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Lazaros didn’t have an impact yesterday. Also vs Hungary he had a difficult time getting into the rythym of the game. Pelkas did not look good vs OLY so it’s a hard call.

OLY dominated the match especially in the last twenty minutes PAOK was hanging on. They had numerous headers in the 6 yard box and other chances that they just could not put away. Paschalakis made some key saves. Fortounis delivered some great free kicks.

Greece tied England in 2002 World Cup qualifier and the eglesi were lucky to get that draw. I think we would fair better vs them. I don’t want anything to do with Spain even though we have had good results against them but they look to be back in top form and hungry again after demolishing Croatia. France and Belgium are the two best sides in the world but we did give Belgium a tough test but they can throw so many quality players on the pitch so I want to avoid them.

Ya OLY could have scored a goal and the three points. Tsimikas with a silly challenge that earned him a second yellow card and sending off. Fetfa and Fortounis played well throughout. Kamara hit a nice long range shot that was saved.

Crap goal..Bad defending and bad goal keeping!

Greece remained at 42 in the September FIFA rankings. France and Belgium are tied for 1st spot, the first tie for top spot in 25 years.

It’s great that the EPO has put this ultimatum on Skibbe. My question is if the EPO fires him who do they hire next? Hopefully it’s not another low budget coach and then we have more issues for the Euro qualifiers.

How does Tagliafico score two goals?

AEK played well in the 1st half and had a couple of chances but the 2nd half has been rough.

Yes if they were smart they would get rid of him seeing as we are in a cream puff group and are blowing a golden opportunity to top this weak group and a chance of going to Euro via the Nations League.

What channel is game on?

I hope AEK can scrape out a draw. Will be tough missing Lopez and Livaja.

Another good win for PAO. Team of youngsters is really geling. This is positive going forward.

Hopefully Zeca comes back into the starting 11 for Bouchalakis. Tzavellas will be out for Lykogiannis though I wouldn’t mind see Staf running up the wings and unleashing some shots from distance.

I have the same thoughts about Skibbe getting canned. The only thing is that we have to hope that Greece manage to top this group (which should have been a sure bet) and then win Group C Nations league so we book a EURO spot or else we go into the traditional qualifiers with the threat of having a very tough pot 1 team ex. France, Spain or Belgium and a difficult pot 2 team thrown in. If that’s the case then we may have to wait until 2022 World Cup to see the Ethniki in tournament football.

Starting Tzavellas was the worst coaching decision by Skibbe they scored two goals when he was on the pitch, in the 2nd half with him subbed off they got nothing. Why doesn’t Skibbe call up a Siovas who plays in Spain? The coach keeps screwing us vs teams like Hungary who we should not be losing too and least off all allowing 2 goals too. As others here have said you would not see us leak goals especially the second one under Santos or Otto. Sound defensive football is suppose to be our identity!

Skibbe did realize how putrid he was and subbed him at HT. Why did Skibbe not start Lykogiannis? Tzavellas did not have the pace to keep up with the Hungarian forwards and was at fault for the second goal.

Tzavellas play was labeled as “hapless” in an article at Agona sport on the post match and player analysis. Hopefully Skibbe is done calling him up!

I totally agree with your 2nd point.

Still can’t understand why Skibbe started Tzavellas who struggled only to take him off at HT for Lykogiannis, what a waste of a substitution. Also he should have started Mitroglou in the first half when we were pressing we had many quality chances and he may have been able to finish one. It’s a very disappointing loss a tie would have been the more fair result now I think we have to get 10 points in the last four matches to top the group.

Fortounis was creating everything great dribbling, free kicks as well. He had a chance early but shot just wide. He's been our best player the last 2 games.

We were hard done to lose today at the very least we deserved a draw.Again another great first half offensively and moving of the ball, but we are always stuck with 1 goal for our efforts. Hungary had 3 good scoring opportunities to our 8 or 9. The second goal we conceded was ridiculous, there forward dancing around us with shot after shot coming in and the defence cant clear the ball?? We needed a draw minimum vs a Hungary who have a couple of all say good players and who played in an empty stadium. Now the team gets to play in Greece and they need to beat Finland, that's what the focus has to be.

I watched on a livestream last match. Would like to order channel on TV if it’s available here though I can’t seem to find it.

Would like to see Laz start this match too he deserves it. Also I would like to see Donis make an appearance. I’m glad If Zeca plays too.

They don’t neither does sportsnet. I wanted to order on tv, is EPSILON available to order as a separate channel in Canada? I have ALPHA.