Ellada2004

When will the EPO ever schedule a friendly match to work in players and tactics? You know like most other foorballing countries do.

How can Skibbe start Tziolis in a world cup playoff, who offers Nothing? This is not a friendly match. He starts Bakasetas who has no touch on the ball. He also sits Fortounis the guy who can deliver free kicks and Corners as we saw on our only goal in the Tie when he swung it in to Sokratis for the header. EPO can you PLEASE find a coach who has a clue on how to set up a team and play the best inform players and find a coach who doesnt play his pals, this isn't a Rec team this is a NT with the opportunity to play for the World Cup. ENOUGH ALREADY

this sucks we have to wait until 2020 now? Dam it! We need leaders,men to lead and play like warriors like Karagounis and Katsouranis were for the Ethniki. Sokratis, Manolas and Zeca today only showed that fight. If we don't have these players we will be watching another tournament again from home!

I am so disappointed no world cup, we looked like fringing Canada! Just pathetic inexcusable. Now we have to wait until 2020. Fire SKIBBE Now!

Ya I forgot Samaras, in qualifying they always go against us.

When do we ever get a penalty!

Bakasetas and Tziolis shouldn't even play in friendlies...

Yes

How's Fortounis off when he's our best delivery of a free kick? Wtf

Screw Kuipers and FIFA

Croatia playing Anti Football! We had to bag a goal

Fortounis is on the bench. Even The commentators here can’t understand it.

Livescore lineup says Karnezis Toro Manolas Sokratis Tzavellas Tziolis Zeca Giannotas Fortounis Lazaros Mitroglou why Tziolis again Skibbe?

Hopefully Skibbe opens it up we are down 4-1 and we need to attack them from the get go. So he better implement the right personnel (hopefully) Croatia will sit back and try and eat time of the clock. A quick goal and there nerves will start to rattle. Then things will get interesting and we will have our crowd fired up.

This sums it up... These players selected for a playoff to go to the World Cup its not like we were playing a friendly match.

I hope that he doesn't play Tziolis but we always hear ourselves say this. Bakasetas should take a seat too and Lazaros should be in. Need to go all out and attack Strinic, Vida and Lovren who is a joke just as when I watch him play at Liverpool. If we score early Croatia will get rattled and start to run around as they did at the end of the first game. It's a shame Mitroglou didn't get a goal at the end, would have been a huge boost.

We screwed ourselves in Zagreb, losing 1-2 would have been bad enough but we still would have a decent chance. I am still trying to wrap my head around how we give them 4 goals and 3 were so cheap and laughable. Even IN Belgium a far greater and skilled Belgian team could only get 1 and that was with us down to 10 men for 25 minutes and the goal came in the 89th minute. Missing Manolas was a huge loss a crime by FIFA if he's in there its safe to say the backline is more stabilized and we are not running around like a bunch of chickens. Skibbe better field a lineup that will attack and no Tziolis and Samaris please. Bakasetas should not see the field at all. The team has worked hard for 2 years to get to this point and needed help from other results to get a top eight 2nd place and its ashame things went sideways for us from having Manolas suspended, Torosidis out and Donis injured who I thought would have put the weak Croatian defence under pressure with Mitroglou. I pray to the good Lord that we can get a 3-0 it would hurt to miss a World Cup after what happened missing out on the Euros in what was as straightforward a group as you will ever see. PAME ELLAS!

Two years of a solid qualification overall and it goes down the drain in 30 minutes.

It sucks we couldn't pull out a 2nd goal at the end there. Make it 2-4 and then we are somewhat back in the tie going back home. I am Stoll stunned at how crap our defense looked only Germany hit us for 4 goals in the Euro and they earned them, we gifted Croatia 2 of the dumbest goals possible.I can't believe it.

It was embarrassing right up there with the Faroes matches but this was the first game of a playoff tie to go to the WorldCup and the team was unorganized and most were not giving it there all on the field. Samaris, Tzavellas, Tziolis, Staf, Fortounis, Karnezis were abysmal as was our coach! The players were talking about securing a World Cup spot for there injured teammate Mandalos and this is the match they played. Absolute Garbage!

I was just saying keep them off the board and there angst would start to rise. Then that passback and boom it’s a 1-0 and there it goes. Missing Manolas was a crime that FIFA should pay for, those arses. Not having Toro exposed us even more, it’s a shame at 2-1 our team and coaches plan should have been to lock it down and not concede and even losing 1-2 was manageable but 3 minutes later another goal? Also why was Tsanas given the boot?

I am still steaming, we looked like a laughing stock. All the other ties will be closely contested. Our coach today coached like it was a friendly. The formation, starting Maniatis and Samaris. His substitutes throwing in Bakasetas who is brutal.

It’s a shame we did not have Donis available to run at the weak Croatian defence. Lovren was brutal and in the last 5 minutes they were under pressure and completely disorganized as we were. If K Paps gets the ball to Mitroglou it’s 2-4, and then we have hope for Sunday in Greece.

Bosnia is just another made up country like the Skops they have nothing and are nothing. Bunch of p*****s.

We defended like a team canada it was disgraceful. Every goal except one was a gift. It’s like we had a bunch of Lovrens on our side. We give up 1 goal in Belgium to a superior team down a man for 30 mins and today 3 goals in a half hour. Just unacceptable.