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QUARTER-FINAL TWO
Venue: Jose Alvalade, Lisbon
Date/time: Fri, 25 June, 1945 BST
Referee: Anders Frisk (Swe)
TEAM NEWS
France are sweating on the fitness of midfielder Patrick Vieira (thigh) and defender William Gallas (ankle).
If Gallas does not make it Lilian Thuram could be switched to right-back with Marcel Desailly coming back into the defence alongside Mikael Silvestre.
Greece's Stelios Giannakopoulos (calf) is losing his fitness fight and Traianos Dellas (back) is a doubt.
Zissis Vryzas is suspended but Georgios Karagounis is available after serving his one-match ban.
France (probable): Barthez, Thuram, Desailly, Silvestre, Lizarazu, Pires, Vieira, Makelele, Zidane, Henry, Trezeguet.
Greece (probable): Nikopolidis, Seitaridis, Fyssas, Venetidis, Dellas, Kapsis, Karagounis, Zagorakis, Katsouranis, Charisteas, Nikolaidis.
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MATCH STATS
Head-to-heads
France have won five of their previous six encounters with Greece. One match ended in a draw.
France and Greece have only met twice before in competitive matches.
In 1958 France beat Greece 7-1 at home in European Championship qualification. The match in Greece ended in a 1-1 draw.
Their last meeting was in a friendly on a very cold evening on 21 February 1996 in Nimes.
France beat Greece (3-1) with Patrice Loko (two) and Zinedine Zidane as the French goalscorers. Greek Alekos Alexandris scored the opening goal.
Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marcel Desailly (all France) and Nikos Dabizas, Theodoros Zagorakis, Themistoklis Nikolaidis, Zisis Vryzas and Mikhalis Kapsis (all Greece) are the players in the Euro 2004 squads who were present in that match.
Player facts - France
France have no players suspended for the quarter-final match against Greece.
Thierry Henry, who scored twice and Zinedine Zidane, who scored once against the Swiss are now tied for fourth place on the all-time list of European Championship top scorers.
Both players have scored five European Championship goals, four fewer than all-time top scorer Michel Platini.
Thierry Henry's second goal in the third group match against Switzerland was the 400th goal in the history of this tournament.
Zinedine Zidane and Lilian Thuram are on for a record breaking 14th European Championship match.
In the French squad three players have scored 25+ international goals.
That trio is Zinedine Zidane (26 goals), Thierry Henry (27) and David Trézéguet (29) who needs just one goal to become joint second on the all-time top goal scorers list for France.
Player facts - Greece
Zisis Vrysas who scored the only goal against Russia is suspended for the quarter-finals after receiving his second yellow card of the tournament, missing his possible 50th cap for Greece.
Last week Zisis Vrysas's club Fiorentina were promoted to Serie A in a play-off with Perugia.
Midfielder Theo Zagorakis (AEK Athens) who hasn't scored a single international goal, is the second most experienced Greek player ever with 92 caps. Only Efstratios Apostolakis, who claimed 95 caps between 1986 and 1998, has played more for Greece.
Defender Traianos Dellas is the tallest defender playing at Euro 2004 at a height of 1.97 metres.
Reserve goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias is the tallest goalkeeper at Euro 2004 along with Sweden's Andreas Isaksson. Both are 1.99 metres tall.
Themistoklis Nikolaidis is the most productive player in the Greek squad with 17 goals in 53 matches.
He has yet to score at this tournament.
No Greek player has scored more than one goal at Euro 2004. Four players have netted once.
Team facts - France
France won Group B collecting seven points from three matches.
France have now scored in nine consecutive European Championship matches which marks a new tournament record.
The last time France failed to score in a European Championship match dates back to 26 June 1996 when they were beaten on penalties by the Czech Republic in the semi-final of Euro 96 after a 0-0 draw.
On the opposite site, France have conceded at least one goal in each of their last eight European Championship matches. That is just two matches short of the tournament record which belongs to Romania and is running.
France haven't lost any of their last 16 competitive matches. They have scored at least one goal in each of them.
France are two-time winners (1984 and 2000), and reached the semi-finals on two other occasions (1960 and 1996).
No nation has ever successfully defended their European Championship title.
The French Euro 2004 squad contains 10 players who were also in the Euro 2000 winning squad.
France were the last host nation to win the European Championship.
The French squad is the second oldest in Portugal. Only the Latvians have a higher average age.
Team Facts - Greece
Despite defeat in the last group match against Russia, Greece qualified for the quarter-finals by finishing second in Group A behind Portugal.
Greece finished ahead of Spain because they scored more goals in the group phase (4 vs 2).
This marks the first time Greece have survived the first round of a major tournament.
In 1980, their only other European Championship appearance, Greece finished bottom of their group behind West Germany, Czechoslovakia and Holland.
In 1994 Greece finished bottom of their group during their first and only appearance at a World Cup.
The Greek squad is the third oldest in Portugal. Only the Latvians and the French have a higher average age.
Miscellaneous stats
France coach Jacques Santini will be taking over as the new Tottenham manager after Euro 2004.
French midfielder Olivier Dacourt, if fielded, will possibly face his team mate at AS Roma, Greek defender Traianos Dellas.
Both teams conceded four goals in the group phase, both failing to keep a clean sheet in all three group matches.
The match will be played in the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon which can hold 52,000 spectators. This venue has already hosted the group matches between Spain and Portugal, Sweden and Bulgaria and Germany and the Czech Republic. It is also due to be the setting for the first semi-final.
No country with a foreign trainer has ever won the World Cup or European Championship. Greek trainer Otto Rehhagel is from Germany.
17 players in the Euro 2004 squads earn their living in the Greek League. The French Ligue 1 supplies just three players more (20 players).
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HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS
Games Won Drawn Lost GF GA
France 6 5 1 0 22 6
Greece 6 0 1 5 6 22
CATEGORY BREAKDOWN
Category Total France Greece Draws
Competitive matches 2 1 0 1
European Ch'ship 0 0 0 0
LIST OF MEETINGS
Date Comp Res
01 Oct 1958 EC Q France 7-1 Greece
03 Dec 1958 EC Q Greece 1-1 France
02 Sep 1972 Friendly Greece 1-3 France
08 Sep 1973 Friendly France 3-1 Greece
27 Feb 1980 Friendly France 5-1 Greece
21 Feb 1996 Friendly France 3-1 Greece
KEY
EC Q - European Championship Qualifier
QUARTER-FINAL TWO
Venue: Jose Alvalade, Lisbon
Date/time: Fri, 25 June, 1945 BST
Referee: Anders Frisk (Swe)
TEAM NEWS
France are sweating on the fitness of midfielder Patrick Vieira (thigh) and defender William Gallas (ankle).
If Gallas does not make it Lilian Thuram could be switched to right-back with Marcel Desailly coming back into the defence alongside Mikael Silvestre.
Greece's Stelios Giannakopoulos (calf) is losing his fitness fight and Traianos Dellas (back) is a doubt.
Zissis Vryzas is suspended but Georgios Karagounis is available after serving his one-match ban.
France (probable): Barthez, Thuram, Desailly, Silvestre, Lizarazu, Pires, Vieira, Makelele, Zidane, Henry, Trezeguet.
Greece (probable): Nikopolidis, Seitaridis, Fyssas, Venetidis, Dellas, Kapsis, Karagounis, Zagorakis, Katsouranis, Charisteas, Nikolaidis.
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MATCH STATS
Head-to-heads
France have won five of their previous six encounters with Greece. One match ended in a draw.
France and Greece have only met twice before in competitive matches.
In 1958 France beat Greece 7-1 at home in European Championship qualification. The match in Greece ended in a 1-1 draw.
Their last meeting was in a friendly on a very cold evening on 21 February 1996 in Nimes.
France beat Greece (3-1) with Patrice Loko (two) and Zinedine Zidane as the French goalscorers. Greek Alekos Alexandris scored the opening goal.
Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marcel Desailly (all France) and Nikos Dabizas, Theodoros Zagorakis, Themistoklis Nikolaidis, Zisis Vryzas and Mikhalis Kapsis (all Greece) are the players in the Euro 2004 squads who were present in that match.
Player facts - France
France have no players suspended for the quarter-final match against Greece.
Thierry Henry, who scored twice and Zinedine Zidane, who scored once against the Swiss are now tied for fourth place on the all-time list of European Championship top scorers.
Both players have scored five European Championship goals, four fewer than all-time top scorer Michel Platini.
Thierry Henry's second goal in the third group match against Switzerland was the 400th goal in the history of this tournament.
Zinedine Zidane and Lilian Thuram are on for a record breaking 14th European Championship match.
In the French squad three players have scored 25+ international goals.
That trio is Zinedine Zidane (26 goals), Thierry Henry (27) and David Trézéguet (29) who needs just one goal to become joint second on the all-time top goal scorers list for France.
Player facts - Greece
Zisis Vrysas who scored the only goal against Russia is suspended for the quarter-finals after receiving his second yellow card of the tournament, missing his possible 50th cap for Greece.
Last week Zisis Vrysas's club Fiorentina were promoted to Serie A in a play-off with Perugia.
Midfielder Theo Zagorakis (AEK Athens) who hasn't scored a single international goal, is the second most experienced Greek player ever with 92 caps. Only Efstratios Apostolakis, who claimed 95 caps between 1986 and 1998, has played more for Greece.
Defender Traianos Dellas is the tallest defender playing at Euro 2004 at a height of 1.97 metres.
Reserve goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias is the tallest goalkeeper at Euro 2004 along with Sweden's Andreas Isaksson. Both are 1.99 metres tall.
Themistoklis Nikolaidis is the most productive player in the Greek squad with 17 goals in 53 matches.
He has yet to score at this tournament.
No Greek player has scored more than one goal at Euro 2004. Four players have netted once.
Team facts - France
France won Group B collecting seven points from three matches.
France have now scored in nine consecutive European Championship matches which marks a new tournament record.
The last time France failed to score in a European Championship match dates back to 26 June 1996 when they were beaten on penalties by the Czech Republic in the semi-final of Euro 96 after a 0-0 draw.
On the opposite site, France have conceded at least one goal in each of their last eight European Championship matches. That is just two matches short of the tournament record which belongs to Romania and is running.
France haven't lost any of their last 16 competitive matches. They have scored at least one goal in each of them.
France are two-time winners (1984 and 2000), and reached the semi-finals on two other occasions (1960 and 1996).
No nation has ever successfully defended their European Championship title.
The French Euro 2004 squad contains 10 players who were also in the Euro 2000 winning squad.
France were the last host nation to win the European Championship.
The French squad is the second oldest in Portugal. Only the Latvians have a higher average age.
Team Facts - Greece
Despite defeat in the last group match against Russia, Greece qualified for the quarter-finals by finishing second in Group A behind Portugal.
Greece finished ahead of Spain because they scored more goals in the group phase (4 vs 2).
This marks the first time Greece have survived the first round of a major tournament.
In 1980, their only other European Championship appearance, Greece finished bottom of their group behind West Germany, Czechoslovakia and Holland.
In 1994 Greece finished bottom of their group during their first and only appearance at a World Cup.
The Greek squad is the third oldest in Portugal. Only the Latvians and the French have a higher average age.
Miscellaneous stats
France coach Jacques Santini will be taking over as the new Tottenham manager after Euro 2004.
French midfielder Olivier Dacourt, if fielded, will possibly face his team mate at AS Roma, Greek defender Traianos Dellas.
Both teams conceded four goals in the group phase, both failing to keep a clean sheet in all three group matches.
The match will be played in the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon which can hold 52,000 spectators. This venue has already hosted the group matches between Spain and Portugal, Sweden and Bulgaria and Germany and the Czech Republic. It is also due to be the setting for the first semi-final.
No country with a foreign trainer has ever won the World Cup or European Championship. Greek trainer Otto Rehhagel is from Germany.
17 players in the Euro 2004 squads earn their living in the Greek League. The French Ligue 1 supplies just three players more (20 players).
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HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS
Games Won Drawn Lost GF GA
France 6 5 1 0 22 6
Greece 6 0 1 5 6 22
CATEGORY BREAKDOWN
Category Total France Greece Draws
Competitive matches 2 1 0 1
European Ch'ship 0 0 0 0
LIST OF MEETINGS
Date Comp Res
01 Oct 1958 EC Q France 7-1 Greece
03 Dec 1958 EC Q Greece 1-1 France
02 Sep 1972 Friendly Greece 1-3 France
08 Sep 1973 Friendly France 3-1 Greece
27 Feb 1980 Friendly France 5-1 Greece
21 Feb 1996 Friendly France 3-1 Greece
KEY
EC Q - European Championship Qualifier