Greece slip but go through

Russia 2 Greece 1

GREECE survived conceding the fastest ever goal in European Championships history to edge into the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 by the skin of their teeth.

It took Russia striker Dmitri Kirichenko just 68 seconds to claim his side's first goal of the tournament, and when Dmitri Bulykin added a second with 17 minutes gone, the Greeks' fairytale appeared to be turning into a nightmare.