Date: 22-06-2012
Stage: 1/4 final
Place: GDANSK
Running time: 111 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 720 50fps (10)
Commentary: MULTI: english/german
My rating: ***
Notes: Gundogan,Kroos,Podolski,Muller, Katsuranis,Samaras
MATCH SUMMARY
Friday, 22 June 2012, 20:45
PGE Arena, Gdansk
Attendance: 38,751
Meteo: Partly cloudy, 18 °C
GERMANY
Manuel Neuer
Holger Badstuber
Jérôme Boateng
Mats Hummels
Philipp Lahm (c)
Sami Khedira
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Mesut Özil
Marco Reus
André Schürrle
Miroslav Klose
Coach: Joachim Löw (GER)
67′ ↓André Schürrle ↑Thomas Müller
80′ ↓Miroslav Klose ↑Mario Gómez
80′ ↓Marco Reus ↑Mario Götze
GREECE
Michalis Sifakis
Giannis Maniatis
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Vassilis Torosidis
Giorgos Tzavellas
Grigorios Makos
Konstantinos Katsouranis (c)
Sotirios Ninis
Dimitrios Salpingidis
Georgios Samaras
Coach: Fernando Santos (GRE)
14′ Georgios Samaras
75′ Sokratis Papastathopoulos
46′ ↓Giorgos Tzavellas ↑Giorgos Fotakis
46′ ↓Sotirios Ninis ↑Theofanis Gekas
72′ ↓Grigorios Makos ↑Nikos Liberopoulos
Referee: Damir Skomina (SVN)
Goals:
39′ Philipp Lahm GER
55′ Georgios Samaras GRE
61′ Sami Khedira GER
68′ Miroslav Klose GER
74′ Marco Reus GER
89′ Dimitrios Salpingidis (pen) GRE
Match overview
Löw’s rotated frontline paid off as Lahm’s screamer opened the floodgates. Samaras briefly levelled, but powerful strikes from Khedira, Klose and Reus swept Germany into a third straight Euro semi-final despite Salpingidis’s late consolation penalty.
Trivia
Germany set a world-record 15th consecutive competitive win. Lahm became the first defender to score in two different Euro quarter-finals (2008, 2012).
