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Saturday Vision, June 2, 2012 Euro 2012 Championship Group D insight 5

Group D squads ENGLAND ENGLAND Goalkeepers $ (Man C), R. Green (W. Ham), (B’gham) Outfi eld players $ (Chelsea) $ (Chelsea) $ (Liverpool) Star player profile $Phil Jones (Man United) $ (Everton) (32) $ Position: Midfielder (captain) J. Lescott (Man City) Caps: 90 $ (Chelsea) 1st kit 2nd kit Goals: 19 (Internationals) $ (Everton) Club: Liverpool FC $S. Gerrard (L’pool, captain) FIFA ranking: 7/5 (World/Europe) (England) $ (Chelsea) The suspended (left) will feature for in one group game $ (Tottenham) Team profile $ (Man City) Fixtures (Group stage) Euro 2012 qualifying $S. Downing (Liverpool) June GMT Opponent Venue Finished top of Group G 11 1600 France Donetsk $ (Arsenal) Euro 2008 finals $ 15 1845 Kiev Chamberlain (Arsenal) 19 1845 Ukraine Donetsk Did not qualify $ (Man United) LIONS CAN GET Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA, Svenska Grafikbyran, soccerway.com. Photo: Reuters $Wayne Rooney (Man Utd) $ (Man Utd) $ (Liverpool) SWEDEN $ (Tottenham) FRANCE Goalkeepers $H. Lloris (OL),S. Mandanda (M’seille), C. Carrasso (Bordeaux) INSPIRATION Outfi eld players $Gael Clichy (Man City) $Patrice Evra (Man United) $Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) Star player profile $Philippe Mexes (AC Milan) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (30) $Adil Rami (Valencia) Position: Forward $Mathieu Debuchy (Lille) Caps: 75 FROM CHELSEA 1st kit 2nd kit Goals: 29 (Internationals) $Anthony Reveillere (Lyon) $ Club: AC Milan Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle) FIFA ranking: 17/12 (World/Europe) (Italy) $Florent Malouda (Chelsea) $Samir Nasri (Man City) rank Lampard has already witnessed Team profile $Alou Diarra (Marseille) one new manager defy all the odds Fixtures (Group stage) Euro 2012 qualifying $ Yann Mvila (Stade Rennes) to win Europe’s biggest club trophy June GMT Opponent Venue Finished second in Group E $Marvin Martin (Sochaux) 11 1845 Ukraine Kiev - he is now hoping that another Euro 2008 finals $Blaise Matuidi (PSG) 15 1845 England Kiev new man can silence his critics and Knocked out at group stage $ 19 1845 France Kiev Hatem Ben Arfa (Newcastle) transform England’s fortunes at the $Karim Benzema (Real) Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA, Svenska Grafikbyran, soccerway.com. Photo: Reuters EuropeanF Championships. $Franck Ribery (Bayern) $Olivier Giroud (M’pellier) Roy Hodgson might not have been the fans $Jeremy Menez (PSG) favourite to take over from FRANCE $M. Valbuena (Marseille) when he left the job back in February, but the SWEDEN Football Association believe they have the Goalkeepers best man to help England restore some much $P. Hansson (H’rgs), A. Isaksson needed pride. (PSV), J. Wiland (Copenhagen) Hodgson has only had 40 days to prepare Outfi ed players for such a big competition, but Lampard feels $Mikael Antonsson (Bologna) that is enough time to help England go all $Andreas Granqvist (Genoa) the way in Poland and Ukraine. $Mikael Lustig (Celtic) Th e experienced midfi elder is in a good po- Star player profile $ (Olympiakos) sition to voice those views having witnessed Karim Benzema (24) $Jonas Olsson (West Brom) transform a Chelsea Position: Forward Caps: 42 $Martin Olsson (Blackburn) team in such a short space of time. $Behrang Safari (Anderlecht) 1st kit 2nd kit Goals: 13 (Internationals) It was only three months ago that Andre Club: Real Madrid $Emir Bajrami (Enschede) FIFA ranking: 16/11 (World/Europe) (Spain) $ Villas-Boas had clearly lost the support of his Rasmus Elm (AZ Alkmaar) Chelsea players and the west London club was $ Team profile Samuel Holmen (Istanbul) in disarray. $Kim Kallstrom (Lyon) Fixtures (Group stage) Euro 2012 qualifying But they never looked back after Villas-Boas $S. Larsson (Sunderland) June GMT Opponent Venue Finished top of Group D $ was shown the door at Stamford Bridge and Di 11 1600 England Donetsk Anders Svensson (Elfsborg) Euro 2008 finals $Pontus Wernbloom (CSKA) Matteo won back the support of the dressing 15 1600 Ukraine Donetsk Knocked out at group stage $C. Wilhelmsson (Al Hilal) room and steered them to FA Cup success 19 1845 Sweden Kiev $J. Elmander (Galatasaray) and more importantly the Champions League Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA, Svenska Grafikbyran, soccerway.com. Photo: Reuters $Tobias Hysen (IFK) trophy. $Zlatan Ibrahimovic (AC) Having ended the as a European Cup $M. Rosenberg (Bremen) winner, Lampard has now switched his atten- UKRAINE $Ola Toivonen (PSV) tions to the national side and hopes Hodgson UKRAINE can have a similar impact on the England Goalkeepers squad. $Andriy Pyatov $O. Horyainov “Th e problem is, for it to be called a success $Maxym Koval England need to have a very good run in a big Outfi eld players tournament,” he said. $Oleksander Kucher $Yaroslav $ $ Rakitsky V. Shevchuk Evhen Evra determined to lift France Star player profile Khacheridi $Taras Mykhalyk Patrice Evra appears fi nally to have recovered $ $ Andriy Shevchenko (35) Evhen Selin Bohdan Butko from the French fi asco of the 2010 World Cup Position: Forward $Oleksander Aliev $Denys Caps: 105 $ $ and the Manchester United skipper will have Garmash Oleh Gusyev An- an important role to play at Euro 2012 in the 1st kit 2nd kit Goals: 46 (Internationals) driy Yarmolenko $Evhen Club: Dynamo Kiev absence of Eric Abidal. Konoplyanka $Ruslan Rotan FIFA ranking: 50/28 (World/Europe) (Ukraine) $ $ Th e 31-year-old was banned by the French Serhiy Nazarenko Anatoly Team profile Tymoshchuk $Artem Milevsky Football Federation and stripped of the France $Andriy Shevchenko $Marco captaincy after leading a players’ mutiny in South Fixtures (Group stage) Euro 2012 qualifying Devic $Andriy Voronin $Evhen Africa two years ago in protest at Nicolas Anelka’s June GMT Opponent Venue Automatically qualified as co-host 11 1845 Sweden Kiev Seleznyov exclusion from the squad. Euro 2008 finals France and England are afvourites to advance Rooney (l) will sit 15 1600 France Donetsk 19 1845 England Donetsk Did not qualify Compiled by Reuters from Group D which also has Sweden and out the fi rst two ties; Ukraine. skipper Gerrard (r) Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA, Svenska Grafikbyran, soccerway.com. Photo: Reuters