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Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters

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Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters Euro 2012 saw 76 goals scored in the 31 games and six players share the mantle of top scorer, on a rather unimpressive tally of 3 goals. While Cristiano Ronaldo and Mario Balotelli took much of the plaudits for their performances in front of goal, the sheer volume of shots they each had means the th...

Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards

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Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards So Spain are the European Champions, again, deservedly winning over against a much improved Italy side in the final to retain their title and assert their dominance at international level. Del Bosque's side scored the most goals (12), conceded the fewest (1) and averaged the highest possession per g...

Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI

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Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI The two Euro 2012 semi-finals produced plenty of drama and many a talking point; with Spain edging past Portugal on penalties and Italy upsetting the odds with a deserved win over Germany. Spain and Germany were largely expected to control their respective matches, but WhoScored.com’s team of ...

Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops

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Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops While we at WhoScored love to praise those who have wowed us statistically, we don't like to overlook those who have under-performed either, and here we will highlight our 10 top flops of Euro 2012 thus far.The likes of Wayne Rooney miss out as we focus on players to have started at least 3 games in...

Euro 2012 Focus: Germany vs Italy

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Euro 2012 Focus: Germany vs Italy Joint favourites Germany face England's conquerors Italy in the second semi-final of Euro 2012 on Thursday night, with Löw’s side having been heavily backed since the tournament began having won all of their games so far. In comparison, Italy have only actually won once in normal time of ...

Euro 2012 Focus: Portugal vs Spain

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Euro 2012 Focus: Portugal vs Spain The first semi-final at Euro 2012 pits the reigning European and World champions, Spain, against archrivals Portugal (Match Preview). Cristiano Ronaldo has lit up the competition recently, with the rest of his team largely relying on his talents, while Spain have made it this far without being consi...

Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI

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Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI Drawing ever closer to its conclusion, Euro 2012 has been whittled down to the last 4 teams after the quarter-finals went to plan for the Portuguese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians. The four matches threw up very few surprises, with all the favourites progressing and the England-Italy match unsurpr...

Euro 2012 Focus: Player Stats Leaderboards

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Euro 2012 Focus: Player Stats Leaderboards With the first of the Euro 2012 quarter-finals to kick-off later tonight we thought we'd take the opportunity, having named our team of the group stages yesterday, to share a stats pack of player leaderboards over the first three matches.We start with shots at goal, where a certain Cristiano Ronaldo...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Team of the Group Stages

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Team of the Group Stages With the group stages now over and the quarter-finalists known, this day break from football gives us a perfect chance to analyse the best players at the tournament so far. Here we will give you a rundown of our best XI over the three group matches according to WhoScored ratings and explain just why...

Euro 2012 Focus: Surprise Packages

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Euro 2012 Focus: Surprise Packages Euro 2012 has been a pleasant surprise thus far, with not all of those who were tipped to star at the tournament stealing the limelight. Up until the game with the Netherlands Cristiano Ronaldo had under-performed by his standards and Robin van Persie, along with the entire Dutch squad, hasn't had i...