Euro 2012: Predictions!

Euro 2012 kicks off today, and is there any better way to prepare for the tournament than by making predictions? Sportskeeda asked various corporate and media honchos about their semifinal predictions for the tournament, and here’s what they had to say:

Suprio Guha Thakurta

Suprio Guha Thakurta is currently the managing director of The Economist for the India region, and has been with The Economist since November 2007. Here is his predicted semifinal lineup at Euro 2012:

Germany France Netherlands Spain

Tridib Roy Chowdhury

Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Senior Director and General Manager at Adobe, thinks that Spain will miss David Villa, but that won’t stop them from doing well. These are the 4 teams that he thinks will make it to the Euro semis:

Netherlands Germany Spain Italy

Parag Kulkarni

Parag Kulkarni, who is the Senior Vice President and Business Head of the commercial lighting and furniture business at Wipro, holds the minority view that England can beat the odds and reach the last 4. Here are his predicted 4 semifinalists:

Spain Germany Netherlands England

Saumil Majmudar

Saumil Majmudar is the co-founder and Managing Director of EduSports, and he can’t wait to change his work timings to adjust to European time once the tournament starts! Here is his predicted semifinal lineup:

Germany Netherlands Spain Italy

Himanshu Chakrawarti

Himanshu Chakrawarti, CEO of The MobileStore Limited, is a huge Arsenal fan, so it’s no surprise he’s picking Netherlands, home country of Arsenal star Robbie Van Persie, to go far. This is the semifinal lineup that he thinks will come to pass:

Spain Germany Netherlands England

Parag Dhol

Parag Dhol is the Managing Director of Inventus Capital, and he finds time to watch football by giving cricket a wide berth. Here are his predicted top 4 finishers:

Spain Netherlands Germany Greece

Elango Thambiah, who is the President (operations) of Tata Tele Services Limited, is another one who’s plumping for a wild card. His underdog of choice? Croatia. These are his 4 predicted semifinalists:

SpainGermanyFranceCroatia

Joy Bhattacharjya

Joy Bhattacharjya is the Team Director of recently-crowned IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders, but he’s put cricket behind him for the moment. He’s gone for a surprise pick in Russia, and judging from the team’s first match, he may be bang on! Here is his semifinal lineup

SpainGermanyNetherlandsRussia

Subrata Mitra, partner at Accel, joins the small group of people predicting big things for everyone’s favorite punching bag – England. Surprisingly, Mitra thinks that Netherlands won’t make the cut. These are the 4 teams likely to finish highest in Mitra’s opinion: