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He’s by far the best player on the field today

KOULIERAKIS!

Lmao finland gifts us a goal! Ioannidis

@Ellada2004 and @J1078 Well said. We should give Ivan some time. I think this new regime at EPO are genuinely aiming to make Greek football and the national team improve as a whole. I actually think these selections seem the most logical and make more sense than previous times. For example 2 RBs and 2LBs.. I agree Bakasetas should be on the bench at least. I’m hoping if Fortounis comes back then he starts instead. We also have young inform players at the moment like Tzolis, Koulierakis, ioannidis and Konstantelias so I hope they are involved in the starting 11. I want to see Alexandropoulos start. I think he has something to give. Give him a full 90 and see where it takes us. Most of our midfielders if not all haven’t had much playing time so we need to start using different players to see what works. I’m expecting a 2-0 win against Finland. Pavlidis is in good form. I’m hoping he starts scoring like he does for club. I’m giving this new era a chance. what I want to see is this Tzolakis Vagiannidis Mavropanos Koulierakis Tsimikas Alexandropoulos Siopis Masouras Telias Tzolis Pavlidis I know Bakasetas is probably starting. But this is what I think the team should mostly look like. Zafeiris should make an appearance. We need him capped as soon as possible.

GROUP B2 STANDINGS Greece-3 England-3 Ireland-0 Finland-0

What a display so far.

Greece substitution: Konstantelias IN Chatzigiovanis OUT

Greece 2-0 Finland HT

Our next star defender. He should be a lock on the back line now.

Try hesgoal

Koulerakis the 🇬🇷 Ramos

Goal from nothing lol!!

GREECE 1 Vlachodimos(GK) 15 Rota 4 Mavropanos 3 Koulierakis 21 Tsimikas 20 Mantalos 5 Bouchalakis 11 Bakasetas(Captain) 16 Chatzigiovanis 10 Pelkas 8 Ioannidis BENCH 12 Tzolakis(GK) 13 Mandas(GK) 2 Vagiannidis 6 Galanopoulos 7 Tzolis 9 Douvikas 14 Pavlidis 17 Hatzidiakos 18 Konstantelias 19 Zafeiris 22 Giannoulis 23 Siopis Manager: Ivan Jovanovic(SRB)

Mantolas really. Why do we persist with this player? What do they see in him honestly. Bouchalakis too. It's clear they are afraid to turnover the team too quickly and are playing it safe. I really hope Ivan is quick to sub. And to be honest I know the praise is almost universal for him and what he did at PAO etc... but is this guy really a General/Leader we need to take us forward in this new era? We will see..

Oh boy what a terrible line up. This guy is suppose to be very familiar with the Greek players??? Not a good first impression. Bakestas, Mantolas, Bouchalakis, Pelkas all starting.. with the exception of a couple players this might be one of the worst lineups I've seen in the last few years.

Still waiting for new Toumba, but in the meantime we can celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Toumba Stadium inauguration. It was September 6, 1959, when the Toumba Stadium was opened to the public for the first time with a friendly game against AEK Athens which was won by PAOK 1:0 with a goal by Kiourtzis. . The stadium capacity at that time was 15,000. Here is is aerial view of Toumba in 1959 and a pic of the PAOK - AEK friendly, the first game at Toumba Stadium.