The big day and the group of death matches will be played today. The group consists of World Champions Italy, France which was beaten in final at World Cup 2006 by Italy, always strong team full of stars Netherlands and a team from Romania. First match of the day is France - Romania in which France is heavily favored, but the Romanias can suprise with their star forward Mutu. The second game will be Italy against Netherlands, which no doubt will be one of the highlight matches of the group phase of Euro 2008.

Yesterday the favorite Germany beat Poland 2:0 and the heavily favored Croatia only with luck won against the great playing Austrians which has so far been the surprise of the tournament. Both goals for Germany were scored by Podolski and Croatia scored in the 4th minute from a penalty shot.