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tzavellas is solid but not starting 11 unless we have injuries great fk, crossing, strength and versatility as a LB/CB ti ginetai me ton fortouni? we need him in their, he's a class above our other attacking mid options

people talk smack about him, but torosidis is still highly relevant. the fact that he can still maintain at RB at 30 is a testament to his quality when other RB's get shifted to CB or CDM He rarely is at fault for our goals, and is always potent on the attack for us. Sometimes he makes shaky crosses but he is also responsible for the few glimpses of attacking chance we've had

nice from the highlights we seem focused. always tend to play better with a chip on our shoulders. pleasantly surprised. thank god Mitroglou is in form. hopefully fortounis didn't get knocked too bad. we pretty much played our best lineup so I'm finally satisfied. like i said before, if we play our best lineup to the T we're a very very good side.

poly kalo lineup. Holebas and Mitroglou are besties so being up top together will be great. Fortouni and Karelis also work great together. so a nice duo tag team. hopefully they can create quatro chemistry but most of the time chemistry is innate imo

I predict 1-0 for the dutch or 0-0. but, we have a good chance since they're missing key players. they're defense is good. it's not approaching world class like their offense, but it's always been good. and they play with 3 at the back don't they? that extra man should more than compensate

yeah i'm with you nikod astes m*****es na valoume 5. let's try to get a win. play a full proper lineup. balanced.

really happy we're started with a minnow rather than the hardest opposition than the euro a lot of sports is pure momentum so getting an easy win will be huge for our confidence

Maniatis when playing at olympiakos was one of our most underrated players imo. he does so many little things off the ball and is an engine. now tho, den xero his wiki says he's still with oly

hmm Gianniotas over Ninis or Mantalos tho? is he really in that good of form? Maniatis is psixaras but i've heard he lost his form abroad? I'm feeling Petsos and Mantalos right now. They turn it up for the ethiki it seems. Is petsos gunna be playing at bremen regularly tho?

I'd be very surprised if we win to be honest. pame dinata ellada!

the fact that everyone is using the same system is not reason enough to follow suit. I think above trends we need to play to our strengths. We only have 2 clear midfields, fortounis, and samaris. everyone else is a question mark. by playing to our strengths, yes our attack will be disabled, but it will also be almost impossible for the opposition to score on us. This is why Otto and Santos were so successful. We were essentially what Spain was to midfield, to defense. Albeit to a lesser degree.

fortounis is pretty comfy on his own hybrid version of LW/LCAM. Pretty much almost double footed as well. Is it optimal? Not sure. But he does look really good there for Olympiakos. I think we should play to our strengths. Much like the spain dominated era where they played without a striker for so long. I think we should play with a diminished midfield instead of trying to force it. Use that extra man to focus on our strength, defense. Our defense is our strength so play with 5 at the back. 3 Midfields (Samaris, Fortounis, Best Third Option Tachtsidis/Manatalos/Kone.ninis, and 2 forwards (Karelis/Mitroglou) The fact that besides Samaris and Fortounis are clear but our third option in midfield isn't clear already should sound alarms that this is the way to go.

Holebas shouldn't be in the black. He's been our best player in all the friendlys lately. People gotta stop questioning the guy and let him do his magic. He's much better than staf

I think he's at a sweet spot. I don't think he can get a significantly better club personally. I think his potential would max out at like an ajax or mid-table german team Up top though I'd rate it 1. Mitroglou 2. Gekas 3. Karelis 4. Klaus Gekas is retired for NT tho but he's still our second best option imo.

wraios. that's exactly where I want him for the NT. cf behind mitroglou.

Anyone else love Holebas + tachtsidis combo in fifa? so good for one two one twos. a nice tachtsidis through ball up to holebas on the left maximizes his world class passing + pace. the NT should replicate this in real life to dominate that left flank lol

on his game he can single handedly demolish teams. eg) Aek, Israel

leicester epl win was super suspicious. I suspect match fixing and/or steroids. I think they'll finish around 8th this year

england is solid. I too think they will do well world cup, perhaps a semi-final. dier, ali, kane are good players and barely 20.

Brazil England Italy Spain Argentina France Germany Belgium (just this golden generation) Portugal (reluctant saying this cause we've had their number past decade) The above teams are the only teams that I think will pretty almost always be better than us. other than at, rank is up for grabs. with extremely efficient managing, we're a top 10 side.

hmm he'd be cool to have on the left side with ibarbo on the right. last time pao won superleague was when we had counter-attack game via leto/cisse/govou. i think that's the main reason why pao has been better in europe. in europe greek teams will generally be weaker, so playing a counter-attack game is a humble way to beat opposition. whereas olympiakos plays like a championship team, but that's not gunna work as much vs. bigger heavy weights. he's a solid player tho, great pace, fk/crossing, almost double footed

turkey would be good for a lot of greek players 1. they pay really well 2. same climate as greece 3. champions league level teams (queresma and nani won the euro while building form in turkey) 4. they don't like us, but they respect us cause they know our strength 5. i think greeks elevate their game against turks cause of the bad blood. eg) gekas lighting up the turkish league

he should go to a lower tier serie a club or superleague udinese, olympiakos, hellas verona come to mind. also a position change to cdm might be appropriate because of fitness. he can't be running around up and down the pitch for 90 minutes like the engine he was 25 for olympiakos he's still very capable of brilliance, as we saw with assists to gervinho in europe.

it's not completely hopeless. at the championship he's bound to play about 20 games or so. if he can impress, he most certainly can be a start in a premier league team. I hope he can prove me wrong, there's a high probability of him doing so. people said the same for bale, that he was arrogant for going to real madrid. let's hope for him it's confidence and not hubris. bale however, did have several great season for spurs.

yeah I'd play the same players maggica just put them in position tho Karelis as CF behind Mitro a bit (basically the way Mitro plays with Jonas at Benfica) and Mantalos as RCAM and Fortounis as LCAM If kpaps is available I'd put him over Tachtsi and make it 3 cb's otherwise Tachtsi very few teams are better than us if we play our best players in position.