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Theofanis Gekas scored four times and gave the win to Greece against Latvia. The final score was 5-2 with one goal from Giorgos Samaras at 73' and two for latvian Maris Verpakovskis at 12' and 40'...
Two goals in three minutes were enough to give the win to Greece against Luxembourg in Athens. Torosidis scored in 30' and Gekas in 33' for Greece and at the end of the match Padadopoulos with own goal made the final score 2-1...
Olympiacos won Arsenal and qualified to the next round of Champions League! With three wins at home the Greek team couldn't lose the qualification, as before Arsenal Greeks won Alkmaar and Standard at Pireus of Greece. Olympiacos gathered ten points and finished second at his group after Arsenal which has thirteen. Standard finished third and will continue at Europa League and lastly, fourth Alkmaar won't continue the "Europe Dream" this year...
Olympiacos - Arsenal 1-0
With goal in the last minute Olypmiacos took the valuable win against Standard de Liege and the advantage to qualify to the next round of Champions League for 2009-2010. The match took place in Pireus of Greece and the final score was 2-1 for Reds...
Panathinaikos with a goal of Kostas Katsouranis at 70' took the win against Sturm Gratz in Austria and has now the lead to qualify to the next round of Europa League. Panathinaikos is in the second place in his group with 9 points in four matches after Galatasaray that has 10. Dinamo Bucuresti has 3 points and Sturm just 1...
The final score 0-0 was fair and both teams, Greece and Ukraine will now wait the result of the next match to Donetsk in order to know who will qualify to the World Cup of South Africa...
Greece finally made it! Salpingidis' goal in 31' gave his team the qualification in World Cup of South Africa. Greece won Ukraine in Donetsk 0-1 and after the draw between two teams in the first game in Athens got a place to the next world cup of 2010...
Olympiacos at this game had just one target, not to lose. So, greeks made it! After this draw Olympiacos has now the advantage to qualify to the next round of Champions League, as the greek team has gained seven points in five games and is in the second place of its group, while Arsenal is first with 13. The only threaten for Olympiacos is Standard that has four points and plays at the last group game against Alkmaar, while Olympiacos against Arsenal. Nevertheless, that game is in Greece and Arsenal doesn't have any grading motive, as with 13 points can't lose the first place of group H.
Alkmaar - Olympiacos 0-0