Uefa Euro 2012 Match Press Kit
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UEFA EURO 2012 MATCH PRESS KIT Greece Russia Group A - Matchday 3 National Stadium Warsaw, Warsaw Saturday 16 June 2012 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................6 Team facts.........................................................................................................................8 Squad list.........................................................................................................................10 Head coach.....................................................................................................................12 Match officials..................................................................................................................13 Competition facts.............................................................................................................14 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................16 UEFA information............................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................18 Greece v Russia Saturday 16 June 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Stadium Warsaw, Warsaw Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/06/08 GS-FT Greece - Russia 0-1 Salzburg Zyryanov 33 UEFA EURO 2004 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/06/04 GS-FT Russia - Greece 2-1 Faro-Loule Kirichenko 2, Bulykin 17; Vryzas 43 EURO '96 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 11/10/95 PR (GS) Russia - Greece 2-1 Moscow Kovtun 35, Onopko 70; Tsalouchidis 63 26/04/95 PR (GS) Greece - Russia 0-3 Salonika Nikiforov 37, Zagorakis 78(og), Beschastnykh 79 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/11/93 QR (GS) Greece - Russia 1-0 Athens Machlas 68 23/05/93 QR (GS) Russia - Greece 1-1 Moscow Dobrovolski 72(p); Mitropoulos 45 1980 UEFA European Championship Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 12/09/79 PR (GS) Greece - USSR 1-0 Athens Nikoloudis 25 20/09/78 PR (GS) USSR - Greece 2-0 Yerevan Chesnokov 20, Bezsonov 53 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/05/77 QR (GS) Greece - USSR 1-0 Salonika Papaioannou 58 24/04/77 QR (GS) USSR - Greece 2-0 Moscow Konkov 26, Kipiani 77 1968 UEFA European Championship Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 31/10/67 PR (GS) Greece - USSR 0-1 Athens Malofeev 50 16/07/67 PR (GS) USSR - Greece 4-0 Tbilisi Banishevski 50, 77, Szabó 72(p), Chislenko 83 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/10/65 QR (GS) Greece - USSR 1-4 Athens Papaioannou 27; Metreveli 15(p), Banishevski 25, 59, 82 23/05/65 QR (GS) USSR - Greece 3-1 Moscow Kazakov 14, Ivanov 71, 83; Papaioannou 59 Qualifying Final tournament Total Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Greece 3 1 0 2 3 0 0 3 2 0 0 2 8 1 0 7 3 15 Russia 3 3 0 0 3 2 0 1 2 2 0 0 8 7 0 1 15 3 FIFA* Greece 3 2 0 1 3 0 1 2 - - - - 6 2 1 3 5 10 Russia 3 2 1 0 3 1 0 2 - - - - 6 3 1 2 10 5 Friendly matches Greece - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 0 4 3 5 14 Russia - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 3 4 0 14 5 Total Greece 6 3 0 3 6 0 1 5 2 0 0 2 21 3 5 13 13 39 Russia 6 5 1 0 6 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 21 13 5 3 39 13 * FIFA World Cup / FIFA Confederations Cup Last updated 14/06/12 17:41:05CET 2 Previous meetings Greece v Russia Saturday 16 June 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Stadium Warsaw, Warsaw Match background Russia have won all four UEFA European Championship meetings against Greece and will be seeking to continue that proud record as the teams meet for the third successive final tournament in Warsaw. • Greece have taken just one point from their first two matches, opening with a 1-1 draw against co-hosts Poland before conceding twice in the first six minutes to set up a 2-1 loss against the Czech Republic. Russia also drew 1-1 with the Poles, but lead the section thanks to their 4-1 win against the Czechs on matchday one. • That means Russia will be through with a draw, and could even afford a defeat by fewer than six goals if the other game finishes level. Greece will be through with a win, and out with a draw or loss. Head-to-head record • Russia were victorious against Greece in the group stage of both UEFA EURO 2004 and UEFA EURO 2008. • Greece also lost twice in qualifying for EURO '96, going down 3-0 in Salonika on 26 April 1995 and 2-1 in Moscow on 11 October. • Although they have won only one of ten previous fixtures between the sides, Greece are unbeaten in their two FIFA World Cup fixtures with Russia. In Athens on 17 November 1993, Nikos Machlas (68) earned the 1-0 win which meant both teams reached the finals for the first time. The earlier match, in Moscow on 23 May 1993, ended 1-1; Igor Dobrovolski (72, penalty) and Tasos Mitropoulos (45) were the scorers. • All four friendlies have ended level, Igor Kolyvanov earning Russia a 1-1 draw in Athens on 18 February 1998 after Kostas Frantzeskos had given the home team an early lead. • The next, in Heraklion, Crete, on 28 February 2001 ended 3-3; Angelos Charisteas marked his international debut with two first-half goals before Angelos Basinas ensured it was honours even with a 90th-minute penalty equaliser; Maksim Buznikin (2) and Dmitri Khokhlov were the Russian scorers. • In Moscow on 15 August 2001, a third friendly ended goalless, while their most recent meeting in Piraeus last year was a 1-1 draw. • Greece's record in 11 meetings with the Soviet Union was W2 D0 L9 F4 A 25. Selected previous meetings 11 November 2011: Russia 1-1 Greece (Katsouranis 60; Shirokov 2) – Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus, friendly Greece: Tzorvas, Torossidis, Holebas, A Papadopoulos, Papastathopoulos, Katsouranis (Makos 88), Fotakis (Liberopoulos 80), Karagounis (Tziolis 56), Salpingidis (Kone 68), Gekas (Mitroglou 77), Samaras (Charisteas 56). Russia: Malafeev (Shunin 46), Anyukov, V Berezutski (A Berezutski 46), Ignashevich, Zhirkov (Shishkin 67), Zyryanov (Glushakov 79), Denisov, Shirokov (Bilyaletdinov 84), Dzyuba (Kokorin 46), Arshavin, Dzagoev. • Kostas Katsouranis cancelled out Roman Shirokov's second-minute opener. Greece's José Holebas, born in Germany to a Greek father and Uruguayan mother, won his first cap. 14 June 2008: Greece 0-1 Russia (Zyryanov 33) – Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg, UEFA EURO 2008 group stage Greece: Nikopolidis, Seitaridis (Karagounis 40), Dellas, Kyrgiakos, Torossidis, Patsatzoglou, Katsouranis, Basinas, Charisteas, Amanatidis (Giannakopoulos 80), Liberopoulos (Gekas 61). Russia: Akinfeev, Anyukov, Ignashevich, Kolodin, Zhirkov (V Berezutski 87), Semak, Semshov, Zyryanov, Bilyaletdinov (Saenko 70), Torbinskiy, Pavlyuchenko. • Konstantin Zyryanov scored the only goal in Salzburg as Russia ended Greece's defence of the trophy. 20 June 2004: Russia 2-1 Greece (Kirichenko 2, Bulykin 17; Vryzas 43) – Estádio do Algarve, Faro-Loule, UEFA EURO 2004 group stage Russia: Malafeev, Anyukov, Sharonov (Sennikov 56), Bugaev, Evseev, Gusev, Alenitchev, Radimov, Karyaka (Semshov 46) Bulykin (Sychev 46), Kirichenko. Greece: Nikopolidis, Seitaridis, Dellas, Kapsis, Venetidis (Fyssas 89), Basinas (Tsiartas 42), Katsouranis, Zagorakis, Vryzas, Papadopoulos (Nikolaidis 70), Charisteas. • The defeat was the only one Otto Rehhagel's Greece suffered in six matches in Portugal en route to the title. Form guide • UEFA EURO 2004 represented Greece's first appearance in a European finals tournament since 1980. They have not missed a EURO since. Last updated 14/06/12 17:41:05CET 3 Match background Greece v Russia Saturday 16 June 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT National Stadium Warsaw, Warsaw • Russia reached the semi-finals of UEFA EURO 2008, losing 3-0 to eventual winners Spain – who had also beaten them 4-1 in the group stage. • Russia have missed just one EURO since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, UEFA EURO 2000, though they had not progressed beyond the group stage before UEFA EURO 2008. Team ties • Katsouranis was a team-mate of former Russian international Andrei Karyaka at SL Benfica in 2006/07. In 2007/08, Fanis Gekas and Dmitri Bulykin were together at Bayer 04 Leverkusen. • Andrey Arshavin's Arsenal FC were 2-1 winners against the Olympiacos FC of Vassilis Torossidis and Holebas in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League group stage in London. • In the Piraeus return, won 3-1 by Olympiacos, Giannis Maniatis, Holebas, the injured Avraam Papadopoulos and Torossidis were in the home team, Arshavin again featuring for Arsenal. • In the 2009/10 group stage, Arshavin scored Arsenal's second in their 2-0 home victory against an Olympiacos team featuring Papadopoulos, Torossidis and substitute Kostas Mitroglou. • Denis Glushakov scored FC Lokomotiv Moskva's first goal in a 3-1 win at Grigoris Makos' AEK Athens FC in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Sergei Ignashevich scored PFC CSKA Moskva's goal in a 1-1 draw at home to PAOK FC in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg, sealing a 2-1 aggregate win. Dimitris Salpingidis and Kostas Chalkias started for