Euro 2012 is getting HOT!!!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Euro 2012 is getting hot! Each team from Group A and B had played for their second matches.

Group A
Greece 1 - 2 Czech Rep. (Theofanis Gekas '53 - Petr Jiracek '3, Vaclav Pilar '6)
Poland 1 - 1 Russia (Jakub Błaszczykowski '57 - Alan Dzagoev '37)

From group A, Russia is now leading with 4 points, after they beat Czech Rep. 4 – 1 at the first match, and then tied with Poland 1 -1 in the second match. And Czech Rep., who was the bottom of the group after losing the first game from Russia, now is in the second place after winning the game against Greece 2 – 1. So now Poland and Greece are the 2 in the bottom. Poland has failed to reach the 3 points.

Russia                   4             1/1/0     5 – 2

Czech Rep.          3             1/0/1     3 – 5

Poland                  2             0/2/0     2 – 2

Greece                 1             0/1/1     2 – 3

I love to see the points: 1, 2, 3, 4. That is just perfect!

Russia is still undefeated, they got 3 points on the first match and 1 point from the second match. Czech Rep. lost once and won once, so they got 3 points. Poland is always tied, so they got 2 points. And Greece, lost one match and only got tied in the other match, making them only got 1 point until now. But anyway, the chances are still wide open. Each team still can fail or make it through the quarter final.

Even the leading team Russia is not save yet. And the chance for Greece is still big. The last matches for this group would be Greece vs Russia and Poland vs Czech Rep. If Greece won against Russia, and Czech Rep. won against Poland, Czech Rep. and Greece would go to the quarter final.

Group B
Portugal 3 - 2 Denmark (Pepe '25, Postiga '36, Varella '87 - Bendtner '41, '80)
Germany 2 - 1 Netherlands (Mario Gomez '24, '38 - Van Persie '73)

From the group B, Germany just made their chance to go to the quarter final bigger. They've reached 6 points after winning 2 games in a row. After beating Portugal 1 - 0 on the first match, now they beat Netherlands 2 - 1. It made it harder for Netherlands to go to quarter final. Meanwhile, Portugal beat Denmark 3 - 2, making them have the same 3 points, with the same goals aggregate 3 - 3.

Germany              6             2/0/0     3 – 1

Portugal               3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Denmark             3             1/0/1     3 – 3

Netherlands         0             0/0/2     1 – 3

Germany got happy and celebrate their success to win 2 games. They celebrate as if they already go to the quarter final. But in fact, they're not save yet. The next matches would be Germany against Denmark and Portugal against Netherlands.