Friendly: Greece - Belarus (9 November 2016, Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus)

[Omonoia9]

Friendly for the ethniki at home to Belarus in Piraeus at Karaiskaki. Good warmup for the bigger game 4 days later.

[J1078]

I wonder who gets called up for this game.

[Dean97]

I think Maniatis will be chosen. Skibbe I believe will try and keep the same team. It's a good idea because you should have the same players around as it benefits the team.

[Nikod]

From the looks of the squad, we can expect to see more of the same. Putting my Skibbe hat on, here's how I think we'll line up:

 

---------------------------------------------------------Mitro--------------------------------------------------------

 

----Karelis------------------------------------------Fortounis---------------------------------Mantalos-----------

 

------------------------------Maniatis-------------------------------------------------Samaris-----------------------

 

 

----Stafylidis--------------------K. Pap--------------------------Sokratis--------------------------Torosidis-----

 

------------------------------------------------Karnezis----------------------------------------------------------------

 

Manolas is a loss for the backline but I'm sure K. Pap will do fine. Stafylidis is starting to win me over and is 100x the player of Tzavellas, even if Holebas is 100x better than him.

Maniatis is unfortunate and Samaris needs to step up and prove he can boss this team from midfield.

Karelis is useless. Wish we had Holebas or an actual winger in his place. Bakasetas has shown very little so far.

If we win, it will be because of Fortounis and Mantalos.

Mitro has looked very poor and needs to be better.

Edited November 5, 2016 by Nikod

[Nikitas]

fortounis wont play against belarus since he suffered a hematoma against pao and will be spared so he will be fit for the game against bosnia.

http://www.newsit.gr/athlitika/Ethniki-Elladas-Xoris-Fortoynis-kontra-sti-Leykorosia/671498

[Nikitas]

other players that are not matchfit at the moment and most likely wont play tomorrow.

sokratis , bakasetas , tzavellas , and offcourse fortounis. kapino stayed home due to injury and is replaced by kyriakidis.

http://www.sentragoal.gr/ethnikes_omades_podosfairou/arthro/ametritoi_traumatismoi_stin_ethniki_omada_ponokefalos_skimpe-130580361/

http://www.sport24.gr/football/ellada/ethniki_elladas/prostateuei-fortounh-me-leykorwsia-o-skimpe.4360540.html

[Greekaroos]

Opportunity Kyriakos Papadopoulos & Giannis Maniatis to get some game time under their belt.

[Nikitas]

^yeah he will play players who didnt play alot yet. skibbe says he will start with glykos and tziolis. we know tziolis is useless but at least we know he aint a starter for the sttrongest line up anymore. this match will probably be hideous to watch and to be honoust i dont care as long as we win and since skibbe will safe some players what can we expect.

http://www.sport24.gr/football/ellada/ethniki_elladas/skimpe-arketes-allages-sto-filiko-komviko-to-mats-me-vosnia.4361081.html

i expect something like this. i hope he dont play torosidis the whole match since he just recovered from an injury.

-----------------------------------glykos----------------------------

torosidis---------papadopoulos----oikonomou----stafylidis

----------------------maniatis-------tziolis------------------------

gianniotas-------------------mantalos--------------????????

-------------------------------karelis--------------------------------

[Nikitas]

^weird indeed. to bad that this is still standard.

sport24 comes with this horror line up. well karelis on the wings is more then stupid but i let this one go since we dont have any more wingers called up. looks like a 4-3-3 with 3 dm's?. dont we have anyone who can replace toro in the near future? good thing is that alot of players get a rest and can recover more. sokratis , mitroglou , torosidis , tzavellas , bakasetas and fortounis didnt even trained yet.

-----------------------------------glykos----------------------------

maniatis--------papadopoulos----oikonomou-----stafylidis

-------------petsos-----------tziolis--------samaris-------------

gianniotas--------------------vellios----------------------karelis

http://www.sport24.gr/football/ellada/ethniki_elladas/xwris-eksi-h-proponhsh-ths-ethnikhs-ellados.4361270.html

[GreekLunatic]

How does tziolis and maniatis still get picked siopis is probably the in form dm in the league he should be rewarded 

[J1078]

wow...  Another Steller line up Mr Skibbe way to waste another opportunity to check out some other talent on this team especially during a friendly. He continues to make absolutely pathetic choices. 

[Akritis_1944]

I blame Otto and a weak EPO. Apparently Skibbe got advice from Rehhagel to only rely on a small squad of players. 

This isn't going to end well I'm afraid. Like the last 4 years under Otto, this team is doomed to mediocrity.

[Nikitas]

official starting line up up with(take a seat) petsos right back.

---------------------------------glykos------------------------------------

petsos-------------papadopoulos-------oikonomou-----stafylidis

----------------------------tziolis------samaris-------------------------

mantalos---------------------karelis------------------------gianniotas

------------------------------------vellios-----------------------------------

http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/podosfairo/i-endekada-tis-ethnikis/3240389

Edited November 9, 2016 by Nikitas

[J1078]

Any links for this game?

[gk2033]

maybe espn3.com not sure yet though. they had the olympiakos game on

[GreekLunatic]

Seeing the line up the great tzolis is captain what a joke

[Makynia]

Guys what channel in Greece is showing the game? Skai or Ote?

[Blackhawk]

Skai has the game. They also has a web stream, but I am not sure if they will have region restrictions. OTE is not broadcasting the friendlies.

https://www.facebook.com/Greeksoccerontv/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

[Blackhawk]

Looks like there are regional restrictions on the Skai TV stream. Available only for those in Greece.

[KOLOSSOS13]

I'm not a big fan of some of the players starting, but finally we have a coach that uses friendlies to try out some new things! 

 

I'm hoping especially Gianniotas will do good tonight.

[Nikitas]

working link with greek comment.

http://livetv.sx/eng/eventinfo/463880_greece_belarus/#webplayer_youtube|P57UDNIZy5Y|463880|519817|5|1|en

[Nikitas]

online it says petsos is right back but its maniatis.

[Antaeus7]

Greece 0 Belarus 1

[Nikitas]

almost 0-2 , how did they miss.

[J1078]

Hey surprise surprise We are getting dominated again 18mimutes into the game. What did you think was eventually going to start happening with these players. It's going to be ugly against Bosnia.