Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Soccer Update - 19 June 2012

Your daily dose of results & standings from the Euro 2012 tournament:


I realized I should probably explain what the columns in this chart mean. From left to right:
 Team - [Games] Played - Wins - Draws - Losses - Goals For - Goals Against - Goal Difference - Points

Ireland finishes with 0 points and the worst goal differential of the tournament by far. After starting the tournament strong, Croatia barely misses the cut. Spain's lone goal came in their game's 88th minute and secures their position as group winner. So far, Spain's campaign to defend their European championship is going well, though they haven't looked invincible by any means.

Today sees the very last games of the Group stage in Group D, with England, France, and co-hosts Ukraine fighting for the 2 remaining quarterfinal slots. (Sweden, the fourth Group D member, has already been eliminated.) The Group D winner will be playing Italy and Group D's runner-up gets to play Spain.

England v. Ukraine and France v. Sweden kick off at 2:45pm EST.
If you actually want to watch these games, they'll be airing on ESPN/ESPN2, as well as espn3.com (or 'Watch ESPN' as the site confusingly brands itself - this is a sports streaming service available to people who get their Internet through certain Service Providers; Comcast and AT&T are among these).

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