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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.

We are not an attacking team, they had 10 men behind the ball. We missed Mitroglou and to a certain extent Torosidis...Tziolis didn't do anything today and neither did any of our strikers. Donis/Fortounis looked good, so did Stafylidis (for the time he was on)....No one else seemed dangerous. Hard to rate our CBs, they did their job and Estonia never seemed threatening...

They loaned him out to play this young Italian gk, who along with the Milan gk - is considered one of Italy's top prospects...

Greek international GK Orestis Karnezis joins EPLclub Watford FC on a season long loan...same club as Holebas

Still have a long way to go but at least it's going up!!!

Watching the Gabala game, I was impressed on the hustle the team showed,, they wanted it...their finishing is another story but they were trying....

it's necessary, rather get the call right...

In both of those players, they are half Greek through their moms. I see nothing wrong with them representing Greece as long as they identify as Greek.

Bonucci is gone, his replacement is Benatia (who is the guy who Manolas replaced at Roma)...They also have an Italian cb who is young and the next big thing....the truth though is that barzaghli and chiellini are not young, both over 30, Barzaghli is 36), but they still will feature in most games..

As a PAO fan, why are you wishing that PAO get relegated?

If it wasn't for Alafouzos, wouldn't PAO be in Gamma? I am not saying he is doing a great job but there is no one else stepping up to the plate.

The reason the German league is revered is because they have been doing really well in both CL and Europa. Their international teams have been winning tournaments, they have top class infrastructure (from stadiums to gyms) and they sell out every game. The rise in coefficient points is evidence of this, both in FIFA and UEFA.