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Russia topple holders Greece
Holders Greece were knocked out of Euro 2008 after a thrilling 1-0 defeat against Russia in Salzburg. More
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Live Commentary
Time:90'- Greece
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90+4' It's all over! Greece are out! Russia keep themselves in the competition after a truly superb game of football.
90+2' PAVLYUCHENKO MISSES A SITTER!! He is presented with a chance to finish the game on a plate but his head is up and he blazes over. What a miss.- 89' Three minutes of added time to be played.
87' Russia make a change with Vassili Berezutski coming on for the superb Zhirkov.- 86' Charisteas has the ball in the net but it won't count - there was an offside earlier in the move - that was very close indeed. Gekas was penalised.
85' Torbinski is booked for timewasting.- 83' Zhirkov curls a beautiful free-kick from the left that dips just a yard or so over the bar.
- 81' Semshov finds Zyrianov clear down the right but the latter's cross is poor and that will be a Russian corner.
- 79' Giannis Amanatidis comes off to be replaced by ex-Bolton man Stelios Giannakopoulos.
- 77' Saenko rugby tackles Karagounis and that is an obvious yellow card.
- 76' Kolodin hits the free-kick but it is low and straight into the wall.
- 75' Basinas fouls Zyrianov 25 yards out and he is lucky to avoid a yellow card. Dangerous situation for Greece...
- 72' Karagounis and Pavyluchenko are not shy of hitting long shots. They both have a crack from range and both miss the target. What fun.
- 70' Russia make a straight swap - Ivan Saenko for the slightly disappointing Diniyar Bilyaletdinov.
- 68' An outswinging corner is delivered to Charisteas!! His downward header is straight at Akinfeev!
- 67' Karagounis considers a long shot then thinks better of it - but only after the ball has left his foot. It scoots wide and the Greek midfielder immediately apologises.
- 64' Bilyaletdinov turns and tries to get his shot away, but it is a poor effort and Greece block it.
- 62' Pavyluchenko is away and has a man to his right... he doesn't see him! If he had done, it may well have been two-nil.
- 60' A change for Greece - Fanis Gekas is on for Lyberopoulos.
- 58' Yellow card Lyberopoulos. Just a frantic pace being played here - maybe referee Rosetti fancied a breather.
- 57' Zhirkov is up to his old tricks down the left and finds Pavlyuchenko who flicks for BILYALETDINOV!!! Drills his shot just wide!
- 55' ANOTHER CHANCE FOR GREECE!! Russia fail to deal with a cross from the right and Liberopoulos sets up BASINAS!! He leans back at he hits his left-foot shot and fires over!
- 53' Karagounis strikes one at the other end.. straight at Akinfeev, who can only palm it away. Great game this!
- 52' Pavlyuchenko cuts inside from the left again and cracks a low shot... into the side netting!
- 50' Greece free-kick 40 metres out... Basinas looks for Amanatidis on the left side but he can only divert the ball out for a goal kick.
- 48' Pavluchenko fires a low shot at Nikopolidis from the edge of the box, then has an effort deflected for a corner. Blimey - what a start to the second half.
- 46' Another great chance for Charisteas!! He latches onto a Karagounis through ball yet lobs it tamely at Akinfeev!
46' Russia get the second half under way...- 45+1' Half-time and Russia have a deserved lead. Greece are 45 minutes from going out.
- 45' Sotiris Kyrgiakos somehow finds himself well behind the Russian defence... oh, that's how. He was about five yards offside. One minute to be added on.
43' Torbinsky "does" Charisteas with a late, hard challenge. Greece want a yellow card but referee Rosetti doesn't seem to mind the tackle.- 41' Karagounis's first act is to slip over as he takes a free-kick, although he manages to hold back the Terry tears. His second act is to foul Semshov - yellow card.
- 40' Well, how splendid. Even Greece are going for it. Giorgios Karagounis is on for Seitaridis as Otto Rehhagel switches to a 3-4-3.
- 38' Bilyaletdinov fires over from the edge of the box. Russia are playing really well here.
- 36' Russia have a deserved lead, but you have to say it was quite a blunder by Nikopolidis chasing that cross out.
- 35' Pavyluchenko somehow misses a free header at the back post, bouncing it up and over the bar! He is incredibly fortunate to see he has already been flagged offside.
33' GOAL!!! RUSSIA IN FRONT THROUGH ZYRIANOV!! Torbinsky crosses too deep from the left but Nikopolidis inexplicably chases it... Semak gets there first and plays an overhead kick across the face of goal for Zyrianov to finish!- 29' Patsatzoglou has a crack from outside the box - straight at Akinfeev. The Greece man has 'Patsa' on the back of his shirt, which could very well be a nomenclature that we adopt here...
- 26' Pavyluchenko does brilliantly to get his cross in from the right but he is essentially trying to find himself in the middle. As he isn't there, Akinfeev makes an easy catch.
- 23' Well, this is pleasingly lively stuff. Greece look dangerous in the air and should already be one up; Russia are much the better technical side. Not bad at all.
- 20' CHARISTEAS MUST SCORE!! He somehow fails to score a free header from Basinas's superb free-kick. Semshov knocks the ball inadvertently behind for a corner but that was a massive chance!
- 18' More bodies flying in the box. This time it is Dmitri Torbinski following another pull-back from Zhirkov. Once more, it is no foul.
- 17' At the other end Pavlyuchenko wants a penalty after slamming a shot into Dellas's hands, but he has already been flagged offside.
- 16' Nikos Lyberopoulos chucks himself to the deck in search of a penalty but referee Roberto Rosetti waves his appeal away.
- 15' The Russian corner is half-cleared but only makes it as far as Zhirkov, who slashes an over-enthusiastic volley wide. The Reds on top.
- 14' Pavyluchenko jinks inside from the left and hits a right-foot curler... TIPPED OVER!!
- 13' Seitaridis is well up on the right side... crosses into the hands of Akinfeev.
- 11' Semshov plays it inside from the left for Bilyaletdinov, who fires a left-footed shot well over the bar.
- 9' Another long ball from the Greeks - Ignashevich heads it back to Akinfeev. It's not a classic but you get the feeling both teams are trying.
- 7' Kyrgiakos belts a long ball downfield for Greece - straight through to Akinfeev. Well, at least it was forward...
- 4' Yuri Zhirkov has looked pretty good so far chasing forward from the Russian left-back position - three times he has got into an advanced position - but three times he has lost the ball.
- 2' Zhirkov curls in a Russian free-kick to the edge of the box - but Greece excel in the field of headed clearances and snuff out the danger with consummate ease.
1' Some housekeeping as a hopeless Russian backpass nearly falls for Amanatidis - Russia are all in red, which makes them at least 50 percent more likely to win. Greece are all in white.- - OK, that gobbledy-gook there was meant to be Russian (Apparently it works in some encodings, not in others. No, me neither). So you can substitute in its place: "Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii".
- - Государственный гимн Российской Федерации: Now there's a national anthem. La Marseillaise is good, The Star-Spangled Banner is not bad, but for my money the Russian anthem is the best in the world.
- - Out come the teams, and some fans are chanting that flipping White Stripes song. It's the new, less English, Great Escape.
- - Two changes from Guus Hiddink for Russia - Sergei Ignashevich and Dmitry Torbinsky for Roman Shirokov and Dmitry Sychev. Remarkably, the hapless Denis Kolodin keeps his place. No change in formation.
- - Greece coach Otto Rehhagel has gone with a 4-3-3 formation, ditching the dreaded back five he employed against Sweden. Christos Patsatzoglou, Nikos Liberopoulos, and Yannis Amanatidis are in; Giorgios Karagounis, Paraskevas Antzas and Fanis Gekas are out.
- Welcome to LIVE coverage of Greece v Russia from Salzburg! They should be playing D:Ream over the tannoy system, because things can certainly only get better for these two teams. Russia were useless in their 4-1 defeat to Spain, while Greece were basically unwatchable as they lost 2-0 to Sweden.
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Team Stats
Greece Stats Russia 50% Possession 49% 11 Shots 18 6 Shots on target 4 3 Saves 4 7 Corners 9 19 Fouls 16 5 Offsides 2 2 Yellow cards 2 0 Red cards 0 20 Tackles 11 241 Accurate passes 251 50 Bad passes 76 -
Player Stats
- G =
- Goals
- S =
- Shots
- SoT =
- Shot on Target
- F =
- Fouls
- FW =
- Fouls Won
- O =
- Offsides
- A =
- Assists
- AP =
- Accurate Passes
- BP =
- Bad Passes
- T =
- Tackles
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Greece G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T 1 Antonis Nikopolidis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 5 Traianos Dellas 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 30 2 2 3 Christos Patsatzoglou 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 24 1 5 2 Giourkas Seitaridis 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 11 0 1 16 Sotirios Kyrgiakos 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 23 4 2 6 Angelos Basinas 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 25 8 1 15 Vassilas Torosidis 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 17 12 1 21 Kostas Katsouranis 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 37 2 1 9 Angelos Charisteas 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 12 2 0 23 Nikos Liberopoulos 0 2 1 4 2 1 0 10 2 0 20 Ioannis Amanatidis 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 22 10 2 14 Dimitrios Salpingidis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Stelios Giannakopoulos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 Alexandros Tziolis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Alexandros Tzorvas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 Georgios Samaras 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 Paraskevas Antzas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 Konstantinos Chalkias 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Nikos Spyropoulos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 Giannis Goumas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Loukas Vintra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 Theofanis Gekas 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 10 Giorgios Karagounis 0 3 1 3 6 0 0 17 6 3 -
Russia G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T 1 Igor Akinfeev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 0 8 Denis Kolodin 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 20 7 1 22 Alexander Anyukov 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 22 0 2 4 Sergei Ignashevitch 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 18 4 0 20 Igor Semshov 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 35 8 1 11 Sergei Semak 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 29 6 0 17 Konstantin Zyryanov 1 1 1 2 4 0 0 30 6 1 18 Yuri Zhirkov 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 21 16 1 7 Dmitry Torbinskiy 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 32 15 2 15 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 18 8 2 19 Roman Pavlyuchenko 0 8 3 3 2 2 0 10 2 0 14 Roman Shirokov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Alexei Berezoutski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Oleg Ivanov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Renat Yanbayev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 Vladimir Bystrov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 Vladimir Gabulov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Vassili Berezoutski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 21 Dmitry Sychev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 Ivan Saenko 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 1 1 16 Vyacheslav Malafeev 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 Roman Adamov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Summary
- 90+2' PAVLYUCHENKO MISSES A SITTER!! He is presented with a chance to finish the game on a plate but his head is up and he blazes over. What a miss.
- 68' An outswinging corner is delivered to Charisteas!! His downward header is straight at Akinfeev!
- 57' Zhirkov is up to his old tricks down the left and finds Pavlyuchenko who flicks for BILYALETDINOV!!! Drills his shot just wide!
- 55' ANOTHER CHANCE FOR GREECE!! Russia fail to deal with a cross from the right and Liberopoulos sets up BASINAS!! He leans back at he hits his left-foot shot and fires over!
- 53' Karagounis strikes one at the other end.. straight at Akinfeev, who can only palm it away. Great game this!
- 52' Pavlyuchenko cuts inside from the left again and cracks a low shot... into the side netting!
- 48' Pavluchenko fires a low shot at Nikopolidis from the edge of the box, then has an effort deflected for a corner. Blimey - what a start to the second half.
- 46' Another great chance for Charisteas!! He latches onto a Karagounis through ball yet lobs it tamely at Akinfeev!
- 33' GOAL!!! RUSSIA IN FRONT THROUGH ZYRIANOV!! Torbinsky crosses too deep from the left but Nikopolidis inexplicably chases it... Semak gets there first and plays an overhead kick across the face of goal for Zyrianov to finish!
- 20' CHARISTEAS MUST SCORE!! He somehow fails to score a free header from Basinas's superb free-kick. Semshov knocks the ball inadvertently behind for a corner but that was a massive chance!
- 15' The Russian corner is half-cleared but only makes it as far as Zhirkov, who slashes an over-enthusiastic volley wide. The Reds on top.
- 14' Pavyluchenko jinks inside from the left and hits a right-foot curler... TIPPED OVER!!
- - Welcome to LIVE coverage of Greece v Russia from Salzburg! They should be playing D:Ream over the tannoy system, because things can certainly only get better for these two teams. Russia were useless in their 4-1 defeat to Spain, while Greece were basically unwatchable as they lost 2-0 to Sweden.
Live Team Line-Up
- Referee: Roberto Rosetti
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GreeceManager: Otto Rehhagel
Starting line-up
- A. Nikopolidis
- G. Seitaridis
- S. Kyrgiakos
- T. Dellas
- V. Torossidis
- K. Katsouranis
- C. Patsatzoglou
- A. Basinas
- A. Charisteas
- I. Amanatidis
- N. Liberopoulos
Subs
- I. Goumas
- P. Antzas
- K. Chalkias
- G. Karagounis
40′ - S. Giannakopoulos 80′
- L. Vyntra
- N. Spiropoulos
- T. Gekas 61′
- A. Tziolis
- G. Samaras
- D. Salpingidis
- A. Tzorvas
Injured
None
Suspended
None
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RussiaManager: Guus Hiddink
Starting line-up
- I. Akinfeev
- A. Anyukov
- D. Kolodin
- S. Ignashevitch
- Y. Zhirkov
- K. Zyrianov
- S. Semak
- D. Torbinskiy
- D. Bilyaletdinov
- I. Semshov
- R. Pavluchenko
Subs
- R. Adamov
- V. Berezutskiy
- V. Malafeev
- D. Sychev
- V. Bystrov
- I. Saenko 69′
- A. Berezutskiy
- V. Gabulov
- R. Shirokov
- . Иванов
- R. Yanbaev
Injured
None
Suspended
- A. Arshavin
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