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Of course we’ll take the results. None of us were expecting this, so let us enjoy it Re Gamoto lol.. More importantly, it gives confidence to a young team. Of course the performances still need improvement, and yes, we didn’t face Germany of old and the Netherlands absolute best. But not long ago we were losing to Scotland and struggling to beat teams like Georgia. In my opinion, this is a massive step forward for the national team. Sure, we’re still thin and we don’t have five quality options at every position, but we have a bunch of young, creative players. If the coach plays the right system and selects the right players, they’ve shown they can become a dangerous team. Nobody is saying we’re suddenly one of the best teams in Europe. We just want to get back to tournaments, compete, and show we can hold our own against good teams. These results showed we’re moving in that direction. I didn’t want this coach back either, but since they started with him in the nations league, you can’t possibly get rid of him after these results at the moment.

Torosidis red card (no this isn’t a message from 2010)

Just for perspective: The German national football team is worth approximately €1.31 billion, the Netherlands national team is valued at €805 million, and the Greece national team stands at €323.60 million according to Transfermarkt market valuations Keeping the germans off the scorecard 2 games in a row show a huge accomplishment and a vast improvement in defensive play likely due to the younger players maturing and the contribution of the older players. Personally I think a lot of this is also due to the impact Jovanovic has had on the players, nobody wants to come off, they have each others back and everyone wants to contribute....fantastic team mentality which we haven't seen in the last 12 years. Let him continue until he screws up and then they can fire him....but until that happens let him work. For Greece to succeed they have to do so as a team and not as a group of individual talents (regardless of how impressive we may think they are).

Why does your font look like you're yelling

Yeah, I don't like that we're now qualifying wins over freaking Germany! Fine, they're in a down cycle for them, sometimes that's what it takes. Greek people just don't like to be happy.

If you told me we would be 1-3 and alone in 3rd only ahead of Serbia i would have taken it..🤣

First tie breaker is head to head points scored against each other. That’s means if we win this game we are on to the next round!

Made the mistake of listening to that Hellas Footy podcast and had to turn it off when they decided collectively that we had to play like cowards (and the spastic-chipmunk-sounding-guy trash talking Thessaloniki didn't help, but I guess you can't expect miracles when a bunch of fans of Athens teams get together). Anyway. Bitterly disappointing here. We can hold our own against any f***ing team, which the first 60 or so minutes showed us today. When we revert to scared tactics, we get our assholes torn open. Big frigging shock.

The full 3 points was almost too good to be true. Slightly disappointing of course but we are sitting in a great position by not losing to them. For me this is about securing Pot 1 and raising rank.

GROUP A2 STANDINGS Greece-6 Netherlands-4 Germany-1 Serbia-0

Timing matters mate. Arguably on paper, yes some of these transfers appear to be solid. A lot were brought in after we were knocked out of Europe and the team was already in a spiral. Lisci has been pushing sh!t uphill since he arrived. Appointed one day before pre-season, has his best player sold in the middle of European qualifying and then has a bunch of transfers arrive in September (way too late.) I say this as someone who wasn't a fan of his appointment, I thought he was too inexpereinced and was taking over a big club with expectations to win. Something he hadn't had before in his career. That was a byproduct of the club's awful organisation. Another loss against Iraklis and and it may very well become untenable. Regardless he was never really given a shot to succeed by the club and their extremely poor preparation and organisation. BTW Elustundo has been a disaster.

The best thing is we’re guaranteed pot 1 for the Euro qualifiers. We must qualify automatically finishing 1st in qualifying

What can I say? It’s in our blood😂😂

Yeah, this Germany is much, much weaker than back in the day. It'll take time for them to gel, too. This game showed us just how little depth we have on the wings. Gagatsis needs to go on a complete charm offensive to get Konstantelias back once he's healthy. But even with him, we'd be without competition (or backup) for Karetsas on the right. You all better be hoping your club teams can make their youth take that next leap (I'm looking at you, Chatsidis).

If you told us before the international break that we would be 2-0-2, with Tzolis hurt, we would have taken it.

GROUP A2 STANDINGS Greece-7 Netherlands-5 Germany-4 Serbia-0

Also previewing the Netherlands match

Might speak more to the caliber of the German team. We should not get ahead of ourselves. Our defense and midfield need a lot of work. However, taking advantage of their weakness in order to guarantee we stay in the better "league" (and lock down a pot 1 spot for Euro 2028 qualifiers) will let us build on this by continuing to play against better competition and then having an 'easier' run at qualification. Steel sharpens steel or whatever.

With this, we have also now beaten every active European country at least once!

Historic Greece win in Germany. Bravo paidia!! Kourbelis goal! Androutsos solid performance.Tzolikis great saves. Karetsas what incredible skill!!

If and big if. We can shock everyone and squeak out a win, our Serbian brothers tie the Dutch… we can realistically be in a position to not just secure top 3 in the group, but maybe even compete in this Nations League tournament! Yea yea all we did was beat Serbia but in the last 15 yrs that game would have ended in a tie or loss for us 99% of the time. I am choosing to be hopeful again. The Dutch and the Germans are both not at their best. Klopp will need some time to get his culture into the program. Who’s to say we can’t finish second in this group and leap frog one of them? PAME

PAOK extended the contract with Michailidis until June 2030.

#10 🤩 6 Portugal 12.500 11.000 16.250 20.500 6.300 66.550 5/ 5 7 Belgium 14.200 14.400 15.650 11.400 5.200 60.850 5/ 5 8 Netherlands 13.500 10.000 15.250 9.979 5.000 53.729 6/ 6 9 Türkiye 11.800 12.000 10.300 11.075 5.900 51.075 4/ 5 10 Greece 2.125 11.400 12.687 14.200 5.400 45.812 4/ 5 11 Poland 7.750 6.875 11.750 15.750 3.400 45.525 2/ 5 12 Czechia 6.750 13.500 10.550 11.025 3.500 45.325 4/ 5 13 Norway 5.750 8.000 11.812 8.050 6.200 39.812 4/ 5 14 Denmark 5.900 8.500 7.656 12.250 5.000 39.306 4/ 4 15 Cyprus 5.100 3.750 10.562 12.156 3.625 35.193 2/ 4 16 Switzerland 8.500 5.200 7.050 6.200 3.750 30.700 2/ 4

Good job Omonoia🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 we appreciate your work big win for my bitter rivals and Greece.

Last we played Iceland U21 was for the 2023 qualifying for the same tournament : 1-1 away ; 1-0 win at home. Looking at their players and the teams they are on we should have no problem beating them over two legs.

Mythou scored the only goal for the U21 team against Northern Ireland, but it was not enough to see us through to the final stage, as we needed a win with 2 goal margin. Last chance to make it through in a playoff game.

Tomorrow U21 plays the last game in this qualifying stage of the competition. We face Northern Ireland in an away game and we need to win by 2 goal margin to automatically qualify to the finals of U21 EURO 2027. The other way to automatically qualify is to beat Northern Ireland and Germany does not beat Georgia, which is highly unlikely. At a minimum we have secured a playoff spot and have a chance to make the finals through the playoffs, but the easiest way is to win tomorrow by 2 goal margin.

He didn't leave, he said he wouldn't be available for these games. His wife was going to be scheduled to give birth then and she was having complications. Rumor has it that he had a falling out with Ivan.

Guys this squad value of Germany consists of Havertz, Tah, shlotterbeck, Musialia, Kimmich and several other players who didn’t play today and have been hurt, Same with the Dutch. In fact if u take starting 11 squad values today our teams are a lot closer than that: my point remains: WE ARE GREATLY IMPROVING AND I AM GENUINELY THRILLED. Everyone here keeps giving these explanations about why I should just shut up and be happy and trust me I am gladly wrong about Ionnidis for example and I hope I’m wrong about coach not being able to adapt his tactics. My singular point is this: very impressive results but we should be cautious about how we are playing long term and yes these teams are better than us on paper but they aren’t the giants we think we have slayed as they are currently constructed. We can be proud of our results while also pointing out the facts. I’m glad my hot takes are getting the forum popping though, feeling like skip bayless or Steven A smith😂

All jokes aside, like I keep saying, I’m very excited that we are beating a weak Germany versus drawing with Kosovo and I am very excited for the future.

Again I 100% agree with you, I’m just worried that in typical Greek fashion EPO will reward him with a longer contract and then we waste this generation. I’m still celebrating and reloading the group table everyday just to see us in the top 2 lol. Of course just qualifying for a major tournament would be a huge change of pace but I think we are capable of so much more. It has been a huge improvement but I just don’t want us to sell ourselves short.

All this without Konstantelias for four matches.. Greece are back!

The team showed the grit and the fight of the '04 team today. Very proud of that. Contained the German handily actually. A healthier team and some things we can do better and it's a win today. Great things are happening with this team.

I'll be happy if we get a 0-0 result from this game.

He didn't look too happy at being taken off.

This starting line up is terrible. Kostoulas is too good to not find a a way to feature him, especially without your top 2 players

Greece win SECOND place is OURS! Screw Dortmund request for Karetsas to sit this one out! OPA!

I agree the result is on Jovanovic, the 2nd half we played far too timid and sat far too deep. This team can play football, there is quality there. The 2-3 times we ventured up the pitch in the 2nd half we looked dangerous. With no Tzolis we had no outlet on the counter, no-one pacey breaking into space for us to hit on the break. That doesn't excuse the 2nd half but I guess it offers some explanation. I still have question marks over Jovanovic as plenty do, but if we criticise then we also have to praise him when he gets stuff right. Starting Ioannidis ends up being a master-stroke. He has collected 7 points from a possible 9 against Serbia, Germany and the Netherlands. He made some errors today for sure, tactically the 2nd half was poor. It was not the right move to sub off BOTH Ioannidis and Pavlidis together (I realise fatigue may have been a factor). Another error that he made IMO is leaving Kyziridis out of the matchday squad. When you only have 4 wingers for 2 positions you do not leave one of them out. He would have been invaluable coming off the bench in the 2nd half, his pace on the counter would have at the very least given the other boys an outlet to try hit when we won the ball back. This team is capable, more than capable. Androutsos was another big plus today, very impressive with a dogged display in midfield. It remains to be seen whether Jovanovic has the chops to take this team forward.

Two completely different teams between the first and second half. This one hurts, especially after having a 2-0 lead. But if anyone had told us before the tournament that after the first round of playing every team once, we’d be sitting in first place in this group by 2 points, every single one of us would have taken it.

Impressive first half. We need to keep the same pace in 2nd half and don't give them a chance to come back.

IONNIDIS ASSIST TO MASOURAS 😂😂😂😂 whoever I am talking crap about is scoring. BRAVO PAIDA PROVE ME WRONG

FINALLY FOR GREECE FOR PAOK WE WILL BEAT THE DUTCH IN TOUMBA (as our heroic moderator looks away in confusion)

What's funny is we didn't particularly play well but we still beat Germany, which says a lot about the calibre of the team now. I think we can play a lot better in the home fixture and really put it to Germany.

Kind of an ugly win. When we actually gathered the balls to attack, we looked pretty decent. I think we're still defensively not great (where's Koulierakis??) but whatever, they got the job done. Goal was kind of a fluke but I'll take it. From what I see, we are now favorites for second place. Pity the league B team that draws Germany in the play off. Inexplicable to play Ioannidis over Douvikas. I was iffy on Tetteh starting but he was pretty decent. I assume our next game vs Germany will be against the guys who walked out of their fancy box after we scored?

Can't ask for anything other than a win - so kudos to him. But overall, I feel like we were stuck in second gear while we could have easily gone quicker. He was afraid of coping goals like we did in Denmark/Scotland - mission accomplished but we played a style that does not highlight are strengths. Again 2 from 2 so we take it.

That win probably solidifies us in POT 1 for the Euro qualifying. I don’t see Serbia getting 3 results in this group.

Germany 0-1 Greece FT First ever win against Germany!

If you have five strikers who are all doing well, you gotta figure out how to play them. Some variation of a 4-4-2/3-5-2/whatever should be tried. Playing without a clear #10 isn't the end of the world, assuming you have the midfield to support it (which we do, when you have players like Zafeiris and Mouzakitis). Counting my blessings that Bakasetas was not selected. We would have lost. I think our defense still doesn't look great. This might be the start of an era where Greece has a ton of attacking threat but cops easy goals, as strange as it is to say. That run by Tsimikas, btw, was only possible because Michailidis used his weirdly good deep lying passing ability to open Tsimikas up for his run. I am wondering why Koulierakis did not play, but I guess it's possible the coach wanted him rested for Germany (and thought this would be a game where we'd be attacking more than defending).

I was very impressed with Tzolis, Retsos and Kourbelis today. Karetsas looked rusty but still had moments of quality, he'll be better for the run. It's clear Jovanovic wants to play with a number 10. Kostoulas isn't that IMO, he is a striker or he isn't starting. The lack of attacking mids forced him to rotate strikers through the no.10 position, which didn't really work. They all looked invisible for large stretches, Tetti was probably the most involved and he played on the wing when he came on. I think while Konstantelias is out (either injured or excluded himself) it maybe worth reverting to a midfield 3 with no dekari. Tzolis and Karetas create enough, I don't think shoehorning a striker into the no.10 role is sustainable. Regardless the team showed great heart and resilience to get the 3 points. Was a huge result in the context of the group. Looking forward to the upcoming matches!

We deserved to win that game. What a high going into Germany now! We got our three points, so there’s no pressure. We still need to clean up our defence as we were lucky not to concede a second.