I described the group stage diagram as looking like a peacock (https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/euro-2024-network-diagram-only-a-day-late/), and I’m amazed how many of the peacock tail survived.
Well done Georgia and Romania in particular.
My prediction for who would go out was Albania, Slovenia, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Scotland, then Slovakia and Hungary, with Poland or Austria in place of one of Romania, Slovakia or Ukraine.
I was right for 5/8, which I could as going okay.
I also hadn’t expected Belgium to turn the Group of Cuddly into the Group of Sickos.
The second round network graphs look like this:
The central core are still there (mostly, really wasn’t expecting Croatia to go out), with four teams trailing out to the right.
Labelled, it looks like this:
Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Georgia being so far away from the main core highlights how much of a surprise their going through to the last 16 is.
Because of the odd weighting, identifying the central team is less valuable than usual. Italy are the national team closest to the centre, and Juventus are the club team closest to the centre.
The club teams with the most players left in are Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain with 12, then Manchester City with 11, then Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona 10.
The community view looks like this:
Now each team is it’s own community.
Now predictions, as requested by L.
Spain vs Georgia – diagram says Spain
Germany vs Denmark – no clear winner on the diagram
Portugal vs Slovenia – diagram says Portugal
France vs Belgium – diagram says France
Romania vs Netherlands – diagram says Netherlands
Austria vs Turkey – no clear winner on the diagram (I will be crossing my fingers and avoiding the match)
England vs Slovakia – diagram says England
Switzerland vs Italy – no clear winner on the diagram
That central core is tightly packed, which is what’s led to that uncertainty.
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