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interestingly if you look at our euro 2004 side, majority were playing in Greek league. 8/23 were not. nowdays seems the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2004_squads#Greece last example being world cup 2014 14/23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Greece our world cup 2016 and 2018 campaigns I'd wager was even higher if it was a 23 man squad.

might be because tachtsidis is more an attack minded cm that excels at through balls / creativity. creativity can be hit or miss though. I like the idea of mantalos and zeca. both are xtremely hard working players.

based on current form I'd rank it 1) Zeca 2) Mantalos 3) Galanopoulos 4) Bouchalakis 5) Kourbelis 6) Samaris 7) Tachtsidis 8 ) Androutsos 9) Tziolis 10) Petsos 11) Siopis not sure if i'm missing anyone. I'm thinking zeca cdm and mantalos as cm right now. if we have 3 of sokratis manolas retsos kpaps siovas available we could also just do 3 cb's zeca as sole cdm and put more attack minded midielders

there was a chat I saw on IG and it had top speeds of arsenal players. sokratis was third behind aubamayang and bellerin. It was only 2 years ago he outpaced Ronaldo I doubt he got that slow. I think people are just stereotyping because of his strength that he's slow. I didn't see any plays in which Sokratis was outpaced really so don't get where these kids are getting these facts.

my friend is a big fan of epl and burnley didnt play at least 3-4 of their starters. they're prioritizing epl happy for the win nonetheless

my friend is a huge epl fan though and knows burnley well. that was like 3-4 of their players at least B-team for burnley they're prioritizing epl

ya olympiakos destroyed burnley. fortounis looking amazing. FK goal, assist cross off a set play and amazingly struck pk goal 2 goals and an assist. he's back baby!

3-1 fortounis goal!

u got a stream with commentary?

it should have been tachtsidis and samaris in the middle but they s%$#! the bed in terms of form. those two also huge reason why we didn't qualify for euro 2016. they were supposed to hold the torch after katsouranis and karagounis retired

bakasetas looked really good in champions league qualifiers. think he should back our backup cf if karelis and mitro are out of form. we can play sorta false 9 with him + lazaros/donis/pelkas/fetfa on the wings too galanopoulos was class as well. think form wise gala and zeca should be our cdms/cms

true about pelkas. bouchalakis seems like a similar player to tziolis though. slow and only really brings a good shot. he's lower level than gala imo. boucha played 20 games gala played 40+ might as well start samaris as he played same games as bouchalakis in a more prestigious club

I've been a fan since just before the 2004 euros so quite a lot. I just can't recall the PKs against him except the costa rica game pasxalakis is very good at pks. he has a great acrobatic style. underrated.

I actually forgot to include Samaris in there. He did do 24 games for Benfica last season. Hopefully he gets more of a role and has some comradery with vlacho there

Mitroglou Donis Fortounis Lazaros Mantalos Zeca Staf Sokratis Manolas Bakakis/Retsos Karnezis Subs Karelis Fetfa Pelkas Kourbelis Siovas Kapino

ooo vlacho is at benfica now I understand why people want him called up haha. Is Karnezis actually bad at pens or are we just using the costa rica pk shootout when he was injured to make that assertion?

Karnezis won starting spot as GK in one season over an established keeper. He's also better than Ospina/Contini when in form. He's also a class above any other greek keeper atm. Kapino unfairly got sent to reserves to Oly after a bad game vs. AEK. later to findout that Lazaros was the player of the season. He's probably our true second best keeper. Put on a remarkable performance vs. Belgium and still very young for a GK. Pasxalakis for the here in now is very in form and 27 is a baby for a GK.

Lyko over Bakakis? I understand he has more size so would be more solid on flank but Bakakis is on fire right now and is a proper RB while Lyko is a LB. I'd rather have Bakakis or Retsos at RB. Lyko as backup LB mayhaps why would we start vlacho for nations league? is karnezis injured? for once we actually have solid wingers in donis and lazaros but inherited a new cm problem lol.

bakasetas plays very well for AEK and is a key player but he's best as a CF and I'd rather have fortounis or mantalos as CAM than baka. do we need vlacho though? pasxalakis seems more promising and we also got karnezis and gianniotis too as well. I doubt vlacho would get chosen for germany they're so gifted in the GK spot. panathinaikos is a mid table greek team now. they're no longer top 4 and may never be top 4 again after the financial issues it suffered and ban from uefa competition.

he has risen!

i might be related to lampropoulos aek cb he's from pyrgos which is 20 mins from kalamata and my third cousins have that last name

nice game. livaja reminds me of a young mitroglou oikonomou a warrior out there. bakakis has flair and def should be NT's right back Celtic underestimated AEK. Why didn't Mantalos start?

we need Samaris to get his form back. The 5-6 games I saw of tachtsidis he was good for Oly. Samaris and Zeca in form would be the ideal for next 2 years.

to be fair I think both were playing a man down for huge chunks and went down swinging really close legs like 4-3/2-3 aggregates