Euro Quarter Final Predictions

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First before my big Euro 2012 Quarter Finals predictions, we'll have some news. Who other than Manchester City would be in the transfer gossip. They are looking at the Spanish striker Fernando Llorente from the team Athletic Bilbao. Bilbao said they will NOT sell him at a very low price since he had a very good season for them scoring 29 goals. There starting number is about 30 Million Pounds or around 47 Million Dollars. The Bundesliga's schedules for the 2012/2013 season are set to be released June 26th. In
Serie A news, Mathieu Flamini is probably going to leave his club AC Milan.

Now its time for what we all have been waiting for!!! My Quarter Finals Prediction's. First lets start with the game that is played today. Petr Cech and Czech Republic take on Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal. Well Czech Republic started off the tournament very shaky to a team that did not even advance to the quarter finals! They lost 4-1 to Russia, but then started a 2 game winning streak to win the group. Unfortunately for the Czech's they win the group and have to go to face Portugal. Portugal started the tournament a little slow even though they were the underdogs against Germany. Cristiano Ronaldo started off even slower than his team. He did not score any goals for Portugal until the last game of the group stage, but they where 2 big ones. Portugal's roster is better than the Czech Republic's but they still will have to watch out the Czech's quick strikers and maybe even their returning captain, Thomas Rosicky. In the end Portugal with a much better defense, and a little edge in attackers will win the game 2-1. Portugal advancing to the semi-finals!

The next Quarter Final match-up will be one of the tournaments favorites Germany vs Greece. I feel sorry for Greece because I have a feeling, Germany is going to win this game and win it big. Germany won all 3 group games in the Group of Death! Come on now the Group of Death!! While Greece had a tougher road. I mean Germany had a super tough road, but made it look easy. Greece fell behind to Poland in the first game and got to end the game with a tie. Then Greece lost against Czech Republic and on the last day of the tournament everything had to go right from them (as you might remember from my blog Grecian Formula). Germany has an advantage at almost every position and has depth on their bench too. This one may get ugly or if Greece is lucky not that ugly. Germany wins this one 4-1! Germany advances to the semi-finals!

The Quarter Final match that comes up next is what I really waiting to see. It is the defending champions Spain vs a very good French side. I am for France and think this will be a great a game. One of the main keys for France is to make sure that Karim Benzema stays higher than the rest of the team, instead of dropping a little back like he is playing midfield. He did this once or twice last game (he should have done it the whole game) and it opened up Ribery and Nasri. France started off the tournament playing a way better game then England but ended up tying. Then they beat Ukraine, but the last game was very scary for me because if Sweden can beat them like that then of course Spain can too. Spain tied their first game against an okay Italian side. Then they handled Ireland like they should. Lastly, they almost got eliminated by Croatia but escaped with a narrow win. Their midfield is the best in the world, they are amazing that is all that has to be said, Spain wins 2-1! Spain advances to semifinals!

The last and final Quarter Final game is England vs Italy. If this game would have been played as the first group game I would have picked Italy! Now that England has Wayne Rooney back they should do fine. Also, they did way better than I expected them to do in the group stage! I said earlier that they might not even have a chance of making it through the Group stage, and look at them! They won it!! Italy is just not as good as they used to be a Mean Mario will probably, if he starts, get a red card or something. We all know it has to happen at some point! I got England winning this one 3-2! England advances to semifinals!

Portugal beats Czech Republic 2-1
Germany beats Greece 4-1
Spain beats France 2-1
England beats Italy 3-2

Well that is it for this morning! Have fun watching the Portugal vs Czech Republic game!