Alphonse

Samaris’s passing is killing our go forward. He keeps passing sideways or backwards to players in poor positions

What the F*** is Vlahodimos doing

Nearly 0-1... Armenia all over us early on

Pame, me ti niki!

Should aim for min 3-0 to make up for the a Saturday disaster

Players did not step up ok but when you are playing so many players out of position it's hard not ti blame the coach and when we keep making the silly mistakes over and over... come on man. Our starying 11 was all wrong, and the subs in the second half were laughable, we can not continue with Anastasiadis. Say what we want on players but we need a coach who AT THE VERY LEAST is starting players in their natural positions and not a team of defenders so we dont lose at home and eat these silly easy goals. Incidentally, since 2005, Italy have only scored three goals in the first half of a match against Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and now Greece! ?

. Can you please post more often? Your post is excellent and I wanted to touch on this point, you can add the Turkish 2nd goal to that and an invisible display vs Bosnia in the first half when he was meant to lead the midfield, I said before, I dunno how he is doing it at Benfica but he has been utter crap for Hellas the last 12 months at least, was also the lead man in the Euro 16 qualifiers and we know how that went. If Samaris starts against Armenia we are in trouble again.

I dont agree, his passing is much better than Samaris and Kourbelis, I think he gives us more possession and better lead up than these two, and right now this is something the Ethniki needs after Anastasiadis has confused the players

I dunno if you remember J1078, when we signed him, he did say, does not matter if you're a 7 10 or 4, if you're good enough you can play anywhere... I didnt take it too seriously at the time but guess what... he is serious and his comments after the Italy match are very concerning... sadly in the space of this "camp", Turkey game and Italy game, Angelo has really lost me and any faith in him. Italy game takes the cake, that was a disaster and the amount of mistakes made is insane. Bosnia 2nd half was a distraction to all this

How does Anastasiadis not see these things!!!

I think the criticism of Fortounis is very harsh tbh. Whilst he is no Ronaldo and can do some things better, he was set up to fail today by Anastasiadis. You can not expect Fortounis to do it all on his own!!! He has no support, no one up ahead and only Masouras from time to time on his wing, this is against a team like Italy.. . He took them on and did what he could with no one helping him, I will cut the guy some slack, Ange is to blame for this with Kosta

This is in fact very very true!! I have never seen it so bad, the 94 team that travelled to the USA would put 3-4 past this mob. I posted before some months ago, we need to start looking at skilled players, you saw today and I saw it in other games, Turkish game for example, opposition is pressing is and we have to play it back to the goalkeeper as the current mob cant take a player on or have any vision to pass it out, Samaris and Kourbelis just can't do it, Zeca does and so does Bouchalakis but we also need skill across the field, Fetfa can do it for example, the guys in Holland like Lamprou also, speed and skill, some of the better younger PAO guys, Christodoulopoulos would have been some help today, Stafylidis, no right wing... horrible stuff, yes Torosidis would have been good today, as would Koutris who is much better than gameless Stafylidis. What good is playing all these defensive players when we keep eating so many goals! Best defense is a good offense, enough with these crap tactics NOT TO LOSE - not working

25k telika, We gave Italy all the room in the world to do what they want, we couldn't hold the ball for more than 30 seconds and when we did we went back backwards, we were really really bad. A team of CB's and DCM's - once pressed couldn't do much, not good enough at international level What's even more disappointing is the 2 week camp that happened in preparation for this, what did they do?? Was there a plan? How can there be a plan when we have been demolished now by Turkey and Italy, both games if not for Barkas and Paschalakis could have been 4/5 goals against and F*** all in attack, no midfield. The makeshift player thing needs to stop ASAP!!!!

Once again spot on

That was horrible in every way possible. Barkas made good saves to keep the Italians at 3 the only positive Ah re Angele... I thought he was onto something after Bosnia but Turkey & Italy games have been a nightmare

Coaching staff on our bench look like death... are these surprised?? Can’t believe how hopeless we are all round

We have no skill or technique on the ball... so flat with heavy touches.

Samaris is really one horrible player for the Ethniki, dunno how he starts every game

It’s a horrendous line up file, we didn’t stand a chance from the moment that was the plan. Samaris can’t lead a midfield, Zeca at RB. Stafylidis not that good... no striker, central players everywhere with no skill, couldn’t do anything

Correct, on top of that the gap between the front 2/3 and the rest of the defenders is massive, Fortounis will be gassed by the 65th

We can’t do anything... Italy just press us and we lose the ball, Italy unlucky to not go 4-0 up

@gsots spot on

As I said previously, Samaris is utter s%$#!. Great shot Siovas

Can’t pass or hold the ball for more then 40 seconds, terrible

I’ve never done it but believe you can do that