Euro '08 - entering de SF

Euro-2008 is coming to an end soon. de 1st of two semi-finals is just hours away. and as I predicted, upsets happened. and for me, upsets are really needed in football to create some thrill and I was eagerly waiting for upset from 1 match to another during de group stage & de quarter-finals. :-)

out of de 4-groups, I only managed to guess 1 correctly on which country will qualify for de QF.
for Group-A, I predicted for Portugal & Rep.of Czech to make it to de nx round but it was Turkey who made it & Czech was forced to return home early.
in Group B, yeah I got it correct for my prediction. Germany & Croatia made it.
in Group-C, France & Italy were my choices to go thru but AGAIN, I got it wrong. it was Netherlands instead of France. and I should say, de results from dis group were really unpredictable in some.
lastly, de Group D, I thought Spain & Sweden had a good chance to qualify but Sweden didnt qlify while Spain made it thru. YAY-ness. de runner-up spot went to Russia.

in de QF, more upsets were on de sheet.
Portugal-VS-Germany. well, not only me but many others as well, were thinking that Portugal is good enough to win de game. for some, they are sensational. well, in de game where all players MUST give their fullest commitments, few of de Portugal players flopped & failed to meet de expectation. and thats de end of their Euro campaign.
Croatia-VS-Turkey. hmm, I got it wrong just AGAIN for dis match. obviously I was hoping for Croatia to win but Turkey proved that they are a team which deserved a respect. they are in de Euro not just to make-up numbers. when Klasnic scored for Croatia deep in de extra-time, I was fully sure they would win de match but de Turks had other idea.
Netherlands-VS-Russia. Russia gave de Netherlands some footballing lesson in dis match. I was really impressed with their performance & work-rate.
and lastly, Spain-VS-Italy. de most boring match out of the 4-QFs. BOREDOM and I fell asleep. haha. both teams were defending & keep on defending so thats it. not much can be said when both coaches used de same tactical approach. lucky for my Spain, they made it to de SF.

so de SFs are real soon & I will keep my mouth shut from predicting anythg. I have only 1 hope, that is to see Spain in de Final. may my wish will b granted.