Monday, June 16, 2008

Portugal, Croatia and Netherlands Into the Quarter Final, Switzerland and Greece Out of Euro

Again, another round of group matches scoreline updates.

Czech Republic 1-3 Portugal
Switzerland 1-2 Turkey
Croatia 2-1 Germany
Austria 1-1 Poland
Italy 1-1 Romania
Netherlands 4-1 France
Sweden 1-2 Spain
Greece 1-2 Russia

The surprise for the match is Croatia beating one of the hot favourite Germany 2-1 and Netherlands trashing France 4-1. The results meaning that France will have to take the tournament to the final group match against Italy where the winner will have the chance to enter the Q-Final, should Netherlands beat Romania. Croatia beating Germany meaning Croatia joining Netherlands and Portugal in the Q-Final. Italy still haunt by bad luck and though they have scored few against Romania, but 2 was disallowed by the referee. Goal scored by Toni was a genuine one but was ruled offside, while Zambrotta has a crossed collected by the Romanian keeper in the goal, but again it was ruled against the Italians. Can the Italians beat France and qualify to the Q-Final? Again, either the Italians and the Frenchmen has solid chances as all still depend on Netherland beating Romania, should either of the side got the match.

Another surprise is that the Turks came from trailing 2 goals to beat Czech 3-2. The Turks were 2 goals down for 73 minutes, before the come back. Czech, having one of the most talented keeper in the world fail them by spilling a cross that was the turnaround of the match. This mean only one thing, Turkey check in, while Czech Republic sent home.

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