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That’s what I don’t understand, even when we were at our best and making tournaments all the time we were still playing ugly football, we were beating minnows 1-0 and when we played a mediocre team that had some offence they all stood behind midfield just trying to defend and hope we were lucky enough to catch a team on the counter.. at least JVS has the team playing offence and not parking the bus.. I think some guys need to go back and remind themselves how this team use to win in the past and it wasn’t pretty.. Now we were playing better in our last few euro qualifying games with JVS then we are now I will admit that but I think its a process this rebuilding team needs to go through in order to take that next step.

The coach is doing fine. His job is to win and he’s doing that. Results matter not style points. If style points mattered, Italy would’ve sucked all those years. As long as he gets wins doesn’t matter against who it is. You only play what’s on your schedule. It’s not their fault they’re playing the garbage of garbage. And remember, some of you think they have guys like Mbappe, Halland and Alphonso Davies hidden somewhere. They don’t. They have to make do with what they have.

I’m not hidden pal! I’m right here. If you’re sitting here waiting for him to get “sucked”, real good fan you are! Hoping the team does poorly so your mortal enemy gets fired. Not a good look. Ugly football? We have been playing better since he has taken over. Haven’t lost a competitive match under him. And yes, topping the group would be awesome, considering we haven’t been successful in many years , yes I’ll take it

I was also disappointed in his response especially when he said "Mantolas and Bakasetas were here from when I took over the team" So what does that mean? they should be automatic starters just because they were here when he took over the team?? That's a bad way of thinking. He also mentioned that Fortounis is not getting playing time with his club team (so that's why he's not starting) Then why is Staf an automatic starter when he's healthy?? he doesn't play regularly for his club team.. He also wants the old crew gone but yet he invites and plays Tzavellas.. I see a lot of hypocrisy and contradictions. I will praise and defend JVS when he's right but I will also call him out when I think he's wrong. At the end of the day we never agreed with all the coaches selections post our last world cup appearance and that's the frustrating part because I think we all believe here that we still wont reach our full potential as we are not fielding our best possible line up.

Great performance from the goalie Demetriou! Saved a penalty too.. man of the match!

What a debut for the Apollonas backup Dimitris Demetriou!

Sheydaev in all alone on Demetriou, GREAT SAVE! Diniyev the rebound, Demetriou got that one too!

Great saves Dimitriou!!

i'd rather have fetfatzidis in the wing than mantalos who has been playing out of position for some retarded reason and can't offer anything.

vlachodimos - barkas tsimikas - giannoulis manolas - siovas - mavropanos - chatzidiakos baldock - lykogiannis galanopoulos - zeca - kourmpelis - bouchalakis fortounis - pelkas donis - fountas - masouras - limnios pavlidis - koulouris - bakasetas sokratis and mitroglou should definitely be around if they start being active on their teams again. other options for the back are retsos, kyriakopoulos, stafylidis (who should start playing again), perhaps mpakakis but i don't rate him. vasileiadis is a good alternative in the midfield and i personally rate him above kourmpelis who can't play the ball forward and is an average player at the very best. wouldn't mind having fetfatzidis or chatzigiovannis but the latter should step up his game, and tzolis needs to prove himself more to earn a place in the team. as you see half of the squad such like lampropoulos who is a 30 year old defender playing in bundesliga 2 is a joke of a player and more of a joke is this clown in the bench who uses him or chatzidiakos as a right back and as a result he kills the offensive tempo and makes us useless since they can't either cross, run or be offensive against quicker and shorter players. fcking lmao not even an amauter coach puts a centre back to play in the right and a left back like stafylidis as a centre back. mantalos is totally useless while tzavellas, michailidis and such call ups are not even worth mentioning.

Les kai vlepoume ton Santos, bravo re megalle, eisai Tsolias!! Pes ta re Rockafella, afise tis gomenes!

U Grik 3 5 2 Vlaho Svarnas Hatzidiakos Stafylidis (vc) Zeca Kourbelis Limnios Fortounis (c) Giannoulis Pavlidis Fountas

The long layoff between games due to the pandemic didn't help the Ethniki either and missing so many key players due to injury has affected us. Lets just hope Greece are as close to injury free as possible when World Cup qualifying starts in March.

I remember Santos getting 1-0 wins while playing defensive football against giants like Luxemburg/Malta. Results matter, first and foremost. At least now we are touching the ball, in the past we would play in our half the whole time. Does anyone remember playing against Sweden in one of the finals??? We had possession, the ball would make it halfway up the pitch, the minute we were pressed, the ball would be passed back all the way to the goalkeeper.

Great stuff you are basically cheering against the Ethniki and want to see them fail because you have some huge dislike/agenda with JVS. The guy just started a year ago and has gotten the team results and pointed in the right direction. I too as a huge fan am not 100% behind his selections but at the end of the day he is the coach and we will see how the World Cup qualifiers go that's what he will be judged upon. You sound like a few other "fans" here who seem to be happy when Greece dont get results and then like to rub it in. In that case maybe you should go watch great football NT like that of Canada, Aruba, El Salvador etc...

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/introducing-que-golazo-a-daily-cbs-sports-soccer-podcast/ The above is a link to the introductory commercial CBS sports used for their new soccer podcast. I think you guys will like it. You need to scroll down a bit.

Great game, came close, lost it at the end...

Well, it was quite a battle, but at the end Djokovic proves why he is #1 in the world.

Spoke too quick. Tsitsipas fought back and tied the game 2:2 sets. The deciding set about to start.