Is Holland unbeatable?

[pajamNL]

i knew that!

Viva Italia!!

[yashar_fasihnia]

It's always been like this. Teams that start the tournament brilliantly, finish badly and those that start slow, usually win the whole thing. (Italy?)

one main theory behind such incidents experts say is this:

every football team, like almost every other thing in this world has this kind of a graph:


every thing from economy of a nation to the life of a human being goes up and has a peak, stays there for sometime and then starts going down hill.

a team also starts improving gradually, reaches a point, and then comes down.
this is repeated in cycles, again, like many other things in life like economy (the whole process of economic booming and economic recession).

wat varies is how fast or how slow this entity goes up, how long it stays there, how fast or how slow it comes down, and then again, how fast or how slow it recovers itself and starts going up again.
this is wat defines "consistency" of a player or a team. its the skills of a coach and his players as to when to reach the peak and how long they can maintain their peak form.

so, the sooner in a tournament a team reaches its peak, the more difficult it is for the team to remain in peak for the rest of the tournament.
on the other hand, teams who start off a bit slower usually by the end of the tournament where the most crucial stages have reached hit their peak form and often get their best results in the stages it matters most.

ofcourse there are many factors which influence this pattern of a team like injuries, suspensions, weather and pitch conditions, luck, morale boost and other psychological factors based on a teams status and its opponents status, etc.

now this is only one theory which explains a lot of happenings in this world where this pattern is observed including football tournaments. there are always exceptions and ofcourse other theories.

like we say in farsi: favare chon boland shavad, sarnegun shavad. (when a fountain goes up, it comes down)

[pajamNL]

Spain have to ask: Donde esta AIRPORT after the game against Italy

[Vahshi]

Spain's fire power is simply unbeatable.

[pajamNL]

spain? spain will lose against Italy

And then the Azurri's will take revenge in the semis (i hope)

[Vahshi]

spain

Hell yeah!

[fishyboy1209]

luck? they were absolutely better than Italy, trashed them 3-0..France was a piece of cake for them, trashed them 4-1..with their B-TEAM they had absolutely no problems against Romania which they defeated 2-0! while both Italy and France strugeled with..
they have TOP players like Van Nisterlooy, Sjneider, Kuyt,... they have great strikers, great defenders, great keeper, great midfield, great bench, great young players, great trainer, great staff, great federation, great facilities and training for the young... baba this team has everything to be world champions!
The only reason why they didn't do much in the past couple of years is that they couldn't play well with eachother, and another plus they have better and more talented players now.
this Holland is UNstopable, they WILL be European Champions!

I gotta agree with you there!

[Shahin K]

the dutch luck will run out in QF..!!

luck? they were absolutely better than Italy, trashed them 3-0..France was a piece of cake for them, trashed them 4-1..with their B-TEAM they had absolutely no problems against Romania which they defeated 2-0! while both Italy and France strugeled with..

they have TOP players like Van Nisterlooy, Sjneider, Kuyt,... they have great strikers, great defenders, great keeper, great midfield, great bench, great young players, great trainer, great staff, great federation, great facilities and training for the young... baba this team has everything to be world champions!

The only reason why they didn't do much in the past couple of years is that they couldn't play well with eachother, and another plus they have better and more talented players now.

this Holland is UNstopable, they WILL be European Champions!

[shayan20]

It's always been like this. Teams that start the tournament brilliantly, finish badly and those that start slow, usually win the whole thing. (Italy?)

[yashar_fasihnia]

This is the best Dutch side i've seen since WC'98!!
Do you guys think anybody can stop them at this moment?
Maybe Portugal or spain, but thats it i think, wow what a game....

TM IRAN could but too bad they are not playing in euro

[fishyboy1209]

sweden will beat them in the quarterfinal

uh dude.....no disrespect or anything but....they lost 1-2 to spain....spain>sweden, and Holland>spain, so holland>sweden

[Team Melli Fan]

This is the best Dutch side i've seen since WC'98!!
Do you guys think anybody can stop them at this moment?
Maybe Portugal or spain, but thats it i think, wow what a game....

sweden will beat them in the quarterfinal

[Suprah]

oh..!
ok they may squeak by then..!!
if they are smart, they would loose the game against Romania...!! and send them through then..!!! Italy will kick their asss if they meet again..!!

You know, if Italy beat Spain in the qfs and the Dutch beat Sweden - it will be a Italy - Holland semi final

[BacheLot]

no way man, they are gonna be playing sweden lol.

oh..!
ok they may squeak by then..!!
if they are smart, they would loose the game against Romania...!! and send them through then..!!! Italy will kick their asss if they meet again..!!

[persian boy]

the dutch luck will run out in QF..!!

no way man, they are gonna be playing sweden lol.