Euro 2012 Playoffs – Playoff Draw News

Euro 2012 Playoffs

Euro 2012 Playoffs

With Tuesdays international matches seeing an end to the Euro 2012 qualification group stage, the attention of football fans switched to this mornings Euro 2012 playoffs draw. Todays draw for the Euro 2012 playoffs took place at the Sheraton Hotel in Krakow, Poland, many representatives from football associations were in attendance all waiting in anticipation for the actual draw. The start of the Euro 2012 Playoffs draw was sheduled for a 1300 HRS star and UEFA General secretary Gianni Infantino along with a Polish tournament ambassador names Zbigniew Boniek, were in attendance to host and conduct the drawing ceremony.

 

For the Euro 2012 Playoff Draw itself the 8 remaining teams were split into 2 seperate seeded groups based on their current rankings position, for the Euro 2012 playoffs draw itself the seeded teams and unseeded teams will be placed in 2 seperate pots to ensure the top seeds are only drawn against unseeded opposition. Based on the current ranking of the teams remaining eligible to qualify for the Euro 2012 tournament the seeded teams were named as Croatia, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and the Czech Republic. This left the unseeded teams as Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Estonia this leaves the door open for some potentially explosive ties within these Euro 2012 playoffs especially due to the strength Montenegro showed in their performance against England.

 

The Euro 2012 playoffs matches are due to be played over 2 legs both home and away, the most important thing for you to note is the actual Euro 2012 Playoffs dates the home legs are scheduled on the 11th and 12th ov November 2012 and the return legs on the 15th of November 2012.

 

So lets turn our attention to the actual outcome of the UEFA Euro 2012 playoffs draw, for many the blue ribbon game of this draw has came out as a repeat of the now classic Euro 2008 quarter final match between Turkey and Croatia, for those who remember their previous meeting ended goal less at the end of the regular 90 minutes so extra time ensued. During extra time the tensions remained high until Ivan Klasnic of Croatia scored in the last minute of extra time in the 119th minute of the game, then with only seconds to spare Semih Senturk scored the equaliser for Turkey to take the game to penalties which Turkey ended up winning. So lets hope this match ends up with another thrilling story, adding more interest to these Euro 2012 playoffs.

 Euro 2012 playoffs – Remaining Ties

So what fate would befall Ireland this time well on paper the Irish pulled the easiest tie against Estonia who were the lowest ranked team qualifying for these Euro 2012 playoffs, however we must remember Estonia finished second behind Italy which was impressive in itself. Fans of Ireland will also remember how they fell foul of that Thierry Henry handball which ruled out a chance of qualification to the 2010 world cup, but who knows what contraversy may be instore there is always something to watch out for.

 

The remaining Euro 2012 championship playoff ties are a little less thrilling with the Czech republic being drawn against Montenegro. The final tie sees Bosnia and Herzegovina meet Portugal both of these teams were dissapointed to finish 2nd in their groups with Bosnia loosing out to France and Portugal finishing second to Denmark.

 

And there we have it the 4 matches in the Euro 2012 playoffs which will finally decide the teams who will join the other already qualified teams for next years Euro 2012 championship tournament, just for reference those already qualified teams who have avoided the Euro 2012 playoffs are as follows: Poland and Ukraine the hosts, Spain the current holders, Germany, Russia, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Greece, England and Denmark, not forgetting the best runners up Sweden.

 

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