Passionate Euro 2012 is going on

Poland and Russia played 1-1 draw in frame of the Euro 2012 Championship. As the world media informs it was concluded by the worst fan violence of soccer’s European Championship so far on Tuesday. As a result 123 fans arrested after running street battles in Warsaw.

Around 20,000 Russian fans were in the Polish capital for the Group A clash, held on Russia’s Independence Day, and before kickoff a huge flag was unfurled with the highly inflammatory slogan “This Is Russia”, dnaindia.com writes.

An estimated 100,000 Poles gathered in the city’s main square to watch the match but their hearts sunk when Alan Dzagoyev put Russia ahead after 37 minutes.

In Wroclaw, Greece slid towards the exit door after losing 2-1 to the Czechs who had lost 4-1 to Russia in their opener. With one point from two games, Euro 2004 winners Greece must now beat Russia in their final match to have any chance of surviving.
The violence escalated among groups of young men, some wearing masks, and riot police had to drag supporters away.

Today, on June 13, Denmark will meet Portugal in Lviv and Netherlands will meet Germany in Kharkiv.