Last Four Teams to Qualify for Euro 2012 Part II

We have already had a look through the 12 qualifiers in the previous editions. Nine teams have qualified for Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland by ending up as Group winners, one team has booked their berths as best runner up and the host nations have also qualified automatically for the main draw. Now we will have a look at the teams who qualified for Euro 2012 after ending up as runner-up of their respective groups and winning play-offs.

PORTUGAL

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Guimaraes: PORTUGAL 4 [Hugo Almeida 8’, Raul Meireles 29’, Danny 50’, Manuel Fernandes 60’] vs. CYPRUS 4 [Efstathios Aloneftis 3’, Michalis Konstatinou 11’, Yiannis Okkas 57’, Andreas Avraam 89’]

7^th September, 2010, Oslo: PORTUGAL 0 vs. NORWAY 1 [Erik Huseklepp 21’]

Nani Scores his First Goal against Iceland

8^th October, 2010, Porto: PORTUGAL 3 [Nani (29’, 30’), Cristiano Ronaldo 85’] vs. DENMARK 1 [Ricardo Carvalho 79 (o.g.)]

12^th October, 2010, Reykjavik: PORTUGAL 3 [Cristiano Ronaldo 3’, Raul Meireles 27’, Helder Postiga 72’] vs. ICELAND 1 [heidar Helguson 17’]

4^th June, 2011, Lisbon: PORTUGAL 1 [Helder Postiga 53’] vs. NORWAY 0

2^nd September, 2011, Nicosia: PORTUGAL 4 [Cristiano Ronaldo (35’ P, 82’), Hugo Almeida 84’, Danny 90+2’] vs. CYPRUS 0

Helder Postiga in the Match Against Denmark

7^th October, 2011, Porto: PORTUGAL 5 [Nani (13’, 21’), Helder Postiga 44’, Joao Moutinho 81’, Eliseu 87’] vs. ICELAND 3 [hallgrimur Jonasson (48’, 68’), Gylfi Sigurdsson 90+4’ (P)]

11^th October, 2011, Copenhagen: PORTUGAL 1 [Cristiano Ronaldo 90+2’] vs. DENMARK 2 [Micheal Krohn-Deli 13’, Nicklas Bendtner 63’]

PLAY-OFFS

Cristiano Ronaldo fights for Possession with Adnan Zahirovic (Bosnia)  

11^th November, 2011, Zenica: PORTUGAL 0 vs. BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA 0

15^th November, 2011, Lisbon: PORTUGAL 6 [Cristiano Ronaldo (8’, 53’), Nani 24’, Helder Postiga (72’, 82’), Miguel Veloso 80’] vs. BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA 2 [Zvjezdan Misimovic 41’ (P), Emir Spahic 65’]

(Through on 6-2 aggregate)

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Yerevan: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Keith Fahey 76’] vs. ARMENIA 0

7^th September, 2010, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 3 [Kevin Kilbane 15’, Kevin Doyle 41’, Robbie Keane 54’] vs. ANDORRA 1 [Cristian Martinez 45’]

Josep Manel Ayala of Andorra tries to tackle Kevin Doyle of Republic of Ireland

8^th October, 2010, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Robbie Keane 72’ (P), Shane Long 78’] vs. RUSSIA 3 [Aleksandr Kerzhakov 11’, Alan Dzagoev 29’, Roman Shirokov 50’]

12^th October, 2010, Zilina: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Sean St Ledger 16’] vs. SLOVAKIA 1 [Jan Durica 36’]

26^th March, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Aiden McGeady 2’, Robbie Keane 21’] vs. FYROM 1 [Ivan Trickoski 46’]

4^th June, 2011, Skopje: REPUBLIC OR IRELAND 2 [Robbie Keane (8’, 37’)] vs. FYROM 0

2^nd September, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OR IRELAND 0 vs. SLOVAKIA 0

6^th September, 2011, Moscow: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 0 vs. RUSSIA 0

John O'Shea Tackling Andorra Player

7^th October, 2011, Andorra la Vella: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Kevin Doyle 8’, Aiden McGeedy 20’] vs. ANDORRA 0

11^th October, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 2 [Valeri Aleksanyan 43’ (o.g), Richard Dunne 59’] vs. ARMENIA 1 [Henrik Mkhitaryan 62’]

PLAY-OFFS

Robbie Keane celebrates after scoring against Estonia

11^th November, 2011, Tallinn: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 4 [Keith Andrews 13’, Jon Walters 67’, Robbie Keane (71’, 88’ P)] vs. ESTONIA 0

15^th November, 2011, Dublin: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 [Stephen Ward 32’] vs. ESTONIA 1 [Konstantin Vassiljev 57’]

(Through on 5-1 aggregate) 

Last Four Teams to Qualify for Euro 2012 Part I

We have already had a look through the 12 qualifiers in the previous editions. Nine teams have qualified for Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland by ending up as Group winners, one team has booked their berths as best runner up and the host nations have also qualified automatically for the main draw. Now we will have a look at the teams who qualified for Euro 2012 after ending up as runner-up of their respective groups and winning play-offs.

CROATIA

GROUP QUALIFIERS

3^rd September, 2010, Riga: CROATIA 3 [Mladen Petric 43’, Ivica Olic 51’, Darijo Srna 82’] vs. LATVIA 0

7^th September, 2010, Zagreb: CRAOTIA 0 vs. GREECE 0

Beram Kayal of Israel challenges Niko Kranjcar of Croatia

9^th October, 2010, Ramat Gan: CROATIA 2 [Niko Kranjcar (36’ P, 41’) vs. ISRAEL 1 [Etey Shechter 81’]

17^th December, 2010, Zagreb: CROATIA 3 [Niko Kranjcar (18’, 42’), Nikola Kalinic 81’] vs. MALTA 0

26^th March, 2011, Tbilisi: CROATIA 0 vs. GEORGIA 1 [Levan Kobiashvili 90’]

3^rd June, 2011, Split: CRAOTIA 2 [Mario Mandzukic 76’, Nikola Kalinic 78’] vs. GEORGIA 1 [Jaba Kankava 17’]

2^nd September, 2011, Ta’Qali: CROATIA 3 [Ognjen Vukojevic 11’, Milan Badelj 32’, Dejan Lovren 68’] vs. MALTA 1 [Micheal Mifsud 38’]

6^th September, 2011, Zagreb: CROATIA 3 [Luka Modric 47’, Eduardo (55’, 57’)] vs. ISRAEL 1 [Tomer Hemed 44’]

Latvia's Oskars Klava and Kaspars Gorkss Challenge Croatia's Eduardo

7^th October, 2011, Piraeus: CROATIA 0 vs. GREECE 2 [Giogos Samaras 71’, Fanis Gekas 79’]

11^th October, 2011, Rijeka: CROATIA 2 [Eduardo 66’, Mario Mandzukic 72’] vs. LATVIA 0

PLAY-OFFS

Ivica Olic of Croatia and Gokhan Zan of Turkey

11^th November, 2011, Istanbul: CROATIA 3 [Ivica Olic 2’, Mario Mandzukic 32’, Vedran Corluka 51’] vs. TURKEY 0

15^th November, 2011, Zagreb: CROATIA 0 vs. TURKEY 0

(Through on 3-0 aggregate)

CZECH REPUBLIC

GROUP QUALIFIERS

7^th September, 2010, Olomouc: CZECH REPUBLIC 0 vs. LITHUANIA 1 [Darvydas Sernas 27’]

8^th October, 2010, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Roman Hubnik 69’] vs. SCOTLAND 0

Tomas Necid Opened the Scoring Against Liechtenstein 

12^th October, 2010, Vaduz: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Tomas Necid 12’, Vaclav Kadlec 29’] vs. LIECHTENSTEIN 0

25^th March, 2011, Granada: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Jaroslav Plasil 29’] vs. SPAIN 2 [David Villa (68’, 72 P)]

29^th March, 2011, Ceske Budejovice: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Milan Baros 3’, Michael Kadlec 70’] vs. LIECHTENSTEIN 0

3^rd September, 2011, Glasgow: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Jaroslav Plasil 78’, Micheal Kadlec 90’ (P)] vs. SCOTLAND 2 [Kenny Miller 45’, Darren Fletcher 82’]

Jaroslav Plasil After Scoring Against Scotland 

7^th October, 2011, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 0 vs. SPAIN 2 [Juan Mata 7’, Xabi Alonso 23’]

11^th October, 2011, Kaunas: CZECH REPUBLIC 4 [Micheal Kadlec (2’ P, 85’ P), Jan Rezek (16’, 45’)] vs. LITHUANIA 1 [Darvydas Sernas 68’ (P)]

PLAY-OFFS

Petr Jiracek On the Way to Scoring Only Goal in the Second Play-off against Montenegro

11^th November, 2011, Prague: CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [Vaclav Pilar 63’, Tomas Sivok 90+2’] vs. MONTENEGRO 0

15^th November, 2011, Podgorica: CZECH REPUBLIC 1 [Petr Jiracek 81’] vs. MONTENEGRO 0

(Through on 3-0 aggregate)

Who Got the Ticket to Euro 2012 in Poland & Ukraine from Group E, F and G?

The first round of qualifiers for Euro 2012 is over. 10 teams excluding the two host nations have booked their berths. In the last blog we had a look at first four qualifying groups. Now let us take a survey through the qualifying groups E, F, G and H and find out who qualified:

NETHERLANDS – Group –E winner

3^rd September, 2010, Serravalle: NETHERLANDS 5 [Dirk Kuyt 16’ (P), Klaas Jan-Huntelaar (38’, 48’, 66’), Ruud Van Nistelrooy 90’] vs. SAN MARINO 0

Klaas Jan-Huntelaar against San Marino

7^th September, 2010, Rotterdam: NETHERLANDS 2 [Klaas Jan-Huntelaar (7’, 16’ P)] vs. FINLAND 1 [Mikael Forssell 18’]

8^th October, 2010, Chisinau: NETHERLANDS 1 [Jaan Klaas-Huntelaar 37’] vs. MOLDOVA 0

12^th October, 2010, Amsterdam: NETHERLANDS 4 [Jan Klas-Huntelaar (4’, 55’), Ibrahim Afellay 37’, 59’] vs. SWEDEN 1 [Andreas Granqvist 69’]

25^th March, 2011, Budapest: NETHERLANDS 4 [Rafael Van der Vaart 8’, Ibrahim Afellay 45’, Dirk Kuyt 54’, Robin Van Persie 62’] vs. HUNGARY 0

29^th March, 2011, Amsterdam: NETHERLANDS 5 [Robin Van Persie 13’, Wesley Sneijder 61’, Ruud Van Nistelrooy 73’, Dirk Kuyt (78’, 81’)] vs. HUNGARY 3 [Gergely Rudolf 46’, Zoltan Gera (50’, 75’)]

2^nd September, 2011, Eindhoven: NETHERLANDS 11 [Robin Van Persie (7’, 65’, 67’, 79’), Wesley Sneijder (12’, 87’), John Heitinga 17’, Dirk Kuyt 49’, Jan Klas-Huntelaar (56’, 77’), Georginio Wijnaldum 90’] vs. SAN MARINO 0

6^th September, 2011, Helsinki: NETHERLANDS 2 [Kevin Strootman 29’, Luuk de Jong 90+3’] vs. FINLAND 0

7^th October, 2011, Rotterdam: NETHERLANDS 1 [Jan Klaas-Huntelaar 40’] vs. MOLDOVA 0

Robin Van Persie Surging Ahead against Moldova

11^th October, 2011, Solna: NETHERLANDS 2 [Jaan Klaas-Huntelaar 23’, Dirk Kuyt 50’] vs. SWEDEN 3 [Kim Kallstrom 14’, Sebastian Larsson 52’ (P), Ola Toivonen 53’]

GREECE – Group-F winner

3^rd September, 2010, Piraeus: GREECE 1 [Nikos Spyropoulos 72’] vs. GEORGIA 1 [Aleksandr Iashvii 3’]

Giorgos Karagounis & Israel's Yossi Benayoun Tussle for the Ball

7^th September, 2010, Zagreb: GREECE 0 vs. CROATIA 0

8^th October, 2010, Piraeus: GREECE 1 [Vassillis Torossidis 58’] vs. LATVIA 0

12^th October, 2010, Piraeus: GREECE 2 [Dimitris Salpingidis 22’, Giorgos Karagounis 63’ (P)] vs. ISRAEL 1 [Nikos Spyropoulos (o.g.) 59’]

26^th March, 2011, Ta’ Qali: GREECE 1 [Vassillis Torossidis 90+2’] vs. MALTA 0

4^th June, 2011, Piraeus: GREECE 3 [Giannis Fetfatsidis (7’, 63’), Kyriakos Papadopoulos 26’] vs. MALTA 1 [Michael Mifsud 54’]

2^nd September, 2011, Tel Aviv: GREECE 1 [Sotiris Ninis 60’] vs. ISRAEL 0

6^th September, 2011, Riga: GREECE 1 [Kyriakos Papadopoulos 84’] vs. LATVIA 1 [Aleksandrs Cauna 19’]

Fanis Gekas After Scoring against Croatia

7^th October, 2011, Piraeus: GREECE 2 [Giorgos Samaras 71’, Fanis Gekas 79’] vs. CROATIA 0

11^th October, 2011, Tbillisi: GREECE 2 [Giorgos Fotakis 79’, Angelos Charisteas 85’] vs. GEORGIA 1 [David Targamadze 19’]

ENGLAND – Group-G winner

3^rd June, 2010, London: ENGLAND 4 [Jermaine Defoe (3’, 61’, 86’), Adam Johnson 83’] vs. BULGARIA 0

Jermaine Defoe Scores his First against Bulgaria

 7^th June, 2010, Basel: ENGLAND 3 [Wayne Rooney 10’, Adam Johnson 69’, Darren Bent 88’] vs. SWITZERLAND 1 [Xherdan Shaqiri 71’]

12^th October, 2010, London: ENGLAND 0 vs. MONTENEGRO 0

26^th March, 2011, Cardiff: ENGLAND 2 [Frank Lampard 7’ (P), Darren Bent 15’] vs. WALES 0

4^th June, 2011, London: ENGLAND 2 [Frank Lampard 37’ (P), Ashley Young 51’] vs. SWITZERLAND 2 [Tranquillo Barnetta 32’, 35’]

2^nd September, 2011, Sofia: ENGLAND 3 [Gary Cahill 13’, Wayne Rooney (21’, 45+1’)] vs. BULGARIA 0

6^th September, 2011, London: ENGLAND 1 [Ashley Young 35’] vs. WALES 0

Adam Johnson of England is tackled by Milan Jovanovic of Montenegro

7^th October, 2011, Podogorica: ENGLAND 2 [Ashley Young 11’, Darren Bent 31’] vs. MONTENEGRO 2 [Elsad Zverotic 45’, Andrija Delibasic 90+1’]

Who have got the Ticket to Poland & Ukraine for Euro 2012 from Group A, B, C & D?

With Euro 2012 first round qualifiers completed we have a list of 12 qualified teams that will travel to Ukraine and Poland, the nations hosting the next Euro Cup. While Poland and Ukraine got automatic entry into the main draw courtesy of being the organisers other 10 teams had to go through the qualifying rounds and prove their mettle. Let’s have a look at qualifiers for Euro 2012 from qualifying groups A,B, C and D.  

GERMANY – Group-A winners

3^rd September, 2010, Brussels: GERMANY 1 [Miroslav Klose 51’] vs. BELGIUM 0

7^th September, 2010, Cologne: GERMANY 6 [Heiko Westermann 28’, Miroslav Klose (45+2’, 90+2’), Rashad F. Sadygov 53’ (o.g.), Holger Badstuber 86’] vs. AZERBAIJAN 1 [Vagif Javadov 57’]

Miroslav Klose Scoring his First Goal against Azerbaijan

8^th October, 2010, Berlin: GERMANY 3 [Miroslav Klose (42’, 87’), Mesut Ozil 79’] vs. TURKEY 0

12^th October, 2010, Astana: GERMANY 3 [Miroslav Klose 48’, Mario Gomez 76’, Lukas Podolski 85’] vs. KAZAKHSTAN 0

26^th March, 2011, Kaiserslautern: GERMANY 4 [Miroslav Klose (3’, 88’), Thomas Muller (25’, 43’)] vs. KAZAKHSTAN 0

3^rd June, 2011, Vienna: GERMANY 2 [Mario Gomez (44’, 90’)] vs. AUSTRIA 1 [Arne Friedrich 50’ (o.g.)]

7^th June, 2011, Baku: GERMANY 3 [Mesut Ozil 29’, Mario Gomez 40’, Andre Schurrle 90+3’] vs. AZERBAIJAN 1 [Murad Huseynov 89’]

2^nd September, 2011, Gelsenkirchen: GERMANY 6 [Miroslav Klose 8’, Mesut Ozil (23’, 47’), Lukas Podolski 28’, Andre Schurrle 83’, Mario Gotze 88’] vs. AUSTRIA 2 [Marko Arnautovic 42’, Martin Harnik 51’]

Sami Khadeira in Action against Belgium

7^th September, 2011, Istanbul: GERMANY 3 [Mario Gomez 35’, Thomas Muller 66’, Bastian Schweinsteiger 86’ (P)] vs. TURKEY 1 [Hakan Balta 79’]

11^th September, 2011, Dusseldorf: GERMANY 3 [Mesut Ozil 30’, Andre Schurrle 33’, Mario Gomez 48’] vs. BELGIUM 1 [Marouane Fellaini 86’]

RUSSIA –Group-B winners  

3^rd September, 2010, Andorra la Vella: RUSSIA 2 [Pavel Pogrebnyak 14’, 64’ (P)] vs. ANDORRA 0

7^th September, 2010, Moscow: RUSSIA 0 vs. SLOVAKIA 1 [Miroslav Stoch 27’]

Kevin Doyle of the Republic of Ireland clashes with Alexander Anyukov of Russia

8^th October, 2010, Dublin: RUSSIA 3 [Aleksandr Kerzhakov 11’, Alan Dzagoev 29’, Roman Shirokov 50’] vs. REPUBLIC OF IRELEAND [Robbie Keane 72’ (P), Shane Long 78’]

12^th October, 2010, Skopje: RUSSIA 1 [Aleksandr Kerzhakov 8’] vs. FYROM 0

26^th March, 2011, Yerevan: RUSSIA 0 vs. ARMENIA 0

4^th June, 2011, St. Petersburg: RUSSIA 3 [Roman Pavlyuchenko (26’, 59’, 73’ P)] vs. ARMENIA 1 [Marcos Pizzelli 25’]

2^nd September, 2011, Moscow: RUSSIA 1 [Igor Semshov 41’] vs. FYROM 0

6^th September, 2011, Moscow: RUSSIA 0 vs. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 0

7^th October, 2011, Zilina: RUSSIA 1 [Alan Dzagoev 71’] vs. SLOVAKIA 0

Roman Pavlyuchenko in Action against Andorra

11^th October, 2011, Moscow: RUSSIA 6 [Alan Dzagoev (5’, 44’), Sergei Ignashevich 26’, Roman Pavlyuchenko 30’, Denis Glushakov 59’, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 78’] vs. ANDORRA 0

ITALY – Group-C winners

3^rd September, 2010, Tallinn: ITALY 2 [Antonio Cassano 60’, Leonardo Bonucci 63’] vs. ESTONIA 1 [Sergei Zenjov 31’]

Antonio Cassano Glides Past Faroe Island Defender

7^th September, 2010, Florence: ITALY 5 [Alberto Gilardino 11’, Daniele De Rossi 22’, Antonio Cassano 27’, Fabio Quagliarella 81’, Andrea Pirlo 90’] vs. FAROE ISLANDS 0

8^th October, 2010, Belfast: ITALY 0 vs. NORTHERN IRELAND 0

12^th October, 2010, Genoa: ITALY 3 vs. SERBIA 0 [Match forfeited when the score was 0-0.]

25^th March, 2011, Ljubljana: ITALY 1 [Thiago Motta 73’] vs. SLOVENIA 0

3^rd June, 2011, Modena: ITALY 3 [Guiseppe Rossi 21’, Antonio Cassano 39’, Giampolo Pazzini 68’] vs. ESTONIA 0

2^nd September, 2011, Torshavn: ITALY 1 [Antonio Cassano 11’] vs. FAROE ISLANDS 0

6^th September, 2011, Florence: ITALY 1 [Giampolo Pazzini 85’] vs. SLOVENIA 0

7^th October, 2011, Belgrade: ITALY 1 [Claudio Marchisio 2’] vs. SERBIA 1 [Branislav Ivanovic 26’]

Daniele De Rossi against Serbia

11^th October, 2011, Pescara: ITALY 3 [Antonio Cassano (21’, 53’), Gareth McAuley (o.g.) 74’] vs. NORTHERN IRELAND 0

FRANCE –Group-D winners

3^rd September, 2010, Paris: FRANCE 0 vs. BELARUS 1 [Sergei Kislyak]

7^th September, 2010, Sarajevo: FRANCE 2 [Karim Benzema 72’, Florent Malouda 78’] vs. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 0

Florent Malouda on his Way to Scoring Against Bosnia & Herzegovina

9^th October, 2010, Paris: FRANCE 2[ Loic Remy 83’, Yoann Gourcuff 90+3’] vs. ROMANIA 0

12^th October, 2010, Metz: FRANCE 2 [Karim Benzema 22’, Yoann Gourcuff 76’] vs. LUXEMBOURG 0

25^th March, 2011, Josy Barthel: FRANCE 2 [Phillippe Mexes 28’, Yoann Gourcuff 72’] vs. LUXEMBOURG 0

3^rd June, 2011, Minsk: FRANCE 1 [Florent Malouda 22’] vs. BELARUS 1 [Eric Abidal (o.g.) 22’]

2^nd September, 2010, Tirana: FRANCE 1 [Karim Benzema 11’, Yann M’Vila 18’] vs. ALBANIA 1[Erjon Bogdani 46’]

6^th September, 2011, Bucharest: FRANCE 0 vs. ROMANIA 0

7^th October, 2011, Paris: FRANCE 3 [Florent Malouda 11’, Loic Remy 38’, Anthony Reveillere 67’] vs. ALBANIA 0

Loic Remy Running Past the Albanian defender

11^th October, 2011, Paris: FRANCE 1 [Samir Nasri 78’ (P)] vs. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 1 [Edin Dzeko 40’]