The tournament was finished for us with a game against Spain
(80506)For this game, we didn't have any realistic chances, and those chances were further lowered after the Friday GS update, which gave us very few possibilities. So the game was uneventful, Spaniards led convincingly throughout the entire match, but didn't exactly destroy us as I was afraid. Probably our higher attitude played a role here.
Still, even though we lost our final game, we exceeded expectations in this year's European championships. The final standings in the group are:
1. Spain, 6-1, +191
2. Czech rep., 6-1, +123
3. Hungary, 5-2, +88
4.
Sweden, 4-3, -9
5. Portugal, 3-4, -24
6. Denmark, 2-5, -37
7. Andorra, 2-5, -59
8. Malta, 0-7, -273
We went into the group as seed 6, and finished fourth, which is a nice achievement. To be honest, the Portuguese helped us here a lot, they beat Spain in the opening of the tournament, but this cost them heavily, and everything went down from there on. But we also displayed better performances than Denmark, who is somewhere on our level. With some more luck (no injuries), we might be able to beat Hungary, but even this would happen only because we only had eyes on them, and they wanted a promotion. The reality still is, that both Hungary and Portugal are significantly better teams, and both could hope for one of the first two spots. We, at the moment, cannot, we can only surprise some better teams, but cannot do it multiple times.
I will adress our roster and the future in the following post.
Last edited by Deschamps at 9/2/2025 7:56:54 AM