45+1 mins: Schuerrle scurries up the left but mis-hits and his fierce shot goes wide.
43 mins: Lahm and Ozil move forward together, trying for a second.
38 mins: Philipp Lahm scores a captain's goal. His high shot swerves away from Sifakis into the top right corner. To be honest, Germany thoroughly deserved it after their repeated pressure.
38 mins: Goal! Germany 1 Greece 0
37 mins: German return to the boil. Ozil sets up a chance for Sami Khedira but goalkeeper Sifakis scoops it.
29 mins: Any time Merkel is shown on the screens the Greeks fans in the cafes are booing and holding up their palms -- an insulting gesture in Greece, says Dario Thuburn is Athens.
25 mins: Reus misses again. The Greek goal is charmed. Joachim Loew is furious. He'll need more chewing gum. Tried biting your nails like Roy Hodgson?
24 mins: Ozil shoots from wide. The ball slides across the net and Klose just fails to reach it.
23 mins: Ozil collects a neat pass from Reus but Michalis Sifakis comfortably clasps Ozil's shot.
21 mins: The Arena Gdansk pitch looks very heavy underfoot, says Ryland James. Maybe that was what caused Klose to stumble in the opening minutes - and the turf is cutting up in both goal mouths after only 10 minutes.
18 mins: Salpingidis, scorer of Greece's equaliser against Poland, breaks forward but the German border guards stop him - at the edge of their penalty area.
15 mins: Samaras yellow card for trampling on Schweinsteiger's ankle. Could be accidental but Slovenian referee Damir Skomina doesn't think so.
13 mins: Marco Reus is clear in front of the Greek goal but fires wide and smacks an advertising hoarding.
11 mins: Kostas Katsouranis goes on the counter-attack, but three German defenders briskly close on him briskly to end the danger.
10 mins: Come on Germans, go easy on the Greeks. You've got the money, they buy your cars. And you still want to be welcome at Greek beaches this year, don't you?
8 mins: In Berlin, an estimated 400,000 people are gathered at the Brandenburg Gate, says AFP's Eloi Rouyer. They wave flags and sing the German national anthem.
6 mins: Ryland James says smoke hangs over the German fans after it looks like a flare was set off. "Wonder if that will mean another fine for the German FA from UEFA."
4 mins: Bayer Leverkusen's Andre Schuerrle, making his tournament debut, blasts the ball into the Greek net but the whistle goes - he's offside. Dramatic start though.
3 mins: The Germans attack from the start. Ozil chips a neat pass to the recalled Klose in the Greek penalty area but he slips.
2 mins: AFP's Dario Thuburn in Athens city centre says: "The cafes in the Thissio neighbourhood around the Parthenon are buzzing with young fans hoping to show Germany....
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