Round of sixteen matches at on going European football event are as good as being concluded today
Just on Monday games, former champions France and Portugal scaled through to the quarter final stage of the competition with hard earned victories
While France thrashed Belgium by alone goal In the last minutes of the game, Selacao as Portugal national team were called have to until when penalty kicks were played to emerge winners
The team scaled through by three nothing as their goalkeeper saved three of the kicks of their opponents Slovenia
In the remaining ties, England who defeated Slovakia in extra time will engage Switzerland who mauled defending champions Italy
France to meet Portugal, Germany will battle it out against former champions Spain in a show down between the most winners of the trophy
The second round engagements are expected to wrap up today with Romania meeting Netherlands in the first match while surprise team of the event Austria being coached by former Manchester United provisional tactician Ragnick will try Turkey for size in the second duel to be played by 8pm local time
European Nations Cup as the competition was formerly known, is being played among the best footballing European countries every four years
Former Soviet Union, emerged as the inaugural winners of the tourney way back in 1960 and since then nine sister nations have lifted the tourney
Among them Germany and Spain that won it thrice
while Italy and France lifted it twice
Other winners include Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands, Greece, Czechoslovakia among others that triumphed once
