Friendly: Greece - Italy (7 June 2026 22:00 EEST, Pankritio Stadium, Iraklio)

[kolokotronis99tripoli]

Kostoulas needs more playing time man. 

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Kyziridis IN

Masouras OUT

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Androutsos IN

Triantis OUT

[PaokCT]

Red Card Italy! Let’s see if we can get a shot now

[Omonoia9]

Red card! Reggiani sent off!

[Omonoia9]

Italy:

 

Favasuli IN

Fini OUT

[HellasLEAF]

We have no maestro in the middle to create.  

Someone of Karetsas quality is missed. 

[Omonoia9]

Italy:

 

Dagasso IN

Lipani OUT

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Tetteh IN

Vagiannidis OUT

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Zafeiris IN

Mouzakitis OUT

[Omonoia9]

Italy:

 

Camarda IN

Esposito OUT

[Omonoia9]

Italy:

 

Faticanti IN

Koleosho OUT

[Brklyngrk]

Ultimately- the coach has lost the team

[PaokCT]

Announcers saying how a lot of these kids play second division in Italy. It’s definitely a shocking game with the lack of flair and creativity 

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Pavlidis IN

Tzolis OUT

[Omonoia9]

Greece:

 

Kostoulas IN

Douvikas OUT

[Omonoia9]

+5

[kolokotronis99tripoli]

Coach needs to go now. We lost to the Italian C team essentially… should’ve done what the Italians did and only play youth in these friendlies. I don’t need to watch another 15 min Tsimikas cross delivery fifa drill

[Omonoia9]

Greece 0-1 Italy   FT

 

Normally this wouldn't be a bad result, but that was a very experimental Italian side. Also winless in our last 5 games, and if you look ahead, I don't know where the next win is coming from.

[Greekoz]

1 win out of last 9. Think its time for Jovanovic, he cant take this team much further. We play like results dont matter when the reality is international soccer is about building a winning culture.

[Brklyngrk]

All the goodwill he had from the uefa qualifiers and the nations league is gone. We are going backwards. Anyone that has seen our last few games could tell.

[J1078]

This team is a mess, they will finish last in the nations league group. one win in our last 9 games... We cant score, can't defend, no system. Forget making tournaments. 

Edited yesterday at 12:38 PM by J1078

[Brklyngrk]

The issue is that it shouldn't be this way. We went backwards so fast...

[HellasLEAF]

We can fire Ivan we can do a lot of things but we have no midfield.  We have nobody in the midfield to control the game and or distribute.  Greece needs to revert back to defensive tactics and set piece play because they can't hang with anyone on the pitch right now.  Don't see anyone in the pipeline either.  Discouraging that Greece cannot produce these players.  A Tsiartas or Zagorakis would really help the squad right now.  Even Fortounis. 

[kolokotronis99tripoli]

20 hours ago, HellasLEAF said:

We can fire Ivan we can do a lot of things but we have no midfield.  We have nobody in the midfield to control the game and or distribute.  Greece needs to revert back to defensive tactics and set piece play because they can't hang with anyone on the pitch right now.  Don't see anyone in the pipeline either.  Discouraging that Greece cannot produce these players.  A Tsiartas or Zagorakis would really help the squad right now.  Even Fortounis. 

I just don’t think I can agree with this. Yes Mouzakitis and played bad but between him Zaferies we have some young decent midfielders. I’m not saying great, but better than the last 10 years of midfielders. Are they Karagounis level? No but the biggest problem we have is defense. We don’t have the players to revert back to a defensive mindset. Our best defender got relegated in the Prem this year. Tsimakas sometimes plays for Roma, koulorakis may become something but still. We don’t have Socrates, Manolas, torosidis back there. For the first time in our nations history we have attacking creative players. We need a coach that can emphasize that. When you put a kourbelis, bouckalakis, Masouras, Mantalos on the field they make the rest of the creative players around them worse and stifle them. We need to clean house player wise and get a creative coach.