Greece-Czech Republic 1-2

Scorers: 3’ Jiracek; 6’ Pilar; 53′ Gekas

Greece: Chalkias (23’ Sifakis); Torosidis, K. Papadopoulos, Katsouranis, Holebas; Fotakis (46’ Gekas), Maniatis, Karagounis; Salpingidis, Samaras, Fortounis (71’ Mitroglou). Team manager: Fernando Santos.

Czech Republic: Cech, Gebre Selassie, Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky; Hubschmann, Plasil; Jiracek, Rosicky (46’ Kolar; 90’ Rajtoral), Pilar; Baros (64’ Pekhart). Team manager: M. Bilek.

Referee: Lannoy (France)

Warnings: Rosicky, Torosidis, Jiracek, Papadopoulos, Salpingidis and Kolar.

Czech Republic is still alive: Bilek team defeats 2-1 Greece and is still in race for the qualification to quarter-finals. The match played in Wroclaw is decided in the first ten minutes: Czechs scores after 180” with Jiracek, served by Plasil, and after six minutes with Pilar who scores his second goal in Euro 2012 after a cross of Gebre Selassie. Greece reaction is generous but little dangerous for Czechs: Gekas reopens the match at the beginning of the second half (awful mistake of Cech) but Greek team is unable to create other opportunities to score. And the elimination is near.

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Only one goal, but extremely “heavy”, has been scored in the previous three head to head between Greece and Czech Republic, two among them being friendly matches ended 0-0 in Larissa on April 17th 2002 and in Prague on August 18th 2004. The other match was played in a very special occasion: Euro 2004 semi-final on July 1st in Porto Dragao Stadium between the two great surprise teams of the Portuguese European Championships edition which were able to eliminate strong teams as Spain, Germany and France during the competition. Greece coached by Otto Rehhagel won thanks to a goal scored by Roma central defender Traianos Dellas, former Perugia player, in the final moments of the second extra-time. Greece would won the final too against Portugal: Charisteas goal brought one of the everlasting surprise in the recent football history.

LEGEND: FM = Friendly Match, EC = European Championships, QE= European Championships Qualifying, ECF = European Championships Final, ECQ = European Championships quarter-finals, ECS = European Championships semi-finals, WC = World Cup, QM = World Cup Qualifying, WC3F = World Cup third-place final, WCF = World Cup Final, WC16 = World Cup Round of 16, WCQ = World Cup quarter-finals.

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