In this week's review section, we congratulate The Czech Republic, The Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Croatia on Euro 2012 qualification

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In this week's review section, we congratulate The Czech Republic, The Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Croatia on Euro 2012 qualification, while Guus leaves Turkey and Suarez makes the back pages for the wrong reason.

By Chris Wright

Even Damien Duff can't believe what he saw. No sneaky handballs. No dodgy refereeing decisions. Just delicious, organic, line-caught wild Alaskan qualification.

Thanks to their stonking 4-0 first-leg victory in Talinn, the Republic of Ireland breezed their way unencumbered past Estonia with a 1-1 draw in the return-leg in Dublin last night enough to see Ireland emerge from the play-offs with a 5-1 aggregate winning margin and a spot in the pots for Euro 2012 safely tucked under their belts.

So finally the Irish have something to cheer about Well, for another while anyway! The boys in green have qualified for Euro 2012 after beating Estonia 5 1 on aggregate. They played a 1 1 draw earlier this evening, Ireland's goal coming from Stephen Ward. This is the first major tournament that Ireland [.

After the first leg of the Euro 2012 play-offs, there were a wide variety of results to compare and analyze before the second leg on Tuesday. Some ties already look finished, while some are still very much alive.

We take a look at one thing we learned from each match.

Croatia remain world class

A 3-0 demolition of Turkey reaffirms that despite missing out on the World Cup, Croatia are still a team with enough quality and talent to win the European Championships.

Middlesbrough forward Tarmo Kink has acknowledged the depth of the Ireland team that arrived in Estonia for the first leg of the Euro 2012 qualification playoff between the two nations but has singled out Spartak Moscow's Aiden McGeady as the biggest threat.

Kink, who has scored four times in 22 appearances for his Championship outfit, is wary of other seasoned Irish performers such as the Los Angeles Galaxy's Robbie Keane and Fulham's Damien Duff but admits that the 25-year old McGeady is the one striking fear in Estonian hearts.

Rep. of Ireland will hope they can wipeout past play-off's heartache against Estonia on Friday in Tallinn before finishing the job off at the Aviva on Tuesday night.

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On this week's predictions we look at three of the vital play-off games for the European Championships, as well as a selection of World Cup 2014 qualifiers. You can listen to Damon and Damian discussing their predictions on this week's show.

On this week's predictions we look at three of the vital play-off games for the European Championships, as well as a selection of World Cup 2014 qualifiers.

All but four countries have booked their ticket to next summer's finals in Poland and Ukraine, but the quality among the eight undecided sides have created some intriguing ties, with the prospect of going on a run a la Greece always ever-present.

The play-off's two legs will be played on the 11th and 15th of the coming month, with the following countries paired against each other in the final decisive battles of the qualifying phase.

Sono stati sorteggiati, a Cracovia, in una cerimonia presieduta dal Segretario Generale dell'Uefa, Gianni Infantino, gli accoppiamenti dei playoff che determineranno i nomi delle ultime 4 nazionali le quali potranno festeggiare l'accesso a Euro 2012. Non è andata per nulla male al Trap (con tanti ringraziamenti a Boniek che ha effettuato l'estrazione).

The various football leagues in the Baltic States are approaching the halfway stages of the 2011 campaign. Defending champions Flora Tallinn and FK Ekranas still remain unbeaten at the top of the Estonian Meistriliiga and Lithuanian A Lyga respectively whilst Latvia's Virsliga saw leaders FK Ventspils lose for a second time in less than a week.

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Uruguay vs Estonia 17:30

La selección de Uruguay enfrenta a su similar de Estonia en su último partido de preparación de cara a la copa América argentina 2011, el partido se celebrara en el estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera

Paraguay vs Chile 18:00

Los seleccionados de Paraguay y Chile se enfrentaran en su último partido de preparación rumbo a la copa América argentina 2011 en la cancha del estadio Defensores del Chaco, se espera un excelente partido.

The comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo are vast: the obscene skills, the personality, the abs, the diving it's all there if in slightly watered down form for Alexis Sanchez.

Alexis also retains the possibility of this summer's most expensive signing not quite CR territory, however as he's heavily rumored to be off to Barcelona for many many wheelbarrows of euros.

Sia ben chiara subito una cosa, l'Italia che analizziamo è quella vista a Modena contro l'Estonia venerdì sera, mentre il gruppo vacanza andato in Belgio ad aspettare che il cronometro arrivasse al novantesimo e sancisse così l'inizio delle vacanze di tutta la compagnia azzurra, non lo consideriamo.

You can laugh.

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• Media pressure and the manager. (twofootedtackle)
• Estonian crests. (The Best Eleven)
• El Clasico, not so classic anymore. (The Spoiler)
• When bad things happen to good kits. (Football Fashion)
• Hot tub time machine.

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This week's main report looks at the qualifying groups of the 2012 European Championships that will take place in Ukraine and Poland next summer.

France v Brazil? Portugal v Argentina? Germany v Italy? Bosh. The big game of the international friendly week was found far off in the corner of Antalya, Turkey, where Bulgaria and Estonia scrapped it out to a 2-2 draw. Not your typical marquee friendly, but this wasn't your typical game.

There were pregame rumblings that the fix was in, and the fact that all four goals came via penalties did nothing to quiet the whispers.

The Baltic Champions' Cup, the first of many a pre-season indoor tournament in Eastern Europe in the next two months, takes place in the Olympic Sports Centre in the Latvian capital of Riga this weekend in a mini-tournament exclusive to the national champions of the three domestic leagues in the Baltic States.

Hey, remember this guy? He's good.

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• Chicken, man. It's the chicken. (Dirty Tackle)
• Edin Dzeko with the last, expensive laugh. (Jonathan Wilson)
• The man, the myth, the legend. (Left Back In The Changing Room)
• Estonia's calling out France.