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also shows how unlucky we were facing the opposition we faced. belgium and croatia look like the strongest teams at WC Mitroglou Donis Fortounis Lazaros Kourbelis Zeca Staf Sokratis Manolas Bakakis Karnezis bench/reserves kpaps karelis fetfa mantalos pelkas torosidis samaris retsos tzavellas pasxalakis tachtsi my pick for 23 man squad if we theoretically qualified for world cup.

4-3-3 would be sick and i'm glad people are still okay with Samaris. he had a lull but he definitely is one of our best dm's hate it or love it. hmm mitro donis fortounis laz tachtis samaris zeca staf sok man bakakis karnezis might be decent and then we also got pelkas / fetfa / mantalos as impact subs. also got kpaps/retsos to park the bus if needed siovas might need to take a look as elefantos said he's a very intelligent player with superior positioning. playing great in la liga and he can also play cdm unlike kpaps.

i watched the friendlies. you can't always take friendlies super seriously it's a time to experiment. tachtsi played very well in big games for olympiakos this year when other players were slacking. he has a place in the team. especially for weaker opponents where his passing can slice through stubborn defenses. his head vs. AEK & his assist to mitroglou vs. belgium were also this season too. not saying he's an auto-starter but he has a place in the team.

tachtsi decimated hungary last time he played them and plays decent for olympiakos. i think he'll be alright. tziolis is a problem though for sure

thing that's pissing me off is Arsenal is trying to get the young tourko cb soyuncu. as soon as toprak came to dortmund sokratis didn't play as well - don't think it's a coicidence. he played great with hummels and bartra they should get manolas as well. obviously sokratis's is a professional and will do his best but I think for chemistry purposes manolas would be way better and i'm not sure that mavropanos is ready to be a regular.

We should be able to take this but it'll probably still be a heart attack knowing Greece NT lol thing I like about this nations league is that the games will all be relatively competitive as it's pretty merit based. If we deserve to be ranked better then we will can work our way through the ranks unlike the previous system where teams like England/Switzerland face chum opponents because of their pedigree.

Well according to the wiki page. I got excited prematurely but the wikipedia is cited so it looks good. Sokratis almost certainly. My family is from kalamata and my cousin and Sokratis are friends. He knew he was going Arsenal a month before his father leaked the info.

Fetfa is back with Olympiakos. If he shows form there high chance he'll be back in the ethiniki. Great news.

only exception I see is Australia.

we did serbia recently. I remember the Kone/Matic incident.

I'd still choose KArnesis over Pasxa but PAsxa is my number 2. Karnezis won his starting 11 for watford and had some shut outs against a top 6 epl side

Fortounis was still a top scorer/assister in superleague and Mantalos was out for most of the season. The game where pelkas and fortounis both played pelkas had hunger but not the raw talent. Pelkas's first touch was terrible and could have led to a goal. Fortounis nearly scored twice that game by inches however. I think we are dissappointed because Fortounis was supposed to be so much more but he's still one of the best options. People were ripping on me by saying a similar thing with Mitroglou until he got back to his superb form. Mitroglou even in bad form is bed than our other options and same with Fortounis (unless Mantalos is in form)

idea putting toro as cdm/cm mitrodonis fortounis laz toro zecastaf sok man bakakis karnezispretty solid line up.

for once can the turks not be hostile? apparently not.

any chance they'll get Manolas too? he was in talks for arsenal as well...

that would give us nice wing options with donis laz and fetfa finally. mitro Donis Fetfa Laz Zeca Staf Kpaps Sokratis Manolas Bakakis Karnezis No brainer line up that I think even skibbe could think up

wow donis destroyed bayerns defense. 2 interceptions that lead to a goal and assist and then a cross that led to another goal (second assist in a way). bayern already won the title but they were playing a pretty fully line up.

started for Arsenal vs. Manchester United. Despite Arsenal losing 2-1 he was rated 8/10 and arsenal fans are praising him stating that he's a beast on multiple occasions. Beat Fellaini on a few headers + kept Lukaku in his pocket and nullified a lot of his contribution.

isn't mantalos still injured?

siovas in the team is fine but I'm not sure on his stance as an integral part of the backline. seems like coaches like to add their own unique touch come hell high water. Santos with Holebas/Katsouranis Skibbe with Tzavellas/Donis Rehhagel with Charisteas Alefantos would want Siovas and Holebas and he doesn't rate Staf. Staf definitely needs to be on the squad though.

skibbe to get sacked and alefantos NT coach! he'd bring holebas back fo sho. he favours siovas though which is questionable lol

Karelis Mitroglou Holebas Fortounis/donis Fetfa/Pelkas Tachtsi Zeca Sokratis Manolas Kpaps Karnezis 3-2-3-2 something like this would be good for qualifying campaigns. If we we win all the games against the minnows and not concede points to likes of estonia etc. then play defensively against big teams might be a nice formula. although tachtsi had bad friendlies I think on the left with a dynamic winger like holebas spraying passes on the left lane would be dangerous. Zeca can compensate for the whole that fetfa leaves.

predominately muslim. iran is not arab. they're persians and they speak farsi which is closer to Greek than Arabic linguistically as it's an Indo-European language. c'mon now lol. Egyptians aren't arabs either they're Egyptian and had their own language but were conquered by Arabs and took on the language. Before they used Coptic predominately. (Still used in the North where a lot are orthodox Christian)

barca probably wish they bought him earlier... he'll probably make a big in the summer after that... teams always wait till last minute when something big like this happens to make big signings.