Category: Euro Preview

Euro 2012 final preview: Spain vs Italy

| June 29, 2012

In the Group B vs Group C semi-final encounters, Germany and Portugal were eliminated thereby making the final an all-group C affair. Defending champions Spain take on dark horses Italy in the eagerly anticipated Euro 2012 final at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine.  This is only the fourth time in the Euro that two [...]

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Euro 2012 Semi-final Preview : Germany Vs Italy

| June 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

Runners-up in the previous Euro, Germany are scheduled to meet a new-look  Italy in the second semi-final of Euro 2012  at the National Stadium, Warsaw. The last competitive clash involving the two teams was in the semi-final of the World Cup 2006, hosted by Germany. The match went into extra-time when neither team failed to [...]

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Euro 2012 Semi-final Preview : Spain Vs Portugal

| June 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

Defending champions Spain are set to meet their Iberian neighbours Portugal in the semi-finals of Euro 2012 at Donbass Arena Stadium, on Wednesday, June 27. On Saturday, Spain prevailed over France, 2-0, on the back of a brace of goals by Xabi Alonso, in the third quarterfinals, and will be aiming to reach the final [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarter-final preview: England vs Italy

| June 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

European heavyweights England and Italy will grapple with each other at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev for the final semi-final spot of Euro 2012. This is the first meeting between the tw0 teams in ten years and their first competitive clash in fifteen years.Though they haven’t met each other for so long , many Italian [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarter-final Preview: Spain vs France

| June 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Venue: Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match time: 21:45 UTC+3 on June 23, 2012. Tournament favourites Spain face dark horses France in the third quarter-final of Euro 2012. The winner of this game will clash with Czech Republic or Portugal in the semis. The Spaniards emerged on top of their neighbours in their two previous encounters and [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarter-final Preview: Germany Vs Greece

| June 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Germany will be overwhelming favourites to cement their place in the semi-finals, when they take on Greece in the second quarter-finals of Euro 2012 at Gdansk on Friday, June 22nd. Greece who sneaked through to the last eight stage will be hit badly by the absence of Giorgos Karagounis who scored the match winner in [...]

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Euro 2012 Quarterfinal Preview: Czech Republic Vs Portugal

| June 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Warsaw will be the venue of the first quarterfinal of Euro 2012, on Thursday, June 21, when Czech Republic face Portugal. The two teams have had some memorable encounters in the competition; they last met in Euro 2008, when Portugal  hammered their East European rivals, 3-1. Twelve years earlier, the teams clashed in the quarter-finals [...]

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Euro 2012 preview: France vs Sweden

| June 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

A resurgent France take on a downcast Sweden in a group D match on 19 June, 2012 at the Olympic stadium in Kiev. Sweden, already out of the competition after suffering two losses, have nothing to play for but pride as they look to score their first point. From the Les Blues perspective, they would [...]

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Euro 2012 preview: England vs Ukraine

| June 17, 2012

Venue: Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match time: 21:45 UTC + 2, June 17 2012 An ebullient England face off against desperate co-hosts Ukraine in their final group game of the Euro 2012, well aware of the fact that a win or a draw would take them to the quarter-finals. On the contrary, Ukraine need an outright victory [...]

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Euro 2012 preview: Italy vs Ireland

| June 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

Italy and Ireland will battle it out in a Group C matchup at the Municipal stadium in Poznan, Poland in each team’s final group stage match at Euro 2012. The two teams last met each other on the 7th of June last year and the boys in Green emerged surprise winners 2-0 , with Keith Andrews and [...]

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