Ellada2004

HT PAOK up 1-0. Keep it Up!

Come on PAOK one more and finish them off!

GOALARA

Crazy finish, for the first 70 minutes they were brutal. Great comeback to get three goals and now they should beat a weak Dinamo in Greece and progress.

PAOK should have potted 4 goals today, tough goal to concede from nothing after Prijovic scored. Giving up that goal changes the game plan for the game in Basel. Anyways I hope PAOK will progress.

Tough break again for KPaps.

We are going to need better passing, quick one two play to break down teams like Estonia who are going to put everyone behind the ball and defend as we saw last Wcup qualifier in Athens.

Greece got jobbed by FIFA with the suspension to Manolas or else the first leg I believe most likely would have ended 1-1 or at worst 1-2 which still would have given us a great chance going back to Athens. Skibbe didn't help our cause with his selections either. I hate to say it but I guarantee he will start our first nations league match with Tziolis in the midfield.

Skibbe better give Fetfa a call up and stop bringing in some of the same old players that have no place on the NT.

I would like to see Androutsos get an opportunity. Hopefully he impresses this season at OLY.

Good for Sokratis on going to arsenal, he will get the exposure he deserves.

Skibbe was idiotic to start maniatis at right back he was exposed on so many occasions. Tzavellas had his brain fart with the brutal back pass to the goalie which led to the penalty and that had us chasing the game in the first 15 minutes.

Missing Manolas ultimately costed us, the team looked so uncharacteristically nervous in that game. Three goals were just gifted to the Croats and that was it. I think Greece could have got by Croatia if he was in the lineup. Belgium is one of the top countries in the world of football and we gave them a hard time coming minutes within winning in Belgium were they are near impossible to beat.

CONCACAF should not get any more spots than they have. Having teams like Panama in or Canada who are as bad as they are if not worse is painful to watch.

Greece had a very tough draw getting Belgium it was almost as tough as drawing Germany or Spain. Had we drawn in with Romania, Wales, England I think we would have automatically qualified. Belgium I believe will get to the finals, Croatia are playing well but they were also steam rolling through the group stage at the euros and then crashed out in a poor performance vs Portugal.

Tachtsidis play has fallen off from a few years back, the Euro qualifier vs Hungary where he smashed a rocket goal he was tremendous. The last year watching him he’s not the same even his mental approach to the game is off. The match in Belgium we were up 0-1 he was on a yellow card and then was not thinking and committed an unnecessary foul which led to him being dismissed. Then we were under pressure for final 25 minutes and it allowed Belgium to equalize. Greece could have come out of Brussels with a huge win and it may have changed our run of results after that and allowed us to be neck and neck with Belgium going into the rematch in Athens.

We should be playing Serbia or Russia more often. Italy and France seem to have many friendly matches. EPO should not be scheduling matches with Iran or Saudis.

Why do we never schedule friendlies with Italy? Or other neighbouring countries, the only one I remember is when we played Serbia a few years back.

Most countries are playing two friendlies in this international window. The EPO schedules two friendlies in a year.

Iranians apparently didn’t want to come play in Athens after Constantinople wasn’t an option. Why even schedule match with these crazy muslims..

Skibbe got it all wrong vs Croatia after FIFA screwed us by suspending Manolas, he went with Maniatis at the back were he was completely out of position and was exposed by Perisic on one goal. He also started Tziolis again who is way to slow to match up with the Croatian midfield. Skibbe continues with Tziolis and makes him captain in the last friendly vs Saudis, why? Skibbe must go if he starts off Nations league with poor results and with the same player selections.

Glad to see Fetfa get out of Saudil league. Hopefully he goes to back to Serie A or an other top flight European league, then maybe just maybe he will get a look from the Ethniki.

I wish that header would have gone in for him. He definitely should have been subbed in earlier.

We have got to start getting results when the Nations cup begins and move up to at least 20th spot.

Great to see Manolas score and Barca is out even better!