Semi Final Time In Euro 2012

Gregoire Michonze

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A9goire_Michonze 

We watched the first semi-final of the Euro football tournament 2012; it was between Spain and Portugal.

Portugal was seen by many as having a good chance of winning against Spain.

This prediction looked like as if it would happen, Portugal took immediate control of the game, they were very dominant.

Spain looked as if they were being sidelined, Portugal would not let them have possession of the ball so this prevented them from controlling the game.

They always control the game by getting the ball and passing it from one to another.

Portugal prevented them from doing this by controlling the ball themselves they also made Spain play differently.

Neither side managed to get a goal in the first half, all of Renaldo’s attempts on goal failed, they went over the goal.

In the second half of the game the Spanish team were back in the game and getting more control of the ball.

Again all of Ronald many attempts to score a goal came to nothing, it was quite frustrating watching and knowing that if they didn't score it meant extra time.

Indeed at the end of the game neither side has managed to score a goal, and now extra time began.

The first 15 minutes started and ended without a result, the second 15 minutes began and it also ended with no goals.

Both teams now had to prepare to take penalties, all of the players were extremely tired and now they would have to focus on getting their shots into the goal.

Portugal took the first penalty and missed then Spain stepped forward to take their first penalty and they also missed.

Both Spain and Portugal got their second penalties, and then Portugal stepped forward to take their third which they missed.

Consternation among the Portuguese players, then Spain also came forward

to take their third penalty which they achieved.

Spain came for their fourth penalty which was taken by Ces Fabregas and he got that without a problem, this meant that Spain had beaten Portugal.

Ronaldo was devastated as he was going to take the fifth penalty for Portugal but never got the chance because his team had lost.

So now Spain will be in the final yet again, tomorrow Germany will play against Italy and the winner will play against Spain on Sunday.

What a shame for Portugal, Cristiana Ronaldo should have taken the first penalty and then they might have had a better chance of winning.

That's football always full of surprises.

The Last Exciting Games Of The Euro Tournament 2012.

Gunther Gerzso
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Yesterday we watched the last of the quarter-final games this time between England and Italy England's former, this time between England and Italy.

England started in good form, right away you could see that they were well organised.

They were defending well and using every opportunity to attack and to create chances for themselves.

At first the Italian team almost seemed disturbed by this, however they soon got on with playing their particular brand of football.

The Italian teams are well known for playing negative football which does not allow their opponents many chances of creating opportunities to score goals.

Richie jokingly describes their tactics, as ‘parking their bus’ in front of their goal to prevent the opposition from scoring.

Their tactics seem to be working quite well yesterday, the only problem for the Italian team was that England also defended their goal extremely well.

The first half ended without a goal to either side, the second half ended and once again there were no goals.

This meant extra time, so another half an hour was played, at the end of the half-hour there was still no goals from either Italy or England.

Now both teams had to get themselves ready to take penalties, England got there first penalty and so did Italy.

Then Italy missed their second penalty, England did not miss theirs, which gave them hope.

Then England's Ashley Young missed the third penalty which his Italian counterpart buried in the goal.

Both England as well Italy got their fourth penalty, England's Ashley Cole missed the fifth penalty.

Italy on the other hand got their fifth penalty and there was much jubilation because there were now through to the semi-finals.

Next Wednesday is the first semi-final between Spain versus Portugal, then on Thursday in the semi-final between Germany and Italy.

Next Saturday will be the play-off to see who gets the are the third place in the tournament while on Sunday the final of the Euro 2012 will take place.

I hope that the last games will be as good as the rest have been, and the best team will win.

Still Hoping For A Surprise.

Gunther Gerzso 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Gerzso 

The quarter-finals will be coming to a conclusion tonight, when England play Italy.

Last night we saw the game between France and Spain, the winners of the tournament 2008 as well as the World Cup in 2010.

The French team are good but they were not able to get hold of the ball and every time they did manage to get it, a Spanish player soon took it back.

The Spanish team did what they always did, and started passing the ball between them leaving the French team on the sidelines.

The French team just ran around trying their best to create some chances for themselves that this never really materialised.

Instead the Spanish team started to score goals, Ces Fabregas and his teammates were having a great game.

They got four goals and would have got a lot more if the French goalkeeper hadn't saved them.

So that's the French out of the tournament as well, at the conclusion of the game between Italy and England we will know who will be playing against Germany.

Next Wednesday it will be staying playing against Portugal at next Thursday Germany playing the winner tonight.

Next Sunday will be the final, I wonder who will be the winner , I'm still hoping for a surprise.