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1. Georgios Samaras – Greece
Before the start of European championships, Samaras from Greece was considered to be the biggest threat for every opposition. He is known to be a complete striker with a tall figure but unfortunately the Greek hero failed to showcase the same talent in Poland-Ukraine. Undoubtedly, he tops in the list of the 5 players who were expected to fire at Euro 2012, but couldn’t .
Samaras left Manchester city in 2008 and opportunity was delightful taken by the Scottish powerhouse – Celtic F.C, the current club of Samaras. He has so far made 111 appearences for Celtics and has been instrumental in their success as well. He has been regular at international level as well and has gone to make 58 appearances. Samaras is also known to be a very good dribller with fast feet movements who can convincingly get pass the defenders. Sadly, he failed to show any of those things at the european championships.
2. Helder Postiga – Portugal
Since years the former Porto star remained under the shadows of the former Portuguese captain Nuno Gomes, who was usually preferred in the striker’s position. Postiga, seldom wasted the few chances which he got for the national team. His goal at the Euro 2004 qualifiers ensured that his team went through after defeating England in the penalty shootouts. After Nuno Gomes decided to call it a day, Paulo Bento preferred Helder Postiga over Olivera and Almeida.
Postiga’s goal agaisnt Bosnia and Herzegovania ensured that you got to see Portugal at Euro 2012. Postiga is known to be a centre forward who can score goals at the time when everyone fails. Postiga has so far scored 98 goals for both club and country, but he failed to convert the chances he got at Euro 2012 and under performed from his usual standards.
Christian Eriksen plays his club football for Ajax. In 2011 he was named both the Danish young player of the year and Danish player of the year, first player in Denmark’s history to do so. Only aged 20 years, Eriksen went into the tournament among the most influential player in the team. It was believed that Eriksen would make to the fullest of the opportunity and give his cent percent so that bigger clubs could grasp him. Unfortunately, Eriksen didn’t do anything impressive in the tournament. The Danish limelight was stolen by Bendtner and Michael Kroh-Dehli. It was like you didn’t see anything of Eriksen.
Erriksen has played 26 games for Denmark and has also netted twice, it would be a big gamble if any big club bids for Eriksen. Christian Erriksen surely under performed in the tournament and was below – par.
4. Robin Van Persie – Netherlands
PFA Player of the year, premier leagues top scorer and Arsenal player of the year went into the tournament as the best player in Europe. Van Persie kept out the bundesliga top scorer Klas Jan Huntellar, the pressure of keeping an excellent player warming on bench was too high for him and had an awful goal besides a few excellent moments like the goal he scored against Germany.
Van Persie would have to again answer his critics and his drawbacks clearly caught eyeballs like his inefficiency with the right foot. I hope that Robin van persie comes back to his original shape – the one which he showcased with Arsenal previous season.
5. Yann M’vila – France
The Rennes holding midfielder played for France at every youth level before making an accomplished senior debut in Laurent Blanc’s first game in charge, a friendly defeat to Norway. He was a regular in qualifying, scoring once in eight appearances. Before the begining of the championships everyone expected M’villa to be a key player for France. With a lot of transfer rumours and insurmountable pressure, the French midfielder failed to show the glimpses of him.
Initially, M’vila missed the first game against England which meant that Diarra got a chance ahead of him, a chance which the industrious midfielder capitalized. The next game, M’vila was the part of the team that tore away the hosts Ukraine but we hardly saw any of them. Watching him in the European championship, he seemed to be an over rated player, we wish him luck for future and very best wishes to prove us wrong.
