On paper it looks like the easisest of the groups with Germany and Croatia being clear favourites. The other of the co-hosts in this case, they have been named as the worst team to ever compete in the European Championships with even the local fans have no belief in this team achieving anything. Without any big stars they usually play a 4-5-1 formation. Goalkeeper Alex Manninger, defender Emmanuel Pogatetz and midfield maestro Andreas Ivanschitz are the leading men in an otherwise mediocre team consisting from players competing in their local Austrian Bundesliga. The game against Germany is the one to look for, but on the other hand nobody expected Greece to win 4 years ago so you never know...
PROS:
1)Playing at home
2)Big opportunity to shine for most of those players
CONS:
1)No real goalscorer
2)Paul Scharner one of the best Austrian players banned from the national team
3)Poor results in the build up, lack of quality overall
Goalkeepers
1 Alex Manninger
21 Jürgen Macho
23 Ramazan Özcan
Defenders
2 Joachim Standfest
3 Martin Stranzl
4 Emanuel Pogatetz
12 Ronald Gercaliu
13 Markus Katzer
15 Sebastian Prödl
16 Jürgen Patocka
17 Martin Hiden
Midfielders
5 Christian Fuchs
6 René Aufhauser
8 Christoph Leitgeb
10 Andreas Ivanschitz
11 Ümit Korkmaz
14 György Garics
19 Jürgen Säumel
20 Martin Harnik
Forwards
7 Ivica Vastic
9 Roland Linz
18 Roman Kienast
22 Erwin Hoffer
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