So far the quarter finals of Euro 2012 have been a bit of a disappointment.
There have been no real shocks everyone who was expected to go through, has gone through and with relative ease.
Portugal were made to work hard against the Czechs but there was an inevitability about the result, and so it proved as the imperious and improving Ronaldo scored the winner.
Germany had the freedom of the pitch afforded to them by Greece, who set up with the well known flat back 9 formation.
To be fair they miraculously managed to equalise and momentarily make everyone sit-up.
But in reality it was only ever going to be short-lived, as Germany fed-up with the fact that they were still level, upped the tempo and battered Greece into submission.
Spain won at a canter despite being nowhere near their best, aided by France’s bizarre tactic to not bother for large periods of the game.
When the quarter final line-up was completed the England-Italy game was the hardest one to predict, and as the other 3 haven’t thrown up any surprises, we can only hope that tonight will bring a welcome change.
As an England fan part of me is hoping for a great performance and a routine win, but we all know that isn’t going to happen, it will be tight but as there’s a semi-final place at stake I would like to think both will go for it and try to make things happen, rather than sitting back and letting them happen.
England are capable of reaching the last 4 for the first time in 16 years but I think they need to be more positive, and as the Czech Republic, Greece and France have showed you won’t get very far sitting back.
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