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Looks like we dodged a bullet. Manolas only expected to be sidelined a week:
https://extratimetalk.com/kostas-manolas-thigh-injury/
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Thigh strain for Manolas. Doesn't seem overly serious, right?
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1 hour ago, Limnos77 said:
Unfortunately Karaiskaki is the only real football stadium and has the best pitch. This BS can't go on though
Embarrassing. Makes the entire country look like hooligans
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On 10/10/2017 at 6:35 PM, Rockafeller Skank said:
Overall.
A good performance from defence midfield and attacking mids. All of them were creative Mantalos Fortounis and Gianniotas.
Stafylidis has started to feel the no playtime he has at Augsburg. His crosses used to be gold or at least most of them. In this match he had only 3-4 good and the lucky one with Gianniotas Goal.
Lazaros disappointed. The Lazaros meme ended. I still believe he deserves a spot as on his day he can take on better opponents too as he is unpredictable as a player. However, today he just disapointed. Could do nothing and looked out of sync with the team. Hardly helped. I believe the Mantalos-Fortounis-Donis trio behind Mitroglou is our best for starters.
Torosidis proved once again how good and how much of a key player he is. People may talk about Bakakis but he is not there yet, and might never be and do the career of Torosidis.
Mitroglou disappointed me as well. Hoping this was due to injury and no playtime since June but he really disappointed. He scored 2 goals but missed another 2-3. Same with Cyprus. Scored but lost a ton lot of chances.
Gianniotas mixed feelings. I wanna say "he did the work of Bakasetas and Lazaros and even Mantalos who re all preffered over him, in just 14 minutes. He scored." But honestly he just got in when they were all tired as fuq and weren't even following a tiny player like him with their eyes. His pros are that he smells the goal. He knew where to put himself on every occasion. He was the only one that believed in Stafylidis making that cross on the finish line and he freed himself from everyone to put his 4th goal. I believe he should be a 100% last 10-15 minute substitution on every match Greece plays. He is mobile and has workrate. He moves on the pitch. Anyways, so I can't say that he did better job than all the other wingers Skibbe has used on this campaign but he did score a very bizarre goal.
Wasn't expecting to form an opinion from this match but I did.
a) Karnezis must got really bored
b)Torosidis is deserved captain. He knows how to talk post match. He even εξέθεσε the EPO saying that "In Australia we talked with EPO and the Coach and discussed what went wrong in the previous campaign and tried to solve most of our problems.Everyone had fault not just the coach the players too and the EPO as well." Needs balls to be able to say that.
c) We re going to the playoffs boiz.
d) Mitroglou finding form with Marsseille will upgrade the whole way this team looks.
e)Gianniotas must be a sub after 75 especially if we re defending a score. Open opponent defences are the easiest to break.
f)Stafylidis future captain in 7-8 years. We ve forgotten Holebas with him but without playtime he will deteriorate. Idk the situation with him. He was supposed to get a move to Roma/Inter/Hamburg but none happened and now he is benched. Maybe "punishment" for wanting a move?Expect a sell during winter but hoping he gets playtime before we play the playoffs.
g)PLEASE DRAW DENMARK PLEASE DRAW DENMARK PLEASE DRAW DENMARK
Also, I know you lot probably gonna call me inhuman but, what did that retard want in Olympiakos Stadium with the shirt of Panathinaikos?? Literally feel no pity for someone so stupid who went there. He knows the situation in Greece. I ve even been stopped from OFI fans here in Heraklion with a Barcelona shirt and they told me to never wear that again. He just went to his archrival's stadium with his team's shirt.
Seriously? You're actually saying someone deserves to be beaten by 20 people for wearing another team's jersey?
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I haven't watched enough of any of the team four potential opponents to know how Greece might match up. Anybody have any insight into how Greece might exploit or be in trouble against Italy, Denmark, Croatia, Switzerland?
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Yeah, that is interesting on the players. Sounds like Denmark is definitely the one team we'd want to draw.
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Ok, so it’s going to be Switzerland, Italy, Croatia or Denmark... who would we prefer to draw? Who do we absolutely not want to draw?
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OK, after today's results, what will the pots be?
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Just to note: Greece is a freak Gilbrator goal away at the moment of being eliminated. Need to at least get the second goal to eliminate that possibility.
EDIT: Nevermind!!
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Lazaros looks crisp
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Shaky start. Don't want to be 0-0 in the second half
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20 minutes ago, kbxk508 said:
My prediction:
POT 1: Portugal or Switzerland, Wales, Italy, Croatia
POT 2: Sweden, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Greece
If Croatia fails,
Sweden may go into POT 1 and Ukraine into POT 2.
Whatever the outcome, we will be heavy underdogs, but if we are at our best we won't be easy. We conceded just 5 goals in our 8 games against the top 4 teams in our Group.
I think back to Tzavellas goal in the last kick of the match, in the 95' min vs Bosnia in Greece. Got us a point. How valuable did that turn out to be.
Was thinking the exact same thing yesterday. That was the difference for Greece.
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4 hours ago, Chris Tsamados said:
Watching the game now. Slovenia definitely the better team and pretty much having constant possession. Let's hope Scotland don't get a lucky winner.
Crazy. Officials waved off the 2nd Norwegian goal at the final whistle. Imagine if that had been the difference in Greece advancing
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Portugal and Italy would be scary. Everyone else -- tough, but beatable.
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As of now, this is what it would look like, assuming it's based on FIFA rankings:
Pot A
3. Portugal
13. Wales
17. Italy
18/19. Croatia/Slovakia
Pot B
20. Northern Ireland
23. Sweden
26. Denmark
47. Greece
In this scenario, just hope we dodge Portugal or Italy.
The pots are divided according to FIFA rankings, correct?
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Scotland ties... That mean Greece is in, correct?
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Goal, Slovenia!
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Now, just one more goal, to put it away. Or park the bus. Either way!
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Everyone calm down. Just need one Belgium goal... Still a whole half to go.
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OK, obviously we need to beat Cyprus, we need Belgium to tie or beat Bosnia... From the other groups, what else do we need to happen, so that Greece isn't the last place 2nd place team, so I know what else to pull for?
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Just beat Cyprus. Can't worry about the other stuff. Think if the full team is healthy, Greece should be fine. By the way, what's the latest injury report?
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This is the way it stands now... (keep in mind Greece has 10 points, having only played Gibraltar once; Bosnia has only 8 for the purposes of the 2nd round seeding, because they've played them twice). Greece's max point total is 13, which is why a win over Cyprus is obviously a must.
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 B 
Portugal
6 5 0 1 21 3 +18 15 Advance to second round (play-offs) 2 C 
Northern Ireland
6 4 1 1 9 2 +7 13 3 F 
Slovakia
7 4 0 3 11 5 +6 12 4 I 
Ukraine
6 3 2 1 8 5 +3 11 5 A 
Sweden
6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10 6 E 
Montenegro
6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10 7 G 
Italy
5 3 1 1 9 7 +2 10 8 D 
Republic of Ireland
6 2 4 0 6 4 +2 10 9 H 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
6 2 2 2 10 8 +2 8
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Two questions: What is the actual status of Manolas? And what are the two dates for the playoff?