GROUP A: in general a strong group. The Netherlands won't have a problem to win this group. Czech Republic and Turkey are big names, but both had problems in the last years. Czech is meanwhile a very mediocre team, while Turkey will do better now with the new coach. Iceland is on they way up and they can reach 3rd place, if one of the both teams (Turky and Czech) falters. Latvia and Kazakhstan are able to put a spoke in the wheels of the favorites
GROUP B: Belgium is the real pot 1 team here, I guess they will win this group clearly. Israel and Wales are not good enough to endanger Bosnia in the fight for 2nd place, so they will fight for 3rd place. Both teams on a similar level, seems interesting
GROUP C: yawn... really boring group with a clear order. 1.Spain, 2.Ukraine, 3.Slovakia. That's it
GROUP D: I don't like this group much... Poland is someway an interesting opponent, because of Lewandowski, Piszczek and Kuba, but apart from these players it's not an attractive team. Ireland is a well-known opponent for us, Scotland has great fans just like Ireland and they have a strong team spirit, good defense, but nonetheless we should beat them. Georgia doesn't attract me, but I'm glad to see Gibraltar in our group
I'm curious about their quality. 1. Germany, in terms of 2nd place I'm not sure... Poland, Scotland, Ireland... it's very open
GROUP E:
low level group... Switzerland can finish up on 1st place, they play more attractive football than the England side. Slovenia is safe on 3rd place. Estonia, Lithuania, San Marino.. oh dear, that's a really bad bottom
GROUP F:
Once again Greece is very lucky. Hungary and Finland are very mediocre, Romania is mediocre as well, but they have more potential, maybe they will develop positively. I guess they will reach second place behind Greece. Northern Ireland is an unpredictable team, but I think they really have chances to finish up on 3rd place
GROUP G:
I hope that our littler brother Austria will finally make the step to a big tournament. I'm not sure if Russia will win this group, I rather think it becomes an exciting fight between Russia, Sweden, Austria and Montenegro. Unfortunately Austria football team is famous for failing in important matches, so maybe they will become the unlucky 4th place.
GROUP H:
Italy and Croatia will qualify, no doubt...Italy has never won against Croatia, so Croatia will maybe win this group, but it doesn't matter anyway. Bulgaria is atm in better condition than Norway and they have some young talented players. I guess Bulgaria will be 3rd.
GROUP I:
wow, thats a very competitive group. Probably Portugal will finish up on 3rd rank, since they love the play-offs
Armenia is Europes shooting star, but this group is simply too hard for them. Well, I remember when they beat Denmark 4:0 in the WM qualifying, that was incredible. But it won't happen again
