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italy-nothern ireland; fifa already lost chile, netherlands and the usa. losing italy would be too much so they'll give them the worse team out there which is nothern ireland. just a prediction about the rest. switzerland-greece ireland-denmark croatia-sweden.

suspended.

probably we'll score a couple more goals but this is ugly to watch. good news portugal is winning in the half time.

i don't think they're idiots enough to take a yellow in a game against gibraltar? i believe stafylidis should have taken one too though. but i can see them taking one in the first playoff game and miss the second one.

well in fact scratch that, that's our pot which means we can't draw any of them. instead we'll get; from pot 1; one of romania, hungary, scotland, slovenia from pot 3; one of montenegro, isreal, bulgaria, finland from pot 4; one of cyprus, estonia, lithuania winners of each group will play in the semi finals and then in the final. this system guarantees an extra ticker for the european championship and means if we don't get there from our qualifying group we'd still have a chance by winning this one. in general it replaces the old system of friendly games. these games will be played between next september to next november while the semi finals around june of 19. euro qualification starts on march of 19.

i think around august he said he would be back in 2 months, which means he should be fine in the mid of november.

you'll watch him today i'm afraid and not as a dm. here's the most probable starting 11. karnezis maniatis, sokratis, papadopoulos, tzavellas zeca, tziolis mantalos, fortounis, stafylidis/christodoulopoulos mitroglou

http://www.footballseeding.com/national-ranking-uefa/ranking-2017/ check here.. take a look at nations league in wiki, it will clarify the things..bit bored to explain.

not the appropriate topic but since most of you have heard about the nations league thing going up next september..that's our group if we do beat gibraltar serbia, albania, norway, greece

ffs denmark would be AMAZING to get. basically denmark >> switzerland > italy > croatia for me. we owe them something from that game in oaka for the 1998 wc qualification where we needed the win in if i'm not mistaken we hit the post twice in the last min.. as i said fifa would like to have italy around so they'll get nothern ireland, while i predict switzerland will get ireland and croatia-sweden

hopefully tziolis won't be playing in the playoffs. i'd rather see a samaris-tachtsidism midfield with donis and karelis on the wings and torosidis/stafylidis as defensive backs. tzavellas has done ok this campaign but we can't play stafylidis as a winger just to make room for him to play in the starting xi. i also think tziolis would never play had we gone to zenica without samaris and tachtsidis but looks like he impressed skibbe positively and he keeps rewarding him. let's see how karelis will do in the next month, he'll be a welcome addition to the nt again after more than a year. i just hope lazaros will be still in the squad and not be replaced by some mpakasetas. i mean how is that guy nt material? he doesn't even play in aek and lazaros has been killing it yet we needed people to scream out for lazaros to make the squad.

i made some calculations and its unlikely for them to be unseeded even if they lose. at the worst case they will be the worst seeded on points team. worst and most possible possible scenario; seeded; italy, switzerland, wales, croatia unseeded; greece, denmark, sweden, nothern ireland worst 2nd slovakia best scenario switzerland, nothern ireland, sweden, italy greece, slovakia, serbia, denmark worst 2nd ukraine/croatia

i don't think it will be retsos, more likely tzavellas. in the midfield i hope to see one of kourmpelis or tachtsidis instead of the usual suspect but i know im not getting it.

im pretty sure fifa wants italy to be there (same for portugal but they will advance by beating switzerland in the last game) so they won't give them a tough draw. i predict an italy-nothern ireland match-up if anything. i think we'll play against switzerland, although most of these teams are quite solid and it will be quite hard to advance.

i also hope ukraine beats croatia. i think we'll be in from today as scotland won't beat slovenia (they barely escaped from a game at home against slovakia with a 90th min own goal and all that while playing with 1 man up from the 20th minute).

i was watching some athletic show and slovakia beating malta was amongst the results we needed to happen. but it was the first time i saw this scenario so they were probably mistaken.

stafylidis is not a winger like skibbe insists to play him. that's why he looks terrible at times, as mantalos does. both are not wingers and they have been asked not to overlook their defensive duties. if karelis is healthy for the playoffs i wouldn't mind watching him and donis as wingers, fortounis behind mitroglou, samaris and zeca in the midfield along with the usual backline.

donis doesn't play, as well as manolas, samaris and probably torosidis. i would go for; karnezis, tzavellas, papadopoulos, sokratis, stafylidis, zeca, tachtsidis, mantalos, fortounis, christodoulopoulos, mitroglou.

as much difficult is for us to get a playoff spot, the likes of scotland which have to win in slovenia and ireland which have to win wales or croatia which have to win in ukraine, what about them? we have probably one of the easiest fixtures out there even if it's not completely up to us.

im reading in case scotland drops points to slovenia we'll also need slovakia to beat malta, dunno why. not saying it won't happening but still.

nothern ireland are playing on the road against norway, so such a result isn't impossible at all. but definitely there are better chances for us.

blowing it away against gibraltar would be amazing imo. especially if tomorrow we get the result we want in slovenia/scotland

samaris, donis and manolas are all booked for the next game and torosidis doubtful due to injury. what i would play; karnezis, tzavellas, sokratis, papadopoulos, retsos/stafylidis, zeca, tziolis(ffs) fortounis, christodoulopoulos, mantalos, mitroglou glad they will not be suspended for any playoff game if we get there.

1.5* year. and i don't think he would be worse than mantalos, he's already been a member of this team before.

ffs we have not showed up today....mantalos missing this had me in tears as well as his overall performace... all in all we don't look good so i won't be surprised if they equalize us..