Greek side Panathinaikos frustrated Rubin Kazan again with another scrappy 0-0 draw in Champions League Group D on Tuesday, two weeks after holding the Russian champions in Athens.
The two teams cancelled each other out, creating little danger in front of the goal and spending most of their energy on trying to shut down the opposition.
The visitors withstood a furious assault by the home side late in the match, twice clearing the ball off the line.
Teams:
Panathinaikos: 30-Alexandros Tzorvas; 24-Loukas Vyntra, 5-Cedric Kante, 29-Kostas Katsouranis, 4-Jean-Alain Boumsong (22-Stergos Marinos 58), 31-Nikos Spyropoulos; 14-Luis Garcia (10-Sidney Govou 69), 15-Gilberto Silva, 23-Simao, 26-Giorgos Karagounis (20-Lazaros Christodoupoulos 80); 9-Djibril Cisse.
Referee: Tony Chapron (France)
Rubin Kazan: 77-Sergei Ryzhikov; 19-Vitaly Kaleshin, 27-Salvatore Bocchetti, 4-Cesar Navas, 3-Cristian Ansaldi; 8-Aleksandr Ryazantsev, 16-Christian Noboa, 66-Bebars Natcho, 14-Alan Kasaev (61-Gokdeniz Karadeniz 72); 87-Carlos Eduardo (28-Obafemi Martins 73), 88-Sergei Kornilenko (26-Alexei Medvedev 86).
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