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Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
karnezis, tachtsidis, and manolas got some sprezzatura from italia no doubt. -
Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
yeah I thought tachtsidis played very nicely lots of dangerous plays. mitroglou was cancelled out by their star centre back but he was really hustling out there. -
Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
Karnezis was a stud out there. 2-3 great saves in the second half. Mantalos great at drawing fouls and a goal threat constantly (really reminds me of karagounis) Staf is winning me over and has great work ethic and nice goal with Mitro/Kpaps building a trick wall. manolas was pretty good imo. great play to his strength multiple times winning goal kicks. 9 points in 3 games I think we already beat our euro campaign points wise? :P -
Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
add blocker worked like a charm. pame dinata! thanks you! -
Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
I can only catch the france game atm. the stream links just give me a million pop ups and ask for credit cards any other tips? -
not that I've heard of. Ranieri had an eye for talent picking him out from Aek in the 2nd division. Fetfa should be included. if clubless Tziolis and Maniatis can make the squad, might as well choose fetfa who's lighting up saudi arabia who by the way tied australia 2-2. SA isn't too shabby. one of the better asian sides, NT and club wise.
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misread your meaning then. I thought you were talking mere pace. but ya i'll still stand by my statement of speed of build up play is not the most important thing to get the W as we've proven this past decades. our strengths make up for this weakness I'm definitely not a soccer expert tho, but that's just my 2 cents and I think it's a good one regardless. mike loupnikis is slacking on the extended greek highlights. anyone got a good high quality link or source? I wouldn't mind watching the full game either.
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guys, even in our golden era greece was always slow. guys like holebas and salpingidis are the exception to the rule. as long as we get results that's all that matters. greece's strength lies more in actual 'strength', and technical ability. this is why a guy like cisse can come in and shred defense in superleague cause he has speed, whereas a guy like berbatov struggled more in the superleague. greece is essentially the strength of the epl and technical ability of italy (although obvious lesser tiers). we generally lack speed and work ethic ala germany and epl. speed isn't everything, otherwise ivory coast, and nigeria would have some world cup trophies already.
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Estonia vs. Greece (10 October 2016, A Le Coq Arena, Tallinn)
georgelaz replied to Omonoia9's topic in Greek National Teams
great choice of photos of them too lol! -
mantalos gets things done. fetfa is a joy to watch and would love to have him in there as well. he gives defenders fits!
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mantalos has that NT x factor that we've been missing since karagounis
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a lot of people were paranoid we'd lose this, so to win by 2 is great. the lineup was pretty good but instead of maniatis/tzavellas/staf = holebas/kpaps/karelis should've started. also pretty nice considering we didn't have samaris, so we may only get stronger. sad I didn't get to watch the game, can't wait for highlights belgium is looking scary and bosnia seems to have fallen off. 2nd place is our to lose. we need the stars to align to get 1st
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hummels is sexy as F***, no homo.
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there aren't that many defenders better than manolas and sokratis, that's for sure. but obvious one's are = chiellini, ramos, hummels, tiago silva, boatang there's a reason why these guys are known world wide and our boys not as many. you can only count on one hand that has a duo equivalent or better than our duo, namely = italy and germany
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yeah good point and very strange since defense on paper is our strong suit. at least sokratis, manolas, kpaps. I think we should play a traditional line, rather than pressing high. yes sokratis and manolas are fast, but majority of good forwards are still faster. they're just fast in terms of cb's.
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we have a lot of in form players = Mitroglou, Sokratis, Karnezis, Ninis, Karelis + that's were my confidence is coming from and on paper we're better than every team except Belgium in this group. I understand the compulsion to be cautious and not let it slide into arrogance, but 2nd place is ours to lose still.
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I predict a 2-0 or a 2-1 done decisively vs. cyprus and