Situation: The preview here has a more detailed description of the situation. In short, we remember both teams going into the tournament ranked 6th (12th in the world; Netherlands) and 8th (15th in the world) of the 16 participating teams; not far above average that is. And from a logical analyst point of view you […]
Tag: Denmark
European Championships 2017
Final Preview
Netherlands – Denmark Netherlands: 60% wpafw There was already a spontaneous thought after the Danish semi final victory: It would be kind of making proceedings look complete if the football gods would decide to give the title to Denmark. Not only in regards to favoring the underdogs against the women’s football establishment. But also regards […]
2017 European Championships:
Denmark – Austria 3:0 a.p.
Situation: The preview here has a more detailed description of the situation. In short, both teams are rather heavy surprising to appear in the semis. Denmark had been there already 5 times. And was ranked 8th of 16 the participating teams. So seen from the beginning of the tournament it wasn’t as surprising as Austria […]
European Championships 2017
Semi Finals Preview
Austria – Denmark Austria: 60% wpafw Austria can already be crowned team development champions of Europe. But now you might sense there is a chance – though still slim – to be official European women’s football champions too. Denmark is next. But for arguably the first time they are arguably favorites (maybe against Iceland they […]
2017 European Championships: Denmark – Germany 2:1 (0:1)
Situation: The preview here has a more detailed description of the situation. In short, Germany had a rather poor start to these European Championships despite 7 points from the 3 group games. We saw a decline of all top three national teams over the last years and especially Germany isn’t the team of old who […]
European Championships 2017
Saturdays Quarter Finals Preview
Netherlands – Sweden Netherlands: 55% That is the random match. Netherlands attack strong enough to beat Sweden? An issue with Nilla Fischer would change everything but we hope and assume she is fit. But it was rather interesting to see the Swedish defense suffer against Italy. But there are again so many chances and
European Championships 2017 Preview
Situation: To get the actual picture of the performance level from the national women’s football teams the FIFA ranking is not a bad starting point though you have to keep in mind that it is based on average results of the national teams in the past and not only the last three months or so. […]
Sweden – Denmark 1:0 (0:0)
Situation: The first match in this group between the favorites for places one and two. And Poland and Slovakia are making this not a easy group to reach a relatively "good" second place – what would be needed to qualify safely. And both Sweden and Denmark have been struggling a little bit of late after being the two teams […]