The Czech Republic kept alive their hopes of reaching the Euro 2012 quarter-finals as they beat Greece 2-1 in their Group A clash in Wroclaw, on Tuesday.

The Czechs made a dream start scoring twice in the opening six minutes with Jiri Jiracek and Vaclav Pilar scoring.

Greece threatened to get back into the match seven minutes into the second half when Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech spilled the ball straight to Fanis Gekas and he tucked the ball away.

Victory sees the Czechs - beaten 4-1 by Russia in their first game - move on to three points with the Greeks struggling on just a point.

 

GREECE 1 

Gekas 53

CZECH REPUBLIC 2

Jiracek 3, Pilar 6

Greece: Kostas Chalkias (Michalis Sifakis 23) - Vassilis Torosidis, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Katsouranis, Jose Holebas - Giorgos Fotakis (Fanis Gekas 46), Giannis Maniatis, Giorgos Karagounis (capt) - Dimitrios Salpingidis, Giorgios Samaras, Kostas Fortounis (Kostas Mitroglou 71).

Czech Republic: Petr Cech - Theodor Gebre Selassie, Tomas Sivok, Michal Kadlec, David Limbersky - Petr Jiracek, Tomas Hubschman, Tomas Rosicky (capt) (Daniel Kolar 46, Frantisek Rajtoral 90), Jaroslav Plasil, Vaclav Pilar - Milan Baros (Tomas Pekhart 64).

Yellow cards: Torosidis (34), Papadopoulos (56), Salpingidis (57); Rosicky (27), Jiracek (36), Kolar (66).

Referee: Stephane Lannoy (France).

Attendance: 40,000.

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