Football battles of Euro 2012 continue. The first games seemed to be tense and, as it is usual for such tournaments, they were full of surprises. Who would have thought that Poland could stand the Greeks, and Denmark would take their 3 points from the Dutch national team? The list of major unexpected happenings is completed by the match Spain vs. Italy, in which the Spaniards — the current World and European champions — could not beat the uncompromising Italians.

But this is what we love football for — its intrigue. Real game may end completely illogically. Yet the experience of fans of our online panel InPoll proves that it is possible to predict the winner of every second game at least (they matched the winners of 4 out of 8 pairs of teams).

It is interesting that fans were able to predict even the final score of the match Ukraine vs. national team of Sweden 2:1. National team performance is always interesting. And Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted a survey of football fans through online panel InPoll regarding on the results of the first round and predictions for the second round of Euro 2012. There were polled 350 fans.

The vast majority (90%) of fans consider the performance of Ukrainian national team to be good or rather good. Naturally, the best player of the match appeared to be Andriy Shevchenko (77%). Fans also marked Eugene Konoplianka (4%), Andriy Voronin (3%), Andriy Yarmolenko (3%) and Andriy Pyatov (3%).

We also wondered which team performance was the best of all in the first round of the World Cup.

Half of the fans believe that it was national Russian team to be the best (50%). Half as many marked Ukrainian national team performance (25%). The top five included also Croatia (6%), Germany (5%) and Denmark (4%).

EURO 2012 is getting its tense. And today we are looking forward to the first games of the second round. Time will tell what will be the performance of the teams. And fans of our online panel InPoll have already expressed their expectations about the possible winners of the matches:

FORECASTS for the Round 2

Group A

Greece — Czech Republic

Possible score is 1:2 or 1:3

Poland — Russia

Possible score is 1:2 or 1:3

Forecasted group list

Group B

Denmark — Portugal

Possible score is 0:1 or 0:2

Netherlands — Germany

Possible score is 1:2 or 1:3

Forecasted group list

Group C

Italy — Croatia

Possible score is 1:0

Spain — Ireland

Possible score is 2:0, 3:0, 3:1 or even 4:1

Forecasted group list

Group D

Sweden — England

Possible score is 1:2 or 1:3

Ukraine — France

Ukraine vs France seems to be the most interesting match, because there is no undeniable advantage given to any of participants. Fans forecast that France will not lose this game at least: this team will win with 0:2 or split with 1:1. Ukraine national team chances of winning are rated slightly lower.

Forecasted group list