Euro 2012

Matchday Two – Day One – Dugout Discussion

The second round of matches in Euro 2012 gets underway this afternoon as Czech Republic square up to Greece. With just a single point between them in their opening Group A matches, neither can afford to take it easy.

Our Dugout Discussion chatroom is up and running and, with many Fantasy managers wielding their wildcards before this afternoon’s kick-off, there will be plenty of renewed expectation.

The lineups for this afternoon’s game are now out and they are as follows:

Greece XI: Chalkias- Torisidis, K. Papadopoulos, Katsouranis, Holebas- Maniatis, Karagounis, Fotakis- Fortounis, Salpingidis, Samaras

Czech Republic XI: Cech – Gebre Selassi , Sivok, Kadlec, Limbersky – Hubschman, Jiracek – Plasil, Rosicky, Pilar – Baros

Giorgos Samaras in the only player in Fernando Santos’ front three to keep his starting place from the Poland game. In come Konstantinos Fortounis and Dimitris Salpingidis up front, with Theofanis Gekas and Sotiris Ninis both dropping out. Kyriakos Papadopoulos is joined by Konstantinos Katsouranis in central defence – the latter moves from central midfield, affording Giorgos Fotakis a place in the midfield three.

The Czechs make two changes to the starting XI that lost 4-1 to Russia. David Limbersky comes in at left-back, allowing Michal Kadlec to move to centre-half, with Roman Hubnik dropping out. Tomas Hubschman is handed a start in the double pivot – Jaroslav Plasil moves into a more attacking role as Jan Rezek makes way.

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  1. Parm
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

    KUBA!!!!!!!

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  2. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    OMG kuba

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    1. Menly
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      12 years, 7 days ago

      OM frickin G! 😀

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  3. Dirty Dhalsim
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    12 years, 7 days ago

    KUBA!!!

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  4. Declan
    • 14 Years
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    😀

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  5. JK - Cønt ⭐
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    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Forca, Obraniak assist 😀

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    1. FORCA INTER
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      srsly???!

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  6. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Damn it Kuba, i get rid of you and then you dirty my Russian clean sheet!!

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  7. Back on the horse
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    lovely movement on the ball. perfect

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Noted, was great to watch that is slowmo......

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  8. Parm
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Great finesse there.

    Lovely bit of RB + B.

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    1. COMH
      • 12 Years
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      Haha class

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  9. Optimus.
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    took kuba out in my w/c 😕

    sweet goal

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  10. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Beautiful strike........

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  11. Red20
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Come on Ruski, I need you to win!

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  12. emperikal
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Phenomenal strike! Where was that last match day?! Had him and pisczek!

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    1. Parm
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Same ere'.

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  13. turbosmalec
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Now Lewy's turn!

    Yet another CS ruined 😉

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  14. davysteen
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Aaaaaaagghhh ditched him in my wc..

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    1. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      same

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  15. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Why's he called Kuba??

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    1. emperikal
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      First name is Jakub

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    2. Menly
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Because his name is just ridiculously long otherwise.
      Its what he has on his Dortmund shirt

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    3. Abominable Snowy84
      • 12 Years
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      Jacub.

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  16. Miro
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Piszczek assist

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    1. Root
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Wasn't it Obraniak?

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      1. Miro
        • 13 Years
        12 years, 7 days ago

        defo Piszczek

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  17. FORCA INTER
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    who assisted,Pisczek?

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    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
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      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      think it was mate.

      I heard them say Obraniak and thought it was him. Sorry

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    2. Mílanista
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      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Obraniak

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  18. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Hopefully Shirokov will be more attacking now, been going deeper and deeper

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  19. Parm
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    **In squeeky voice**

    Fight, fight, fight!!!!

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  20. davysteen
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    I don't care I'm losing clean sheets, glad to see wonderful goals..

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    1. Gaz Downright
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      • 13 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      this

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    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Tick...

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    3. turbosmalec
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      tru dat

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  21. crystalpalaceRus
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Lewan yellow...guess il sub him out

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  22. Sun Jihai
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    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Lewa yellow card.

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  23. Mílanista
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    • 12 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Lew yellow 🙁

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  24. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Booking for Bob

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  25. Mr Sarcastic
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Hmmmm, I was so happy for my choices after that first game.
    Now I'm haunted by toughts of choosing marchisio instead of kuba (took lewa) or dzagoev (rest for last game).....well as always, you win some, you lose some.

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  26. Jonah Takalua
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Assist????????

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    1. Harry Ball Bag™⚽⚽…
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      Ski

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  27. Abominable Snowy84
    • 12 Years
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    Who assissted?

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    1. Adnan Shah
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Obraniak i think.

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  28. satsumo
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    12 years, 7 days ago

    ah man, took Kuba out of my team for Dzagoev today, then at the last minute took Dzagoev out so I could get Kerzhakov, at which point I changed my captain from Pilar to Kerz! Some very poor decisions by me today :/ why did I ever thinking Kerzhakov was worth the risk?!

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  29. Harry Ball Bag™⚽⚽…
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    35 points off the top in mini league is it game over for me?

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    1. BONZ
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      Close the curtains and roll into a ball with thumb in your gob!!

      Either your team is garbage or he has romping it....but difficult pulling that back in such a low scoring fantasy game.

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  30. BONZ
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 7 days ago

    Gotta say - Arshavin is looking superb - Wenger nearly destroyed the diminutive little rusky, great to see him enjoying his football & cant bet against him breaking Polish hearts!!

    Super talent as a Liverpool fan will never ever forget that game & those 4 goals.

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    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      12 years, 7 days ago

      +1 he ate us at Anfield.

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