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Of course we’ll take the results. None of us were expecting this, so let us enjoy it Re Gamoto lol.. More importantly, it gives confidence to a young team. Of course the performances still need improvement, and yes, we didn’t face Germany of old and the Netherlands absolute best. But not long ago we were losing to Scotland and struggling to beat teams like Georgia. In my opinion, this is a massive step forward for the national team. Sure, we’re still thin and we don’t have five quality options at every position, but we have a bunch of young, creative players. If the coach plays the right system and selects the right players, they’ve shown they can become a dangerous team. Nobody is saying we’re suddenly one of the best teams in Europe. We just want to get back to tournaments, compete, and show we can hold our own against good teams. These results showed we’re moving in that direction. I didn’t want this coach back either, but since they started with him in the nations league, you can’t possibly get rid of him after these results at the moment.

Torosidis red card (no this isn’t a message from 2010)

Just for perspective: The German national football team is worth approximately €1.31 billion, the Netherlands national team is valued at €805 million, and the Greece national team stands at €323.60 million according to Transfermarkt market valuations Keeping the germans off the scorecard 2 games in a row show a huge accomplishment and a vast improvement in defensive play likely due to the younger players maturing and the contribution of the older players. Personally I think a lot of this is also due to the impact Jovanovic has had on the players, nobody wants to come off, they have each others back and everyone wants to contribute....fantastic team mentality which we haven't seen in the last 12 years. Let him continue until he screws up and then they can fire him....but until that happens let him work. For Greece to succeed they have to do so as a team and not as a group of individual talents (regardless of how impressive we may think they are).

Why does your font look like you're yelling

Yeah, I don't like that we're now qualifying wins over freaking Germany! Fine, they're in a down cycle for them, sometimes that's what it takes. Greek people just don't like to be happy.

If you told me we would be 1-3 and alone in 3rd only ahead of Serbia i would have taken it..🤣

First tie breaker is head to head points scored against each other. That’s means if we win this game we are on to the next round!

Made the mistake of listening to that Hellas Footy podcast and had to turn it off when they decided collectively that we had to play like cowards (and the spastic-chipmunk-sounding-guy trash talking Thessaloniki didn't help, but I guess you can't expect miracles when a bunch of fans of Athens teams get together). Anyway. Bitterly disappointing here. We can hold our own against any f***ing team, which the first 60 or so minutes showed us today. When we revert to scared tactics, we get our assholes torn open. Big frigging shock.

The full 3 points was almost too good to be true. Slightly disappointing of course but we are sitting in a great position by not losing to them. For me this is about securing Pot 1 and raising rank.

GROUP A2 STANDINGS Greece-6 Netherlands-4 Germany-1 Serbia-0

Timing matters mate. Arguably on paper, yes some of these transfers appear to be solid. A lot were brought in after we were knocked out of Europe and the team was already in a spiral. Lisci has been pushing sh!t uphill since he arrived. Appointed one day before pre-season, has his best player sold in the middle of European qualifying and then has a bunch of transfers arrive in September (way too late.) I say this as someone who wasn't a fan of his appointment, I thought he was too inexpereinced and was taking over a big club with expectations to win. Something he hadn't had before in his career. That was a byproduct of the club's awful organisation. Another loss against Iraklis and and it may very well become untenable. Regardless he was never really given a shot to succeed by the club and their extremely poor preparation and organisation. BTW Elustundo has been a disaster.

The best thing is we’re guaranteed pot 1 for the Euro qualifiers. We must qualify automatically finishing 1st in qualifying

What can I say? It’s in our blood😂😂

Yeah, this Germany is much, much weaker than back in the day. It'll take time for them to gel, too. This game showed us just how little depth we have on the wings. Gagatsis needs to go on a complete charm offensive to get Konstantelias back once he's healthy. But even with him, we'd be without competition (or backup) for Karetsas on the right. You all better be hoping your club teams can make their youth take that next leap (I'm looking at you, Chatsidis).

If you told us before the international break that we would be 2-0-2, with Tzolis hurt, we would have taken it.

GROUP A2 STANDINGS Greece-7 Netherlands-5 Germany-4 Serbia-0

Also previewing the Netherlands match

Might speak more to the caliber of the German team. We should not get ahead of ourselves. Our defense and midfield need a lot of work. However, taking advantage of their weakness in order to guarantee we stay in the better "league" (and lock down a pot 1 spot for Euro 2028 qualifiers) will let us build on this by continuing to play against better competition and then having an 'easier' run at qualification. Steel sharpens steel or whatever.

With this, we have also now beaten every active European country at least once!

Historic Greece win in Germany. Bravo paidia!! Kourbelis goal! Androutsos solid performance.Tzolikis great saves. Karetsas what incredible skill!!

If and big if. We can shock everyone and squeak out a win, our Serbian brothers tie the Dutch… we can realistically be in a position to not just secure top 3 in the group, but maybe even compete in this Nations League tournament! Yea yea all we did was beat Serbia but in the last 15 yrs that game would have ended in a tie or loss for us 99% of the time. I am choosing to be hopeful again. The Dutch and the Germans are both not at their best. Klopp will need some time to get his culture into the program. Who’s to say we can’t finish second in this group and leap frog one of them? PAME

We deserved to win that game. What a high going into Germany now! We got our three points, so there’s no pressure. We still need to clean up our defence as we were lucky not to concede a second.

HELLAS WIN! Great comeback! We have so many attacking options its ridiculous.. Teteh and Douvikas came in and were incredible. Tzimikas what a cross on the goal. Tzolis an incredible footballer what a match! Greece need to work on the defensive side of the ball hard to believe that is our main issue after all these years of solid defending.

Germany away up next, easy 3 points! 😬

Good job Omonoia🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 we appreciate your work big win for my bitter rivals and Greece.

Last we played Iceland U21 was for the 2023 qualifying for the same tournament : 1-1 away ; 1-0 win at home. Looking at their players and the teams they are on we should have no problem beating them over two legs.

Tomorrow U21 plays the last game in this qualifying stage of the competition. We face Northern Ireland in an away game and we need to win by 2 goal margin to automatically qualify to the finals of U21 EURO 2027. The other way to automatically qualify is to beat Northern Ireland and Germany does not beat Georgia, which is highly unlikely. At a minimum we have secured a playoff spot and have a chance to make the finals through the playoffs, but the easiest way is to win tomorrow by 2 goal margin.

All jokes aside, like I keep saying, I’m very excited that we are beating a weak Germany versus drawing with Kosovo and I am very excited for the future.

Again I 100% agree with you, I’m just worried that in typical Greek fashion EPO will reward him with a longer contract and then we waste this generation. I’m still celebrating and reloading the group table everyday just to see us in the top 2 lol. Of course just qualifying for a major tournament would be a huge change of pace but I think we are capable of so much more. It has been a huge improvement but I just don’t want us to sell ourselves short.

I could care less about 1st place. Realistically we lose to Netherlands and Germany beats Serbia. Good thing is we own the tiebreaker vs the Germans so if we beat the Serbs no matter what we get 2nd minimum

All this without Konstantelias for four matches.. Greece are back!

Undefeated in 4 matches!! Bravo boys!!

The team showed the grit and the fight of the '04 team today. Very proud of that. Contained the German handily actually. A healthier team and some things we can do better and it's a win today. Great things are happening with this team.

He didn't look too happy at being taken off.

How the hell could they agree? we better see him come off the bench.. They need to start fast and get the crowd loud early, like the previous game. This lineup will sit back and defend.

This starting line up is terrible. Kostoulas is too good to not find a a way to feature him, especially without your top 2 players

Greece win SECOND place is OURS! Screw Dortmund request for Karetsas to sit this one out! OPA!

4 yrs ago or so we were celebrating beating the likes of Kosovo 3-0 in pot C. Of course I am grateful and exciting, but the dark cloud of terrible coaching is something that worries me. Look at the Portugals and Belgiums of the world. Bad coaching can undermined even the best golden generations. I don’t want guys like Kostoulas to get discouraged

Two completely different teams between the first and second half. This one hurts, especially after having a 2-0 lead. But if anyone had told us before the tournament that after the first round of playing every team once, we’d be sitting in first place in this group by 2 points, every single one of us would have taken it.

Impressive first half. We need to keep the same pace in 2nd half and don't give them a chance to come back.

IONNIDIS ASSIST TO MASOURAS 😂😂😂😂 whoever I am talking crap about is scoring. BRAVO PAIDA PROVE ME WRONG

WE NEVER DOUBTED YOU FOR A SECOND IONNIDIS (😂😂). He will now be a 4 year starter lol

I’m glad Pavlidis and Jovanović spoke about having great performances away from home, beating big teams, only to come back to a sold-out stadium in Greece and put in a poor performance. That’s been an issue in the past, so hopefully after two huge wins over Serbia and Germany, they keep the same mentality and intensity tomorrow against the Netherlands. Time to bring that form home.

Kind of an ugly win. When we actually gathered the balls to attack, we looked pretty decent. I think we're still defensively not great (where's Koulierakis??) but whatever, they got the job done. Goal was kind of a fluke but I'll take it. From what I see, we are now favorites for second place. Pity the league B team that draws Germany in the play off. Inexplicable to play Ioannidis over Douvikas. I was iffy on Tetteh starting but he was pretty decent. I assume our next game vs Germany will be against the guys who walked out of their fancy box after we scored?

Can't ask for anything other than a win - so kudos to him. But overall, I feel like we were stuck in second gear while we could have easily gone quicker. He was afraid of coping goals like we did in Denmark/Scotland - mission accomplished but we played a style that does not highlight are strengths. Again 2 from 2 so we take it.

Germany 0-1 Greece FT First ever win against Germany!

If you have five strikers who are all doing well, you gotta figure out how to play them. Some variation of a 4-4-2/3-5-2/whatever should be tried. Playing without a clear #10 isn't the end of the world, assuming you have the midfield to support it (which we do, when you have players like Zafeiris and Mouzakitis). Counting my blessings that Bakasetas was not selected. We would have lost. I think our defense still doesn't look great. This might be the start of an era where Greece has a ton of attacking threat but cops easy goals, as strange as it is to say. That run by Tsimikas, btw, was only possible because Michailidis used his weirdly good deep lying passing ability to open Tsimikas up for his run. I am wondering why Koulierakis did not play, but I guess it's possible the coach wanted him rested for Germany (and thought this would be a game where we'd be attacking more than defending).

I wonder how that will translate for us fans living outside of Greece. Will Sport FM TV make their platform available globally and we subscribe direct? Or will they maintain the status quo and on sell the rights to Antenna/Sport Plus.

Appreciate it boss man. The bosom of Peloponneso herself!

Great name by the way, Kolokotronis! My dad's family's from around Tripoli too!