Quarter final games

Just finished watching the game between England and Italy. So here's my tidbit of an entry, but before I start: RIP Miki Roqué.

Here are the teams that will be playing in the semi finals on Wednesday and Thursday.

 And here's a recap of all moments worth remembering from the 4 quarter final games!

Portugal 1 (Ronaldo)-0 Czech Republic

 

 Rumour has it, Czech's tactic going into this game was to draw with Portugal for the entire 120 minutes (90 minutes full-time and then 30 extra added minutes) and go into penalties shoot-out. Petr Cech, Czech's keeper, is ridiculously talented at saving PKs (watch this year's Champions League final game between Chelsea FC and Bayern Munich if you're curious). Sadly for him, Ronaldo managed to find one opening and that was all the prompting he needed to score the winner of that game.

 

 Referee? Howard Webb of course.

Greece 2 (Samaras, Salpigidis(pen.))- 4 Germany (Lahm, Khedira, Klose, Reus)

 Lahm scored an amazing goal during this game. (bottom right hand corner if you can't find him...)

Sami Khedira telling Miniatis to be quiet.  

 All four scorers of the night!

France 0- 2 Spain (Xabi Alonso (incl. pen.))

100th NT Cap and to top it off, he scored for his country not once but twice.

Many congrats Xabi!!

He also scored the penalty

England 0(3)-0(4) Italy

Want to know what happened? Balotelli being completely useless and Rooney trying really hard. Both sides' defense was decent and a whooping 2 yellow cards were handed out during the game, both to the Italian side (10 yellow card holders, with one of them needing to sit out the next game)

Mauling Buffon's a good way to celebrate as any.

 Know this Hart: You're much better than Green and good effort.

This is Pirlo and his 'cheeky' goal (commentator's words, not mine), and the reaction on twitter:

 And friendly advice for the next English manager:

Hard to believe that Euros will end next Sunday. So fast!

And this post is brought to you by Irina Shayk defending her man against DiCaprio's ex over twitter

 

 and something extra

[source, as usual, thanks to tumblr users! Special mentions to Semi finals, team skippers and Pirlo being class

. And also twitter]