France 1 - 0 Greece

[AEK Man]

Greece fell to France today in friendly. Henry scores in the firt half.

[Panathenian_fan]

We had a very good start in the first minutes however our performance went down when Henry scored. At the second half the way was rather boring as the game had a low rythm. At the end we tried to threaten again but we did not accomplish something special.

What I concluded about our performance is that we have many problems in the formation, especially in the midfield. Rehhagel has to work on this.

[macedonian]

I find in Greece friendly the guys seems more interested in sipping wine and chasing skirts than playing in the game. Tell me if I'm mistaken. Anyway, at least our guys kept the score respectable.

[shevchenko]

thats not a bad showing....its only a 'friendly' anywayz...i bet you France was probably taking the game seriously though....

[macedonian]

So how badly did they party in Paris the night before the game? LOL

[shevchenko]

they probably tore it up pretty good....i must say though, the greeks play pretty good with a hangover...

[admin]

Thierry Henry scored his 39th international goal Wednesday to lead France to a 1-0 win over Greece in a friendly match.

Henry dived low at the far post to head in a cross in the 27th minute at the Stade de France. The Arsenal striker is now only two goals behind Michel Platini's French record of 41.

The match pitted the last two winners of the European Championship. But 2000 champion France dominated against the 2004 winner, forcing Greece goalkeeper Antonis Nikopolidis into making several saves.

It was the first time the teams have met since Greece beat France 1-0 in the quarterfinals at Euro 2004.

France captain Patrick Vieira won his 100th cap � joining Lilian Thuram, Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps and Marcel Desailly as the only players to reach that milestone for France.

France created a chance within 45 seconds when Florent Malouda crossed from the left and Louis Saha's attempted scissors kick went wide.

Vieira headed over a cross from Willy Sagnol in the 13th, while Malouda headed wide in the 20th from Henry's pass. France goalkeeper Gregory Coupet punched away a shot from Georgios Karagounis between the two headed misses.

France made the breakthrough when a low cross from Sagnol was deflected and Henry beat Nikopolidis to the ball to head inside the left post.

Vieira, Malouda and Saha had further chances to score before halftime.

In a second half of few chances, Sylvain Wiltord and Henry went close. Nicolas Anelka almost scored in the 87th when he beat his marker, but his hard shot was too close to Nikopolidis.

Greek midfielder Angelos Basinas missed a chance to equalize in the 85th.

France: Gregory Coupet, Willy Sagnol (Francois Clerc, 46), William Gallas, Lilian Thuram, Eric Abidal (Patrice Evra, 46) Sylvain Wiltord, Claude Makelele (Alou Diarra, 46), Patrick Vieira, Florent Malouda, Thierry Henry, Louis Saha (Nicolas Anelka, 46).

Greece: Antonis Nikopolidis, Traianos Dellas (Ioannis Goumas, 66), Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Costas Katsouranis, Michalis Kapsis, Takis Fyssas (Panagiotis Lagos, 62), Georgios Karagounis (Pantelis Kafes, 77), Angelos Basinas (Alexandros Tziolis, 86), Ioannis Amanatidis (Nikos Lymperopoulos, 46), Georgios Samaras, Stelios Giannakopoulos (Fanis Gekas, 46).

[macedonian]

Take a look for yourselves.