Gdansk: Germany's second group game defeats in the past two tournaments should act as a warning when they face the Netherlands in their Euro 2012 Group B match on Wednesday in Kharkiv, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said on Tuesday. The Germans, among the title favourites, go into the game on the back of a 1-0 win over Portugal with the Dutch having their backs to the wall following a surprise...
07:40 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Gdansk (Poland): Whether it's Robin van Persie or Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, one of the Dutch star strikers had better start scoring if the Netherlands is to live up to its billing as a European Championship favorite. With its back to the wall, the Netherlands has to beat Germany on Wednesday in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to have a chance of advancing from Group B. Neither Van Persie nor Huntelaar scored in the 1-0...
06:32 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Krakow (Poland): Both are ranked in FIFA's top four. They finished second and third at the last World Cup. If that were not enough " it's the Netherlands vs Germany, one of the biggest grudge matches in football, and of all sport for that matter. And to compound matters, the Netherlands needs to win Wednesday's Group B game to claw its way back into the European Championship. A loss would...
08:52 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: It was a rainy November night three years ago when a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Croatia denied England - one of the traditional giants of the game - a place at Euro 2008. Four years on, none of the big guns, England included, are likely to face such a shock. As qualifying for Euro 2012 reaches its final stages, most of the top nations have either...
06:15 PM, Sep 06, 2011
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