The opening match of Euro 2008 has finished with Czech Republic winning one-nil against Switzerland in Basel. Here are some statistics from the match:Czech Republic 1. Petr Cech 11.26 (top speed; kph) 3840 (distance; metres)2. Zdenek Grygera 22.68 96743. Jan Polak 22.05 110094. Tomas Galasek 20.65 96106. Marek Jankulovski 23.67 97157. Libor Sionko 22.05 105559. Jan Koller 20.96 599314. David Jarolim 20.59 1058020. Jaroslav Plasil 24.32 1123921. Tomas Ujfalusi 22.68 901422. David Rozehnal 20.28 94385. Radoslav Kovac 13.55 73010. Vaclav Sverkos 23.82 439011. Stanislav Vlcek 24.46 1307Switzerland 1. Diego Benaglio 12.41 (top speed; kph) 5347 (distance; metres)3. Ludovic Magnin 23.20 89244. Philippe Senderos 18.94 92045. Stephan Lichtsteiner 21.88 80768. Gokhan Inler 22.52 97309. Alexander Frei 22.71 475011. Marco Streller 20.84 977815. Gelson Fernandes 21.67 1121216. Tranquillo Barnetta 19.15 971519. Valon Behrami 22.52 983820. Patrick Muller 18.56 934210. Hakin Yakin 20.79 505112. Eren Derdiyok 11.80 107122. Johann Vonlanthen 22.35 2000Powered by Castrolindex.com
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