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UEFA EURO 2012 play-offs today from from 13.00CET
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13-10-2011 9:09am#1
The eight-team lineup for Thursday's UEFA EURO 2012 play-off draw in Poland is confirmed with four places on offer in the ties on 11/12 and 15 November.
In the draw to be made from 13.00CET at Krakow's Sheraton Hotel, Croatia, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and the Czech Republic will be seeded according to their national team coefficients. Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and first-time play-off entrants Montenegro and Estonia are the four unseeded teams.
The draw ceremony will be conducted by UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino and former Poland forward Zbigniew Boniek, one of the final tournament ambassadors. It will define the four pairings as well as the order of the home and away ties. The draw will be transmitted live on UEFA.com and Eurosport.
Already through to the finals, alongside co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, are holders Spain, Germany, Russia, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Greece, England, Denmark and best runners-up Sweden. The finals draw is on 2 December in Kyiv and the tournament runs from 8 June until 1 July next year in eight venues.
Play-off draw
Pot 1 (seeded teams)
Croatia (coefficient 32.723)
Portugal (31.202)
Republic of Ireland (28.203)
Czech Republic (27.982)
Pot 2 (unseeded teams)
Turkey (27.601)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (27.199)
Montenegro (21.876)
Estonia (20.355)
Personally I hope we avoid Turkey plus Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia have the best goal difference of the unseeded teams (F17, A8, +9) and almost got top spot in their group, where as Ireland have scored 15 and let in 7 leaving us with +8 and are one goal behind them in goal difference so I would like to avoid them.
Estonia have scored 15 and let in 14, they might be good going forward but vunerable at the back. Montenegro have scored 7 and let in 7. I would fancy us against both sides.
The Czech Republic have the worst goal difference of the seeded teams (F12, A8, +4) whilst Ireland are the second poorest just behind Portugal (F21, A12, +8). Sweden have a decent goal scoring record (F31, A11, +20).
My ideal tie would be Ireland vs Estonia, just because a couple of lads in the group have Estonian girlfriends and the banter would be good but I guess the ideal tie would be against Montenegro, seven goals scored and let in from eight games is very poor.
Final standings.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro2012/standings/index.html0
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