EURO 2012

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?

Anzhi's squad is over 50% Russian by the looks of things.

Zhirkov is the only one who made the national squad tho

As if I don't get enough of Howard Webb during the regular season FFS

What about Rubin Kazan? It was only last year they were in the CL iirc. Russian footy is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, to me.

aw no its no howard webb is it?

About 10 Russians in their squad but only one made the Euros. I'm clueless about how they're doing this season. Didn't the russian season just last a year and a half cos they're in the middle of switching when the league starts and finishes?

CSKA have five players in the squad, iirc, Dinamo have four.

Most of CSKA's midfielders and strikers are foreign, with the exception of Dzagoev, but their defence is pretty strongly Russian.

Teams in the wrong colours afaic

Rubin weren't great last season xp

lovely football

Davaaaaaiiiiiii!

The Russian Messi!

would have been cooler if the header had gone in

wooooo ff points

russian schweini morelike