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Karelis just got back to the pitch after a long lay off, you can't rely on him to be selected for such a crucial game. He wasn't exactly lighting it up for the NT when he was playing anyway. Not saying he is not good, just selecting him now is risky...

OLY looked like night and day from when they played Sporting in the first match day....

Regards to teams using players not playing in prestigious leagues, Sweden has a few and they are everyone's Cinderella team.

When you beat teams that are ranked considerably lower than you, I think Gibraltar may be close to last, then you can't get too much of a jump.

To recap, I believe this is how the system works.... Each team is put into a category, A, B, C or D, depending on their rankings. Then the teams are split into 4 groups. The team the finishes first in the group gains two things, 1) promotion to the next category 2) entry into the playoff pool within your category. The team that finishes last gets relegated into the next category. The winner for the four team play-off gets the entry into the Euro. The winner of the play-off of category A wins the league of nations.

I believe it's 8am EST.

Bids where done a few years ago, not sure if Greece submitted a bid to host.

Our two wins against Cyprus and Gibraltar only got us about 30 points. We may fall some more given teams like Australia also won both their games.

This is another revenue generating tool. Instead of friendlies, you have another tournament. The top teams get to practice against stiffer competition, the weaker teams get a chance to make a tournament they would never have been able to enter. Win-win for all.

Overall - I think we can all argue the campaign was an improvement over the Euro qualifiers. Skibbe reunited the team and put in position to reach the World Cup. Our team is built on defense, by design. We do not have world class midfielders and are very thin in Strikers. We are blessed at CB for the next 10 years (knock on wood), which is on par with the best teams in the world - not an exaggeration. We need to improve our midfield but this game showed us how much we missed Mitro. We do not have anyone else who can do what he does up front. Hopefully Donis keeps improving and him and Lazaro on the wings can open things up. We have a real chance to progress, let's enjoy the moment.

Not sure you can call him a German, he was born in Greece from Greek parents. He is however both a Greek and German national and has the option to play for either country. But until he commits, we cannot include him in the team's future plans.

Overall, he has done a pretty good job. Not sure where all of this backlash is warranted. Outside of the tie in Estonia, all the other results were ok. He had to deal with injuries to our only striker (and to be fair, we still should have won the game against Belgium - both times). He has brought up new faces as well - Donis, Retsos - who figure to be a big part of the national team for years to come. I am sure non of us like Tziolis in there but he has stabilized what was a bad environment. The national team needs continuity to be able to build trust, he is getting that now. Let's give him a chance.

Defensively, they played really well except for the last few minutes of the first half and towards the end in the second. The main thing I got out of this was the few opportunities they did half (OLY), they didn't know what to do. There was one breakaway that they had, forgot who it was, but he was pretty much had a clear shot at goal. Instead of shooting he tried to pass it and it got intercepted.

When you hire security and they hit opposing fans, the federation is responsible. Also, I thought some of the security were actually police officers. Anyway, putting that aside, your input as a Bosnian fan is appreciated as being able to get a different perspective is always helpful. We may not agree but we can share our thoughts respectfully.

Remember - they don't put us anywhere, we put ourselves. It's a mathematical formula weighted on a combination of opposition/matches from the last 4 years/type of matches. There is no subjectivity involved.

http://footballkitsdesign.blogspot.com/2009/09/olympiacos-piraeus-fantasy-kits.html Looks like the one you mentioned....

They panicked. They went down 1-0 within the first few minutes and tried to even it up by sending more attackers. They got caught on the counter as a result.

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The ironic part is that the Bosnian federation thought this was too stiff and made an appeal to FIFA.

The FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to reject the appeal lodged by the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and confirmed the sanctions imposed on 20 July 2017 by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee in relation to the incidents which occurred during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ qualifying match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece on 9 June 2017. The FIFA Appeal Committee concluded that a ban on playing the next match of the preliminary competition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ in the stadium in which the aforementioned incidents occurred, coupled with a fine amounting to CHF 30,000 and a warning, was appropriate given the circumstances of the case and the disciplinary record of the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's a stadium ban not a fan ban.

All we can do is play the last two games, we win them both and we got a good shot in making it through which was always the plan at the beginning of the campaign (to drop less points than Bosnia). Regarding the Estonia tie, it happens. Small teams put up big results some times, it happens. France got tied by Luxemburg the other day. Say what you want, but their third string team should have beat them by a few goals. Against Estonia, we dominated that game except we couldn't score. It happens. Against Belgium, we were arguably the better team throughout the match. We should have at least had a tie. For many who predicted a blow out, this was an excellent game. We played well, pressed them and held them in check. I truly believe if we had Mitro, we win both games. He is on another level from our other CFs/Strikers. Donis proved in these last two matches that he deserves to play and should be a mainstay on the wing for the foreseeable future (at 21 yrs old). Our CBs are great, gk is good, even Tzavellas has shown to play well in his role. We need more creativity in the midfield but hopefully someone can step up and fill that role. Another winger and a true dekari and Greece can be a top 10-15 team. I may sound overly optimistic, but we have improved immensely over the last campaign. We may even be better than the 2014 team that made the quarters at the last WC.

He has had a lot of selection issues due to injury and lack of fitness. As much as I don't care for Tziolis, he probably felt he needed experience in the middle, continuity. As for getting as many youth players in, that doesn't work either. Remember Ranieri, he tried a million different players and we got the worst results possible. We need consistency with a little rotation.

Is Hazard out? I thought he scored yesterday...

You can also say that we should have lost against Bosnia the first time. I believe Mitroglou was ruled out and the reason Kyriakos was taken out was because he picked up an injury, doubtful for Sunday.

The showing today was not pathetic, we had a bad game...We had opportunities to score and didn't. You make it sound like they played us off the pitch. I agree we should have won but their goalie played great and made the saves that he needed to make. We did not have any teeth today but you can't attribute that all to Skibbe. Outside of Tziolis, you can't fault him for Vellios/Retsos playing. We do not have an in form striker. We do not look anything near 2016.