#FT: Greece 0-1 Netherlands
Venue: OPAP Arena
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Greece
Odisseas Vlachodimos, Panagiotis Retsos, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Konstantinos Koulierakis (Manolis Siopis), Lazaros Rota, Dimitrios Kourbelis (Andreas Bouchalakis), Petros Mantalos (Vangelis Pavlidis), Anastasios Bakasetas (Taxiarchis Fountas), Fotis Ioannidis, Kostas Tsimikas, Georgios Masouras (Georgios Giakoumakis).
Subs: Giannis Konstantelias, Dimitris Pelkas, Anastasios Chatzigiovanis, Dimitris Giannoulis, Alexandros Paschalakis, Dimitrios Goutas, Sokratis Dioudis.
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Netherlands
Bart Verbruggen, Nathan Aké, Virgil van Dijk, Quilindschy Hartman (Micky van de Ven), Lutsharel Geertruida (Donyell Malen), Xavi Simons (Joey Veerman), Tijjani Reijnders, Mats Wieffer (Marten de Roon), Wout Weghorst (Brian Brobbey), Steven Bergwijn, Denzel Dumfries.
Subs: Daley Blind, Ian Maatsen, Calvin Stengs, Nick Olij, Andries Noppert, Stefan de Vrij, Jeremie Frimpong.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
13’ Lutsharel Geertruida (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
13’ Dimitrios Kourbelis (Greece) is shown the yellow card.
28’ Penalty saved. Wout Weghorst (Netherlands) right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
28’ Petros Mantalos (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45’ Substitution, Netherlands. Donyell Malen replaces Lutsharel Geertruida.
51’ Xavi Simons (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
60’ Substitution, Greece. Taxiarchis Fountas replaces Anastasios Bakasetas because of an injury.
61’ Substitution, Greece. Andreas Bouchalakis replaces Dimitrios Kourbelis.
61’ Substitution, Greece. Manolis Siopis replaces Konstantinos Koulierakis.
62’ Substitution, Netherlands. Brian Brobbey replaces Wout Weghorst.
62’ Substitution, Netherlands. Joey Veerman replaces Xavi Simons.
74’ Substitution, Netherlands. Micky van de Ven replaces Quilindschy Hartman.
76’ Panagiotis Retsos (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
77’ Substitution, Greece. Giorgos Giakoumakis replaces Giorgos Masouras.
81’ Substitution, Netherlands. Marten de Roon replaces Mats Wieffer because of an injury.
81’ Substitution, Greece. Vangelis Pavlidis replaces Petros Mantalos.
86’ Vangelis Pavlidis (Greece) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
90’+3’ Goal! Greece 0, Netherlands 1. Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Hernandez Hernandez least corrupt Spanish referee.
I’m dreaming of a Frenkie-Reijnders midfield
With Gravenberch
That’s too much of the same i think
Wouldn’t work well. All three are most comfortable deeper in the midfield. Rather have Simons on 10.
De Jong loves playing close to the CB’s though
5-3-2, Malen/Gakpo (maybe Depay if he’s fit again) up front, De Jong/Reijnders/Simons midfield, we have wingbacks now and plenty CB’s. I can see that work.
This Dutch team has some serious issues but Greece came up short against both them and France in some close games
how was that not a penalty at the end, hernandez is such a useless ref
That ref was on drugs.
Right at the death
Shame. Boys played well, and that second pen really shouldn’t have been given IMO after he looked at it on the monitor. Ody deserves to play at the highest level. Ioannidis should’ve squared it to Masouras.
Oh well. There’s still the playoffs to look forward. Dangerous teams over there as well; Kazakhstan, Luxembourg and Georgia are nothing to scoff at and have shown how dangerous they can be in the qualifiers, but I still like our chances. The team has improved lots from the failures of the past few campaigns, and we can only be proud of it. We shall go for it in March 😤
What made you think that 2nd pen shouldn’t been given? I genuinely don’t see it.
What made you think that 2nd pen shouldn’t been given? I genuinely don’t see it.
Way I saw it the contact was extremely light by Pavlidis, Dumfries almost fell by himself. I understand why he gave it, putting your arms out like that is practically asking for it, but plays like this were not called penalties countless of times before.
And to not give the other sour guy an interaction, the last VAR check absolutely was a pen, but he probably wouldn’t make it out the field if he did give it lmao
Because he is biased as fuck. Clear pen, and another clear pen denied a few minutes later. Ref was on crack
Because he is biased as fuck. Clear pen, and another clear pen denied a few minutes later. Ref was on crack
Netherlands played terrible. Greece had to win but played without any strikers? Referee was trying to be the star of the game and VAR was horrid. Lasers on the players from the stands, the pitch quality was a joke. Everything about this was horrible.
Greece has played this way for a long time
Please mr cowman, no more weghorst. I like his passion but he’s very limited.
He’s good only as a last minute battering ram.
Koeman needs to go to Eindhoven and beg Luuk de Jong to come back. Even if it’s just for the Euros.
Can’t we just play malen as a striker? I thought he was doing well for Dortmund now and he sucked big time on the left today. Luuk has a very good header but he’s never really been stellar for the NT apart from that either.
just play Simons as a striker and adjust the midfield
He was great for Dortmund on the right, not good on the left
Hernandez Hernandez is the worst referee i have ever seen
Not even the worst Spanish one tbh.
But is he at least the worst spanish referee that gets Uefa matches? (Please say yes)
Awful match made slightly more fun by the VAR and referee giving us something entertaining to watch.
How did Van de Ven play off the bench
Very hard-fought but imo deserved win in the end if you look at the chances. Definitely not the prettiest match, but thats to be expected when the stakes are this high. Also how was that last moment not a penalty, ref seemed a bit intimated there
2 non-existent penalties awarded, 1 stonewall penalty denied. Somebody give me what the ref is smoking.
Didn’t see the first one, but the second pen was clear right? How could that not be one
2 non-existent penalties awarded
What are you smoking?
Evidently something weaker than the ref.
Evidently something weaker than the ref.
I don’t even know nor care anymore.
We did get those pens because we were in the box so much, it’s amazing none of the shots went in throughout the match.
Still fair play, you’ll make it through the playoffs, if you keep that up.
Yeah and people want 4 or 5 penalties called and reds lol. You won and you’re through. Take it and move on.
Oh well. On to the playoff
I am Greek, we did not win. The stonewall penalty was the one on Brobbey.
I know, I’m Greek too, I’m talking to the Dutch supporters. Crying about lasers and wanting 20 pens called and reds.
They’re the better team, do they really need all the officiating help too in order to win? If they were really dominant, they would have scored from open play.
These teams are a lot closer than people think lol, except one won their euro 40 years ago, and the other won theirs 20 years ago.
Sorry, I thought your comment referred to me. But dominance on the day or past successes do not matter. If a refereeing decision is wrong, it’s just wrong.
These teams are a lot closer than people think lol
Are they? Greece were shit in the away game. Lost by a big margin and created next to no chances. Were shit again today. but against a side with like 11 players injured. Creating no chances while needing the win.
are they?
Yeah because we’ve won something recently lol
All this yapping yet you can’t close out a tournament in modern football 🤷♂️, we have.
Close against the Argentines, but not quite. Close isn’t good enough.
2004 isn’t recent and doesn’t say anything about quality of the teams now. Or recently for that matter.
How embarrassing, we lost against the eventual world champions. You haven’t been good enough to even enter a tournament in almost 10 years. Pipe down
2004 is a lot more recent than the 70s. Germany weren’t fielding 2 different teams in 2004. 21st century against all time greats like CR7, you know, active players.
how embarrassing
No, what’s embarrassing is being labelled some footballing super power in the top 10 and being perpetual losers for almost 50 years.
Maybe they’ll give you more pen calls in the tournament for you to win games. We’ll see you there after we beat the Georgians.
Whens the last time youve been to a tournament
When’s the last time you’ve won one? You probably weren’t even alive for it. Maybe you can watch the highlights in black and white. I enjoyed ours.
It doesn’t matter if you have a better team and rules are rules. But at the and it was a deserved win. Good game though.
And yes those people should fuck off with those laser lights.
2 non-existent penalties awarded
What are you smoking?
I don’t even know nor care anymore.
We did get those pens because we were in the box so much, it’s amazing none of the shots went in throughout the match.
Still fair play, you’ll make it through the playoffs, if you keep that up.
Lol should have 4
Lol should have 4
the first “non-existant” penalty literally prevented a goal that was being scored because he blew the whistle early
True but unfortunately irrelevant. It was not a penalty and it was also a mistake to blow the whistle that early.
It was a foul by Van Dijk. You don’t get to play advantage if you are the one comitting the foul afaik
Well, considering we didnt the penalty with the handball, and didnt get the penalty with the foul on Brobbey, it cancels each other out
The only clear out of the 2 is the tackle on brobbey at the end that was not given. And if the previous one is not given, the game never gets into a situation for the one after to take place anyway
*2 clear penalties not awarded, 1 of 2 correctly awarded penalties almost overturned by a moronic VAR.
Terrible match, but the result is all that matters.
Without Frenkie and Gakpo and (less so) depay, de ligt, lang… was hard to expect much more
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