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I wish re. The turks are kicking our ass economically. they have their own air lines are making signing big name players still in the 28-32 range rvp, sneijder, queresma, nani, klose. you can thank the politicians for throwing greece under the bus in their thirst for power eg) Merkel.

we were spoiled with giourka + toro past 10+ years.

can't see him doing well in epl. he's too slow.

totally forgot. but we played some attractive football vs. hungary in the 4-3. why not go back to that? namely the midfield consisted of pelka, tachtsi, mantalos, fortounis, samaris right? kone as a power sub for cf.

strange. thought he was playing well for paok?

we're not gunna see any surprises. basically skibbe's plan is Mitroglou Fortounis Mantalos Staf Samaris Tzav Sokratis Kpaps Manolas Toro Karnezis His 4 additional go-to's are karelis, tziolis, gianniotas tachtsi it's not shabby at all just karelis at LW and tziolis in general are mistakes. Belgium whole squad is pretty much in form tho, so we might get blown out. we're talking naingollan, hazard, courtois, de bruyne, lukaku. exoun piotita

Karnezis Manolas - Kyriakos - Sokratis Toro - Samaris - Staf - - -Tachtsi/Fetfa - - - - Mantalos- - - - - - - - Fortounis - - - - - - - - - - - -Mitroglou - - - - - - - - - - Let's think one tourny at a time. Toro will still be our best RB in 2018.

Yeah he seemed to have more potential than Manolas or Sokratis but cause he was so good at a young age I think he played too much at a high level for developing bones/muscles. The male body doesn't even finish growing until 26. He's still a beast though and automatically creates impact anytime he plays for Greece.

Karnezis's seemingly winning the mental game against Dzeko as he skys a penalty and a header in Udinese vs. Roma. Might be looking to into this, but his angers seems to have got the best of him to take composed shots. Good sign for Greece vs Bosnia 2. http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2017/01/15/udinese-vs-roma-highlights-full-match-2/

not that big of a deal tho guys. it's just more selection, no one is putting a gun to your head to watch s%$#! matches. just watch deeper into the tourny and matches you're interested in. Much like how a lot of people don't watch qualifiers. Greece vs. Estonia is not gunna get the average neutral excited, but for us we are engaged cause that's our patrida. it increases the chances that everyones favourite team gets in and will raise the popularity of the sport and therefore quality long term.

no way he starts pelkas vs. belgium. he's shown he's conservative and in what could be one of the most pivotal matches of the campaign, no chance unless pelka gets a hat-trick against some big time team at paok

I'm really liking Tzavellas nowdayz. He has a winners mentality too. Saying 'we're going into belgium for the win.' That's unlike the Greece we saw in the euro campaign who would make sheepish statements.

Pelkas and Gianniota could work cause Pelkas is almost double footed and pacey. Can't we play without wing too? or is that a major liability? I think PAO did it, but PAO has been playing lower than their historic standard

we don't even have a wing problem if holebas and fetfa were selected. the wing could've been a strength of ours smh

don't see him doing well in epl. I can see him doing well in la liga or italy.

I forgot about gianniotas. didn't staf play on the wing last game vs. bosnia?

This is what I see Skibbe doing vs. Belgium. Not too shabby. Only flaw is Staf and Mantalos are not natural attacking wingers. Maniatis is clubless. Mitro Staf Fortounis Mantalos Maniatis Samaris Tzav Sokratis Manolas Torosidis Karnezis

mls is getting pretty decent. former pao player ivanchsitz played for the champions and looked pretty good. also was a good player for pao and austria NT. It's slowly starting to pick up steam and at least in toronto, attendance is very good and the stadiums are state of the art from what I saw (not that im a pro at sussing that out)

I was wondering about Kapino. Cause I always thought he was just greek but the last name puzzled me.

russian league is pretty good. almost as good a portugal. zenit and cska moscow in particular. it's a strange league tho, seems like 80% ussr people and 20% brazilians. Off my first look at the squads.

karagounis, gekas, and katsouranis were great abroad as well.

torosidis can play dm very well. if we have all 3 of our cb's available we can slot sokratis as rb.

even our best position CB belgium evenly matches us with a better goalie (courtois, kompany, alderweild). we're truly underdogs and belgium is a world class team. seems this campaign they really worked out the kinks. we tend to turn it up against the big dogs though, let's hope we do.

i'm surprised we've never really seen mitroglou with a second striker via karlies/kone. seems like an obvious option.

the prophecy is coming true. karnezis in form to an 84! http://www.futhead.com/17/players/51349/orestis-karnezis/ we now have 86 sokratis 86 manolas and 84 karnezis. Fifa wise the strongest greek side of all time. the lazy greek mentality is also thwarted after the faroe losses so it may have been a blessing in disguise. if we can scrap a point or more from belgium, anything can happen.