Alphonse

Im with you guys on the Siovas incident, he wasn’t been malicious at all and just how some experience can help guys like Svarnas (who let’s face it, could def learn a thing or two but should never have been there also) Siopis was simply dumped after that, JVS could have spoken with him instead of just dumping him, that’s what good people management is

He didn’t hold his own for the Ethniki in his latter games mate, he was horrible and we actually lost games because the guy couldn’t make accurate passes, he along with some others had the chance to really do something special after 2014 and it was an appalling failure. His game deteriorated big time sadly

Sadly Galanopoulos won’t be on the field for some time and when he is back we have to hope he does not get another injury

English podcast on this game and JVS

Samaris 🤣

There is certainly pros and cons to JVS and that also is what worries me, early on I was very excited with the football we played under him and how dynamic we were but then we failed in the Nations League in a group we should have won and now the inability to beat Georgia at home and Kosovo (again) has really put us in a hard place where I dont think we will qualify for Qatar, I knew this was never going to be easy but some key points that for me could see a new coach. 1. Our best players are not playing and they are the CB's who play and have played at the highest level. Everyone knows the trio I am talking about, they also brought with them incredible experience which we dont have and that cost us today and I believe in other matches too (look at the last time we beat Kosovo) 2. Game management - very poor, I am actually surprised how badly JVS has managed games this campaign and always leaving subs way too late to make a real impact/change. Subbing Masouras off today... he was really the one creating space and chances. 3. Player selection, even outside of point one, what is the obsession with Stafylidis, the guy is not at NT team level and got injured again even at camp, he would have started today and when he didnt start, he starts Tsimikas at CB, watch the lead up to the penalty Mavropanos gave away, Tsimikas should have covered that off, Giannoulis lost at CB also in the Kosovo game and Harris Mavrias against Georgia... we never played a RB at RB, only Baka at CAM, Pavlidis over Douvikas... I can only see this issues continuing under JVS and for me we need to do better than this as he never learns from his mistakes. In saying that I wouldn't be totally disappointed if he stays on as I think he has a great rapport with the players and we are playing a better brand of football but a team like the Ethniki needs its best players out there and I dont see that happening with JVS.

Must be cause it's an Australian channel, for me it shows game highlights of the actual game

Half time was our biggest enemy today but also not converting our chances in the first half, you could see in the second half we dropped a gear and Sweden got a little more into the game but geezzz, what a brain explosion by Mavropanos to literally give Sweden a goal like that at such a stage... We were shell shocked after that and have them another stupid/easy second goal, we were completely lost after that.. its devastating

Pelkas was poor against Georgia (yeah despite the goal he nearly stuffed up), if he and Stafylidis are the two inclusions we will have a very hard time to win unless Pelkas plays very good

What do you mean re? It's full highlights of the game

Here you go pal https://youtu.be/oRZfZe1NyNQ

As I thought the formation and limited attacking players it creates made it difficult to breakdown Georgia as we have struggled with similar type teams in the last. We should have been up 1-0 when their keeper carried the ball over the line but we had to wait for a very picky penalty. We march on but boy, JVS needs to learn he needs to make subs much earlier in the game

Argirios Giannikis is the new coach, he had that great season with PAS Giannena last season

As usual, the coach we have started with has been a failure and and such, Milojevic has agreed to take an offer from Saudi Arabia! We look for a new coach again, Manolo Jimenez and Georgios Donis the front runners

Reports were saying he is going with 3-5-2 like he did vs Sweden for this match... not a fan

Nope... he is gona have yet another surgery... he is KPAPS V2

Stafylidis… wow… hopefully he does not see the field. Besides that pretty identical to last call ups and without the injuries. Inform Masouras and Limnios could make a huge impact

Great player, keen to see how this guy progresses

That's one of the best penalties I've seen a Greek take

Embarrassing to say the least... all the good work undone. Have to mention, what a ridiculous red card to Gracia when Lambrou was all over him... VAR too... hopeless

Not really file, he has been playing at CB for years now, transitioned there from LB years ago

Zuber made us look much better, I’m still worried about our defence, it’s gets picked apart easy, we need to fix especially when the bigger games come up. Still, some good positives, the new played are good upgrades, looking forward to next week

Against Georgia, 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 at least I really want to see Saliakas or Kotsiras at RB, have a Galanopoulos or Siopis in the middle, and have Masouras/Tzolis on the left with Pelkas on CAM (although it will be Bakasetas or Baka at CAM and Pelkas hand on the right) and Douvikas up front. See how Giakoumakis does in the next month but he could be in the mix also. Ultimately, dont need 3 CB's and only 3 attacking players in that game, go back to what we used to do which helped create chances that we are not doing now (but for the last 30 mins vs Sweden) Against Sweden a similar approach that we saw yesterday

I think I am on the same thought. I really liked what he did at the start, we were going nowhere and then started playing fast flowing football but that has not been seen this campaign but for the last 30 minutes vs Sweden were we looked to come out of our shell and play football, even Bouchalakis looked a totally different player. JVS for me has so much promise, I would just hope he continues to do what makes us work and see that when you have players that can play balla like Tzolis for example, and get someone to work on the right wing we can do some damage. The next two games are important, under JVS we are playing very well against big teams but really struggling to break down the Georgia's and Kosovo's and this simply can not continue. In my view, the line up working against Sweden when we decided to snap out of playing like scared kids and took the game to them, this line up wont work against Georgia for example as we need to break them down (and from the first minute, we cant keep giving away so much time before we start to play), thus we need a more dynamic combo in the middle then Zeca-Bouchalakis and we need more on the right than expecting Androutsos to do it as he can't, he needs someone ahead of him. Octobers games are gona be huge.

Masouras, Pelkas, Giakoumakis (will be playing by then) and hopefully Galanopoulos