Greece v Czech Republic

Here are the lineups:

Greece

Chalkias
Torosidis, Katsouranis, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Holebas
Fotakis, Maniatis, Karagounis
Salpingidis, Samaras, Fortounis

Czech Republic

Cech
Gebre Selassie, Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky
Hübschman, Plasil
Jiracek, Rosicky, Pilar
Baros

This is the second round of the group games. If the Czech republic don't win, they might not get to the quarter finals. They lost their last game, Greece drew theirs; which way will this one go? Let's find out!

Straight after kick off, you could see that the Czech's weren't going to let this one slip through their finger tips. They were getting closer and closer to the goal. Then, in a split second Jiracek found himself with the ball and took a shot over the goalkeeper and into the net. 1-0 to the Czech Republic after just 3 minutes. This was not looking good for Greece at all; and it was about to get worse, much, much worse. The Czech's were closing in on the goal once again. This time from the right. The ball was passed to Pilar and ended up in the back of the net; 3 minutes after the first goal. The Greeks were down by 2 goals, and there wasn't much to do about it.

The second half bring some luck along, as Greece were running with the ball towards the goal. They had a go, and guess what, they scored! But the happiness was soon turned to pain. An official put his flag up into the air. Greece were offside. Great. Fortunately, they were dominating the game and another scoring chance came along. Gekas, who has just been brought onto the pitch as a sub, scored the goal. Their only goal for today. The game ended 2-1 to the Czech Republic.

During the match there were some injuries. Greek goalkeeper, Chalkias, went off the pitch in pain. There must have been something wrong with his thigh as the team's medics put ice around it. The another player from Greece, sorry I can't remember who ( but I think it was a defender) was hit in the head with a Czech's shoe. It did bleed a bit but he was alright.

Join me later with the match between Poland and Russia. These two countries aren't the best of friends, we saw some evidence of this in Warsaw a couple of minutes ago. The two sides of fans clashed and attacked each other; the police got involved and nearly found themselves in danger. I wonder what will happen during the match....hmm....