Euro 2012: Germany 4-2 Greece

It's early but here we go, Welcome to Day 14 of Euro 2012 , featuring Germany vs Greece

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Route to this stage:
Germany

Germany 1-0 Portugal
Germany 2-1 Holland
Germany 2-1 Denmark

Greece

Poland 1-1 Greece
Greece 1-2 Czech Republic
Greece 1-0 Russia


Team News

Germany: Neuer, Boateng, Hummels, Badstuber, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Reus, Ozil, Schurrle, Klose. Subs: Wiese, Gundogan, Schmelzer, Howedes, Podolski, Muller, Bender, Mertesacker, Kroos, Gotze, Gomez, Zieler.

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

Goals

Lahm 39
Samaras 55
Khedira, 61
Klose, 68
Reus, 76
Pen, 88

Bookings

Samaras

Stats

Head-to-head

Germany (including West Germany) are unbeaten in eight previous games against Greece, winning five. The only previous meeting at a European Championship was a group match that finished 0-0 in 1980. That result took the Germans through to the final, where they beat Belgium.

The most recent games came in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup. Germany won 2-0 in Hamburg in Sep 2000 and 4-2 in Athens in March 2001; Miroslav Klose is the only survivor from the last meeting - he scored in that match.

Germany

The Germans have taken the lead in all three matches at Euro 2012, plus each of their 10 qualifiers, going on to win all of those games. They have not fallen behind in a competitive game since the third-place play-off against Uruguay at the 2010 World Cup (when they won 3-2 after trailing 2-1).

Joachim Loew's side have won their last 14 competitive games (includes third-place play-off against Uruguay).

The average age of the starting XI against Denmark was 25 years and 107 days - Germany's youngest ever line-up at a European Championship.

Germany (including West Germany) have never lost a European Championship quarter-final. They beat Portugal 3-2 at Euro 2008 and Croatia 2-1 at Euro 96. They also defeated England (1972) and Spain (1976) back in the days when quarter-finals were played over two legs prior to the finals.

Greece

The Greeks have scored just one goal in each of their past eight matches.

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). Therefore they have won all three of their previous knock-out games at the tournament.

Greece have never contested a penalty shoot-out at a tournament. They have missed their last three penalties - Giorgios Karagounis failed to convert a spot-kick against Poland in their opening game, and Giorgos Samaras and Kostas Katsouranis did likewise against Armenia on 31 May.

Against Russia, Greece equalled the tournament record for most shots blocked (12), matching England's tally against Portugal in 2004 and against France in 2012.

KO: 7:45

Venue: Ukraine

TV: ITV


Match Rules
1) Bring back Fabregas
2). Comments
3) Fake scorelines ✔
4) Be fickle ✔
5) Smiley spamming ✔
6) LALing is encouraged ✔
7) Hate Adrian Chiles
8) Talk About Clubs


Bookings for Users

Captain Fantastic - names too similar
GunnerThru ing me for putting Friday on

Predos

Germany - Fabtastic, Daws, Paul Power, Hippo, Sandy, Gunner thru

Pens - HenryKamp

Greece - Sog, Saint
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