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In the Eurozone, Greece will continue to have problems unless Germany's monetary policy changes radically - very unlikely. The only way OUT of the cycle of austerity and recession feeding into recession is the return to a national currency. Really??? You'd be surprised how many Greeks survived - and thrived - when we had our own currency...

The 4-2-2-2 is all about possession, 4 v 3 in the middle in most cases. The lack of width is obvious, which is why you need great fullbacks. I can see why anastasiou wanted wemer. Not that great with the ball at his feet, but gets up and down the flank with ease. 30 can't do this. Against packed defenders, usually you would instruct one of your attacking midfielders to drift wide. They may both drift wide. After all that's where the space is. So you look to attack the flanks, as your attacking midfielder waits for the overlapping fullback. Most coaches opt for this approach. I read however that anastasiou wants us attacking centrally. The advantages to this are that there are more passing angles (360 degree motion as opposed to 180 on the flanks). The other advantage is that you can see more of the goal. The lack of space is the obstacle, it relies heavily upon clever movement and one touch passing from your central guys. Again in this case, you need your fullbacks pushing up to occupy the opposing fullbacks, in turn not allowing them to play narrowly, offering support to their centre halves. Bold move from Anastasiou, nonetheless very difficult to implement, not to mention giving you all sort of problems in the defense transition phase. In the friendly, as contradicting as it might sound, Udinese exploited us as a result of wemer going forward.

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brugge are the favourites for this match,we have a lot of weaknesess ,we have lost our friendlies ,I know friendlies are friendlies and we shouldn't read to much into it,but it does give you a guide line of what is happening. we lack wingers ,klonaridis can play wing and kaltsas is a winger,but I feel we are very short in this department. we also lack a genuine creative midfielder. no wingers no genuine attacking midfielder means we are going to struggle creating chances and scoring. we need to get away from this obsession with paying top dollar in other words paying attacking players money to holding midfielders.a holding midfielder is not worth as much and shouldn't be getting paid more than wingers and creative midfielders. from what I have seen the lack of width in our game is going to hurt us . good wingers and creative midfieders win you matches ,we have the striker to do the job but we need to make sure we are creating chances for him. the 4-2-2-2 anastasiou wants to play lacks width,it relies on the fullbacks going forward and your attacking mids to drift wide, the system does suite the players we have,ajagun,zeka,lagos who have ball winning box to box athletisism. also for the 4-2-2-2 to fire on all cylinders you need 2 very mobile forwards,so I think we are covered there as well. not having out and out wingers in this system confuses the opposing fullbacks because the att mids don't drift very wide and the fullbacks are not sure wether to mark them or not so as not to encroach on their centerbacks zone,which does allow for a overload against the opposition defence. in this system rather than use the width spreading the field to force 1v1 and use the open space out wide,the attackers bunch together to force a series of 2v1 in very tight areas,thats the theory anyway. the serious flaw of the 4-2-2-2 is if your right and left back don't attack you have little width, and against tight packed defences its very hard to create that attacking overload in the tight narrow spaces. I think anastasiou if he plays 4-2-2-2 is probably right in doing so ,considering the lack of wingers that we have,like I said it is suited to guys like zeka ,ajagun,lagos and karelis,but we are going to struggle in the league when the opposition comes and parks the bus. I prefer to play with wide wingers any time of the day in a traditional 4-3-3,pellegrinni had success with the 4-2-2-2 but also big failures with it depending on his roster,luxembourgo tried to play it at real Madrid but failed because he didn't have the roster for it.

You live to work! Green man :)

Athens abandoned children. Skynews. this is why i weep when people demand staying in the union and continuing with their austerity programs, and using a currency where they can simply switch the supply on and off via capital controls whenever they feel like it. At what point do you say enough?

The Skops of WA are particularly demented. For example they claim the Tombides family as Monkeydonian while itit's obvious that they are Pontian Greeks. Now if the family is confused that doesn't change this fact.