Uefa Euro 2016

It’s going to be the biggest European tournament ever, as for the first time there will be 24 teams involved in the competition. It’s the most unpredictability international competition as there is never a clear cut candidate to the title before the ball starts to roll.

There will be 51 games, the highest number ever and several teams will look forward to try and make it all the way. The hosts France will open up the tournament and they are one of the teams that appears as a strong candidate to win, side by side with the best European teams of the century, Spain and Germany. But these teams have clear weak spots and will have to cover them if they want to confirm their status.



Looking for a slip from the favourites are teams like Italy, Belgium, Portugal and England, teams with attributes that in the right environment can result in a presence in the final. Certain is that this will be a very open tournament, with exciting games, great goals, and new stars to discover.



After several months studying all the participating teams we made a thorough study of their strengths and weaknesses, and with that background throughout the whole competition we will watch the games, analyse the statistics and try to anticipate who and why will win the games ahead of the final on the 10th of July.




From today until the ball starts to roll we will present our analysis of the teams that will be in France, with their history, how they qualified, the best player and the breakout star, the manager and how we predict the teams will play and do in this competion

Intro

“Oh! So unlucky!” - One of the most used soundbytes in football commentary is actually the state of mind that managers and players should try and avoid. It’s one of the first things they teach you in Coaching Football courses, never say your player was unlucky, rather try to understand what and why he failed the move, and try to correct the movement.

 Football isn’t luck, it’s the result of a week preparing 90 minutes. It’s a big chess game that the managers prepare for, but they can only do so far. Because this pawns have independent movement, feelings that need to be managed, moments of brilliance or stupidity. Because football is a chess game with human pieces.

 We call it luck, but it’s the unpredictability of football that attracts us. It’s not luck, it’s the expectation that we have that surprises us (or not) during a game. But we only see the 90 minutes of play, when the game started being played in the first training for said game. And it seems luck to us who think that understand the game, when we only see its final result.

That’s why we are here. To try to analyze what is likely to happen during the Euro and future competitions to come. And we will probably fail, not because of sheer luck, but because football is unpredictable.