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Euro 2020 knockout – The best losers overwhelmed the group winners

It remains to be seen if Euro 2020 belongs to Europe's footballing powerhouses remaining in the competition or if one of the teams whom nobody thought likely would emerge tops as it has been a competition of major upsets. I doubt if anyone would have predicted that none of The Netherlands, France, Germany, and Portugal would compete in the quarter-final stage of Euro 2020. At least, not after the supposedly easy fixtures they were handed in the round of 16 stages, or so we thought. I wrote an article some days back, analyzing the chances of the sides that finished third in the group stages against the supposed favorites who topped their groups. Well. we are now in the last 8 of the competition and three of those best losers are accounted for whilst three group stage winners from t...