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    Greece vs Estonia (31 August 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

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    what we need to finish first in the 4 remaining games:

    1) greece-estonia = greece win

    cyprus-bih = draw

    (belgium comfortably beats gibraltar)

     

    2) greece-belgium = greece win

    (bosnia gets an easy victory against gibraltar)

     

    3)cyrpus-greece = greece wins (possibly cyprus lays down for that)

    bosnia-belgium = draw or bih win, both results are in favor of us 

     

    4) greece wins over gibraltar 

     

    final standings

    greece 24

    belgium 22 or 23 (depends on whether they lose or draw bosnia)

    bosnia 3rd, etc. 

     

    we're lucky we play belgium first to know what to expect from their game against bosnia. 

    Greece vs Estonia (31 August 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

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    he's currently injured but there's a chance he's ready in tuesday for olympiakos game so by 31st he should able to start. also i don't like gianniotas, i don't get what people see and rate him that highly, mantalos over him any day because he's better in his defensive tasks and a more creative player. the fact that a mid-table spanish team is second division is interested in him says a lot..hope olympiakos doesn't unload him to them. 

    and don't worry about retsos, there's no way he's going to pick south africa over greece. that news were up about a month ago, basically their nt's coach just came in greece to talk to him and that's it, if he was going to pick south africa we'd already know that..also if you don't mind take a look at his instagram, half of his photos are from his games with youth nts which speaks volumes about that.

     

     

    Transfers and Rumors

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    kapino / gianniotis / choutetsiotis 

    koutris / milic 

    retsos* / botia / nikolaou 

    elabdellaoui / figeuiras

    vukovic / romao / cisse

    gillet / tachtsidis / zdjelar*

    ofoe / defour / siopis 

    fortounis / androutsos*

    marin / seba 

    carcela / ben / pardo

    emenike

     

    burdisso is going to replace retsos after the rijeka games once the young player signs for leverkuzen. also eindrecht frankfurt are interested in androutsos and zdjelar is close ro crvena zvezda on a loan deal. defour and djurdjevic will join after the rjieka games, defour will be a gift in case olympiakos progresses to the group stage. also ansarifard will move in a team where he will be the first option in order to be in iran's roster for the world cup. rumours say marteen stekelenburg from everton has been offered to olympiakos and i wouldn't be surprised if he'd sign. romao will play at cb since cisse is inexperienced and the midfield is stacked. ben will move to the wings. 

    in general that's a great roster and god first if we get past the croatian side it might get even stronger with the money that will be generated from the market pool. can potentially finish 2nd in the group stage but even in the scenario they do finish 3rd or even worse they lose to rijeka, they have a decent chance to reach europa league quarterfinals. last year leali ruined that and the roster was far, far worse compared to this one. 

     

    Greece vs Estonia (31 August 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

    in Greek National Teams

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    whatever you say, i'm sure NONE in this forum would like to see players in b divisions like diamantakos, gianniotas, vellios and bouchalakis starting for the nt. in fact they're THAT good that they couldn't cut in the almight greek league: gianniotas never played for olympiakos, vellios was good for a relegation iraklis side, bouchalakis and diamantakos were consistently warming the bench in olympiakos..if they are that good why they couldn't crack into olympiakos rotation which in a league 15 times worse than championship.

    ps. the argument with the salaries barely makes sense..

    Greece vs Estonia (31 August 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

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    Maniatis and especially Bouchalakis shouldn't be mentioned when it comes to nt. One is playing for a mid-table side in Turkey and the other one in english b division..Would rather see Kourmpelis or Siopis if one of Samaris, Tachtsidis or Zeca are out. Also Sokratis is suspended which means we'll see one of Retsos or Papadopoulos playing along with Manolas.My guess as I have said previously.

     

    Suggested Call Ups, Starting 11

    in Greek National Teams

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    Retsos will play for Olympiakos in the games against Rijeka for the champions league and then he will be gone, numerous journalists in both Greece and Germany reported that Olympiakos reached an agreement with Bayer Leverkuzen for 15 million euros and 20% of the money of the next sale.

    Suggested Call Ups, Starting 11

    in Greek National Teams

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    Depth in each position:

    Orestis Karnezis (Napoli?)

    Stefanos Kapino (Olympiakos) 

    Kostas Lamprou (Ajax)

    Other alternative options are Mparkas (Aek), Vlachodimos (Panathinaikos, should be capped soonly) and Gianniotis (Olympiakos).

     

    CB:

    Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Dortmund)

    Kostas Manolas (Roma)

    Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Hamburg)

    Panagiotis Retsos (Leverkuzen?)

    Dimitris Siovas (Leganes)

    Marios Oikonomou (SPAL)

     

    RB:

    Vasilis Torosidis (Bologna)

    Giorgos Tzavellas (Alanyaspor)

    Mpampis Lykogiannis (Saint-Ettiene?)

     

    LB:

    Kostas Stafylidis (Hamburg?)

    Leonardo Koutris (Olympiakos)

    Alexandros Katranis (Saint-Ettiene)

     

    DMF:

    Andreas Samaris (Newcastle?)

    Panagiotis Tachtsidis (Olympiakos)

    Dimitris Kourbelis (Panathinaikos)

    Manolis Siopis (Olympiakos)

    Zeca (Panathinaikos)

    Giannis Maniatis (Alanyaspor)

     

    AMF/Wingers:

    Kostas Fortounis (Olympiakos)

    Tasos Donis (Stuttgart)

    Petros Mantalos (Aek)

    Tasos Chatzigiovannis (Panathinaikos)

    Giannis Gianniotas (Olympiakos?)

    Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (Aek)

     

    CF:

    Kostas Mitroglou (Benfica)

    Nikos Karelis (Genk)

    Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest)

    Tasos Mpakasetas (Aek)

    Dimitris Diamantakos (Bochum)

     

    Suggested Call Ups, Starting 11

    in Greek National Teams

    Posted · Edited by Boxou

    looking up the depth of the team, in my opinion we have a good shot at qualifying via playoffs if we make it there and avoid italy or spain, always assuming that france and portugal will top their groups. may i list them below:

    gks: karnezis, kapino, gianniotis, glykos

    dfs: sokratis, manolas, siovas, papadopoulos, stafylidis, torosidis, oikonomou, retsos, tzavellas, lykogiannis, koutroubis

    mfs: samaris, tachtsidis, fortounis, siopis, kourmpelis, mantalos, tziolis, zeca, maniatis, petsos, kolovos

    fws: mitroglou, karelis, vellios, donis, gianniotas, mpakasetas, christodoulopoulos, fetfatzidis, pelkas

     

    keep in mind this is a 35-man squad so as it obvious, the coach will have to cut down 12 of them. so you can exclude the 10 who you think are the most mediocre and have no place in the ethniki and you have a good side, capable of qualifying to russia. 

    Road To Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup

    in Greek National Teams

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    about the playoffs, for us to be seeded or to have at least a favorable draw

    group 1: france 1st, sweden 2nd. most possible scenario to happen. 

    group 2: portugal 1st, switzerland 2nd. same here

    group 3: germany 1st, nothern ireland 2nd. most possible to happen too. 

    group 4: ireland 1st, serbia 2nd. ireland are hosting the serbs and the moldovans while travelling to georgia and wales. serbia are hosting moldova and georgia while playing away to austria and ireland. so the ireland-serbia result will be desicive. quite possible too.

    group 5: poland 1st, montenegro 2nd. realistic scenario and likely to happen

    group 6: england 1st, slovenia 2nd. quite realistic to happen.

    group 7: spain 1st, italy 2nd. nothing you can do here.

    group 9: croatia 1st, ukraine 2nd. the most impossible to happen since ukraine needs to beat croatia and turkey at home and iceland away at the same time. in the end iceland will clinch the 2nd spot

     

    so. seeded: italy, switzerland, iceland, sweden

    unseeded : greece, slovenia, nothern ireland, serbia. 

    montenegro worst second placed team. 

    aaand let's make a prediction about the draw too

    italy v nothern ireland 

    switzerland  v serbia

    iceland v slovenia

    sweden v greece 

    Greece vs Estonia (31 August 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

    in Greek National Teams

    Posted

    Karnezis

    Torosidis, Manolas, Papadopoulos, Stafylidis

    Samaris, Tachtsidis/Zeca

    Mantalos Fortounis Donis

    Mitroglou

     

    The Estonian team will have 2 of their starters suspended. Yesterday they beat a very, very bad Latvian side (Andorra and Faroe Islands are ahead of them in their group, actually they are in the last place) 1-2 in a friendly game. Prediction: 2 or 3-0 victory for Greece 

     

    Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Greece (9 June 2017- World Cup Qualifier- Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica)

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    Posted

    In fact fifa awarded a 3-0 win for serbia because of the drone incident. Cas punished serbia,  not fifa neither uefa. they will play 1-2 games behind closed doors and pay a fine. Don't know if that will turn to our favor as if we beat belgium we'd need them not to win in bosnia. But beating belgium is out of reach so we'd better hope theythey'll beat bosnia too (they would do that nevertheless). 

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