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As far as Retsos and Kpaps are concerned they have been injured a lot and for me personally the NT is not a guarantee and no spots should be held for guys that have been out a long time. Both guys need to play regularly with there club team and get back into form from after there long lay off before being considered for the NT again. The NT is not in position to call up guys so they can workout the rust out of there game at the NT expense as we need in form guys that are playing there best before being called up again regardless of who you are.

After last weeks defeat of Red Star Belgrade against Cukaricki in Serbia and todays los of Slovan Bratislava against Dunajska Streda in Slovakia, there are only two teams undefeated in Europa. Our team and the team of coach Vladan Ivic: Maccabi Tel Aviv. Well done, Vladan!

Donis scored the vital 1-0 winner against Borussia Mönchengladbach in VfB Stuttgart’s struggle against relegation. Stuttgart is with three games left #16. This spot means promotion/relegation play-offs against #3 of the 2. Bundesliga. They are 6 points above the direct drop of #17 and 6 points behind Schalke ‘04 on the safe #15.

@pash I thought I recognized you.....

This is what I was thinking. His time is almost up, I believe he has a little bit left in the tank but by the time the Euro comes around he would already would be done in my opinion. That’s I think it’s important we start grooming someone at RB now so he can be familiar with the team and get game time and also experience. Then when the Euro comes around he would be ready with no questions asked. That’s if we make it, hopefully we do.

Looks like the game against Turkey will be played on May 30 and will take place most likely at Antalya, Turkey according to latest reports.

I read this as well! Here is the link: https://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/greece-to-play-turkey-in-international-friendly i really like this move from the coach, shows a lot of commitment and belief in the team. The article states that they are trying to organize games with Germany and Austria before the turkey game all in preparations for the qualifiers. They are taking this very serious and I couldn’t be any more happier with this move.

Apparently EPO has arranged a friendly game against Turkey that will be played before the Euro qualifiers in June and will take place in a neutral venue (Germnay?). EPO is also hoping to arrange one or two additional friendlies against strong opponent during the NT preparations for the twu games in June.

It’s a good headache to have regarding our cbs. We have plenty of them and are secure for the future. Same goes for Gks. We have some good Lbs that can hold down the the spot for a few years, while at RB it’s a concern. Kitsiou has not developed to the player I have wanted. Bakakis has reached his ceiling and is not good enough and Torosidis is our passed. The only player I can think of is Masouras of Panionios. Very fast and talented. Our coach should keep an eye on him. We have CDMs, CAMs, but very little of CMs. What is surprising to me is that we have plenty of wingers coming up the ranks. Which is exciting to see as this almost never happens with Greece. Lamprou, Limnios, Chatzigiovannis, Donis, Manthatis and someone else I’m missing. Masouras aswell. If we want to play wingers then play them because we do have them. As for strikers this is where we are hurting most. Mitroglou is very injury prone and takes time to get back into form. Koulouris is doing well for himself, Durmisaj hasn’t shown enough yet, especially on the international stage. Kampetsis is our future and should be taken care of. We have something in this player that I’m not sure some are aware of. So to sum up RB, ST and CM positions need to be taken care of. We naturalised Zeca to solve our problem in the middle but isn’t the full answer. Durmisaj has been naturalised to be a back up to Mitroglou. I also think Mitroglou won’t be a starter from now on. He is 30 and is too slow to begin with. I don’t mind if he comes on in the 60th minute to do something. I believe we should we should placing Masouras at RB from now on. He has got all the tools to be our RB for the next 10 years. Speed, dribbling, passing, crosses, tackling and so on. Above all he is 22. We should see this down the line.. Vlachodimos Masouras Sokratis Manolas Koutris Zeca Galanopoulos Lamprou Fortounis Masouras Koulouris Galanopoulos hasn’t been used. We should see what he offers instead of playing Samaris all the time and Kourbelis. Donis, Kolovos and Mitroglou can be our super subs.