Spain and Switzerland draw ticket for EK safe – NU.nl

Spain won Group C with simple Luxembourg 4-0 while Switzerland in Group E San Marino 7-0 pulverized. Also with host country France, England, Austria, Iceland, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland and Portugal are now nine of the 24 Euro countries known

For Spain, Alvaro Morata and David Silva saw injured unspectacular, were Santi Cazorla and Paco Alcacer twice accurate in Logrono. The reigning European champion has to deal with one more game 24 points, five more than Slovakia and Ukraine.

Iker Casillas stood for the 164th time under the bar in Spain. The 34-year-old goalkeeper of FC Porto thus equaled the American Cobi Jones in the seventh place of the ‘eternal’ list of players with most matches. Casillas has six former soccer players above him

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Slovakia

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Thanks to an unused box of Jevgen Seleznjov and a late strike Artem Kravets of Ukraine won 2-0 at Macedonia

The number one and two of each pool go directly. to the European Championships. The decision in group C is Monday during the final round. Slovakia then goes to visit Luxembourg, Ukraine receives Spain.

The Slovaks have the advantage of better results with each other and have seating so in own hands

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Group E

Because Slovenia in-house did not exceed a 1-1 draw against Lithuania, Switzerland assured themselves of second place in group E.

Interestingly enough, the goals came in Sankt Gallen from seven different players. Gökhan Inler, Johan Djourou and Breel Embolo all utilize a penalty.

Switzerland started for the fourth time at the European Championship, after previous appearances in 1996, 2004 and 2008. The last time the Alpine country hosted the tournament with Austria.

Walcott

The already-qualified England remained in the same group without loss of points. At Wembley was the team coach Roy Hodgson with 2-0 too strong for Estonia. Theo Walcott and Raheem Sterling made the matches for England.

During the final round, the decision falls in the battle for third place, good for a second chance in the playoffs. Slovenia has the best credentials, despite the setback against Lithuania.

Referee Bjorn Kuipers had the game in Ljubljana even shut down because the light suddenly went out. Kuipers pointed to the penalty spot twice and both countries scored from the penalty spot. The Slovenes, which Monday against San Marino games, three points more than Estonia and Lithuania

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