Greece and Hosts Years

greece side: Back in 2004, Luiz Felipe Scolari side were strong favourites against a Greece side who attacked little but defended resolutely under Otto Rehhagel, according to The Guardian. Fernando Santos, who replaced Rehhagel in the Greece job in 2010, clearly learned from his predecessor. Portugal not only beat the favourites but they also found redemption after their own defeat as hosts 12 years ago. Rehhagel knew that his team had a phenomenal chance of upsetting the odds at Euro 2004 if they didn't concede. Greece famously had just one shot on target in the final, coming via the head of Angelos Charisteas and resulting in the only goal of the game. Greece worked on exactly that, keeping clean sheets in the quarter-final, semi-final and final – Portugal also kept three clean sheets in the knockout stages, only conceding one goal in 450 minutes of football. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.