Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
As somebody living in Berlin who watches both sides, I would say that Denmark are a far better team than Germany, who are a collection of talented individuals. Denmark lack that level of talent, but they have far more heart and guts than the likes of Toni Kroos - now past it and phoning it in - and Timo Werner - who never had it and never will. Yet, England should be too strong at home. They are playing well, for each other, and have impressed me. The German performance was very good, in my view. The Ukraine performance was good too - but I have to reiterate that they are no more than a pub team at this level. They lost to Austria and the Netherlands in this tournament already, and neither of those were any great shakes. Indeed, they lost three out of four games in all. Making up the numbers. England did what they had to - and they did it well, but I wouldn't read much into it.
There is no doubt that conditions favour England - but all they can do is take advantage of them. If I were English, I wouldn't worry about people saying they've beaten nobody and have most of their games at home. They are in the last four at Wembley and have it all to play for. But now the competition really starts in earnest. Four teams left and any of them can win it. England are the only one of the four who have never been European champions. Given the size of the country, it's quite remarkable how poor their record is since 1966, but perhaps their time has finally come. One thing's for sure: opportunity knocks.
