Originally Posted by BBC News
Euro 2024 has served up a few surprise scorelines already, especially in Group E.
BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton got seven of the opening 12 group games correct, but was caught out by Slovakia’s shock win over Belgium and did not see Romania beating Ukraine either.
You did not do much better, though.
Out of almost 50,000 votes, only 16% of you thought Romania would triumph and just 4% backed Slovakia, although you did pick the right result in eight games.
Can you and Chris do better next time? You can make your own predictions for the second set of group games below, including Scotland versus Switzerland and England against Denmark.
Sutton is also picking the order he thinks each of the six groups will finish in.
He is backing France to win the European Championship, believes England will lose to them in the semi-finals, and thinks Scotland will not get out of their group.
GROUP A
Sutton’s pre-tournament picks: Germany (winners) and Hungary (runners-up). Switzerland to finish third, and Scotland fourth.
Germany v Hungary
Stuttgart / 19 June / 17:00 BST
What a start from Germany, but it is still amazing how the mood of their fans has changed so quickly.
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As impressive as they were, I don’t see it being as simple as that, although of course it should give