Euro 2008 – Grant Wahl Style
by AB on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 10:46am
Daily reports on Euro 2008 by Friend of the Frog Grant Wahl:
France-Netherlands. After one game Les Bleus was the Euro’s most disappointing team and Holland its most impressive, which means reality is probably somewhere in-between. Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira should be back from injury for France (au revoir, Nicolas Anelka and Jeremy Toulalan), which should make things easier for Franck Ribéry to start being dangerous again like he was in World Cup ‘06. Meantime, Holland can’t be expected to match the counter-attacking clinic it put on against Italy, although this Dutch team only knows one way to play: attack, attack, attack. Look for more of the same through potent midfielders Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart, but I also sense that the porous Dutch defense is going to show up here as well. France 2, Netherlands 2.