UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying Group B
Standings and results for Group B of the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying tournament.
Standings
Key:
- Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.
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Notes on the qualified teams:
- Italy and France secured qualification to the tournament proper on 17 November 2007 following Italy's 2-1 win against Scotland, becoming the fifth and sixth teams in the whole of the qualification stage to do so.
Matches
Group B fixtures were decided with a random draw conducted on Thursday 9 March 2006, because fixtures could not be agreed between delegates. Ukraine were the only side unable to come to consensus with the rest of the group.[1]
Faroe Islands | 0–6 | Georgia |
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Report | Mujiri 16' Iashvili 18' Arveladze 37', 62', 82' Kobiashvili 51' (pen.) |
Scotland | 6–0 | Faroe Islands |
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Fletcher 7' McFadden 10' Boyd 24' (pen.), 38' Miller 30' (pen.) O'Connor 85' |
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Goalscorers
- 2 goals:
France: Karim Benzema, Louis Saha, David Trézéguet
Italy: Antonio Di Natale, Fabio Quagliarella
Lithuania: Audrius Kšanavičius
Scotland: Garry O'Connor
Ukraine: Maksym Kalynychenko
- 1 goal:
France: Hatem Ben Arfa, Florent Malouda, Samir Nasri, Franck Ribéry, Jérôme Rothen
Georgia: Georgi Demetradze, Levan Kobiashvili, Levan Mchedlidze, Davit Mujiri, Georgi Shashiashvili
Italy: Mauro Camoranesi, Giorgio Chiellini, Daniele De Rossi, Alberto Gilardino, Fabio Grosso, Massimo Oddo, Christian Panucci, Simone Perrotta, Andrea Pirlo
Lithuania: Edgaras Jankauskas, Darius Miceika, Saulius Mikoliūnas, Mantas Savėnas, Andrius Skerla
Scotland: Craig Beattie, Gary Caldwell, Christian Dailly, Barry Ferguson, Darren Fletcher, Shaun Maloney, Lee McCulloch, Stephen McManus
Ukraine: Oleksandr Kucher, Ruslan Rotan, Andriy Rusol, Oleh Shelayev, Andriy Vorobei, Andriy Voronin, Volodymyr Yezerskiy
- Own goals:
Faroe Islands: Fróði Benjaminsen (for Italy)
Georgia: Malkhaz Asatiani (for France)
References
- ↑ Bathgate, Stuart. "Scotland dealt an even hand as Euro 2008 draw resolved", The Scotsman, 10 March 2006. Accessed 27 March 2007.