Date: 07-06-2008
Stage: first round
Place: BASEL
Running time: 103 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 720 50fps (10)
Commentary: MULTI : italian/russian/ hungarian/german/czech
My rating: **
Notes: Cech, Koller, Behrami
MATCH SUMMARY
Saturday, 07 June 2008, 18:00
St Jakob-Park, Basel
Attendance: 39,730
Meteo: Partly cloudy, 19 °C
CZECH REP.
Petr Čech
Zdeněk Grygera
Marek Jankulovski
David Rozehnal
Tomáš Ujfaluši (c)
Tomáš Galásek
David Jarolím
Jaroslav Plašil
Jan Polák
Libor Sionko
Jan Koller
Coach: Karel Brückner (CZE)
56′ ↓Libor Sionko ↑Stanislav Vlček
56′ ↓Jan Koller ↑Václav Svěrkoš
87′ ↓David Jarolím ↑Radoslav Kováč
SWITZERLAND
Diego Benaglio
Stephan Lichtsteiner
Philippe Senderos
Valon Behrami
Tranquillo Barnetta
Gelson Fernandes
Gökhan Inler
Ludovic Magnin
Patrick Müller
Alexander Frei (c)
Marco Streller
Coach: Köbi Kuhn (SUI)
59′ Ludovic Magnin
76′ Johann Vonlanthen
90′ Tranquillo Barnetta
46′ ↓Alexander Frei ↑Hakan Yakin
75′ ↓Stephan Lichtsteiner ↑Johann Vonlanthen
83′ ↓Valon Behrami ↑Eren Derdiyok
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (ITA)
Goals:
70′ Václav Svěrkoš CZE
Match overview
Co-hosts Switzerland dominated early but lost talisman Frei to injury before the break. Substitute Svěrkoš punished a defensive lapse with a composed finish to give the Czechs the tournament’s opening-day spoils.
Trivia
Svěrkoš’s strike was the first goal scored by a Czech substitute in Euro finals history. Switzerland extended their unwanted record to seven Euro games without a win.
