Group A
1. Poland 2. Greece 3. Russia 4. Czech Republic
Group B
1. Netherlands 2. Denmark 3. Germany 4. Portugal
Group C
1. Spain 2. Italy 3. Ireland 4. Croatia
Group D
1. Ukraine 2. Sweden 3. France 4. England
The group draw for Euro 2012 were held this evening in Kiev Ukraine, and has landed Germany in perhaps the toughest group of the tournament – namely the same group with the Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark.
In other groups the important football nation World Cup holder Spain will face Italy and France ended in the same group with England.
Old rivals Holland and Germany will play each other yet again in another clash at Euro 2012, just after a young and motivated German team beat an out-to-lunch ‘do not disturb’ sleeping ‘Oranje’ 3-0 in a friendly match about 14 days ago in Hamburg.
German fans may well hope their team just cruise to an easy victory over the Dutch, but that will hardly be the case.
This will be a completely motivated Dutch team and for that matter a motivated Portugal and Denmark who Germany will also have to play in this group.
Having said that, Germany are a formidable opponent for any team these days and German coach Joachim Löw is proud of his young team and being the good coach he is, also well aware that these will all be tight matches.
Denmark, Portugal and the Netherlands can rightly be considered as ‘tournament type teams’, that are not overwrought by fear of better opponents – making them so dangerous.
Euro 2012 will open on June 8th in Warsaw Poland – when the host nation will play the 2004 champions Greece. The final game will be played on July 1st in Kiev Ukraine.
This Article is reprinted with permission from OTA Apartments in Berlin
See also earlier posts about the German national football team – http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/11/17/o-was-ist-das-schon%E2%80%99-germany-3-netherlands-0-in-football-friendly-yesterday-in-hamburg-by-ota-berlin-constituency-sports-contributor-mr-filip-v-d-plas/
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