Soon the group stage of the European Championship was over, and Guan Peng's teammate Lewandowski regretted not being able to lead Poland to the quarter-finals, and Poland as the host country lost to the Czech Republic.

The teams that reached the quarterfinals were Germany, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, France, Italy and England.

One of the most attractive is the "Matador" legion Spain team against the "Gallic Rooster" France team, the strength of the Spanish team as the defending champion is naturally known to everyone, and the French team is not weak, which is star-studded within the team, such as Real Madrid's main striker Benzema, Bayern Munich's scar king Ribery, and Nasri who joined Manchester City and other stars, the two sides met in the quarterfinals, it was really wonderful.

The other is England against Italy, England's style of play is always long pass and hang, and Italy is a chain defense, the two sides meet to see if England's long pass and hang tactics can break Italy's chain defense, this game also attracted everyone's attention.

The other two matches are Portugal against the Czech Republic and Germany against Greece, although basically Portugal and Germany have more hope of qualifying, but it is not ruled out that the Czech Republic and Greece will take the lead and take out Germany and Portugal.

Strong matchup, star-studded This is the main publicity of this European Cup, but it does attract a large number of fans, Guan Peng can only enviously watch his friend Götze participate in the German team's game, as for his national team, hehe doesn't say it.

In the quarter-finals, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo scored the only goal against the Czech Republic, sending the ball into the goal of Petr Cech to help Portugal reach the last four.

The game between Germany and Greece is undoubtedly much more exciting, but Greece, which has always been defensive, went against the norm and attacked Germany at the beginning. In the first half, Greece and Germany were tied 2-2, and in the second half, Klinsmann made quick substitutions and made adjustments, replacing Gotze on the field. Germany scored twice in the second half to win 4-2 on aggregate against Greece.

The Spanish "Matadors" army began to slowly find their form in the quarterfinals, although facing such a strong opponent as the French team, but the outstanding Spanish players, under the command of Xavi Alonso, the core of the midfield, sent the French team home with a score of 2-0, Xavi Alonso completely controlled Spain's attack in the game, Guan Peng really gained a lot from watching Alonso's performance, and Alonso scored a wonderful long-range goal himself. He also assisted team-mate Fernando Torres to open the scoring.

As for the game between England and Italy, it was much duller, both sides did not score in regular time, the scene could simply make people sleep, the Italian defense completely froze the England's long pass, and the Italian's attack could not break England's goal, so the two sides had to engage in a brutal penalty shootout, and finally with Pirlo's key performance, the Italians' strong psychological quality defeated the England. Italy beat England 4-2 on penalties.

In the semi-finals, Spain defeated Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal team, and Ronaldo gave Spain a lot of difficulties in defence. Fortunately, in the end, Spain defeated Portugal with a score of 4-2 in the penalty shootout with the calm penalty of Ramos and reached the final.

Cristiano Ronaldo hid his face and cried, this is the closest the Portuguese have come to the final, the Portuguese has been under a lot of pressure, he is so eager to lead Portugal to the final and win the title. However, it is difficult for Cristiano Ronaldo alone to beat the Spanish team with many stars.

In the other semi-final, Italy beat Germany under midfield maestro Andrea Pirlo, who assisted Balotelli for two goals in a row, and although Germany's Gomez scored a goal, they were eliminated by the Italians 2-1 and will meet defending champions Spain in the final.

The finals are coming. The splendid attack of the Spaniards met the stubbornly defending Italians, a contest of the sharpest spears and the strongest shields.

In the early morning of July 2, Beijing time, the final of the 2012 European Championship was staged at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, with the defending champion Spain facing the 1968 European Championship champion Italy.

Spain and Italy have met a total of 26 times in international football A-level competitions, with Spain winning 7, drawing 11 and losing 8, scoring 26 goals and conceding 30 goals, which is slightly inferior. In the finals of the World Cup and the European Cup, the two teams have met 7 times before, in the World Cup in Spain, 3 matches against Italy, 0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses, 2 goals scored and 4 goals conceded; In the European Championship, Spain won 4 matches against Italy, 0 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, without a win (in the 2008 quarter-finals, the quarter-finals were recorded as a 0-0 draw in regular time).

Spain continued to play without a striker, with the same starting line-up as they did in the opening group game against Italy. Italy's starting line-up was changed from the semi-finals with only one right-back, with Abate getting his chance to start.

For the first time in the history of the European Championship, the two participating teams in the final were captained by goalkeepers, with Buffon for Italy and Casillas for Spain.

In the 14th minute, Spain's forward pass went straight into the penalty area, Fabregas received the bottom line knock back on the right side, and Silva hit the header in the middle to break the goal; Gianluigi Buffon, who had come out to block Cesc Fabregas, was powerless and could only look back to see the ball fly into the net to give Spain a 1-0 lead.

In the 41st minute, Xavi went straight to the plug, and Alba, who stepped in front of him, pushed and shot to rewrite the score, which was Alba's first goal for the national team, and Spain led 2-0; In the first half, Spain temporarily led Italy 2-0 thanks to goals from Silva and Jordi Alba.

In the 60th minute, Motta, who had just been substituted, suddenly fell to the ground, and judging from the slow-motion replay, he may have strained his thigh muscles; If Motta can't hold on, it will undoubtedly be worse for Italy, who are behind the scoreline; Motta, who was carried to the sidelines on a stretcher for treatment, was already determined to be unable to continue the game, and he was carried back to the locker room by the team doctor; With about half an hour remaining, Italy will only be able to play with 10 men for the upcoming match

In the 83rd minute, Torres pushed the far corner to score and basically sealed the victory, and Spain led 3-0; The goal made Fernando Torres the first player in European Championship history to score in two consecutive finals, and it was he who scored the winner at Euro 2008. In the 88th minute, Torres assisted Juan Mata to seal the win, and Spain locked the score at 4-0 and won the European Championship.

It was also the most disparity in the history of the European Championship, with Spain winning three consecutive major tournaments (Euro 2008, 2010 and Euro 2012). (To be continued.) )