The Dark EK2020/2021 horses

I enjoy the soccer wisdom from Sporza’s Filip Joos, Peter Vandenbempt, and co. The recent Tribune episodes were especially insightful: Filip Joos en Wim De Coninck and Peter Vandenbempt en Aster Nzeyimana.

• Leave Witsel on the bench. Keep the smart deep passing Tielemans and feed Lukaku. Allow Dendocker to grow into the game.
• Carrasco over Hazard. It enables also Thorgan Hazard to do his thing.
• Doku is an ideal sub to ratch things up and find the opening later in the game.
• Lukaku, Courtois, DeBruyne are the true toppers in the Belgian team.
• Turkey and Italy will be the dark horses.
• England has a deep team and with 5 or 6 substitutions per game, that can make the difference.
• Portugal will be strong and is a France-light.
• The likely path of Belgium will be a tough path where they encounter strong teams in earlier rounds. A better path is one where you end the first round as second in your group.

June 9, 2021

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