The Official UEFA Euro 2012 Thread!

Well, the Europe's Cup was already won by Spain and more, by the fav team of a familiar. Both finalist teams were spanish anyway.

Good luck with UEFA at whoever needs it

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@ Michael
The Europa league don't forget is a minor competition in the great scheme of things. The teams that get into that competition in the first place are minor cup winners anf fourth placed league finishers, plus the losers from the Champions League group stages. Yes Atletico Madrid won it but it doesn't really say anything. The Champions League is where the money and prestige is, and not a Spanish club in sight this year. The final on Saturday will be an epic encounter methinks, fingers crossed my boys will win it (Chelsea).

Back to the Euros. While i think that Spain will do well as they are the current European and World champions, the loss of Puyol will be immense. Personally not sure they can keep the very high standard needed to win this time around, even though i do see them getting to the last four. I think Germany will be there again, as they have quality in their side, plus they are used to getting to finals. Italy will probably also be there but i don't think they have the stamina to win it either. Which leaves England of course. I'm optimistic as ever, but we are under new management, plus the team hasn't even been announced yet so no idea who is going or how they will play. I'd love it if we got to at least the semis but based on past form, that won't happen. I still hope they will though

Spanish also won the (Global) Champions cup previously, now it was the European's cup's time.

Turn by turn

I hope for Croatia to win but it'll be damn hard to even pass the group.

But I think Portugal will win it this year, believe it or not.

Portugal winning? Ronaldo will be too busy whining after they get knocked out in the Group Stages

well German easily Top 3, let's see if they can finally win something -_-

if i had to bet id do for germany this time...
france has also some chances. they are doing well since they kicked their old -and *****- coach
ive seen portugal playing and they may get far if they have some luck. the portugal vs netherlands match is the key for the future of both teams.
italy can also do a good championship. they have changed their style and are playing good matches. not to mention their usual luck
about spain... i dont think we will perform as well as in the previous champs... im not sure we can win italy, and we will have probably trouble to pass the group phase

but who cares, we are world champions at least two more years, so we rock

yeah I can see France going very far. Possibly even win the entire thing... who knows. They did beat us 2:1 after all a couple of months ago :p

tbh no idea how Italy is playing atm... I just hope for them that their diving skills are still top notch.

as for Germany we have some sick new talents on the team... Reus, Götze, Schürrle and if we play like we did against the Netherlands... that'd be awesome

where it will fail will be in the defense... fuckin Boateng

The England team was named yesterday, so i'll revise my optimistic enthusiasm and say that we'll be lucky to leave the group stages. Forgot to mention that Holland are looking good as well and could easily make the last four, so difficult to call this championship

Can't find too much to disagree with there, i'd use Oxlaide-Chamberlain instead of Lampard simply because he has pace. Not sure about Roy, i mean he did get the Swiss to 3rd in the world so clearly has some idea of what he's doing, and apart from his time with Pool, he's not done badly. Only time will tell.

Ox instead of Lennon? Or Wright-Phillips?

Spiky- Germany can and should win it, imo. they're favourites, but Portugal can surprise, as we saw on the World Cup when they lost against Spain 1-0 on an offside goal, and they were better the whole game.

What i like about the Ox is he's fearless, he really doesn't care who he's playing against. Saw a few games with him playing for the Gooners this season and he always had an impact, not to be underestimated. I honestly think the Germans will win it as well, but a lot has been said that since nobody expects England to win, they might actually do well. I'll be very curious how we play with the two friendlies coming up, what sort of shape we have on the field, see if Roy is brave enough to go 4-3-3 if needed. God help us if we stick to 4-4-2, it's so predictable, we'll just get slaughtered.

Slightly off topic but congratulations to my team Chelsea last night for winning the European Cup. A better display of determination, defensive capabilities and luck you will not see anywhere else. It's what got us through the competition against much better sides. Feel a bit sorry for Bayern, they had their chances but didn't take them, even though they were the better footballing side on the night. We know how you feel by the way, been there ourselves. Better luck next time