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Who sits back against Kosovo? Geez.

Things have gone sideways for the Ethniki yet again for another qualification cycle. We landed in a difficult group though getting Sweden was slighlty better than some other Pot 2 teams and other groups at the time ie. Switzerland and Ukraine based on their pre Euro performances. The injuries to key players especially Fortounis (yet again) is very hard to overcome given his technical and attacking ability that we lack. Also missing Manolas, Siovas, and Sokratis due to utter stupidity hurts our cause too. Coaching has cost us a couple points already as JVS got everything wrong vs Georgia in what was a must 3pts and now with Sweden winning it really sticks out! I just hope our luck can eventually turn around but the EPO are going to have to find a smart coach who knows how to work with our players and doesnt get involved in this mickey mouse BS that JVS has initiated with our key players that have been banned from the team. We are just hurting ourselves over and over from after the 2014 World Cup. The NT has to be qualifying regularly for major tournaments especially with the expansion of the EUROS and we missed twice. Its frigin UNACCEPTABLE!!

GET LOST JVS!!!

JVS has to make some changes! Thank God we got a goal in stoppage time

It’s sad. Don’t know why we can’t do the simple things right like passing and moving into space. No one in the midfield to lead the team going forward like Fortounis did at times. No intent to attack. Shocking performance.

I'm so gutted. This is embarrassing. Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, and so many countries with the same, or less, population than Greece and they are centuries ahead of us. The coach sucks, I agree. But, the players are horrible. I'm sorry. I'm an old man compared to most of Greece's line up and I swear my Friday night soccer league team could have beat them today. It's Iike they have no skill whatsoever. I have never seen such poor quality in virtually any other country. I live in Canada and the team we have now is quite competitive. I'm sure they could pop three against Greece the way they played today.

JVS step down immediately or EPO has to fire his arse! Find a coach who can work with our players and who acts maturely and professionally and bring back Manolas Sokratis and Siovas back into the fold. Time to drop Bakasetas from the starting eleven I dont mind him on the squad as a bench player but he has not given us much in all these games JVS has played him.

Since the day JVS took over those players you mentioned should’ve been the spine of the team. What’s wrong with picking and rotating CBs like Nikolaou, Retsos, Mavropanos and Hatzidiakos? But no he has to pick 33 year old Tzavellas and a LB like Stafylidis and Giannoulis at CB. Tzolis and Alexandropoulos should be starting every time now. Douvikas, Pavlidis and Fountas should be our strikers. Fortounis and Fetfatzidis are still our most creative players we’ve got. Add Galanopoulos, Bouchalakis, Androutsos, Vlachodimos, Tsimikas and Masouras and you have a team. What’s wrong with that?

Zagorakis... fire him!

I’d take Mavropanos over Svarnas and Tzavellas any day. There a reason he went from Pas Giannina to Arsenal at a young age. He’s a beast in Germany aswell. He isn’t the problem. Tzavellas and Bakasetas are the ones we should be blaming.

Truly unacceptable. Being content with a 1-0 against a team like that means the coach deserves to be terminated. Seems like JVS has no faith in the players he’s chosen.

I like Vlachodimos but he cost us on that goal too. Tsimikas was off today I couldnt believe how we couldnt complete a 2 foot pass over and over again. Anyways in the Santos days we finish off this game and get the win 1 nil or more guaranteed!

On the bright side, we will be the first team in history to not qualify for the World Cup without losing a game. 5 more draws.

Disgusting performance! We should have held on though it was a ridicoulos goal to conceed! JVS what happened to his 4-3-3 attack and high pressing? We could barely create anything in attack today and we sat back vs this mediocore side. JVS should be FIRED TODAY!

I'm so disgusted in this joke of a team. We did not deserve to win this game at all. This is where we belong with the Kosovo's and the Georgia's of the world we don't belong any higher in our current state. JVS needs to lose his job as this was a dreadful performance, he always has the team playing scared and when he saw Kosovo coming he did nothing of any significance to change it up. This f***ing team cant even keep it competitive until the last games of the qualifier as we are now 3 games in with 3 draws and we are eliminated from the world Cup. We shouldn't be surprised at all we are just garbage with a a garbage coach who showed some promise when he first came in. Another qualifier and we are out before we even get to the halfway point. Does it really matter that we got put in a difficult group with Sweden and Spain when we got outplayed by Georgia and Kosovo and could only manage a draw??? Just go back from 2014 and look at the s%$#! groups we've had between the qualifiers and the nations league nothing has changed.

Why did he take out Douvikas!! JVS get lost!

Devastated! I cannot believe we conceded at the end.

This is what you get for trying to play "not to lose".

How do you play a half like that and not make any changes to start the 2nd.

We are sooooooo lucky we did not deserve to be up in this game but ill take it. Even though we scored the way we played was an absolute embarrassment. The last thing we need now is for JVS to have everyone sit back.

Nice through ball good finish Douvikas!

Kosovo 0-1 Greece HT

DOUVIKAS!!!!!!!!!

Just before the half, a timely goal needed. Greece must improve on the second half.

Goallllllllll

Just brutal

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Why are we always afraid of minnows?

We look like garbage. We are going to eat a goal the way we are playing.

I’m not saying JVS is a good coach or a bad one for that matter. I’m just wondering how many coaches are we going to go through, before we start blaming the lack of talent. From all the guys that were called up maybe 2 or 3 actually play on good teams? I hard to win when you’re calling up players from teams that most Chinese orphans can beat.

Must win or he should be OUT! I still think he would stay on until the Sweden match. Lets GO GREECE!!

Well - He will see out this round of games. The truth is that anything less than a win against Kosovo will end our chances.

We are not beating Sweden. Not in 2 games anyway. They have a better team than us right now. I think we will even have a tough time beating Kosovo.