#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.
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.
Because he is biased as fuck. Clear pen, and another clear pen denied a few minutes later. Ref was on crack
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
What made you think that 2nd pen shouldn’t been given? I genuinely don’t see it.