Who Will Win Euro 2012? Post Your Predictions And Try to Beat The Experts

Here’s your chance to see if you know more than the experts when predicting who will advance in Euro 2012 and who will win the tournament.

I’ve combed the Internet for predictions from a variety of experts, including many of the EPL Talk Podcast crew plus expert writers. The picks for Michael Cox, Kristian Jack, Raphael Honigstein, Andy Brassell and Paolo Bandini are courtesy of The Footy Blog, a well-written soccer site run by former EPL Talk blogger Richard Whittall.

Here are the predictions we need you to complete:

Group A

• 1A winner
• 2A runner-up

And here are the predictions from the experts: 

Group A

• 1A winner — Russia (Matt Duncan, Michael Cox, Kristian Jack, Raphael Honigstein, Kristan Heneage)
• 1A winner — Poland (The Gaffer, Morgan Green, Andy Brassell, Paolo Bandini, Michael Ballack, Alexi Lalas)
• 1A winner — Greece (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• 2A runner-up — Poland (Matt Duncan, Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• 2A runner-up — Greece (The Gaffer, Morgan Green, Alexi Lalas, Kristan Heneage)
• 2A runner-up — Russia (Michael Ballack)

Group B

• 1B winner — Germany (The Gaffer, Morgan Green, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Michael Cox, Paolo Bandini, Raphael Honigstein, Michael Ballack, Alexi Lalas, Kristan Heneage)
• 1B winner — Holland (Matt Duncan, Kristian Jack, Andy Brassell)
• 2B runner-up — Germany (Matt Duncan)
• 2B runner-up — Holland (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green, Michael Ballack, Kristan Heneage)
• 2B runner-up — Portugal (Alexi Lalas)

Group C

• 1C winner — Spain (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green, Matt Duncan, Michael Cox, Andy Brassell, Paolo Bandini, Raphael Honigstein, Kristan Heneage)
• 1C winner — Italy (Kristian Jack)
• 2C runner-up — Italy (Matt Duncan, Kristan Heneage)
• 2C runner-up — Croatia (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green)
• 2C runner-up — Ireland (The Gaffer)

Group D

• 1D winner — France (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green, Matt Duncan, Michael Cox, Kristian Jack, Andy Brassell, Raphael Honigstein, Kristan Heneage)
• 1D winner — England (The Gaffer, Paolo Bandini)
• 2D runner-up — England (Matt Duncan, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Kristan Heneage)
• 2D runner-up — Ukraine (The Gaffer)
• 2D runner-up — Sweden (Morgan Green)

Quarterfinal #1 — 1A versus 2B:

• Winner — Germany (Matt Duncan)
• Winner — Holland (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green, Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Russia (Matt Duncan, Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Greece (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• Loser — Poland (The Gaffer, Morgan Green)

Quarterfinal #2 — 1B versus 2A:

• Winner — Holland (Matt Duncan)
• Winner — Germany (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Kristan Heneage)
• Winner — Greece (Morgan Green)
• Loser — Poland (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Matt Duncan)
• Loser — Greece (The Gaffer, Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Germany (Morgan Green)

Quarterfinal #3 — 1C versus 2D:

• Winner — Spain (The Gaffer, Matt Duncan, Morgan Green, Kristan Heneage)
• Winner — England (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• Loser — England (Matt Duncan, Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Spain (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• Loser — Ukraine (The Gaffer)
• Loser — Sweden (Morgan Green)

Quarterfinal #4 — 1D versus 2C:

• Winner — France (Matt Duncan, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green)
• Winner — England (The Gaffer)
• Winner — Italy (Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Italy (Matt Duncan)
• Loser – Croatia (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green)
• Loser — Ireland (The Gaffer)
• Loser — France (Kristan Heneage)

Semifinal #1 — winner of quarterfinal #1 vs #3:

• Winner — Germany (Matt Duncan)
• Winner — Holland (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Morgan Green)
• Winner — Spain (Kristan Heneage)
• Loser — Spain (The Gaffer, Matt Duncan, Morgan Green)
• Loser — England (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• Loser — Holland (Kristan Heneage)

Semifinal #2 — winner of quarterfinal #2 vs #4:

• Winner — France (Matt Duncan, Morgan Green)
• Winner — Germany (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Kristan Heneage)
• Winner — England (The Gaffer)
• Loser — Holland (Matt Duncan)
• Loser — France (Kartik Krishnaiyer)
• Loser — Germany (The Gaffer)
• Loser — Greece (Morgan Green)
• Loser — Italy (Kristan Heneage)

Runner-Up

• Spain (Michael Cox, Andy Brassell, Raphael Honigstein, Sol Campbell, Sid Lowe, Kevin McCarra, Jonathan Wilson, Kasey Keller, Robbie Mustoe)
• France (Morgan Green, Paolo Bandini, Paul Doyle, Dominic Fifield, Barry Glendenning, Michael Ballack, Alexi Lalas, Tommy Smyth)
• Netherlands (The Gaffer, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Kristian Jack, Daniel Taylor, Taylor Twellman)
• Germany (Matt Duncan, Rob Smyth, Alan Hansen, Steve McManaman, Kristan Heneage)
• Russia (Barney Ronay)

Winner

• Germany (Kartik Krishnaiyer, Michael Cox, Kristian Jack, Raphael Honigstein, Andy Brassell, Paolo Bandini, Barry Glendenning, Sid Lowe, Kevin McCarra, Barney Ronay, Jonathan Wilson, Michael Ballack, Alexi Lalas, Tommy Smyth)
• Spain (Paul Doyle, Rob Smyth, Daniel Taylor, Alan Hansen, Steve McManaman, Taylor Twellman, Kristan Heneage)
• Holland (Morgan Green, Sol Campbell, Dominic Fifield, Kasey Keller, Robbie Mustoe)
• France (Matt Duncan)
• England (The Gaffer)