Date
2008-06-18
Match
| Greece | - | Spain |
 | - |  |
Result
1 - 2
Referee decisions
Yellow
3 - 2
Red
0 - 0
Penalty
0 - 0
Referee assessment
this match
overall
Our marks
7.2
7.1
Your marks
7
6.6
7
Control: did well8
Calls: no big mistakes. one rather belated booking for Abelardo though...8
Neutrality: OK7
Style: OK7.5
General assessmentNot so bad after all, folks. The booking for Abelardo after a lot of fuss by Karagounis looked kind of suspicious, but I'd like to give Howard the benefit of the doubt here. I'm supposing one of his assistants told him what had happened...
Other reports for this match (6)
1) report by roughani majid
8
Control: he was all right8
Calls: ok7
Neutrality: 7
Style: 7.5
General assessment
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Greece - Spain, 1 - 2. Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg, Austria, 2008-06-18
Not the most difficult of matches, with two teams not needing to play for anything really. Spain through already and Greece out of it. But still a very decent match and performance by Webb. An heroic appearance one might say, after Howard received death threats from some Polish idiots, that call themselves fans.
first half
A rather boring affair to be honest. Both teams looked kind of rusty. Spain showed a bit more promise but then only a tad really. The Greeks still believed they could walk away with a win here and make their overall defeat fairly honorable. Webb did everything in his power to let them and the Spanish have a go at it, but, well, to no avail as they say.
second half
There was a bit more life to the second half, mostly because the Greeks started to loose it, got tired, tried to play more aggressively nonetheless and didn't get away with it. Their play resulted in more space on the pitch and more chances for the Spanish. The Spanish needed loads of chances to get a goal in. Not very promising it would seem, but then again, this was not their best line up.