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  1. This team can't defend teams better than Slovenia, Moldova, Kossovo. The score benefits us at 2-1. At least Fountas and Fortounis seem mobile and I could see them score on the upcomming matches. Siovas , Chatzidiakos, Manolas are desperately needed in the lineup.
  2. I dont understand why Lazaros Lamprou has not been called yet. (Just checked his birthday - guy is ineligible for the U-21 squad. No Chatzigiovanis, no Vasiliadis. What exactly are we testing? RB position Rota and the same midfield and the same attack? We ve had like 10 CBs playing for us under JVS seriously losing my temper with this guy. Kossovo will come and win us in Greece. This is my prediction. Moldova is nowhere to be found in the football map but Kossovo is comming with a completely different squad and a lot of their players (as they re probably very cheap) will have confidence as they got decent signings. Muriqi the striker that was missing on September is back and I can't see them not scoring in Greece. Their defenders are meh anyways so we will probably score again as well. I hope we have 3 good matches this week.
  3. Austria is slightly outside the European top 10 National Teams rosterwise, at least in my opinion. Outside the top nations like France, England, Germany , Portugal , Spain , Belgium, Italy who are the top of the top, teams like Croatia, Poland , Denmark, Sweden are equally decent to the likes of Austria. This will be a really good indicator of what the team can do against better opposition but I would like to see more entries with the likes of Vasiliadis Baldock Donis (last one has not played a gme under JVS that's why I call him a "new entry").
  4. He does actualy because he has a long shot and there need to be at least 2 players on him most of the time. The problem is that our midfielders are not going up front so the enemy opposition has enough players to mark our wingers as well. For me I 'd like to see a 3-5-2 with bakasetas a real second striker: Vlachodimos (Barkas was bad in the last 2 matches) ??? - Chatzidiakos - ??? Limnios - Zeka - Kourbelis - Giannoulis Fortounis Bakasetas Fountas ??? : Literally any one of those called as they re all shitte.
  5. ? You re playing a 3-4-3 with your 2 midfielders being fullbacks what do you mean? 5 out of the 10 infield positions are practically defenders and you re shocked half of the call ups are defender? LoL....
  6. Vasiliadis is a creative box to box for sure I wanted to see him. Also for everyone saying that before, Stafy had a surgery last week he won't be picked. Reminder he was injured vs Kosovo at his shoulder, and thus the surgery. Hasnt had playtime since last year with his team.
  7. We re playing a 3 CB scheme. Svarnas will probably start. Chatdisiakos as well, but who is the third ? Michailidis is my bet. A CB trio with average age 21,5 Ouch.
  8. If you did answer, then you are unaware of what the question was.
  9. you would be banning me because of his attitude or me going with the flow with him? Woah.
  10. Thanks for replying without answering, sorta proving my point. As for Ouzo I love it with fish and Tzatziki breath never bothered me in my love life both if it was comming from me or from the girl. As for the rest, I am not sure there is an answer. My favorite ritual, however, is the calling of the intenstine gods. I go to the toilet, and when I am done, I grab my trophy and throw it in the mirror calling for them. They hardly ever listen though.
  11. Damn AusGreek I have no idea where all this confidence to being 100% right about stuff you re completely clueless (as all of us) and expressing it by being ironic comes from. What do they feed you in Australia? Mountain Dew and Doritos? We literally have a 100% portuguese in the squad and it seems impossible to you that someone with Greek roots wanna join (for his personal benefit as well obviously).
  12. Are you talking by experience gringo? being an international in Europe gives money worth what are you talking about. Also a lot of these players want to feel the experience of National Football. Who knows. Since he said he was interested, let's wait and see.
  13. Baldock is decent for PL level. I don't understand your point. We re playing with teams who would kill for a starter in a midtable PL club. We were just used to having Torosidis who was a beast for the NT that you re forgetting we haven't had a decent RB the last 4 years (if you add Toro's last games where he was terriblue due to age).
  14. I am saying that right now everyone is glorifying him for doing what he did to the players who stepped up. I am saying that his selections will be criticised once we run out of beatable nations (and pseudo-nations). When everyone is happy (fans, EPO) there is no problem. When noone is happy from the results there will only be problems.
  15. The problem never layed to the coaches and it never layed to the players as well. You think Ranieri is a bad coach? You think Skibbe was a bad coach? Or do you think that players like Manolas Sokratis Samaris and Mitroglou, who were the stars then, were not decent enough to beat Liechtenstein and Estonia? The problem always layed with EPO. It's hilarious that you guys cant think outside the box. The same moment that Siovas comes out and sais what he sais, Barkas states that "we are finally happy to be joining the national team, and that's a JVS effect". Totally unintentionally unrelated statements , right? Or maybe not. You talk about NT unity but you are really forgetting one thing. The actions of Sokratis (and Manolas follow-up) were the reason that the EPO took drastic measures ,threw Anastasiadis away and after a lot of thought decided to get JVS. Sokratis actions literally prove that he cares for the NT and it's literally unable for you to comprehend. And you people have hilarious arguments that "if JVS loses he is gonna take the blame and thus he is gonna lose his job". I said yesterday, and here it comes again. These guys live in a bubble. Has been a pro footballer for almost 20 years and has been a coach for quite some period of time. The money he gets per month is minimum as much as you make in 1,5-2 years. Losing this "job" (aka hobby) of his will cost HIM nothing at all as his job was impossible for anyone outside of Greece. The players are gonna lose a lot more than him for yet another failed campaign. And when they see that the innevitable is comming and they say it, suddently they are the m@l@kas Manolas and m@l@kas Sokratis who put themselves above the team. And just to remind you about the players having no bad critics from the fans if another failed campaign with the NT comes(since according to you its all on the coach), Ethniki Mykonou is still a thing. For some reason you people believe that the players couldnt care less to be part of the NT while at the same time they re creating all this fuss. If you really believe not caring translates to "I make a fuss hoping the team gets something out of it" then I have clearly wasted my time writing all of this.
  16. Baldock is a very good wingerback and for a team that is playing 3-6-1 like our NT Baldock will be decent. Just because Baldock is not in the level of Trent Alexander Arnold of Liverpool and Kyle Walker of Manchester City or Reece James of Chelsea which are the Right Backs that England is aiming at, it does not mean that he is as bad as Bakakis. That's a clowny mentality and thought. He is somewhere in the middle. I am pretty sure, according to JVS sayings that he is willing to call him up but bureaucracy did not make it in time to make Baldock eligible for the NT. I am sure he will be here, maybe not for the NL but for the WC qualifiers, as both teams have agreed that they are willing for this to go through. With Baldock on the Right and Tsimikas/ Giannoulis / Lykogiannis / Kyriakopoulos / Stafylidis on the Left we will always have a decent pair of Fullbacks. CBs is the problem and both Kossovo and Slovenia proved that with one or two decent chances, if the CB is not aware of his surroundings, they can score. This has always been the problem with the Greek NT since 2014. Lesser Nations winning with out of place and unneeded penalties or converting one and two chances in one and two goals. Van Schip has not changed that. The defence is a coffee shop, far worse than how it was under Skibbe. Van Schip has only changed our offensive plan and made us able to press and score past bad teams. When we play a better team (and when I mean better I dont mean England or Belgium, realistically speaking its gonna be a derby and a huge improvement beating teams like Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine) these 1 and 2 chances that seem convertable will be 5 and 6. That's when the defenders come to join the game, and that's when Svarnas, Hatzidiakos, Michailidis, Lambropoulos will not be enough. For everyone who has played football, knowing that having some very good defenders on your back is a huge relief for a midfielder who can focus on his attacking duties and box-to-box transition without worrying that if X player passes him over, the defence will be in trouble. Having Sokratis on the bench and Manolas at the starting line-up will be a boost for all of the players and that's exactly what Siovas said. I do not agree with Siovas action, but he f*cking stated the obvious. And I will once again repeat my previous statement. When the results stop being good, pro-JVS fans will start being against him as well.
  17. You got my post completely wrong. It's not the "I told you so" that I am aiming for. It's that everyone will be against him with such a bossy mentality excluding elite players and managing to lose to teams he should not. And the opinions about him vs Sokratis Manolas Siovas are currently 50/50 because he is - so far - getting decent results. That my point. Everyone turns around at the obvious becuse in the end it's the result that we need. But the team playing like shiet and its gonna keep playing like that with these alchemies. And trust me, all these people who have played professional football in such high level are completely unaware what unemployment and starving actually are. He is just doing his hobby in a team that noone had expectations for anything of him. He took a 3rd NL team and worst case scenario he kept it there. He got a 3rd pot National Team and worst case scenario (it's not the worst we all know it) he finished 3rd - 4th in the WC Qualifiers. How does this affect his career as a coach? 0 to minimum. How does being unemployed for a bit affect his every day life after so many years of Professional Football in top level and Managerial career so far ? 0 to minus. How does another failed campaign affect our National Team - an extra drop in the Rankings - especially now that we seem to have decent forwards who are willing to sweat for the NT? You tell me.
  18. If you re never heard Aek fans not rating Mantalos you ve probably not heard a lot of Aek fans talk about him. I agree for the next WC 2 of the players you said will be sort of old, but we need to make it there or at least look competitive at the qualifiers to even hope we ll make it now? None of these lads are promising if you ask me. The only Promising players we have are Limnios Pavlidis Lamprou Michailidis and Tzolis.
  19. Hello from Athens everyone. I think the results of the last 2 games have been παραπλανητικά. The team played like s%$#! in both games. Noone will judge JVS now simply because the results have been good, but, what will happen when we have a setback in this group or the WC one. Right now with Siovas , Manolas, Sokratis gone we have no experienced CB 25+ worth calling. He is calling Lambropoulos 4 fuq sake who is playing in Bundesliga 2. Our next big things as CBs are nowhere to be found the last 1 year. Mavropanos? No playtime in Stuttgart, not even on the bench first matchday. Dimitris Nikolaou? Anyone remember him playing for the NT under Skibbe? Benching in Serie B. Retsos ? Injury prone. Hasnt had regular football time since of 2018. Hatzidiakos? Benching. Has had one half of a game in Holland. Wasnt even on the bench vs Dynamo Kyiv for the C.L. Qualifiers. Even Stafylidis the recently promoted to "shortest CB the Greece NT even fielded" is injured. We re gonna field a defence of Svarnas - Michailidis - Kourbelis/Lykogiannis mark my words (Lykogiannis has had a couple of games as a LCB in Cagliari in 3-5-2 that's why im mentioning him.) If it's Barkas on the goalposts im gonna bet a 5 euro on both teams scoring when we play Moldova. And don't get me wrong. It's not like I don't rate Michailidis Lykogiannis or Svarnas. It's just that they re not ready to start for the NT and they have no idea of each other at all. On the positives now, one thing I like about Skibbe is his offensive mentality. All 4 of our players in offence are pressing non-stop which is what you need against such low teams who are willing to waste time if the game is 0-0. Remember that most of our games with bad teams like Armenia a year ago and 1-1 Liechtenstein or Finland/Estonia defeats, we re hunting for a goal and they seem okay with the draw or whatever and suddently they score out of nowhere and with the mentality low we re trying to get a goal or two back. The way Limnios Bakasetas Mantalos and Koulouris or Pavlidis are nonstop running not allowing the defenders of these very bad teams to keep ball and forcing their goalie to make a big ball in instead of short passing is the reason we re getting the good results. The defenders have nothing to do with it. As I said at the start of my post, when the bad results suddently start happening (its not gonna be so sudden) judgement of the coach will also begin from all these people who "Eγω ειμαι μαζι με τον προπονητη 100% γιατι εχει @@ και πανω απο ολα η ομάδα" will be against him too. And what happens in the middle of the WC Qualifiers if this happens? We just have to wait 2 more years for the next qualifiers. Also, with all the respect to Mantalos. We re talking about a 30 year old 8-10 who was ready to make his final paycheck move to Saudi Arabia or Emirates or somewhere nearby. I am an Olympiakos and one thing I know is that Masouras work-rate and work-ethic is on point. What these things mean is pretty much that if the coach wants him to track down and press the opposite defence, that's what he will do. The only reason Mantalos is starting is because of these things. But apart from that, Masouras also is faster, becomes an extra man in the box, has a decent header too and can shoot better than Mantalos. From all Schip's crimes in the line-up, this is the one that hurts me the most. Even Aek fans don't rate Mantalos.
  20. Positives: Slovenia was terrible and considering that they re the 2nd best team after us in this Group, it makesm e feel optimistic. Negatives: Everything else. We keep the result but this team will be unable to break ANY defence in the upcomming future if changes are not made. No matter how much possession and how impossible it is for other teams to get through our defences.
  21. I cannot see why Mantalos starts over Masouras and Kourbelis over Bouchalakis unironically. Olympiakos has had gametime after the pandemic break and had it's last (and pretty good appearance if u ask me) match less than a month ago. I understand the reason he plays is because he defends and tracks back but come on we are playing Slovenia we ll have to open them up somehow.
  22. We should be beating a lot of people after the 2014 WC. Its been 6 years and we ve barely beat any of the ones htat we should. The audacity of believing these are easy matches is insane. We ll both be here tomorrow to commentate on how we barely won/ had a bad result bro. Be patient.
  23. Vlachodimos missing is obsurd. I can understand Sokratis/Manolas reasons missing, but when the ones called instead are Lampropoulos / Svarnas even Siovas for fuq sake I cannot comprehend the reasons behind this. I also have no idea why Koulouris is here and Donis is not instead. Tzolis was expected to be here. Michailidis not, and especially with so many Left Footed defenders (Stafylidis Tsimikas Giannoulis). Rota was also expected to be in the team. The reason is simple. We have noone else other than Bakakis as a Right Back. Slovenia away and Kosovo away are our first two matches and the hardest ones. I cannot understand why the coach had to do such a big chemistry change in the defence.
  24. The call ups are probably delayed for the match of Paok tonight. After this match is done too I expect them to announce them tomorrow.
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