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Poland 1 Greece 1

Friday 8 June 2012 22:49, UK

  1. Image: Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski scores the opening goal of the tournament for co-hosts Poland as Euro 2012 officially kicks off.
  2. Image: Inside the Warsaw National Stadium both sets of supporters are getting into the festivities.
  3. Image: The European Championship mascots Slavek and Slavko are doing a good job of working the crowd and building anticipation.
  4. Image: More flag waving, think we'll be seeing a lot of this throughout the next three weeks.
  5. Image: The opening ceremony provides the usual wacky outfits...
  6. Image: ...swimming caps and whirly dresses...
  7. Image: ...more colour and dancing from the opening ceremony...
  8. Image: ...each of the Euro 2012 stadia is represented here, plus the flag of each participating country is displayed by the crowd.
  9. Image: A piano is the centre piece of the ceremony which Hungarian classical pianist Adam Gyorgy plays Chopin on.
  10. Image: The UEFA Euro 2012 logo emerges from the grand piano and all the performers make-up the wording. Let the football begin!
  11. Image: Poland press Greece immediately and find themselves unsettling the visitors in Warsaw
  12. Image: A few early warning shots are fired by Poland, defender Lukasz Piszczek ploughs into the area and whips a ball across the face of goal.
  13. Image: The co-hosts are rewarded for their determination, Robert Lewandowski executes a downward header from a Jakub Blaszczykowski cross to open the scoring.
  14. Image: A shock decision from the referee sees Greece go down to ten-men when Sokratis Papastathopoulos receives a second yellow card for a harmless challenge.
  15. Image: The Poland supporters can enjoy themselves at half-time after the first period which couldn't have gone much better.
  16. Image: Six minutes after the break Greece are back in it! Super-sub Dimitris Salpigidis prods home after Szczesny completely misses Vassilis Torossidis' cross.
  17. Image: The home crowd has been silenced and much against the run-of-play, Greece are now level.
  18. Image: This game hasn't been short of incident, Poland are also reduced to ten-men when Wojciech Szczesny trips Dimitris Salpigidis in the area.
  19. Image: Szczesny's replacement, PSV Eindhoven keeper Przemyslaw Tyton guesses the right way from the penalty and denies Greece.
  20. Image: The Greeks are again denied a potential winner when Dimitris Salpigidis's goal is disallowed for an offside infringement. The game ends 1-1.