Its our Euro 2012 quarter final review of players from the premier league. The first Euro 2012 game is Portugal vs Czech Republic. What a poor game this was. Rosickys injury seemed to have sucked all the ambition out of the Czech team. 40% possession, 3 shots compared to Portugals 30, I mean why bother even coming out of the dressing room. No team deserves to win with these stats. Ronaldo was amazing as usual. He’s missed a great deal in fantasy premier league, I would even welcome him back in a City shirt (Hmm… maybe not)
PORTUGAL
Raul Meireles
Played very deep and just looked to play the ball to Ronaldo whenever he got it. Hard to believe looking at this that he was the player who scored so many goals for Liverpool a couple of years back. Not a fantasy option at all due to uncertainty over pitch time, lack of attacking threat and better options in the Chelsea camp
Nani
Its hard to imagine looking at this game that Nani, two seasons ago, would be a better fantasy premier league captain option for Man U before Rooney. I must have jinxed him for this Euro 2012 game by saying how good he is. Very quiet, swapped sides of the pitch with Ronaldo when required but made no difference to the game either way. Made the pass before the assist for Ronaldos goal but was disappointing. Still an option for me next year at this stage.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech
Normal service was resumed here for this Euro 2012 game. Czech had a great game with a couple of quality saves after some poor performances. Not sure whether I felt more sorry for him being the last line in a totally unambitious team or if it was when he came up for the last corner and it didn’t even make the penalty area!
Not an option for me. I’ll be going for 2 cheap rotating goal keepers in fantasy premier league.
Lets hope the German v Greece game is better, although it has the potential to be a carbon copy unfortunately. Join us for this next Euro 2012 game.
