Which players are you looking forward to watching?

[CyberRose]

As a Sheff Utd fan I usually detest watching football and have very little interest in watching any other team (unless it's to see them lose), however, I'm really looking forward to this tournament. I remember really looking forward to Euro 2008 after England failed to qualify so I could just enjoy the football on display rather than wait for the inevitable moment of despair as England crashed out in disappointing style. I think the reason I'm not feeling like that now is there is pretty no expectation on England other than just to make it to the knockout stage (at which point we all know we'll lose) so the disappointment this time won't be as bad.

So with little or no expectations for the home nations, we can all just relax and enjoy the football. I'm sure most people will have been doing their homework for their fantasy football teams and there's a few names I've come across that I'd not heard much about before this tournament but am now really looking forward to seeing.

Here's my players I'm looking out for:

Alan Dzagoev (Russia)
Robert Lewandowski (Poland)
Jetro Willems (Netherlands)
Christian Eriksen (Denmark)
Jordi Alba (Spain)
Andriy Yarmolenko (Ukraine)
Yevhen Konoplyanka (Ukraine)

Anyone got any other players they think are worth looking out for?

 

[AverageJoe]

I'd like to see Eriksen too but think he will struggle to show what he can do bearing in mind the other teams in Denmarks group.

Yuri Zhirkov will be a talisman for Russia
Frank Ribery is in amazing form for France
Mesut Ozil will have benefitted from the world cup and his time in Spanish football for Germany
It will be interesting to see how Llorente gets on for Spain
And the same with Jelavic for Croatia - I think they could get to the semi finals

 

[discokermit]

kevin doyle, stephen ward.

 

[friedaweed]

Andy Carroll for the lols

 

[articul8]

Ex-PNE players in the Euros:
Danny Wellbeck
Andy Carroll
Sean St Ledger
Think that's it

 

[Balbi]

Balotelli, for the potential Cantona/windmill into a crowd of Polish/Ukranian fash.

 

[TitanSound]

Lukas Podolski, because he's signed for us.

 

[stavros]

Bastian Schweinsteiger was a pleasure to watch last night as always. Close to the complete midfielder.

He may get muffled by Xavi, Iniesta, et al this afternoon, but I've always loved watching Andrea Pirlo play. The master playmaker.

 

[Libertad]

Rooney, to see what kind of a fuck up he'll make of things once he's let out of his box.