Euro 2012 Thread

[Brazil]

Germany ftw imho

In Poland they are playin' at home anyway

[urunobili]

Russia to play a friendly vs. Uruguay today 12:45 est in prep for the Euro.... Uruguay playing with the entire roster.

[Venti Quattro]

Suarez is there? Is Arshavin playing for Russia?

[lefty]

Germany ftw imho

In Poland they are playin' at home anyway

[urunobili]

Suarez is there? Is Arshavin playing for Russia?

Both playing. Suarez already scored

[Venti Quattro]

England

Joe Hart
Jack Butland (in lieu of John Ruddy)
Robert Green

Glen Johnson
Phil Jones
Gary Cahill
John Terry
Joleon Lescott
Ashley Cole
Leighton Baines

Scott Parker
Jordan Henderson (in lieu of Gareth Barry)
Steven Gerrard
Frank Lampard
James Milner
Ashley Young
Theo Walcott
Stewart Downing
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Andy Carroll
Wayne Rooney
Danny Welbeck
Jermain Defoe

Italia

Gianluigi Buffon
Morgan De Sanctis
Salvatore Sirigu

Ignazio Abate
Federico Balzaretti
Andrea Barzagli
Leonardo Bonucci
Giorgio Chiellini
Christian Maggio
Angelo Obinze Ogbonna

Daniele De Rossi
Alessandro Diamanti
Emanuele Giaccherini
Claudio Marchisio
Riccardo Montolivo
Thiago Motta
Antonio Nocerino
Andrea Pirlo

Mario Balotelli
Fabio Borini
Antonio Cassano
Antonio Di Natale
Sebastian Giovinco

Nederland

Maarten Stekelenburg
Tim Krul
Michel Vorm

Khalid Boulahrouz
Wilfred Bouma
John Heitinga
Joris Mathijsen
Ron Vlaar
Gregory van der Wiel
Jetro Willems

Ibrahim Afellay
Mark van Bommel
Nigel de Jong
Stijn Schaars
Wesley Sneijder
Kevin Strootman
Rafael van der Vaart

Klaas Jan Huntelaar
Luuk de Jong
Dirk Kuyt
Luciano Narsingh
Robin van Persie
Arjen Robben

[Venti Quattro]

España

Iker Casillas
Pepe Reina
Víctor Valdés

Sergio Ramos
Álvaro Arbeloa
Raúl Albiol
Gerard Piqué
Jordi Alba
Juanfran Torres

Sergio Busquets
Xavi Hernández
Andrés Iniesta
Javi Martínez
Xabi Alonso
Cesc Fábregas
Juan Manuel Mata
Santi Cazorla

David Silva
Fernando Llorente
Fernando Torres
Jesús Navas
Pedro Rodríguez
Álvaro Negredo

Deutschland

Manuel Neuer
Tim Wiese
Ron-Robert Zieler

Holger Badstuber
Jérôme Boateng
Benedikt Howedes
Mats Hummels
Philipp Lahm
Per Mertesacker
Marcel Schmelzer

Lars Bender
Mario Götze
Ilkay Gundogan
Sami Khedira
Toni Kroos
Mesut Özil
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Andre Schürrle

Mario Gómez
Miroslav Klose
Thomas Müller
Lukas Podolski
Marco Reus

France

Cédric Carrasso
Hugo Lloris
Steve Mandanda

Gaël Clichy
Mathieu Debuchy
Patrice Evra
Laurent Koscielny
Philippe Mexes
Adil Rami
Anthony Réveillère

Hatem Ben Arfa
Yohan Cabaye
Alou Diarra
Yann M'Vila
Florent Malouda
Marvin Martin
Blaise Matuidi
Samir Nasri
Franck Ribéry
Mathieu Valbuena

Karim Benzema
Oliver Giroud
Jérémy Ménez

[Venti Quattro]

Portugal

Eduardo
Rui Patricio
Beto

Bruno Alves
Pepe the got
Fabio Coentrão
Ricardo Costa
Rolando
Miguel Lopes
João Pereira

Miguel Veloso
Custodio
João Moutinho
Ricardo Quaresma
Rúben Micael
Raul Meireles
Nani
Hugo Viana

Cristiano Ronaldo
Hugo Almeida
Nélson Oliveira
Silvestre Varela
Hélder Postiga

Polska

Wojciech Szczęsny
Grzegorz Sandomierski
Przemysław Tytoń

Sebastian Boenisch
Grzegorz Wojtkowiak
Damien Perquis
Marcin Wasilewski
Jakub Wawrzyniak
Marcin Kamiński
Łukasz Piszczek

Dariusz Dudka
Adam Matuszczyk
Eugen Polanski
Maciej Rybus
Ludovic Obraniak
Rafał Murawski
Jakub Błaszczykowski
Adrian Mierzejewski
Rafał Wolski
Kamil Grosicki

Robert Lewandowski
Artur Sobiech
Paweł Brożek

Sverige

Andreas Isaksson
Johan Wiland
Pär Hansson

Mikael Lustig
Olof Mellberg
Andreas Granqvist
Martin Olsson
Jonas Olsson
Mikael Antonsson
Behrang Safari

Rasmus Elm
Sebastian Larsson
Anders Svensson
Kim Källström
Pontus Wernbloom
Samuel Holmén
Emir Bajrami
Ola Toivonen
Christian Wilhelmsson

Zlatan Ibrahimović
Johan Elmander
Tobias Hysén
Markus Rosenberg

[Venti Quattro]

Danmark

Kasper Schmeichel (Thomas Sørensen withdrew because of injury)
Stephan Andersen
Anders Lindegaard

Simon Kjær
Daniel Agger
Simon Poulsen
Lars Jacobsen
Andreas Bjelland
Jores Okore
Daniel Wass

Christian Poulsen
William Kvist
Christian Eriksen
Lasse Schøne
Michael Silberbauer
Jakob Poulsen
Thomas Kahlenberg
Niki Zimling

Michael Krohn-Dehli
Dennis Rommedahl
Nicklas Bendtner
Nicklas Pedersen
Tobias Mikkelsen

Россия

Igor Akinfeyev
Vyacheslav Malafeyev
Anton Shunin

Alexander Anyukov
Alexei Berezutsky
Sergei Ignashevich
Roman Sharonov
Vladimir Granat
Kirill Nababkin

Igor Denisov
Roman Shirokov
Konstantin Zyryanov
Yuri Zhirkov
Alan Dzagoyev
Igor Semshov
Denis Glushakov
Marat Izmailov
Dmitri Kombarov

Andrei Arshavin
Alexander Kerzhakov
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Alexander Kokorin
Pavel Pogrebnyak

as goat ers

Costas Chalkias
Michalis Sifakis
Alexis Tzorvas

Avraam Papadopoulos
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Vassilis Torosidis
Jose Holebas
Stelios Malezas
Yiannis Maniatis
Giorgos Tzavellas
Kyriakos Papadopoulos

Yiannis Fetfatzidis
Grigoris Makos
Costas Katsouranis
Giorgos Fotakis
Costas Fortounis
Giorgos Karagounis
Sotiris Ninis

Giorgos Samaras
Dimitris Salpigidis
Theofanis Gekas
Nikos Liberopoulos
Costas Mitroglou

[Venti Quattro]

Eire

Shay Given
Keiren Westwood
David Forde

Richard Dunne
John O’Shea
Sean St Ledger
Darren O’Dea
Stephen Ward
Stephen Kelly
Paul McShane

Glenn Whelan
Darron Gibson
Keith Andrews
Paul Green
Damien Duff
Aiden McGeady
Stephen Hunt
James McClean

Robbie Keane
Kevin Doyle
Simon Cox
Shane Long
Jon Walters

[mudyez]

Lets try to predict the starting lineups and give an idea of their strenght/weaknesses:

Germany:

Starters:
---------------------------Miroslav Klose---------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Lukas Podolski---------------Mesut Özil---------------Thomas Müller
-------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------Sami Khedira-----------Bastian Schweinsteiger--------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Philipp Lahm---Holger Badstuber---Per Mertesacker---Jérôme Boateng
-------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------Manuel Neuer---------------------------

Primary Subs:
Forwards: Mario Gómez + Marco Reus (more like a Counter Forward)
Midfielder: Mario Götze + Toni Kroos
Defense: Mats Hummels

may get no playing time at all:
Andre Schürrle
Ilkay Gundogan
Lars Bender
Marcel Schmelzer
Benedikt Howedes
Tim Wiese
Ron-Robert Zieler

Strenght: A lot of talent in terms of playmaking on the midfield positions. They might play more offensive than the lineup might suggest with either Schweinsteiger/Khedira attacking more or one of them beeing replaced by Kroos/Götze who are more offensiv anyway. Probably all midfielders but Podolski (which should stay at the left lane) are very versatile and can change positions a lot. After all they are a little like a poor mans Spain/Barca which isn't a bad thing.

Weakness: The defense can't keep up to the level the offense sets. There just are not that many top notch players, with Lahm and Neuer beeing the only real standouts. Look for some bad mistakes especially with the Center Backs!

Biggest Question: Can the midfield generate enough ball control to hide the challenged defense?

Prediction:
As I wrote before, I don't think the preparation was good (not counting the friendly vs. Switzerland) and a letdown year is due (each team has it once every few big tournaments). I think they will get kicked out early, probably loosing the first game vs. Portugal and never putting it together after that.

[Muser]

There must be a better German CB than Mertersacker. He's looked awful last season.

[quentin_compson]

There must be a better German CB than Mertersacker. He's looked awful last season.

There is, Hummels. He should start alongside Badstuber.

[scott]

Marcel Schmelzer is my hero. Hope he gets some minutes.

[scott]

And this is why.

[Venti Quattro]

Česká republika

Petr Čech
Jaroslav Drobný
Jan Laštůvka

Theodor Gebre Selassie
Roman Hubník
Michal Kadlec
David Limberský
Tomáš Sivok
Marek Suchý

Vladimír Darida
Tomáš Hübschman
Petr Jiráček
Daniel Kolář
Milan Petržela
Václav Pilař
Jaroslav Plašil
František Rajtoral
Tomáš Rosický

Milan Baroš
David Lafata
Tomáš Necid
Tomáš Pekhart
Jan Rezek

Hrvatska

Stipe Pletikosa
Ivan Kelava
Danijel Subašić

Jurica Buljat
Vedran Ćorluka
Danijel Pranjić
Gordon Schildenfeld
Josip Šimunić
Darijo Srna
Ivan Strinić
Domagoj Vida

Milan Badelj
Tomislav Dujmović
Ivo Iličević
Niko Kranjčar
Luka Modrić
Ivan Perišić
Ivan Rakitić
Ognjen Vukojević

Eduardo
Nikica Jelavić
Mario Mandžukić
Ivica Olić

Україна

Oleksandr Goryainov
Maxym Koval
Andriy Pyatov

Bohdan Butko
Olexandr Kucher
Taras Mikhalik
Yaroslav Rakitskiy
Yevhen Selin
Yevhen Khacheridi
Vyacheslav Shevchuk

Olexandr Aliyev
Denys Garmash
Oleh Gusev
Yevhen Konoplyanka
Serhiy Nazarenko
Ruslan Rotan
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Andriy Yarmolenko

Andriy Voronin
Marko Dević
Artem Milevskiy
Yevhen Seleznyov
Andriy Shevchenko

[mudyez]

There is, Hummels. He should start alongside Badstuber.

I agree, but I believe the german gamemanager Löws will favour Mertesacker coz he has been there done ...um...done something.

Hopefully Hummels will get playing time.

[Jodelo]

I just hope Badstuber won't play much, he is god afwul!

[lefty]

Wait


No Soldado for Spain ?



FAIL

[ALVAREZ6]

Wait


No Soldado for Spain ?



FAIL

Yeah that's bull . Still, that squad is so stacked, they could put 2 full contending teams out there

[Venti Quattro]

Frank Lampard ruled out of England's Euro 2012 squad

Frank Lampard is out of England's Euro 2012 campaign with a thigh injury suffered in training on Wednesday.

The news was confirmed after the Chelsea midfielder, 33, was examined by medical staff after a scan.

Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson will be called into the squad, subject to agreement from Uefa's medical team.

"It's a huge blow for the team, especially coming after the loss of another senior player in Gareth Barry," said manager Roy Hodgson.

"The fact that the doctor cannot guarantee Frank could take part in any of the group matches means we have to replace him in the central midfield area.

"Apart from it being a huge blow to me and the team, I'm especially disappointed for Frank himself," he added.

"He has been in very good form and was looking forward to the tournament. He made a huge contribution towards us qualifying for the Euros so it is cruel to be forced out through injury just before the tournament."

Chelsea's Lampard is one of the most experienced players Hodgson had to call upon, with 90 caps.

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty believes Lampard's absence will be a big loss to the squad.

"Frank Lampard has occasionally been a maligned figure for England - but his loss from the Euro 2012 squad will be a heavy blow for manager Roy Hodgson," he said.

"Lampard has maturity, experience and continues to be a winner as proved by his vital role in Chelsea's Champions League and FA Cup victories.

"He may not have started England's first Euro 2012 game against France but his presence and professionalism around the squad is always beneficial and he would have been determined to force his way into the side."

Manager Roy Hodgson is already without another experienced midfielder in Barry, who was ruled out of the tournament after suffering a groin injury in the 1-0 win over Norway.

If Henderson, 21, is allowed to replace Lampard then Liverpool will be the most represented club in Hodgson's squad, with five, despite a disappointing season which saw them eighth in the Premier League.

[lefty]

Lampard



Now Cahill will miss Euro 2012 too


And dont forget Rooney is suspended for the first 2 games


England = fckd

[Libri]

Lampard



Now Cahill will miss Euro 2012 too


And dont forget Rooney is suspended for the first 2 games


England = fckd

Yeah, I saw that push on Cahill. I think he broke his jaw.

[Muser]

our bench is going to be Jordan Henderson and Andy Carrll.

Need the Ox to lay the smackdown.

[Muser]

Yeah, I saw that push on Cahill. I think he broke his jaw.

Double fracture. that dirty Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_.