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Greece shock Ukraine at home

Updated on: 19 November,2009 07:52 AM IST  | 
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Greece reached the World Cup finals for the first time since 1994 with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Ukraine in the return leg of their European zone play-off last night.

Greece shock Ukraine at home

Greece reached the World Cup finals for the first time since 1994 with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Ukraine in the return leg of their European zone play-off last night.

Panathinaikos striker Dimitris Salpingidis netted the only goal of the match sending Greece, the 2004 European champions, into their second World Cup finals after a 16-year absence.

Greece and Ukraine, who were deadlocked at 0-0 after the first leg in Athens on Saturday, struggled to impose themselves early on in a match played on a rain-soaked pitch of the half-empty, 50,000-seater Donbass Arena.



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