Who are you routing for? What do you predict? Which matches are you going to watch?


teams

in FIFA-ranking order

1 Spain (EUROPEAN CHAMPION)

3 Germany (eliminated in semifinals)

4 Netherlands (eliminated)

6 England (eliminated in quarterfinals)

8 Croatia (eliminated)

9 Denmark (eliminated)

10 Portugal (eliminated in semifinals)

12 Italy (RUNNER UP)

13 Russia (eliminated)

14 France (eliminated in quarterfinals)

15 Greece (eliminated in quarterfinals)

17 Sweden (eliminated)

18 Ireland (eliminated)

27 Czech Rep. (eliminated in quarterfinals)

52 Ukraine (host) (eliminated)

62 Poland (host) (eliminated)


additional infos

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results

groupstage

Group A

6 Czech Rep.

4 Greece

4 Russia

2 Poland

Since Greece and Russia have the same points, the GRE-RUS match decides, who advances.

POL-GRE 1:1
RUS-CZE 4:1
GRE-CZE 1:2
POL-RUS 1:1
CZE-POL 1:0
GRE-RUS 1:0

Group B

9 Germany

6 Portugal

3 Denmark

0 Netherlands

NED-DEN 0:1
GER-POR 1:0
DEN-POR 2:3
NED-GER 1:2
POR-NED 2:1
DEN-GER 1:2

Group C

7 Spain

5 Italy

4 Croatia

0 Ireland

ESP-ITA 1:1
IRE-CRO 1:3
ITA-CRO 1:1
ESP-IRE 4:0
CRO-ESP 0:1
ITA-IRE 2:0

Group D

7 England

4 France

3 Ukraine

3 Sweden

UKR-SWE 2:1
FRA-ENG 1:1
UKR-FRA 0:2
SWE-ENG 2:3
ENG-UKR 1:0
SWE-FRA 0:2

quarterfinals

CZE-POR 0:1
GER-GRE 4:2
ESP-FRA 2:0
ENG-ITA 2:4 (p)

semifinals

POR-ESP 2:4
GER-ITA 1:2

finale

ESP-ITA 4:0


SPAIN is European Champion 2012!


NEXT: Brazil 2014!

12 years ago*

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wow england are playing very bad... only defending, how the fuq they arrived here? Italy should have scored way before... this was a easy 2 or 3 to nothing win for Italy.

12 years ago
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Wow. How did England survive this game so far? Please don't let this be Chelsea 2.0..

Italy would deserve a victory so much!

12 years ago
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Oh well...

12 years ago
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Buffon just needed to replace his bets before the penalty shootout. England will never win these. :D

12 years ago
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LOL, What did I say? They never win penalty shoot outs!

12 years ago
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Buffon! <3

12 years ago
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Den einen hätte er auch mit der Mütze fangen können, wenn er eine gehabt hätte! XD

12 years ago
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Allerdings! So locker und sicher wie er den gehalten hat :D

Was bin ich froh, dass das kein zweites Chelsea war. Die Italiener haben es einfach verdient und somit wird das nächste Spiel sicherlich nicht leichter aber dafür schöner anzusehen.

12 years ago
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Well well deserved, Italy! Looking forward to the semi-final! Clearly the better team.

12 years ago
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omg nice yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! germany italy will be a very nice match, if germany will play like always not like uk today, pnòy defending

12 years ago
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Phew. That was close.

Really mad about the fact that we couldn't manage to score a single goal when we were clearly dominating the first half and beyond. Balotelli screwed up quite a lot of good chances.

Anyway, really looking forward to the semi-final. We have quite a long history with Germany, I'm sure it'll be a great match.

12 years ago
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Balotelli owes me 5 euros.

(yes I bet on him to score first)

12 years ago
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But he did score first - via penalty ^^
You should claim your money!

12 years ago
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You should've bet 5000 euros, so maybe now you'd want to kill him. :P
With how he's been playing lately, that would be a good riddance.

If I was Prandelli, I'd probably take his ass and his diva complex, and staple them on the bench.

Did it transpire that I really don't like the guy?

12 years ago
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Not as much as most others ^^ you seem kind good sir.. "haha"

Well if we are lucky, we might see the fight to see who the real "Mario" is next match :)

12 years ago
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Well deserved win to Italy :)

12 years ago
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Italy was the best team and they deserved the win.. its still a shame it had to go to PS.

Italy against Germany will be a super semi final.

12 years ago
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PIRLO. IS. THE. BOSS. :D

Buffon best goalkeeper ever !!!

12 years ago
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Pirlo seems to have balls! Many of them ^^
...using a penalty shootout to remind England, that it never had a worldclass keeper! ;D

To me it looked like England was going for penalties since overtime. Their media claimed Hart to be the best keeper in the world, so they might have thought they could win a shootout against Buffon!!? Seriously?? Probably they were just tired.
As a German I'm quite excited about the semifinal! I'm happy with that constellation, even if England seemed to be the (much) easier opponent.

12 years ago
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Yes i agree with you , Italy - Germany will be a nice semi-final , probably you would like to revenge on us about 2006 too xD

England - Germany would have been tooooo easy :D

12 years ago
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Today's match promises to get interesting. Spain is definately the favourite IMO but Portugal has a relistic chance of winning as well.
I think it will be important who scores first. Portugal taking the lead could make it really hard for Spain as Portugal's defence is playing well overall (their left side probably being their weakspot but Spain's right side is considerably weaker than the left as well - I wonder if Navas will be in the starting formation this time?) and they're able to play strong counterattacks.
A Spanish lead will make it hard for Portugal if they can't stop Spain's ball-possession play. So far Portugal has been most dangerous in the last 10-20 minutes of their matches, so as long as Spain doesn't achieve at least a two goal lead they will have to stay very concentrated until the last second.

My guess is ESP 2 - 1 POR

12 years ago
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I support Portugal. Much will depend on Ronaldo. I hope he has a good day, otherwise the game could be very unbalanced, because Spain is in a class by itself. Their only problem is, that they play their short-pass-style football very defensive nowadays. The last 20 meters are the hardest, when you don't have attackers. But that's probably the style of the EURO... not sure if there was a team with 2 forwards in the quaterfinals.
Oh yes: Giveaway open again. But it will not be entered, I fear. But hey, there is still a final and I will will paste the dirct link then :D

12 years ago
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Por-Esp 0:3

Portugal is to weak to even beat a mediocre Spain, thats my prediction. I think Spain will crush them. I also Predict Ronaldo to do bad and cry after the match ^^

12 years ago
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Ok, I'll try my luck - 3:1 for Spain ;)

12 years ago
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I hope Ronaldo Cry too... jajaja xDDD

12 years ago
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Haha.

12 years ago
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Yes portogal lose fuck them

12 years ago
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Shitty game. Portugal played so motivated and except for the end they did a good job, considering Spain is the better team. Portugal would've deserved this victory. What a pity.

Looking forward to Spain getting beaten in the finale! :) They don't deserve anything else after crappy games like this.

12 years ago
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i agree

12 years ago
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What an awful match by both teams, but I have to say... it babbles me how Portugal, can be this bad when they have all to win, against a Spanish team that looked burned out, yet they Spanish played better... in the most boring match so far.

I am still happy about Spain reaching the finale, they deserved it alot more than Portugal...

Also, it make me smile to see Ronaldo's look after they lost, he wanted to be "look at me the great hero" but instead failed his team.. he should have stepped up and shoot first.

12 years ago
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Funny how people can view things completely differently. I was absolutely surprised by the Portuguese game (in a positive way) in the first 90 minutes. They were willing to win this thing and didn't play as defensively as they used to. Of course they didn't succeed, but it was close for a long time and the Spanish are the better team and under this circumstances Portugal did pretty well. Finally in the overtime they got exhausted, but that is understandable, since they tried.

The Spanish team on the other hand seemed to be pretty bored and defensively until the 110th minute, as if they don't want to win as much as the Portuguese do. I understand that this isn't the glorious team of 2008 or 2010, but still it was disappointing as hell and they can do a lot better, as seen in the last 10 minutes. But they didn't for whatever reason and this is what made me root for Portugal since the second half. Too bad they didn't make it.

12 years ago
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I was hoping for a Portugal win , as well.

12 years ago
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I think both teams actually played okay to good in the regular time if you look at their tactical setups. Best man on Portuguese side was definately Paulo Bento, his approach to start much less defensive and press early like crazy really surprised me. And apparently it surprised del Bosque as well, at least my guess is he started with Negredo to deal with a Portugal playing as defensive as they played against Germany.
It's amazing how Spain could completely change her tactical approach with their replacements in the second half without disorganising the team, though. I think Spain and Germany are the only teams in the tournament that are this flexible.
The 0-0 after 90 minutes was fair, both teams didn't really deserve victory at this moment. Spain clearly dominated the overtime and they would have deserved to already win after 120 minutes, so I'm glad they won the penalty shoot-out.

12 years ago
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I'm happy that Spain Won. Well deserved. I think that not Cristiano Ronaldo but Nani was the best Portugal player.

12 years ago
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Agree Nani and Coentrão played well

12 years ago
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it wasn't well derseved. Portugal played much better and it's unfair. Spain is the world champion and just won portugal in penalty kicks. It's just unfair

12 years ago
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IMO, not as a portuguese guy, I have to say, this wasn't fair.The referee was on the side of Spain.

12 years ago
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lol

12 years ago
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I would go as far to say, that it was the other way around (I am nor Spanish or Portuguese)

12 years ago
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4 Netherlands (eliminated) this is a lie they didnt even play

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Ger-Ita 3-2

I think there will be lost of goals, but I think we will see another Ger-Esp finale.

12 years ago
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Hard to guess today's match, everything seems possible.
I say it will be a reverse game of the century: GER 4 - 3 ITA

12 years ago
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Here goes nothing. Tonight is the real final, for all I am concerned.

The only team I was really afraid of in this tournament was Germany, and here we are.

I'm not too convinced by how my team has been playing recently, but as Italian I can't but believe in a ITA 2 - GER 1. The curse will hit once again.

12 years ago
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Don't worry!! We'll troll them again... I hope:P

12 years ago
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We never won against Italy in any final round:

Time to make history!

12 years ago
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I'd rather have a Dota 2 match to play than to watch the game, that makes me sad. But it was deserved for them. They'd better win against Spain now.
Edit: Oh wow, a late consolation goal

12 years ago
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Me too, I want Spain to get pwned

12 years ago
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I think most want Spain to be pwned, but!! the big but.. we have this situration because of bad group draws...

12 years ago
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I CALLED IT. 2-1. Why the hell didn't I bet on that. I guess the curse IS real.

Honestly I feel like that penalty kick wasn't completely legit, but whatever. It didn't change much anyway, and you can't take away a consolation goal from anyone. Really enjoyed the match though, even if maybe I would've expected a bit more from Germany.

We'll win against Spain for you too, pals.

Actually, does anyone know why Buffon was mad at the end of the match? I must've missed something.

12 years ago
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Germany could play better (and I expected more). All those Italian player that were alone in front of the German goal. Lol

I guess he was angry because they got that penalty (or maybe because he didn't block it).

I hoped that Germany would be the one to pwn Spain. =/

12 years ago
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Yes, unfortunately their defense wasn't exactly up to par in this match. If we didn't screw up some chances, we could've scored even more goals.

Anyway, that feels really odd somehow. Buffon usually doesn't have a bad temper, and it's not like him to act like that simply for not being able to block a penalty kick. He could've been mad about Germany getting the penalty in the first place, though.

In any case, we'll try our best against Spain as well. :P

12 years ago
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I agree, the penalty was a thin one, but it could be called and it was a good way to close the match.

12 years ago
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I agree. If anything, it made the match exciting until the very last second. :)

12 years ago
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Allora c'hai gufato te. Tacci tua! ;)

12 years ago
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LOL

12 years ago
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I think this was one of the best matches so far and I am abit sad that this was not the final... I've heard alot of "Italy is so defenssive and Italy play so boring or even Italy wont even make it from the Group" I've have faith in them untill today, since I really like the new German team, but it was a deserved won for Italy today and I really hope they win against Spain...

Both teams deserve alot of respect and remember. Germany is the youngest team in the EC, they will be a strong factor the next 4-6 years. Once again, what a great match!

12 years ago
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As I said previously, this was the real final for me. Germany is a great team, and was probably the biggest threat in the tournament, in my opinion. Also there's quite a lot of history between the teams that usually ends up creating amazing games every time they find themselves one against the other.

Really looking forward to more matches over the next years. Who knows, maybe this young Germany will finally be able to break the Italian curse. :P

12 years ago
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