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today for their free diamond giveaway. Welcome to a special Euro 2016 edition of the Planet Football Podcast.

I am S.I.com soccer editor, obvi creditor joined today by S.I.com's Ben Littleton Littleton and Ben every team has played once in

France already we're on our second round of group games and I kind of just wanted

to get your impressions of the of the tournament so far. I guess let's start at the

top and and what is kind of impressed you the most what team what player.

Well in terms of teams what I guess is most interesting is that every team has looked

vulnerable in the top three favorites for the competition France Germany and Spain

of all won their games but didn't win them particularly easily and they all

conceded chances. So in terms of quality I think there's no outstanding team that

we've seen yet. I guess the best performance from the first round of

matches came from Italy, which no one was expecting at all really, especially Italians, who were bemoaning the fact that in terms of quality

this side was one of the weakest that they've had for a long time and yet in terms

of intensity, cohesion, tactics and playing to a game plan, they showed

that those things are more important than talent by beating Belgium who are the highest ranked team based on the FIFA rankings in the competition.

So I guess that's one learning you can say that teams that are greater than the sum of their

parts like Italy will always beat teams that are lesser than the sum of their

parts like Belgium and it shows the importance at this level of a top

coach because you look at Antonia Conte and the way he drilled his team and it

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