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Hey all, no thread for the Euro cup, so here goes, today is the international break, hence the lack of domestic action and the commencement of the qualifying rounds:

Armenia - Rep. of Ireland
Kazakhstan - Turkey
Moldova - Finland
Andorra - Russia
Faroe Islands - Serbia
Montenegro - Wales
Sweden - Hungary
Romania - Albania
Latvia - Croatia
Luxembourg - Bosnia Herzegovina
Lithuania - Scotland
Estonia - Italy
Slovakia - Macedonia
San Marino - Netherlands
Belgium - Germany
Slovenia - Northern Ireland
Lichtenstein - Spain
Greece - Georgia
France - Belarus
England - Bulgaria
Iceland - Norway
Portugal - Cyprus

I'll post more later, sorry, no time for snarky comments on poor teams, but lets see what happens. There is potential for some upsets, notably France/Belarus, France is in a sorry state at the moment and Belarus are a decent side.

Portugal/Cyprus, Portugal has demonstrated a tendency to play down to their opponents' level, I doubt they lose that match, but it really depends, if Portugal show up to play the points are theirs, if they dont and Cyprus defends like hell a draw isnt out of the question.

Germany/Belgium, Germany is the class of the group and the scalp that every team is going to want, not going to be too easy of a qualification group for them, still no Mikael Ballack in the squad due to lack of match fitness. Belgium and Turkey are the contenders in the group for the #2 spot, but if Germany slip up anything could happen.

England/Bulgaria, if England show the quality they've been playing of late they're going to lose. Steven Gerrard cant win every game for them, eventually Rooney, Terry, Lampard and company are going to have to start playing. Good news for England: Joe Hart is supposed to get the start. Imagine that...

The rest either look pretty straightforward or totally open, see: Iceland/Norway and Sweden/Hungary. Who knows really?