Dutch Eagle Posted March 23 Author Posted March 23 34 minutes ago, Omonoia9 said: KARETSAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he has broken the record of Sotiris Ninis as the youngest player to score for the Ethniki. 1
Omonoia9 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Final Greek substitution: Retsos IN Tzolis OUT All changes have been made
Omonoia9 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Scotland 0-3 Greece FT Greece wins the series 3-1 and will be promoted to League A of the UEFA Nations League! 4 1
Brklyngrk Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Great game - could have had a few more...We were the better team by far, didn't care for the Scottish players pushing our guys around. The slaps to Zafeiris head or their other player pretty much kicking Koulierakis on the floor. He reminder him that they were up by 3...lol Overall, we played great - Tzolis - Delias - Karetsas should start all the time. Striker - try Tzimas or Kostalas. Midfield - Zafeiris and Moutzakis played well, not sure if we need someone bigger there but they were fine. Our back four were not bad, if you want to put in Retsos for Mavropanos, wouldn't argue. Tzolakis should start going forward. They deserved the tie, even the announcers were saying that and actually praising our guys. When was the last time English announcers were praising our guys??? 4
kolokotronis99tripoli Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Amazing performance. What a coaching call. 6 new starters a bunch of youngsters given opportunities. We have something to be excited about for the first time in 11 years 6
Tazmania Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Greece controlled the game, created chances and defended well. Unlike in the first leg, the finishing tonight was clinical; the second goal was world class! Pavlidis was shown the yellow card in the second half which I thought might be costly come the Qualifiers in the autumn but the UNL regulations state that: "Cautions and pending yellow-card suspensions expire at the end of a team's involvement in the competition." 3
ChrisT Posted March 23 Posted March 23 I'd say we have the best squad we've ever had at the moment, so many exciting players Tziolis and Karetsas the stand outs. If we can't qualify for the WC now, I'd be very surprised. Btw I think Karetsas will be tapped up by a top club imminently. 5
Antaeus7 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 This brought joy in my heart after I was gutted not to see Tentoglou get a medal in the World Indoor Championship. The Greek National Football Team was cooking from the start and the coach had massive balls to start most of his youngsters in a critical match. God bless Karetsas for choosing his countries main motherland over the country of his birth. His goal was out of this world! 6
Ellada2004 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Greece totally dominated Scotland 3 nil could have been 5. Karetsas will be the next Messi his talent is off the charts. What a finish. Konstantelias with a fantastic goal and performance. Zaferis, Tzolis, the whole team was incredible. Our team is loaded and will qualify for the World Cup and cause damage. Would love to see us draw Canada here or the USA and just have our way with them. lol.. PA ME ELLADA!!!! 6
Ellada2004 Posted March 23 Posted March 23 1 hour ago, J1078 said: These kids are unreal.. I'm in shock. AMAZING!! and we have more talent coming!! Tzimas and Kostoulas. The talent is of the charts!! 4
pash Posted March 23 Posted March 23 (edited) Okay my children, fear not, I am here to provide more of my wisdom. Kudos to Jovanovic for making such a rotation. I am very much over the "old guard." Use them as super subs, but cut this nonsense of playing guys who are well past their prime. The average age of the starting 11 was under 23, and we still absolutely bossed around Scotland on their home turf. Complete no brainer where we should go from here. Konstantelias obviously the man of the match. What a player. I can't wait until PAOK sells him and then spends all that money on a dozen 35-year-old Ghanaian left-backs. Karetsas fit in immediately. It very much helps that he stylistically works so well with our other young players. The Tzolis-Konstantelias-Kartetsas line is such a blindingly obvious play going forward. Imagine how good they'll look if they can cut down those errant passes by another 10%. That's another goal a game right there! Giannoulis is a friggin stud and deserves game time. He's better offensively than Tsimikas so I can definitely see why Jovanovic would have started him here, where we're chasing two goals. This move paid dividends. Pavlidis and Ioannidis are both fine, but not as productive as we need our strikers. I'd still give the nod to Pavlidis going forward as he is playing at a higher level and scoring more goals. Simple math there. Tzimas will take his job soon anyway. I will disagree that this was a hugely meaningful game (sorry @J1078). I think this was considered a sort of... "what else do we have to lose?" kind of thing. We get to see how the youngsters look vs Scotland, who we will be competing against in just a few months...and of course he gets the chance to get our youngest, newest additions more minutes with each other. That last bit is probably hugely valuable to the team. Also, if we ended up staying in league B, we'd just have more matches to drive up our coefficient with - I'm not sure if that's better or worse than having our guys get tested against this higher quality of competition, in the lead-up to the next Euro (it's also such a shame that we won't get these games before next summer's world cup). The new midfield was maybe the best move by Jovanovic. I very much disliked the last lineup - Mantalos and Siopis are so obviously cooked. Especially considering how Scotland's main strength is that midfield; they were chewed right up. What do we have to lose by playing an ascendent Zafeiris and Mouzakitis? Clearly, it worked out even better. I can definitely see those two holding on to that spot going forward. Hopefully Bakasetas' manager doesn't have so much sway that our diving professor forces his way back into the starting lineup going forward. His weirdly piercing eyes belong on the bench. Ps you're welcome from a paoktsis -edit- edited for spelling Edited March 23 by pash 4
HellasLEAF Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Ivan with a truly surprising starting lineup in change and experience. I cannot believe a team that young played a meaningful game for the NT. It's like he read my mind what I wanted and he made every single change. If Jovanovic gave the same team from the 1st match a go we would be in trouble but he really went for it. I had serious doubts that team could win in Scotland but once I seen the lineup it was definitely optimistic. The new Golden Era of Hellenic Football is upon us. I thought Zafeiris was immense. Dellias showed his confidence and his touch, Mouzakitis played above his age, Tzolis sold as usual, and Karetsas, it's all been said. Everyone played well, and perhaps even more motivated the weekend of the 25th Martiou! 4
ChrisT Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Goals: BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c62zd1vpn3qt Scotland relegated from Nations League A after dismal loss to Greece - BBC Sport 2
Tazmania Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Portugal 1-1 Denmark with about 20 minutes remaining, so it's Portugal the likely pot one opponent in the qualifying group.
PaokCT Posted March 23 Posted March 23 2 minutes ago, Tazmania said: Portugal 1-1 Denmark with about 20 minutes remaining, so it's Portugal the likely pot one opponent in the qualifying group. Aggregate is 2-2. Still a chance for Denmark
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