The group stages of the Euros have officially ended with Ireland's glorious night against Italy, meaning we are through to face France in the last 16.
Owing to the competitions bloated structure, 16 of the 24 teams have qualified for the knockout stages, meaning that the third-placed sides who are going to advance to the round of 16 have swapped around at such a rate to bring #permutations back into the mainstream.
After turning over all of the potential pairings in our head, and the odd random encouragement to get the abacus out (even though it is an archaic piece of equipment which is of no use or relevance in determining who will face whom), we present to you the final pairings for the knockout stages of Euro 2016:
One side of that draw looks noticeably tougher than the other meaning, if you were a betting man, best to lump on one of the sides from that side. We're looking at Croatia and Poland, and perhaps even Wales.
Or Ireland.
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