29.06 SPAIN CHAMPIONS
Spain ended their 44-year wait for international
glory as they defeated
Germany 1-0 in the final of Euro 2008 at Ernst Happel
stadium. Luis Aragones
announced prior to this summer's tournament that he was to
step down as
Spain boss at the conclusion and he is set to go out on a
high as Fernando
Torres struck to secure Spain's first piece of silverware
since the 1964
European Championship.
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29.06 BALLACK BACK
The German captain Michael Ballack are for the final.
For Spain Cesc Fabregas
finally got a place in strating line up and will complete
and five-man midfield for
the spanians. Here are the line ups:
Germany:
Lehmann, Lahm,
Mertesacker, Metzelder,
Friedrich, Podolski,
Frings,
Hitzlsperger, Ballack,
Schweinsteiger, Klose.
Spain:
Casillas, Capdevila,
Marchena, Puyol, Sergio
Ramos, Iniesta, Senna,
Fàbregas, Xavi, Silva,
Torres.
26.06 NO CHANSE
RUSSIA - SPAIN PLAYS FINAL
Spain will contest Sunday's Euro 2008 final after
they put on a sumptuous
second half display to see off a Russia side that were put
to the sword 3-0 on
a wet night in Vienna. The opening 45 minutes was a closely
fought affair that
was full of tension, if not chances, as both sides toiled
without too much
success. After the interval though and Spain, with
substitute Cesc Fabregas
at the hub of much of their best work, played some glorious
football after Xavi
had fired home Andres Iniesta's cross-cum-shot from the
left.
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25.06 LUCKY
GERMANS BEAT HEROIC TURKS
Philip Lahm's last-gasp goal gave Germany a thrilling
3-2 win over Turkey to
book their place in the final of Euro 2008. Full-back Lahm
struck in the final
minute to finally end depleted Turkey's dreams of causing a
major upset.
Semih Senturk appeared to have sent the game into extra-time
when he
equalised four minutes from time only for Lahm to win the
game for Germany
in the 90th minutes -
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22.06 SPAIN TO
SEMIS AFTER PENALTIES
Cesc Fabregas scored the winning penalty to send Spain into
the semi-finals
of Euro 2008 after a 4-2 shoot-out victory over Italy. The
Arsenal star kept
his cool from the spot to beat Gianluigi Buffon and set up a
semi-final meeting
with Russia on Thursday after Antonio Di Natale and Daniele
De Rossi both
missed from the spot for Italy as Spain reached their first
semi-final since 1984.
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21.06
RUSSIAN
DELIGTH
Guus Hiddink came out on top against
the country of his birth as Russia
secured
a 3-1 victory over Holland to book
their place in the semi-finals of
Euro 2008.
It took extra-time to get there as
Dmitri Torbinski and Andrei Arshavin
netted
after Roman Pavlyuchenko's opener
had been cancelled out by van
Nistelrooy's
late diving header.
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20.06 UNBELIVABLE
TURKEY!
Turkey set up a meeting with Germany in the Euro
2008 semi-finals after beating
Croatia on penalties after an extraordinary climax to the
last-eight showdown
in Vienna. Rustu Recber saved Mladen Petric's spot-kick in
the shoot-out, after
Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic had already missed, to send
Turkey into the last
four of the European Championship for the first time.
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19.06 Classy
Germans into semis
Germany lived up to their billing as pre-tournament
favourites as they booked
a place in the Euro 2008 semi-finals with an impressive 3-2
win over Portugal.
Although the Germans qualified for the
quarter-finals as runners-up in Group B
following defeat by Croatia, the three-time
winners were back to their best in
Basel as they proved just too good for the Euro
2004 finalists.
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18.06 RUSSIA DUMP
OUT SWEDEN
Russia are through to the quarter-finals of Euro
2008 following a fully-deserved
2-0 success over Sweden. Guys Hiddink's side, who needed to
win to set up a
clash against Holland, were on the front foot from the off,
while Sweden seemed
happy to try and contain Russia. They were rewarded for
their enterprising play
in the Roman Pavlyuchenko slotted home in the 24th minute
following fine
flowing move.
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17.06 ITALY TO
QUARTERFINALS
Italy secured second spot in
Euro 2008 Group C and a quarter-final against
Spain with a 2-0 victory over 10-man France in Zurich.
Pirlo's 25th-minute
penalty and Daniele De Rossi's deflected second half
free-kick were enough
to secure the points, and Romania's defeat to Holland
ensured Italy survived.
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15.06
TURKEY COMEBACK STUNS CZECHS
Turkey snatched a place in the quarter-finals of Euro
2008 after
Nihat Kahveci's late double completed one of the most
remarkable comebacks
in the comeptition's history.
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14.06 VILLA GRABS LAST-GASP WINNER
David Villa's last-gasp strike helped Spain snatch a 2-1
victory over Sweden
in their Euro 2008 Group D encounter. The winner came from
nothing as the
Spanish defence sent a hopeful long ball upfield, only for
Villa to sidestep the
Swedish defence and calmly slot the ball past Andreas
Isaksson.
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