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yeah tziolis has a gerrardeque outside box shot. bouchalakis has this too and he's younger and growing and left footed. if tachtsidis doesn't shape up, he might take his place.

kaltsas is fantastic on his a-game but i'm not sure if he can translate that to the NT i was watching astreas vs. pao highlights and he made 4-5 dangerous plays in one game.

wings should be fetfa and gianniota imo because they're true wingers. karelis cf. mantalos and fortounis free roaming AM karelis doesn't seem to know how to utilize the wings properly. he gets closed out very easily. centre box is where he dominates. look at all his goals. they're all inside the box centre for the most part.

belgium is a nearly perfect team. the only thing they are missing is true full backs. but they have 4 great cb's. the only advantage we could have is if we use pace on the wings for the slow cb's. which we don't have a lot of. holebas would have been KEY to expose this one flaw

haha i saw that pic

is kone actually greek? I never got a good reason for his last name. it doesn't sound greek or albanian for that matter. his face doesn't look super greek either i know wiki says he had grandparents and there are some albanians i know who have greek ancestry for sure but his last name is just odd lol

watch him play for aek so u can get a better example of him at his best. he only played like 2 games for the NT I think he can become very important for us this campaign. I like him so maybe i'm just making excuses for him, but a lot of players don't have his attacking iq on the NT so they misread his passes and don't get into proper positioning eg) Maniatis lol

he's super fun to watch when he's on his game. i think he'll find his groove eventually. if he can like things up for aek he can do it with the nt as well

lmao shame that a whole culture can be shamed into compliance with a straw man argument.

we have slight wiggle room with bosnia. on paper we are in much better shape. belgium we have to make all the right moves and have some lady luck. we need kpaps, manolas, sokratis at the back at the same time for the above two no doubt.

the Greek football NT is my favourite team for all sports. A lot of people in Greece are huge fans too but there's a weird meme going on where people also shun patriotism. Shits gotta stop. Greece has fantastic history, people, culture. We should be reverent for it and support each other!

haha ellas you always have the most positive mind set on things! that's a crazy stat. we beat everyone by at least 2 goals too. might be one of our greatest starts stats wise.

come to think of it, tzioli did seem to be a hustler in the pao days but my memory is foggy on that one.

lmao samaras vs kpaps is a classic. what was this over anyways? I miss sammy his thread finally kicked the can :P

staf is winning me over. I remember in 2012 holebas was a huge liability and most of us weren't fans. he won us over world cup 2014 staf is also 22, and holebas is 32. so he can surpass him. not as devasting when you think about it. would've loved to see tachtsi thrugh balls to a bombing holebas on the left flank tho funny how the commentary is greek

holebas is greek. his dad's name is achiles and imo he played hard for us and didn't appear to slack at all. I have cousins who are 3rd generation greeks and they are just as greek as anybody. him and mr. mykonos are regularly spotted at the beach bars lol he's our best lb by a long shot. staf and tzavella are the equivalent to skondras and kitsiou as a replacement for torosidis he's a no brainer to be our lb I really don't get it. and dude plays in epl we have been getting results without him though, perhaps he has been the cancer of the group? despite putting on sick performances, that could just be in spite of his not caring lol.

mitroglou was decent. he helped cancel out their best defender which let our other players to come forward. without mitro, we might've not scored the other goals. he had a nice deak attempt that if a few inches went his way would've been a goal. also he was a key part of staf's goal. with the wall, confusing estonia because they thought he was gunna take the shot as well, and i think he helped draw the foul too. he played with a lot of passion too.

I don't think he's gone for good. didn't skibbe use him at least once against luxenbourg? which he was one of our best players on the pitch

holebas is more like 27 than 32 which his name suggests. I always wonder if it's because he started late so his body has less mileage?

I don't really believe holebas is out. if that did actually happen, he's warm-blooded and will probably retract his position after reflection.

We'd beat most other NT's with this line up. Mitroglou Fortounis Mantalos Tatchsi Samaris Holebas - Sokratis- K paps - Manolas - Torosidis Karnezis I think this lineup is the only we really have a shot of beating belgium.

we've been blessed with Seitaridis and Torosidis. Doesn't seem like we have anyone of that quality coming up the ranks. I'd rather just play with 3 cb's sokratis as a makeshift rb than kitsiou or skondras

we beat estonia basically without samaris, sokratis, torosidis, holebas and fourtonis almost half of our team! all of which should be starters and key players.

hopefully we have a fully healthy side against bosnia and belgium. we'll need it.

tzioli & the boythes -> new nickname for the Nt, no doubt! hahah