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

[Antaeus7]

good thing this is a friendly, you experiment those players

[GreekLunatic]

What u expect with captain tzolis in the midfield a game to give new blood a go and we playing players who don't play for their clubs 

[Nikitas]

yeah totally , but im not shocked , this we could expect with this line up. still we cant lose against belarus , not good for fifa ranking also.

[GreekLunatic]

I think maniatis is living off his goal in Australia he can't make the olympiakos side He is first pick

[Antaeus7]

It's embarrassing for Greece to let Belarus dance around them in midfield. This is why Tziolis should never play for them again.

[Blackhawk]

What is it? Something like 100 fans seeing the game? Why even bother scheduling them? Just have a regular practice. That's how our players are treating it anyway. 

[Antaeus7]

Greece 0 Belarus 1 halftime

[Dutch Eagle]

Is that goalscorer a son of Roberto Carlos?  What a curve! 

[georgelaz]

youtube live stream with greek commentary pretty solid. we still have a full half so hopefully we can pop two.

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[Greekaroos]

Bring on Maniatis if we want to win the control of the midfield & you will see our attacking playing will get more touches.

[georgelaz]

tziolis is not looking too bad actually haha two bullet shots from a good position. and a decent interception

Edited November 9, 2016 by georgelaz

[georgelaz]

fortounis, poitita. with that shot. staf nice hustle. diamantakos keeps messing up silly shots. shoot it on target.

Edited November 9, 2016 by georgelaz

[Nikitas]

no wonder diamantakos is a bench player for karlsruhe.

[Greekaroos]

One minute it had Maniatis not playing then it has him coming off at half time. So they have mistaken him for Petsos. Probably giving some valuable game time as back for Torosidis rather than defensive midfield where he has the useless Tziolis.

[Nikitas]

skibbe made this line up so that its near impossible to score or even win. how stupid to start with so little starters.

[GreekLunatic]

he should have started fortounis  and mitroglou

[Dutch Eagle]

Nice shot Karelis but to easy for their keeper.

[Nikitas]

Just now, Reaper said:

As Amorgos stated, Greece has not won a game with Tziolis in the starting 11 since 2013.

i should bet on that next time. about the shots , 1 or 2 yes but they were more passes to the keeper of belarus.

[Dutch Eagle]

Is Skibbe serious bringing in Torosidis for 4 minutes (and 2 or 3 minutes stoppage time)? To prove what? If he is worth or ready to play for the Ethniki?

What a ... ( you can fill this in yourselves)!

[GreekLunatic]

is there a bet on if he starts against bosnia we lose that we can put money on

[georgelaz]

po po. ninis and kone should've played over diamantakos and tziolis.

[Original Sydney]

What a s%$#! result, regardless of who started, when we play teams like this we should be beating them and with ease. Lets hope there is a big turn around for the Bosnia match.

[KOLOSSOS13]

I wonder what Skibbe sees in Diamantakos, clearly one of the least talented players to wear the national jersey. If not the least talented.

Ikonomou is pretty bad as well. 

[Dean97]

It looked like we didn't try. We we're that bad in the first half that Fortounis and Sokratis had to come on. Fortounis wasn't even trying that much but because he has so much quality his 1 or 2 shots we're our closes chances to a goal. Karelis and Diamantakos dissapointed me the most and Tachtsidis is class. Tziolis only wishes he could play the way Tachtsidis plays his whole career.

Edited November 9, 2016 by Dean97

[J1078]

At the end of the day this is not a great way to build confidence going into our most important game. The choices this coach are an embarrassment and I would rather not have a guy like this as our bench boss. Wtf line up did we witness today? Karelis is the worst crosser and only needs to play the middle. Diamantakos should not be on the NT either. My god how much of a moron do you have to be not to field a good line up that will produce some offense against this team and go into the Bosnia game on a high. Tsiolis plays 90+minutes WTF. losing at home to these type of teams is becoming way to regular. If you are going to play around with the line up I. A friendly then start players like Kone or Ninis maybe even Fetfa not Diamantakos, Vellios, Tziolis and so on.