Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Group D: Day 1 Results

Spain's David Villa celebrates his first goal with Fernando Torres en route to an impressive hat-trick.
Spain 4-1 Russia
David Villa (20)
David Villa (45)
David Villa (75)
Cesc Fábregas (90)
David Villa showed why he is beloved in Valencia as he kicked off his Euro 2008 campaign with a nifty hat-trick against a clearly overpowered Russian team. Spain's technical prowess was on display as their nimble pass-and-move game (tiki-taka) exploited every inch of space the Russians gave them.


Greece 0-2 Sweden
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (67)
Petter Hansson (73)
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic ended his international goal drought in style with a hammer-blow strike off a give-and-go with veteran Henrik Larsson. The reigning champs Greece started their title defense inauspiciously as their cynical play could not stem the Swedish tide.

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