EURO 2012 Group A - Climax

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We enter the last round of group games .
Today we got Poland vs Czech Republic
Russia vs Greece

The tables
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/european-championship/2012/groups-schedule

To sumarise:
As long as Russia don't lose they're through
The winner of Poland vs Czech Republic is through
Poland have to win to go through
Greece will go through if they win by two goals and Czech Republic draw

Game 1

Poland vs Czech Republic

Team News
Czech Republic: Cech, Gebre Selassie, Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky, Hubschman, Plasil, Jiracek, Kolar, Pilar, Baros. Subs: Lastuvka, Suchy, Hubnik, Necid, Rezek, Rosicky, Petrzela, Rajtoral, Pekhart, Lafata, Darida, Drobny.

Poland: Tyton, Piszczek, Wasilewski, Perquis, Boenisch, Dudka, Polanski, Blaszczykowski, Murawski, Obraniak, Lewandowski. Subs: Szczesny, Wojtkowiak, Kaminski, Matuszczyk, Rybus, Wawrzyniak, Sobiech, Mierzejewski, Wolski, Grosicki, Brozek, Sandomierski.

Stats
Head-to-head

The five previous meetings between the sides all ended in home wins - Poland claiming three victories and the Czech Republic two.
The only competitive encounters came in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup; Poland won 2-1 in Chorzow in October 2008, while the Czechs triumphed 2-0 in Prague 12 months later.

Poland

A draw would make Poland the first team to share the points in all three of their group games at a European Championship.
The Poles have lost just once in 14 games, a run lasting a year. Their only defeat in that time was a 2-0 loss to Italy in November 2011. They are unbeaten in their last eight games (W5, D3).
They converted 2.6% of shots into goals at Euro 2008, the worst record at that tournament, and have found the net with just two of 28 efforts at Euro 2012 (7.1%).
If Poland don't win they will join Romania and Switzerland as the only sides who failed to win their first six European Championship games. Both Romania and Switzerland had to wait until their ninth match for their first victories. No team has played as many games the Poles without winning at the tournament.

Czech Republic

Milan Baros was top scorer at Euro 2004 with five goals. Only six players have scored six or more goals at European Championships: Michel Platini (9), Alan Shearer (7), plus Ruud van Nistelrooy, Patrick Kluivert, Thierry Henry and Nuno Gomes (all with 6).
The Czechs' game against Greece produced only 15 shots - the fewest at a European Championship game since 1980.
Against the Greeks they became the first side to establish a two-goal lead in the first six minutes of a European Championship match.
Petr Jiracek's goal against Greece, after two minutes & 14 seconds, is the third fastest in European Championship history. The only players to score quicker goals are Russia's Dmitri Kirichenko (one minute & 7 seconds against Greece in 2004), and the USSR's Sergei Aleinikov (two minutes & 7 seconds against England in 1988).


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Bookings

Other notable incidents

TV: BBC1 KO 7:45

Game 2

Team News
Russia vs Greece
Greece: Sifakis, Torosidis, Papastathopoulos, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Tzavelas, Katsouranis, Maniatis, Salpingidis, Karagounis, Samaras, Gekas. Subs: Chalkias, Malezas, Makos, Liberopoulos, Mitroglou, Fotakis, Ninis, Holebas, Fortounis, Fetfatzidis, Tzorvas.

Russia: Malafeev, Aniukov, Berezutsky, Ignashevich, Zhirkov, Shirokov, Denisov, Glushakov, Dzagoev, Kerzhakov, Arshavin. Subs: Akinfeev, Sharonov, Izmailov, Pavlyuchenko, Kombarov, Granat, Pogrebnyak, Nababkin, Semshov, Shunin.


Stats

Head-to-head

Greece have only beaten Russia once in the past 10 meetings between the two nations.
The Russians beat Greece in the group stages of both Euro 2008 and Euro 2004.
Their most recent clash was a 1-1 friendly draw last year.

Greece

The Greeks have scored just one goal in each of their past seven matches (winning just once).
In their three previous European Championships tournaments to date, Greece have either finished bottom of their group or won the competition outright (as they did in 2004).
They have not won any of their past five Euro matches since winning the tournament in 2004.
Salpingidis took his tally to five international goals in under 12 months against Poland on match-day one - two more than he had managed in his previous six years with the national team.

Russia

They are now 16 matches unbeaten (W8, D8) since a 1-0 friendly defeat to Iran in February 2011.
Their defence has conceded just four times in their last 13 games.
D! ck Advocaat's side have scored from five of their seven shots on targets so far at Euro 2012.
Five of their past seven goals at major tournaments have been scored (1) or set up (4) by Arshavin.
Eleven of the current squad were also at Euro 2008, where the Russians reached the semi-finals.
Only two squad members were playing outside their country at the end of the season, a transitional 14-month 44-match campaign as Russia switches to a western European-like winter season.


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Bookings

Other notable incidents

TV: BBC 3: KO 7:45


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