See what happens when you ignore your Europian background for some fancy foot work from South America, Your Office Pool goes completely in the toilet! Germany vs Netherlands in the final for sure now as Spain will never bet Germany now.
Argentina unfortunately...sucked defensively. They always did since the beginning of the tournament. It was just a matter of time before an opponent would take them seriously and take advantage of their greatest weakness. That and Germany have proven to be excellent tacticians. They probably study Argentina's game very well and learned how to neutralize them, beginning with Messi. I had a feeling from the start that Argentina and Brasil wouldn't make it, however I will admit that I had hopes for Paraguay. You see, team Paraguay has proven to all South America, and including team Spain that it's not because you don't have big stars that you cannot take on a big soccer country. True, Japan, South africa and Guana did the same. The only difference is that Paraguay went a step beyond. I wasn't cheering necessarily for them, don't think I'm disappointed by their elimination, I am not surprised, but I am extremely proud of them. I enjoy when a team that is not favoured puts up a great fight to the end and that's what Paraguay delivered. Argentina never had that luxury against Germany, they were completely overpowered, they were never able to come back (except for a few minutes when Pasture entered to the field, it was almost as if the Germans were not able to guess his moves, very funny) and the best team won.
My prediction is that we will see Germany against Netherlands in the final. Spain was probably the Euro Cup winner from 2 years ago....but Paraguay made the life very very hard for the former contender to win, and even though they went down 1-0, their loss exposed a lot of Spain's weaknesses during their attack, that I am sure Germany has already identified and will want to use against them. I still like team Spain, but I believe team Germany has the better odds on their side.
