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Czech, Greece thru

AFP, Wroclaw
The Czech Republic and Greece became the
; first two teams through to the
Euro 2012 quarterfinals, beating respective opponents Poland and Russia in their final group matches yesterday.
At the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw, co-hosts Poland crashed out as they lost 1-0 to the Czech Republic here on Saturday with their opponents winning Group
Petr Jiracek scored the only goal of the game 18 minutes from time as the Czechs joined Greece - the 2004 champions - in the quarter-finals.
Few would have predicted such an outcome before the group games began and even fewer who saw the first halves here and
in Warsaw.
Poland were totally dominant in the opening period but seemed to have left it all on the pitch in that first 45 minutes and they were second best after the restart.
But it was a mistake that cost them as Rafal Murawski tried to drive forward from midfield and lost the ball with little cover behind him.
It means Poland have never reached the knock-out stages of the Euros while the Czech Republic did so for the third time in five editions.
Given the hosts' absolute need to win it was no surprise they set a manic tempo from the off and the first half hour must have made uncomfortable viewing for the visiting Czech fans.
Twice in the opening minutes the home fans let out a brief cheer but Dariusz Dudka's overhead bicycle kick and Ludovic Obraniak's free-kick both hit the side-netting rather than the back one.
The Czechs did have one sniff themselves but Vaclav Pilar swiped at thin air from 12 yards from Theodor Gebre Selassie's cross.
A horribly misplaced pass from Jaroslav Plasil was intercepted by Polish
captain Jakub Blaszczykowski and he slipped in Borussia Dortmund team-mate Robert Lewandowski, but he sliced his shot well wide.
Such was Poland's dominance that even their defence started getting in on the act and Sebastian Boenisch shot wide when well placed before sending Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech scurrying across his goal to scramble the ball behind from a long-range volley.
Marcin Wasilewski threw himself at a cross from deep but his header was gathered easily by Cech.
Towards the end of the half Poland's electric pace — which seemed to have provoked a couple of flashes of lightning and an enormous crack of thunder -- slowed markedly and the Czechs came back into it.
But a deflected Jiracek shot and Pilar's low effort did not overly tax goalkeeper Przemyslawiyton, who kept his place despite the return from suspension of Wojciech Szczesny.
The second half was the reverse of the first with Poland melting away and the Czech Republic piling forwards.
David Limbersky skipped won a header from Plasil s free-kick inside the six yard box only for his downward effort to bounce up intoiyton's chest.
The big breakthrough came 18 minutes from time as Murawski surged forwards from midfield but was dispossessed by Jiracek.
The Czechs countered three on three and Jiracek exchanged passes with Milan Baros before turning inside Wasilewski and slipping the ball underTyton.
Wasilewski got up well to win a header in the box but it landed on the roof of the net as the hosts finally came alive.
With virtually the last kick of the match Michal Kadlec secured qualification for the Czechs as he headed Blaszczykowski'schipofftheline.
In the day's other match in Warsaw, Veteran Greece captain Giorgos Karagounis halted Russia's Euro 2012 campaign in its tracks, as the underdogs unexpectedly beat the Group A early pacesetters 1 -0 to reach the last eight instead.
Seconds before the end of stoppage time in the first half, the 35-year-old midfielder latched onto a throw-in that Russian defender Sergei Ignashevich failed to deal with.
Dodging between the Russian rearguard, he fired a powerful low cross shot past goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev.
The 4,000 Greek fans in Warsaw's stadium, who up to then had largely been outsung by 20,000 Russians, went wild as Karagounis hit home to put his side through on the head to head rule -- both sides ending on four points behind group winners the Czech Republic.
Six minutes in, Karagounis fired a comer to Kostas Katsouranis, and Dimitris Salpingidis bundled goalwards, only for Malafeev to save.
Three minutes later, Russian captain Andrey Arshavin crossed to rising star Alan Dzagoev but he was beaten by Greek goalkeeper Michalis Sifakis — brought in to replace Kostas Chalkias, injured in their defeat by the Czechs.
Dzagoev tried again a minute later, but fired over the bar, before Aleksandr Kerzhakov shot wide.
Five minutes from half-time, Yuri Zhirkov took a superb short corner, only to shoot over the bar.
With two minutes added on, Karagounis's strike came just seconds before Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson's half-time whistle.
Russia came within a whisker of equalising in the 56th minute, but Igor Denisov was off-target.
There was gloom for Karagounis when he received a yellow card for being harshly adjudged to have dived in the box, meaning he will miss their quarter-final as he was also booked against the Czechs.
Greece's Giorgos Tzavellas came close to putting them further ahead in the 69th minute, but hit the post.
Five minutes later, Sifakis saved a shot from Igor Denisov, while Russia were again foiled in the 83rd minute when Dzagoev latched onto an Arshavin cross but fired wide. With Eriksson adding four minutes' stoppage time, a desperate Russia battled to save face, but Sifakis denied Denisov again on his line.