Greece beats Ukraine 1-0 to advance to 2010 World Cup Finals – Recap and Video Highlights

The UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying Playoffs wrapped up on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 with the second legs. Greece faced Ukraine in one of the matches with the score 0-0 on aggregate after the first leg. Here’s a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Greece beats Ukraine 1-0 – Video Highlights

Greece scored a first half goal and was able to hold Ukraine scoreless as they earned their spot in South Africa next summer. The goal came from Dimitrios Salpingidis in the 31st minute as Greece got an upset on the road. It was a disappointing result for the Ukraine who had most of the possession and chances late in the match. Unfortunately they couldn’t find a goal and Greece was able to defend after grabbing the lead.

UKR

GRE

• 12 Andriy PYATOV (GK)
• 2 Yaroslav RAKITS KYY
• 3 Oleksandr KUCHER
• 4 Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK
• 6 Andriy YARMOLENKO (-69′ )
• 7 Andriy SHEVCHENKO
• 8 Oleksandr ALIYEV (-57′ )
• 10 Artem MILEVSKIY
• 14 Khackeridi YEUGEN
• 16 Vasyl KOBIN
• 17 Taras MIKHALIK (-66′ )

• (GK) Alexandros TZORVAS 1
• Vangelis MORAS 3
• Nikos SPIROPOULOS 4
• (-63′)  Georgios SAMARAS 7
• Konstantinos KATSOURANIS 8
• (-71′)  Angelos CHARISTEAS 9
• Georgios KARAGOUNIS 10
• Loukas VYNTRA 11
• Dimitrios SALPINGIDIS 14
• (-29′)  Sokratis PAPASTATHOPOULOS 15
• Sotirios KYRGIAKOS 16

Substitute(s)

• 1 Stanislav BOGUSH
• 5 Dmytro CHIGRYNSKYI
• 9 Oleg GUSEV (+69′)
• 11 Yevgen SELEZNOV (+57′)
• 13 Vitaliy MANDZYUK
• 15 Olexiy GAY (+66′)
• 18 Ruslan ROTAN

• (+29′)  Vasileios PLIATSIKAS 2
• Evripidis MAKOS 3
• Sotiris NINIS 6
• Michail SIFAKIS 12
• (+71′)  Alexandros TZIOLIS 13
• (+63′)  Theofanis GEKAS 17
• Kostantinos MITROGLOU 18

Coaches

Alexei MIKHAILICHENKO (UKR)

(GER) Otto REHHAGEL

Officials

• Referee: Olegario BENQUERENCA (POR)
• Assistant Referee 1: Bertino MIRANDA (POR)
• Assistant Referee 2: Jose CARDINAL (POR)
• Fourth official: Duarte GOMES (POR)