EURO 2012

I knew it was a good idea to pick him for my FF team.

lolska

SAVED!

yessss I love it

Come on!

Proper keeper at last

shoulda been Sami tbh

Good stuff goalie

What a crazy game!

Greek coach is magnificent

lol.

Oh look half time is England time on the BBC. Does this happen in other countries during matches their team isn't playing?

Yep, I think pretty much every country in the world talks about England at half-time.

Still wanna see a replay of the thru ball that led to the pen to see if it was offside.

textbook facepalm from greek coach after that pen

Now offside. Not sure about that

chopped off

on replay correct

This is some pretty clownish football.

poland have been rubbish for the last hour

it's v entertaining. the greek keeper's flesh-coloured strip is a bit offputting though, i keep thinking he's a streaker.

Usually one expects the momentum to pass from one side to the other but both teams look like they're psyching themsleves out in equal measure.

Danny Mills on BBC Radio 5 live:

"Wojciech Szczesny has had an absolute nightmare. He's had nothing to do, but his concentration has deserted him. What was he trying to achieve with that? He should have gone with his hands. The referee had no option but to give a penalty and send the goalkeeper off. Szczesny has had two things to do and he's done both badly.

just checked the potential offside for the pen and it's really hard to tell (from the match angle anyway)

lovely pass there

I'd forgotten how much fun watching Samaras is.

Mark Bright deriding Samaras

one player in the box?

weird mixture of olde style blood&thunder and desultory ineptitude about this match

Mark Bright "Russia and Czech Rep watching this with their feet up in a hotel somewhere." They kick off in an hour Mark, if they're still at the hotel chilling they're in trouble.

lol chesney.

shit game, plenty of lols. b+ opener.

Greece did well after half-time but Poland bottled that.

They'll not be in too much trouble judging by that game xps

Amazing the way Poland totally switched off right from the start of the second half, polar opposite of the way they started the first. Worst team talk ever.

It's a pity that ended even, from what I saw it's practically an invitation for Russia and the Czechs to go through the motions tonight and take their chances in the other two games.

I'd wait to see how bad the Czech Republic are before writing off the other two, tbh.

who does the second placer in this group play cos that might be an incentive to win

Were Czech Rep in the same qualifying group as Scotland? If so I remember them being poor. Russia should be exciting Euro 2008 style.

winners of group of
xp

The top two both go out in the quarters to two from the Germany/Dutch/Danes/Portugal group-of-death thing.

group of death ie holland/portugal/germany
so playing the 2nd place team is no picnic either

xp

i have rudely dismissed denmark there. sorry daniel.

I quite like 'group of', in an 'end of' stylee

I could see Russia taking six points from two games which might mean, if Greece can grind a draw with the Czechs, they'd end up playing a second-string Russian side in the third match.

If Greece win the whole fucking thing again, man...

golden generation

looking frwd to seeing Gebre Selassie at RB for Czechs tonight.

Jiracek looked useful in the few games he played for Wolfsburg last season too.

Didn't realize that the Russian squad is basically Zenit and Dynamo.

Are Spartak rubbish? And do Anzhi only buy expensive foreigners?