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CYPRUS 12 Panagi(GK) 4 Merkis 5 Sielis 6 Demetriou(Captain) 10 Sotiriou 13 Kousoulos 15 Papoulis 17 Margaca 18 Artymatas 20 Kastanos 21 Vasiliou BENCH 1 Giorgallidis(GK) 22 Pardo(GK) 2 Mouchtaris 3 Ioannou 7 Stylianou 8 Fylaktou 9 Christofi 11 Avraam 14 Roushias 16 Papafotis 23 Economides Manager: Ran Ben Shimon(ISR)

SLOVENIA 1 Belec(GK) 2 Skubic 5 Mitrovic 6 Krhin 7 Ilicic 10 Zajc 11 Bezjak 13 Jokic(Captain) 15 Crnigoj 17 Mevlja 19 Beric BENCH 12 Kotnik(GK) 16 Ivacic(GK) 3 Balkovec 4 Stojanovic 8 Dervisevic 9 Sporar 14 Delamea-Mlinar 18 Zahovic 20 Vancas Pozeg 21 Bijol 22 Stulac 23 Blazic Manager: Tomaz Kavcic(SVN)

Not to make excuses, but why are we always on the road? Certainly that hasn't helped. We'll finally get a couple at home now that it's too late.

Finland 2-0 Greece FT A hockey country that has never qualified for a major tournament, and we can't beat them. Ever. Maybe let Skibbe finish out the last two games, but after that, get him out of here!

Final Finnish substitution: Karjalainen IN Tuominen OUT All changes have been made

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Lod to Kamara and they score. 2-0. That oughta do it

Koulouris a bullet, JUST WIDE!

Finland: Pirinen IN Soiri OUT

Finnish corner, Toivio the header, wide

Lod the shot, off the post!

We got put with them because we're on their level. This is where we're at in 2018. Things were so different even 5 years ago.

Fortounis free kick, punched out by Hradecky

Yellow against Manolas

Final Greek substitution: Koulouris IN Pelkas OUT

Toivio free kick, Save Barkas! Keeping us in it

Finland is a hockey country! Why can't we ever beat them?

Tuominen, and a nice save by Barkas

Finland substitution: Skrabb IN Pukki OUT Greece substitutions: Tzavellas IN Papastathopoulos OUT Christodoulopoulos IN Bakasetas OUT

Oh look, trumpet guy is back. He wasn't in Athens on Friday

GREECE 13 Barkas(GK) 2 Bakakis 4 Manolas 6 Tziolis 8 Zeca 10 Fortounis 11 Mitroglou 14 Bakasetas 18 Pelkas 19 Papastathopoulos(Captain) 23 Tsimikas BENCH 1 Karnezis(GK) 12 Paschalakis(GK) 3 Tzavellas 5 Bouchalakis 7 Christodoulopoulos 9 Koulouris 15 Lampropoulos 16 Kourbelis 17 Karelis 20 Kolovetsios 21 Giannoulis 22 Fetfatzidis Manager: Michael Skibbe(GER)

FINLAND 1 Hradecky(GK) 2 Arajuuri 4 Toivio 6 Kamara 7 Lod 10 Pukki 13 Soiri 14 Sparv(Captain) 18 Uronen 20 Tuominen 22 Raitala BENCH 12 Joronen(GK) 23 Jaakkola(GK) 3 Skrabb 5 Vaisanen 8 Taylor 9 Markkanen 11 Schuller 15 Halsti 16 Forsell 17 Pirinen 19 Lam 21 Karjalainen Manager: Markku Kanerva(FIN)

Coming off that loss in Sofia, Cyprus stays on the road to visit Slovenia in Ljubljana. The previous meeting in Lefkosia went for Cyprus.

My recap for Agonasport http://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/cyprus-fail-to-hang-on-in-sofia

A win in this one would have been one of them