After 2 weeks of intense competition to negotiate the group stage of the Euro 2008 competition, the last 8 teams are now revealed; which they will proceed to the quarter-final stage of this contest. The teams that have successfully negotiated to the next stage are Croatia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Turkey.
The ties between these teams will be held as follow:
| Day | Tie |
| Thursday | Germany v Portugal |
| Friday | Croatia v Turkey |
| Saturday | Netherlands v Russia |
| Sunday | Spain v Italy |
Amongst all of these 4 ties, the two most exciting ones to watch are likely to be Germany against Portugal, and Spain against Italy.
Portugal has topped the table (with maximum points) with Cristiano Ronaldo leading the siege against his opponent, but Germany is not to be disregarded, despite almost not able to make it to this stage.
On the other hand, Italy is somewhat the same situation as Germany and will come up against Spain, the team that topped the group stage with maximum points.