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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ukraine 0-1 Greece: goodbye to South Africa



Reuters
Greece following the other Group 2 representatives, Switzerland, to the World Cup finals in 2010. That's after they get rid of Ukraine to host the play-off second leg with a slim 1-0 victory on Wednesday (18/11/2009).

Play goalless draw in the first leg, both teams appeared determined to fight this life and death.

Ukraine got a golden opportunity in the 8th minute through Andriy Shevchenko bomber in front of goal Alexandros Tzorvas. Unfortunately, the kick former AC Milan star was still too wide.

Sheva back to try his luck a few minutes ago. However, Tzorvas no difficulty securing the net.

Foster children Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko continued to dominate the game, although the visitors had a couple of times to launch a dangerous counterattack.

Unfortunately for the host, Greece even reaching excellence in 31 minutes through striker Dimitri Salpingidis. Georgios Samaras through Ukraine custody immediately release the Salpingidis breakthrough bait. Without thinking, a player 28 years immediately poured the ball into the goal Andriy Pyatov.




0-1 behind the game seems quite disturbing host. Unlike the first round, fleet-Zhovto fierce Blakytni not appear in the second round.

Although threatened on 56 minutes through strike by Oleksandr Aliyev free kick, Ukraine nevertheless unable to reverse the situation until the last moment. Practical, Sheva et al have said goodbye to South Africa.

Teams:

Ukraine: Pyatov, Rakitskiy, Kucher, Mykhalyk, Khacheridi, Kobin, Aliyev, Tymoschuk, Yarmolenko, Shevchenko, Milevskiy

Greece: Tzorvas, Spyropoulus, Vyntra, Kyrgiakos, Moras, Papastathopoulos, Katsouranis, Karagounis, Samaras, Charisteas, Salpingidis

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