you're wrong. it looked like that because in the 2012 and 2014 these dudes where like 35 and 37 years old. do you really expect them to hold the midfield against germany/colombia or so?
regarding your fortounis comments. i explained before that since skibbe's offensive tactics are rubbish fortounis looks clueless. the only man he can pass the ball is mitroglou. why is that? because the wingers are not wingers but either central midfielders like zeca and mantalos or side backs like stafylidis. that's TOTALLY up to skibbe. fortounis is a pretty technical player with the ability to keep the ball and draw fouls.
anyways. im sure skibbe is not even considering to play this system but the fact he used that in the croatia game despite us getting fcvked up because he choose the wrong players is a bit promising. and yes im talking about a 3-4-1-2 formation.
karnezis
sokratis manolas retsos
lykogiannis samaris zeca stafylidis
fortounis
donis mitroglou
and kapino, anestis, papadopoulos, oikonomou, mpakakis, koutris, torosidis, tachtsidis, kourmpelis, mantalos, pelkas, karelis and lazaros on the bench. this formation is also effective for us because with the lack of wingers we're no more going to use guys outside of their natural positions to fill this retarded 4-2-3-1. i think this team is quite ok. but on the other hand im not sure if koutris, mpakakis, pelkas, oikonomou instead of maniatis, tzavellas, tziolis, vellios, diamantakos etc....in a sane team without a corrupt federation that would be αυτονοητο but not in us..