Spain is truly extraordinary. Because they can qualify for the round of 16 without any difficult obstacles. And they finished all the matches in the group stage without conceding a single goal. And currently only Spain has managed to qualify for the round of 16 with 9 points. But there is still Portugal who have never lost even in the group stage, and maybe today Portugal will also get 9 points if they succeed in beating Georgia.
About Croatia they are not lucky this time. And they had to go home with quite a suffocating disappointment. Modric even seems to be holding back tears if we look at several interviews. Well it was a not so smooth ride for Croatia.
For the England national team, I have now stopped hoping for them. When I hoped there would be a significant change in yesterday's match. But it turns out the result is still the same and yes they did qualify for the round of 16 but I'm not sure they can go further than that.
Spain has proven its quality, they have beaten Italy and Croatia, this is truly an extraordinary performance shown by Spain in the group phase.
And it wasn't just Spain who managed to show a stunning performance in the group phase even though they didn't get 9 points, but Germany also showed a very good performance, I think.
And Portugal is also very strong, little by little we can see the strength of the teams in the group phase but that cannot be used as a reference because the real proof is when these teams face strong teams from other groups in the round of 16.
Croatia is the unluckiest team in my opinion at this Euro, in 2 consecutive matches they failed to win because of a goal back in the last minute, against Albania the score was equalized in the 90+5 minute and against Italy the same thing happened, it was really painful.
And this is the last Euro for Luka Modrić which is quite sad.
Is it because of the draw against Slovenia?
I don't think that can be used as any reference, England are already guaranteed to qualify for the round of 16 so the match in round 3 doesn't have any motivation for them.