw got outcoached, in retroperpective it would have made much more sense to bring Ballack in the second half to give yourself a boost, he's too banged up to play 90 minutes. Overall Spain was clearly the better team with a deeper bench while our keyplayers looked tired during the game.