UKRAINE are favourites to progress after defying a powderkeg atmosphere in Athens to hold Greece.

Celtic 1 Benfica 0

Benfica 1 Celtic 0

Celtic’s Champions League aspirations were given a huge boost with a convincing 3-0 home win over Benfica.

Shaun Maloney came closest to breaking the deadlock in the first-half of Celtic’s Champions League Group F match against Benfica at Parkhead.

So miracles do happen, after all. The year of the underdog was taken to an incredible extreme as Greece completed one of the biggest upsets in international football to lift the Euro 2004 trophy.

Greece 0 Czech Republic 0

Zisis Vryzas is expected to return to the Greece attack alongside Angelos Charisteas up front for tomorrow’s Euro 2004 semi-final with the Czech Republic at the Estadio do Dragao.

Stelios Giannakopoulos insists Greece are relishing their role as Euro 2004 underdogs and believes they can cause their third upset of the tournament when they meet the Czech Republic for a place in the final of Euro 2004 at the Estadio do Dragao on Thursday.

Spain coach Inaki Saez named an unchanged side from that which made hard work of beating Russia last weekend, which meant no place for matchwinner Juan Carlos Valeron.