The mastermind behind the Russian revolution during Euro 2008 is undoubtedly the incomparable Guus Hiddink. Hiddink’s track record speaks for itself. As a national coach of his home nation Holland he guided them to the semi-finals of World Cup 1998. Four years later he repeated the feat as home hysteria guided the somewhat fortunate South [...]

The city of Innsbruck is the setting for tonight’s decisive clash between these two tournament dark horses. Both Sweden and Russia have shown glimpses of the kind of form needed to go all the way in a major tournament and both will be hoping that they will be the team to face Holland in Basel [...]

Luis Aragone’s Spain dramatically sealed their place in the quarter finals of Euro 2008 after a injury-time goal from Valencia talisman David Villa. The tournament’s top goalscorer added to his impressive hat-trick against Russia on Tuesday with a solo effort late on to salvage a win that in fairness they probably deserved. The win leaves [...]

Sweden will be up against it in their second Group D natch today with Spain in Innsbruck. Sweden are likely to recall Kim Kallstrom to the side with the injured Christian Wilhelmsson out of the tournament. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be looking to add to his goal tally after that wonderful strike against Greece on Tuesday. [...]

In the city of Salzburg that gave the world the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the football on show from Greece and Sweden in their opening Group D clash at Euro 2008 for the most part could hardly be described as ‘classical’. Considering the Spanish had set Group D alight just a couple [...]

Venue: Salzburg- Kick-Off:7.45 pm
Euro 2008 kicks off tomorrow night in Salzburg for these two under-dog teams hoping to cause an upset and progress to the latter stages of the tournament. For Greece this would not be out of the ordinary as they famously knocked out France and hosts Portugal four years ago on their way [...]

Sweden suffered a damaging defeat ahead of next week’s Euro 2008 opening game against Greece with a 1-0 home loss to Ukraine in Stockholm. The goal came from Dnipro midfielder Sergei Nazarenko in the 82nd minute with a 25 yarder beating substitute goalkeeper Rami Shaaban. Sweden, which contained most of the team that will [...]