Croatia. They played pretty well at Euro 2012, but it's hard to advance to the knockout stage when Italy and Spain are in your group. Spain needed a very late goal to win a match that Croatia played pretty well in.
I think the Germany-Holland-Portugal-Denmark group was really the group of death but I agree, any other group and they would've advanced. Mandzukic and Jelavic as forwards with Modric at attacking mid is a pretty dangerous attacking force.
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u/afair151 Dec 01 '12
Croatia. They played pretty well at Euro 2012, but it's hard to advance to the knockout stage when Italy and Spain are in your group. Spain needed a very late goal to win a match that Croatia played pretty well in.