Poland drew 1-1 with Greece despite Szczesny’s blunders.
The 22-year old Arsenal keeper dropped a massive clanger to concede a 51st minute equaliser to Salpingidis.
Greece amazed everybody by coming back to dominate with 10 men in the second half.
Another grotesque mistake by Szczesny, when he clattered Gekas in the box in 69, got him sent off.
But sub keeper Tyton saved a tame penalty by veteran Karagounis to keep it at 1-1.
It was level after 70: a goal each, a red card each.
The match fizzled out in the last 20 minutes because of the humidity brought about by the closing the PVC roof.
Spanish referee Velasco Carballo had spoiled the first half by giving two harsh yellow cards to defender Sokratis Papastathoplous, after Lewandowski scored with a header in 17 from a cross by right back and captain Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Szczesny will miss Tuesday’s game against Arshavin’s Russia.
After the impressive Russians beat the Czech Republic 4-1, Roy Keane said, “Arshavin was outstanding. Pity he can’t play like that for Arsenal.”
Fellow ITV pundit Patrick Vieira said,”I think Arshavin has been fantastic tonight.”
Rolling back the years, Arshavin somehow became the magically inventive and precise playmaker of 2008, the sparky playmaking genius that Ivan Gazidis bought.
Wenger didn’t comment on AA’s arrival for three weeks after Ivan signed him, so I guessed it might be a bumpy ride for the Russian, who sparkled at first, then became depressed.
I reckon Wenger ruined Reyes, demoralised Arshavin, and ran Jack Wilshere into the ground and into hospital.
But I’m too tired to write tonight, as I’ve been up for 17 hours. After coming home from the gym, I was too creamcrackered to really enjoy the Poland and Russia games as I normally would.
Russia will win Group A if Alan Dzagoev and sub Pavlyuchenko continue to finish with that kind of power.
More tomorrow maybe.
G’night…