ARMENIA 0 – GREECE 0
armradio.am
02.06.2008 13:01
The Armenian national football team played a 0-0 draw with the team
of Greece – the current European Champion – in a friendly match held
in the German city of Offenbach.
Armenia started brightly and had a good chance to go in front on 15
minutes when Levon Pachajyan, after taking advantage of an error by
Sotiris Kyrgiakos, shot from the edge of the box only for Greece
goalkeeper Antonis Nikopolidis to save well at full stretch. Five
minutes later, Nikopolidis was called on again to block Marcos Piseli’s
long-range effort.
Greece had their best chance on 30 minutes, when Giorgos Karagounis
worked space for himself and sent over a pin-point cross to Dimitris
Salpingidis, who headed just over. Two minutes later, Armenian
goalkeeper Gevorg Kasparov turned away Angelos Basinas’s powerful
drive, then was thankful to see Angelos Charisteas shoot wide after
failing to properly deal with a Giourkas Seitaridis cross.
The teams played with the following squads. Greece: Nikopolidis,
Seitaridis, Kyrgiakos, Dellas (Antzas 46), Spiropoulos (Torosidis
46), Basinas, Katsouranis, Karagounis (Patsatzoglou 46), Charisteas,
Salpingidis (Gekas 46), Amanatidis (Samaras 46).
Armenia: Kasparov, Hovsepyan, Arzumanyan, Arakelyan, Voskanian,
Hamlet Mkhitaryan (A Minasyan 65), Ghazaryan (Melkonyan 60), Piseli
(Hakobyan 54), Pachajyan, Lazarian, Tadevosyan.