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    UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifiers

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    Posted · Edited by Alphonse

    Far out man... seen the groups form I wanted to avoid group B and C... and of course we get drawn to B... 

    As much as I want to hope I can't see us finsih first or second with this opposition, even if we do something with France or Holland, Rep Ireland, who may not be in great shap, but they will be hard too... this is basically a Euro 24 group stage draw so massive test. 

    As others have mentioned, our solid defense is no more so whilst I have seen some posts on Social Media about Mavropanos owning some big names, I sadly dont see that at all when Cyprus can open us up a few times.

    Super good that we have the UCL play offs, if Turkey qualifies directly then it gets super interesting for us.

    Keen to see Holland and France at the World Cup and what we are facing, I havent seen them play since the Euros.

    As for seeding, we threw everthing away in the dud years of 2015-2020. our Euro 2016 group was so good, even Euro 2020 group we wasted.

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    2022-2023 Nations League: Greece - Northern Ireland (27 September 2022, 21:45 EET, Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Athens)

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    8 hours ago, PaokCT said:

    a twitter account that runs percentages and possibilities for every draw/qualification called Global Football said they did 1000 simulations of the draw and this was our most likely group :

    Switzerland

    England

    Greece

    Iceland

    Gibraltar

     

    This would be entertaining, but no way we get out.

    Yeah, I def dont want England and Switzerland always gives us a hard time, we struggle to beat them there. Anyway, hopefully we dont have to worry about this in a week and a half

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    2022-2023 Nations League: Greece - Northern Ireland (27 September 2022, 21:45 EET, Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Athens)

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    Posted · Edited by Alphonse

    9 hours ago, J1078 said:

    I would say in addition to that in pot 2 you also want to avoid Austria and Serbia and in Pot 3 Ukraine and maybe Sweden to avoid.

    I would be happy to get Austria, traditionally a team we do ok against them. Dont want Serbia, Ukraine or Sweden although we showed we can beat Sweden last campaign but also shat ourselves over there

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    2022-2023 Nations League: Greece - Northern Ireland (27 September 2022, 21:45 EET, Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Athens)

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    Thank god the 60th minute came and we decided to play football! 

    Defense doesnt look at strong as the first 4 games

    Ioannidis, I was hoping for more (hold the ball up better, dont get disposessed so easy) but early days

    Douvikas... no good

    Pelkas is no left midfielder and I dont think he should be starting, Foundas was much better when he came on

    Bakasetas, needs effective wingers to be effective

    Dam shame we didn't see more of Alexopoulos and Papanikolaou in these two games, Bouchalakis aint cut it

    Credit to Kourbelis, Hatzidiakos, Tsimikas, Baldock, Masouras and that ripper goal by Mantalos.

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    2022-2023 Nations League: Cyprus - Greece (24 September 2022, 21:45 EET, Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca)

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    That was such a frustrating game to watch, before Cyprus scored I really thought he were cruising, in control and our goal was a matter of time away, but then Cyprus cut us open twice, their keeper then made a great save on Pelkas and from there on in you wanted to shoot your tv screen.

    Ive mentioned this before but I think we have an issue at CAM when Bakasetas is playing and NOT firing on all cylinders like today, I think we will look much better with Mantalos there on Monday.

    When I saw the line up and saw Baka + Pelkas and Douvikas I was alittle worried but they latter two really showed how poor they are at national level and how on earth Alexandropoulos only gets something like 11-15 mins in a game we are struggling so much in midfield to build decent attacks is mindblowing.

    The second half was dire, walking pace build ups, all be we were very unlucky with Foundas post and goal that should have stood 100%, it should have been 1-1 really.

    I hope they work on their corners and freekicks, 95% if them are better for the opposition as we generally do nothing and give the ball away.

    Team really needs to bounce back vs Northens Ireland and watching Bouchoulakis try open up Cyprus was murderous. 

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