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I'd love for a Hungary, Israel, Albania, Greece, Gibraltar group.

Every team in pot 2 and 3 (outside of France and England) should be beatable.

What a start to the new season undefeated first 5 matches! This is definitely PAO best team since 2010, its been more than a decade since PAO has been in the championship conversation. This team has the talent, But lets not get ahead of ourselves its a long season. Anyway its about time we have something to look forward to watching come game day.

October 9

I would say in addition to that in pot 2 you also want to avoid Austria and Serbia and in Pot 3 Ukraine and maybe Sweden to avoid.

Pot 1 Netherlands Hungary Italy Belgium Croatia Portugal Poland Switzerland Pot 2 Wales England Bosnia Israel France Austria Scotland Finland Serbia Czech Republic Pot 3 Sweden Armenia Romania Slovenia Ireland Montenegro Iceland Albania Ukraine Norway Pot 4 Turkey Georgia Kazakhstan Luxembourg Greece Azerbaijan Faroe Islands Bulgaria Macedonia Kosovo Pot 5 Northern Ireland Slovakia Cyprus Belarus Lithuania Gibraltar Estonia Latvia Moldova Malta Pot 6 Andorra San Marino Lichtenstein

Thank god the 60th minute came and we decided to play football! Defense doesnt look at strong as the first 4 games Ioannidis, I was hoping for more (hold the ball up better, dont get disposessed so easy) but early days Douvikas... no good Pelkas is no left midfielder and I dont think he should be starting, Foundas was much better when he came on Bakasetas, needs effective wingers to be effective Dam shame we didn't see more of Alexopoulos and Papanikolaou in these two games, Bouchalakis aint cut it Credit to Kourbelis, Hatzidiakos, Tsimikas, Baldock, Masouras and that ripper goal by Mantalos.

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Yeah worst case we end up with Belgium, France and Sweden from pot 3. Thank god we have the play-offs up our sleeve because we could end up with a really tough group. In saying that we could also get Hungary from pot 1 and avoid France/England in pot 2 and all of a sudden the path looks a little more straight forward. Still would be tricky, Hungary finished above Germany/England in their Nations league group and just missed out on top spot to the Italians. All teams in the top 4 pots are tricky in their own right and generally have at least a couple of players who are playing at a decent level in one of the top 5 leagues.

France and England are in POT 2. How is Armenia in Pot 3? Would not mind drawing them and Bosnia from POT 2 would be a great draw.

Ok thanks for the info. If Greece get Israel for example it would be good. Poyet completed his first objective with NT winning the group and gaining promotion to League B something his predecessor could not do. Also the team is playing nice attacking football and today crated many opportunities. Greece just have to focus a bit more on the defensive side as they did in the first four games of the NL. Impressive performances by most of the players especially Bakasetas & I really liked Baldock how he joined in the attack and delivered some nice crosses. Can’t wait for the Euro draw.

yea confirmed pot 4. But the teams in pot 2,3 are even with us. Like you have Israel a pot 2 team. If we play to our ability I’m not worried

It was a ballsy shot, but Peacock-Farrell should've had that probably. Just overpowered him

Is Pelkas and Mantalos really the best we have...

Have 'im run like a dog and then let him take a breather! I remember Henrique saying that Lucescu's instruction to him in that cup final where he scored the winning goal was very simple: RUN, RUN, RUN

That was such a frustrating game to watch, before Cyprus scored I really thought he were cruising, in control and our goal was a matter of time away, but then Cyprus cut us open twice, their keeper then made a great save on Pelkas and from there on in you wanted to shoot your tv screen. Ive mentioned this before but I think we have an issue at CAM when Bakasetas is playing and NOT firing on all cylinders like today, I think we will look much better with Mantalos there on Monday. When I saw the line up and saw Baka + Pelkas and Douvikas I was alittle worried but they latter two really showed how poor they are at national level and how on earth Alexandropoulos only gets something like 11-15 mins in a game we are struggling so much in midfield to build decent attacks is mindblowing. The second half was dire, walking pace build ups, all be we were very unlucky with Foundas post and goal that should have stood 100%, it should have been 1-1 really. I hope they work on their corners and freekicks, 95% if them are better for the opposition as we generally do nothing and give the ball away. Team really needs to bounce back vs Northens Ireland and watching Bouchoulakis try open up Cyprus was murderous.

Irini Papas died today at the age of 96.

That's an excellent piece - the behavior and actions of the clubs of late is silly, yes EPO got it wrong by deciding to put Greek reffs in charge of derbys in the last min but they realised and changed it and then look what happened... https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hellas-footy-podcast-s3-episode-7/id1536595945?i=1000579318295 Hellas Football talks about this also in their podcast

We will playing our next home hame there vs Ionikos!

Any updates? Haven't seen/read much new.